FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

thereafter under the provisions of this charter, each member
of said council shall be elected every four years.

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SEC. 5. The Governor shall, on or before the first Monday
of May in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four and
every two years thereafter, appoint three persona as officers of
registration, one for each ward or precinct of said town of
Brunswick, each of whom shall be a resident and qualified
voter in the ward or precinct for which he is appointed as said
registration officer at the time of his appointment; and the said
officers of registration shall each register in a book to he pre-
pared for the purpose, all the male citizens above the age of
twenty one years in their respective wards or precincts, who
shall have the qualification to entitle him to vote for mayor
and council; and the said officers of registration, before regis-
tering any person as a qualified voter, 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 qualifi-
cations or disqualifications under the Constitution, to be regis-
tered as a qualified voter; " but nothing in said oath or affirma-
tion contained shall be construed to authorize said registers to
ask any questions 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 register
who is disqualified under the provisions of the Constitution of
Maryland.

Officers of
registration.

SEC. 6. Said officers of registration, before entering upon the
discharge of their duties, shall qualify before the clerk of the
Circuit Court for Frederick county, by taking and subscribing
the oath prescribed by the Constitution of Maryland.

Oath of

registers.

SEC. 7. The council shall have a book of registration pre-
pared for each of said officers of registration, and the said
officers of registration shall, after having inserted an adver-
tisement in some newspaper published in Frederick county,
once a week for two successive weeks, and by hand-hills or
such other notice as he may deem necessary, 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 first Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the
last week of June, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, and every two years thereafter, at the same time, to open
said books of registration, and the same keep open until the
hour of eight o'clock P. M. of said days, for the purpose of
registering all the qualified voters of said town who shall be

Registration
books.