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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 33. And be it enacted, That the Board of

Police Commissioners for the city of Baltimore shall

annually appoint some practicing member of the bar

Appoint coun-
sell.

of Baltimore city as counsel for said officers of regis-

tration in said city, whose duty it shall be to appear

for said officers of registration and for the clerk of the

Superior Court of Baltimore city, and against the

petitioners, at the hearing of all petitions which

may be made under the provisions of this act against

said officers of registration and the clerk of the Su-

perior Court of Baltimore city; such counsel shall

advise said officers of registration from time to time,

at their request, in relation to all legal matters per-

taining to the duties of said officers, and for his

Annual salary.

services shall receive an annual salary of three hun-

dred dollars, to be paid by the Mayor and City

Council of Baltimore. In the respective counties

of this State, it shall bo the duty of the State's At-

torney of said respective counties, in the same man-

ner, to advise and appear for the officers of registra-

tion appointed to act in their respective counties,

and for the respective clerks of the respective cir-

cuit courts of their respective counties, and the

said State's Attorney shall be paid by the County

Commissioners of the several counties, fifty dollars

per annum for such services; and said State's Attor-

Prepare no-

neys shall prepare for publication the necessary no-

tices fur publi-

tices to be given by the registers, in each and every

cation.

year, of the times and places of the sittings of said

registers.

SEC. 34. And lie it enacted, That if any officer

of registration shall fraudulently register, or fraud-

Not to fraudu-
lently register.

ulently permit to be registered in any registry of

voters, or in any list of qualified and registered

voters, in his charge as officer of registration, any

person who is not entitled to be registered therein

as a qualified voter, or if any other person not au-

thorized by the proper judges or judge shall inscribe

the name of any person as a qualified and regis-

tered voter in any registry of voters, or in any list

of qualified and registered voters, or if any officer

of registration shall fraudulently refuse or omit to

Not to fraudu-

register, or shall fraudulently misspell in any regis-

lently misspell

try of voters, or in any list of qualified and registered

voters in his charge as an officer of registration,

the name of any person entitled under the provi-