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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 548

SEC. 5. And b'e it enacted, That the supervisors of elections
shall furnish to the judges all the ballots to be used at said

Supervisors of
election to
furnish
ballots.

primaries and the blanks upon which their returns are to
be made; and to prevent voters belonging to or acting with
one political party from inadvertantly or intentionally casting
their ballots for candidates for nomination or election as
delegates to any nominating convention of any other party,
the ballots of said parties shall be printed upon paper of
different colors; the color of the tickets for the democratic
party shall be white and for the republican party pink; and
annually after the next general registration every person
offering to vote shall be required to state to which party he
belongs and the candidates of which party he intends to vote
for at the State or county election, and he shall be supplied
only with the official ballot prepared for the candidates of
such party.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the polls shall be opened

Hours of open
ing and clos-
ing of polls.

at twelve o'clock M. and closed at 7 o'clock P. M. on the
day fixed for said primary; the books of registry shall be
furnished to the judges at each polling place and shall be
used at said primaries for the purpose of determining the
right of the party applying to vote, and no one shall be
entitled to vote at said primary election who is not a regis-
tered voter in the precinct in which he applies to vote, except
persons arriving at the age of twenty-one years after the
closing of the next preceding registration and entitled to be
registered as qualified voters at the next ensuing election,
shall be entitled to vote upon proving under oath to the
satisfaction of the judges of election their right to registra-
tion in the precinct at which they shall claim the right to
vote; but the said judges of election are not to make any
marks or entries on said registration books but are to use
the same for the purpose of determining the right of the
applicants to vote.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of said

Appointing a
place for
voting.

board of supervisors of election to appoint the place of voting
in each precinct, and to furnish two ballot boxes for each
precinct, one to be used by each political party.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That before entering upon the
discharge of their duties one of the clerks in each of the
precincts in Harford county shall administer to the judges
the following oath: "You do make oath in the presence of