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diate preservation of the public safety, and being passed upon
a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the mem-
bers elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assem-
bly, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved June 27th, 1917.

CHAPTER 40.

AN ACT to add two additional sections to Article 33 of the
Annotated 'Code of Maryland, title "Elections," sub-title
"Registration," said additional sections to follow immedi-
ately after Section 30 of said Article and sub-title, and to
be numbered, respectively, Sections 30A and 30B ; said Sec-
tion 30A providing that the name of any voter upon the
registration books shall not be stricken therefrom during his
absence in the military or naval service of the United States,
and said Section 30B providing for the entry, when new
general registrations are held, of the names of duly regis-
tered voters, absent as above mentioned, upon the new regis-
tration books.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That two additional sections be and the same hereby
are added to Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
title "Elections," sub-title "Registration," said additional sec-
tions to follow immediately after Section 30 of said Article and
sub-title, to be numbered, respectively, 30A and 30B, and to
read as follows:

30A. The name of no voter upon the registration books
of any precinct, ward or election district of this State shall be
stricken therefrom during his absence in the military or naval
service of the United States.