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	Vacancies, how nilefl.	33. The place of any officer of registration who may be absent on any day of registration or revision shall be filled by the other members of the board then present, always selecting a person of the same political party as the absent person, and the same oath shall be administered by one of the members of said board, then present to such temporary officer of registration as provided in the case of the regular officers of registration ; whenever the regular officer shall return or be present, the temporary incumbent shall vacate his office. The appointment and swearing in of all such substitutes, and the reasons there- for, and the time when such substitutes began and ceased to serve as officers of registration shall be noted by the board in the registers. 34. There shall not be a previous revision of the registry before any special election, but at such election the registry
	Revision of registra- tion in Annapolis.	books as last prepared or revised shall be used. In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, however, and every second year thereafter, the books of registration for the city of An- napolis shall be opened by the several boards of registry for the wards or precincts thereof on the second Monday, and the following Tuesday in those years, for the purpose of registering new voters and for the correction of said books of registration prior to the biennial municipal elections in said city in the month of July, and of those sittings of the said boards of registry, ten days' previous public notice shall be given by the Board of Supervisors of Anne Arundel County, directed by section thirteen. 35. The Board of Supervisors of Elections, the board of
	Inspection of registers.	registry and each member of said board of registry shall, without fee or reward, whenever the said registers, or any one of them, in its or his custody, permit the same to be freely- inspected by anyone wishing so to do, such inspections shall be made in the presence of a member or members of the said board of supervisors or of one of their clerks, or of the said board of registry, or of those members of the board of regis- try, in whose custody the said registers may be, and not other- wise. Said board of supervisors and said board of registry, shall, upon application, furnish a copy of any entry in said register, and said copy, under their hands, shall be evidence in any court or before any officer, of the matters therein con- tained. NOMINATIONS. 36. Any convention or primary meeting, as hereafter de- fined, held for the purpose of making nominations to public