LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

tion to be held therein. Before registering any person as a
qualified voter the officer of registration shall administer to
him the following oath: " I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I will true answer make to all questions necessary to ascertain
my qualifications or disqualifications under the Constitution and
laws of Maryland and the charter of Brunswick, to be regis-
tered as a qualified voter therein; " but nothing in said oath or
affirmation contained shall be construed to authorize said regis-
ter to ask any question touching any cause of disqualification
not expressly enumerated in the Constitution of Maryland or
of the United States, and no person shall be permitted to regis-
ter who is disqualified under the provisions of the Constitution
of Maryland.

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6. Said officer of registration before entering upon the dis-
charge of his duties, shall qualify before the clerk of the
Circuit Court for Frederick county, by taking the oath pre-
scribed by the Constitution of Maryland.

Oath of
register.

7. The said officer of registration, after inserting an adver-
tisement in some newspaper published at Brunswick, if there
be one so published, it not, in some newspaper published in
Frederick county, and having a large circulation at Brunswick
once a week for two successive weeks prior to the time fixed
for registration, and such other notice as he may deem neces-
sary, of his intention so to do, proceed at some convenient
place in said town, to be designated in said advertisement, at
the hour of eight o'clock A. M., on the third Monday in June
in the year 1896, and every two years thereafter, at the same
time, to open said books of registration and the same keep
open for three successive days, Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, until the hour of eight P. M. of said days, for the pur-
pose of correcting, revising and supplementing said registra-
tion list in the manner above mentioned.. And such officer of
registration shall cause a copy of the lists of persons qualified
and disqualified, in each ward separately to be published by
hand-bills posted in such public places about the town as he
may elect, within three days after the close of said registration.
Any person considering himself aggrieved by the action of the
registrar in refusing to register his name as a qualified voter,
and any person aggrieved by the action of the registrar in
striking his name from the list of qualified voters, may appeal
to the Mayor and Council at their next regular session after
the close of the registration, and the council is hereby author-
ized to hear such appeal and to make such correction in the
registration list, by the hand of the clerk as justice and right

Sittings of
register.