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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

nal registry in the same manner, tilling the blanks with the
new precinct and district numbers of the other portion of said
election precinct, and from each of said original registries the
said Boird of Supervisors of Elections shall strike off the
names of all voters whose residences as recorded in each of
said original registers are not within the bounds of the new
election precinct and district of which the said original registry
is labelled as the registry. These names shall be stricken off
by drawing red ink lines through each of said names, and
through all the entries relating to such names, but in such
manner that the said original entries shall remain easily read-
able, and in the column headed "Remarks," the said Board of
Supervisors of Election shall write or stamp opposite the name
of each voter so stricken off the words "stricken off because
now a resident of the new election precinct of the
election district," filling such blanks with the numbers
of the precinct and district, as the facts may require. And
the said Board of Supervisors of Elections shall cause for each
of said new precincts a duplicate registry to be prepared by
having accurately copied therein the names of all of the voters
not stricken off, together with all the entries on such registry
relating to each one of said voters whose names are not stricken
off, and they shall label each of said copies "duplicate registry
of the election precinct of the election district
of Baltimore county," filling the blanks for the numbers of
the precinct and district, as the facts in each case may require.
And the said Board of Supervisors of Elections shall certify
in each of said duplicate registries that such duplicate is an
exact copy of all the names and all the entries unerased upon
the original from which said duplicate was copied, and the
said original registry so labelled for any precinct and its copy
so labelled "Duplicate," as aforesaid, shall thereafter constitute
the duplicate registries of the said election precinct of the said
election district.

Apportion
magistrates.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Governor shall
duly apportion among the said districts twelve, fourteen and
fifteen the magistrates provided by law to be appointed for
the twelfth district of Baltimore county prior to the passage
of this Act.

Effective.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2, 1898.