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who is not recorded as affiliated with an existing political
party shall be entitled to vote in the primaries of that party.
The voter's party affiliation shall be written in the proper
column, and if in his discretion he declines to state his affilia-
tion, the word "declines" shall be written opposite his name in
the proper column. Any registered voter upon any day of
registration or revision after the next general registration
shall have the right to appear in person before the Board of
Registry and require said Board to enter, alter or strike out
the name of the party with which he desires to affiliate.

315. The County Commissioners of Baltimore county may,
before making their annual levy in each and every year, con-
tract for the printing and publishing for Baltimore county of
the annual statement, notices of registration and elections and
annual tax levy and tax sales, in so many newspapers respec-
tively as the same are now required by law to be published,
and for such other printing as is or may be required to be
done for said county for the period of one year from the
date of making such contract; and such contract shall be at
the lowest prices obtainable for the work to be done.

316. The aforegoing section shall be construed to relate to
and to include the cost of printing and publishing the Public
General Laws passed at each session of the General Assembly,
so long as the same are required by law to be published in
said county.

317. The proprietors of all quarries on either side of the
Falls turnpike road, between the fourth mile stone on said
road and the city of Baltimore, shall cause notice to be given
by means of a bell of such size and sound as may be heard at
the distance of six hundred yards, of each explosion or blast,
at least five minutes before any such explosion or blast shall
be made.

318. The proprietor for tenant, in case of least), of the
quarry wherein any neglect to comply with the provisions
and directions of the foregoing section shall occur, shall for
each violation or neglect, be subject to a fine of ten dollars,
to be recovered by warrant before any justice of the peace
for said county, for the use of the county.

319. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to
lay any tracks for a steam railway within that portion of
Baltimore county which is described as follows, that is to say:
Beginning at the intersection of the west boundary line of the
city of Baltimore with the south boundary line of said city, and
running thence in a southwesterly direction to a point three
miles south of a point two miles west of the said intersec-