LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

———— Register of voters, ———— precinct or district, ———
ward, ———— county (or city).

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16. On Tuesday, seven weeks preceding the election to be
held on first Tuesday after the first Monday in November,
1896, which shall occur after the enactment of this article,
each board of registry shall meet at the place designated by its
Board of Supervisors of Elections, and shall proceed to make
a general registration of all the voters in its precinct or dis-
trict, as the case may be. The proceedings of each board of
registry shall be as follows: 1. They shall open the registry
in the city of Baltimore at nine o'clock A. M. and continue in
session until nine o'clock P. M., on the Tuesday aforesaid. In
the counties the hours of session shall be from eight o'clock
A. M. to eight o'clock P. M. One of the officers of registra-
tion shall administer to all persons who shall personally apply
to register, the following oath or affirmation: "You do solemnly
swear (or affirm) that yon will fully and truly answer all such
questions as shall be put to yon touching your place of resi-

First meeting
of board of
registry.

dence, name, place of birth, your qualifications as a voter, and
your right as such to register and vote under the laws of this
State." 2. The two officers of registration designated by the
supervisors to have the custody of the two registry books, or
such of their colleagues as each of them may respectively ask
to temporarily replace him in the discharge of this duty, shall
make the entries therein required by this article, and the ques-
tions as to qualifications shall be asked by the other officers of
said board. 3. The name and age of every applicant shall be
entered in such registry books, and all the facts of his applica-
tion shall be therein stated, as herein provided, whether he be
entitled to vote or not. If it shall be determined by the board
that he is not a qualified voter in the precinct, then an entry
shall be made in the appropriate column, "no," and a line
shall be drawn in red ink through his name, and through all
the other entries on the line on which his name is written, but
so that the name and said other entries shall remain legible,
and if qualified, an entry shall be made in the same column,
"yes." 4. Only persons constitutionally qualified to vote in
the precinct at the next election, and personally applying
for registration, shall be registered as qualified voters. 5.
The headings to the registry books, shall be so prepared
that the registry shall be made alphabetical, according to the
surname of each person applying, and so that the residence and
post-office address of such persons shall appear in the first col-
umn. The registers shall be ruled, and one name shall be

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cants for
registra-
tion.