JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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Superior Court of Baltimore City ; such record to contain their
names, residence, age, and occupation ; and the intent of such
persons to become citizens and residents of this State shall
date from the day on which such registry shall be so entered
in such record book by the clerk of the Circuit Court for the
county or of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, as the case
may be, into which county or city such person shall so remove
from any other State, district or territory. And no person
coming into this State from any other State, district or terri-
tory, shall be entitled to registration as a legal voter of this
State until one year after his intent to become such legal voter
shall be thus evidenced by such entry in such record book,
and such entry or a duly certified copy thereof shall be the
only competent and admissible evidence of such intent. And
the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City and the
several Courts of the several counties shall immediately
upon the passage of this Act procure a suitable record book

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for the recording therein of- such entries arranged alphabeti-
cally under the names of such persons. For every person so
registered, under the provisions of this section, they shall be
entitled to demand and receive the sum of twenty-five cents,
to be paid to said clerks by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore and the County Commissioners, respectively. A
copy of such record, duly certified by said clerks, shall be
evidence of the right of such persons to registration as legal
voters according to law, and each person so registered shall be
entitled to such certified copy upon demand without charge.

Fee to
be received.

Section 42. Except in cases provided for by section 46 and
cases of special election, to fill vacancies in office caused by
deaths, resignation or otherwise, such certificates of nomina-
tion shall be tiled, respectively, with the Secretary of State not
less than twenty-five days, and with the Board of Supervisors
of Elections not less than fifteen days before the day of
election.

50. The form and arrangement of the ballots shall be as
follows : All ballots shall contain the name of every can-

When
certificates of
nomination
shall be filed.

didate whose nomination for any office specified in the ballot
has been certified to and filed according to the provisions of
this Article, and not withdrawn in accordance herewith. The
names of candidates for every office shall, except in the case
of candidates for Presidential Electors, be arranged alphabeti-
cally, according to their surname, under the designation of the
office. Above the group of names of the candidates for each
office, and upon a separate line immediately underneath the
designation of the office, there shall be printed in bold, plain,
Roman capitals, 12 point, Pica type, an appropriate direction

Form
of ballots.