626 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 247

CHAPTER 246.

AN ACT to provide for the indexing of the general land reo
ords of Worcester County beginning at the year eighteen
hundred and seventy-six, and for the payment of the cost
thereof.

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 247.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 24 of_
Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Elec-
tions", sub-title "Registration", as said Act was repealed
and re-enacted by the Act of 1916, Chapter 158.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary
land, That Section 24 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Elections", sub-title "Registration", as the
same was enacted by the Acts of 1916, Chapter 158, be and the
same hereby is repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as
to read as follows: '

24. At the end of the last session above provided for, the
said Board of Registry shall compare and correct the two regis-
ters and make them agree, and the officers having them respect-
ively in their custody shall then immediately under the last
name registered under each letter of the registers sign their
names, so that no other names can be added without discovery;
all of said officers of registration shall then subscribe, at the
end of each register, a certificate, in substance, in the words fol-
lowing: "We, the undersigned, constituting the Board,of Reg-
istry in................precinct or district of..............

county, or in................ precinct of the................

ward of the City of............... in the State of Maryland,

do jointly and severally certify that, at the general registra-
tion of voters in said precincts, closed on this................

day of................. there were registered by us, in said

precinct, the names which in this book are entered, and that
the number iof registered and qualified voters was and is the
number of............................"

(Signature).
Dated..................................

During the next day the Board of Registry shall return the two
registers to the Board of Supervisors of Elections, and in the
counties the said Board of Registry shall, at the same time, re-