LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

faction of a majority of the board, (m.) Under the column
"date of application," the month, day and year when the ap-
plicant presented himself, (n.) After the answers of the appli-
cant to the questions under the heads of each and all of the
above-mentioned columns have been properly entered by the
officers, in his presence, in both registers, and not until then,
he must sign his name upon the same line under the column
"signature," in each of them, unless he shall state his
inability to do so, in which case the officers shall make
the entry " cannot write," in the places for said signature.
The board of registry shall be entitled to receive from the
officers having custody thereof the last preceding registration
books, for the purpose of comparison and assistance in identifi-
cation; and if any one shall apply for registration who appears
in such former, registry as disqualified, his name shall be
entered in the new registers, but he shall be marked "disquali-
fied," unless such grounds of disqualification shall have been
removed. At the end of the day's registry said officers shall

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compare the two registers so kept, and cause any errors in
either of them to be corrected, by aid of the entries in the
other, so as to make the same agree where there is any differ-
ence between them. Each of the said officers having the
custody of one of said registers shall then sign his name or
initials immediately under the last name registered under each
letter in the book kept by him, so that no new name can be
added without discovery. The said board of registry shall
keep, on blanks to be provided for that purpose by the Board
of Supervisors of Election, an alphabetical list of tho names,
addresses and color of all persons registered, and a separate
list of all persons refused registration, and of all persons whose
names are erased from the registry. In the city of Baltimore,
at the end of each session, they shall deliver these lists to the
Eolice officer on duty at the registration office, and the list shall
e delivered by the said officer to the police board and by the
police board to the Board of Supervisors of Elections, in the
fore-noon of the day following the said sitting. The Board of
Supervisors for the city of Baltimore shall then cause such list
to be printed in hand-bill form, in plain long primer type, and
copies thereof posted within three days after each session, in
such manner that they may be easily read, in at least ten prom-
inent places in each precinct.

How registers
to be signed.

17. It shall be the duty of the Board of Police Commission-
ers of Baltimore city, between the first day of September and
the commencement of registration in each year, to cause a cen-

Police census
of voters.