WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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istries of voters from which such missing list or lists

was or were made up, or of such original list or

lists, that said list or lists are not in the possession

of the said sheriff or of said Board of Police Com-

missioners for the city of Baltimore, and said sheriff

or Board of Police Commissioners aforesaid respect-

ively shall receive the copy or copies of said missing

list or lists when tendered to him by said clerk, and

said sheriff or Board of Police Commissioners for the

city of Baltimore respectively shall deliver, or cause

List to bo fur-

to be delivered, on the day of each and every elec-

nished.

tion, at the polls, at or before the time of opening

of said polls, to the judges of election thereat,

within their respective jurisdictions, a copy of the

list of qualified and registered voters pertaining to

the election precinct or election district over which

said judges are to preside.

SEC. 31. And be it enacted, That the respective

judges of election shall receive from the respective

sheriff's of their respective counties, or from the said

Board of Police Commissioners for the city of Balti-

more, the lists of qualified and registered voters

pertaining to their respective election precincts or

election districts, and preserve the same without al-

Lists to be
preserved.

teration, mutilation or defacement while in their

possession; and shall, within two days after the

close of their respective polls, in their respective

election districts or election precincts, return to said

Lists to be re-

respective sheriffs, or to the said Board of Police

turned.

Commissioners for the city of Baltimore, the said

respective lists of qualified and registered voters

from them respectively received; and the said re-

spective sheriffs and the said Board of Police Com-

missioners for the city of Baltimore shall, upon so

receiving the same, forthwith deliver the same to

the clerks of the respective courts from which the

Deliver to

same were respectively received. The said respec-

tive judges of election shall not at any election re-

ceive or deposit in the ballot-box the ballot of any

person offering to vote until they have found his

name in the list of qualified and registered voters

for their respective election precincts or election dis-

tricts, delivered to them for the purposes of said

election, and shall be satisfied that the person so of-

fering to vote is the person named in said list, and

have checked it thereon; and they shall receive and

Name to be
checked.