HOWARD COUNTY. 891

Peace residing in Howard County, and shall procure a registra-
tion book similar in all respects to the registration books now
in use under the registration laws of Maryland, and all neces-
sary blanks and stationery for conducting and having a com-
plete registration of voters of said city.

52. Said officers of registration shall open said registration
book at a place in said city to be designated by the Mayor and
City Council at eight o'clock in the morning on the first Mon-
day of February, 1911, and at the same hour on the next two
succeeding Tuesdays thereafter, at the same place, and keep
the same open until seven o'clock in the evening of each of said
days, for a complete registration of the voters of said city who
possess the qualifications required by this Act, and every four
years thereafter, on the first and second Mondays in February
said officer of registration shall open said book at a place in
said city to be designated by the Mayor and City Council, for
the revision of said lists of registration and for the registration
of new voters possessing the qualifications presented by this
Act, and shall keep said book open from eight o'clock A. M.
until seven o'clock P. M. on said days. Said officer of registra-
tion shall give at least ten days' notice of the time and place of
said registration and revisions by hand-bills posted on at least
five prominent places in said city limits, and within two weeks
after the closing of said book on said last day of registration
or revision the said officer of registration shall cause an alpha-
betical list of the registered voters to be published by hand-
bills to be posted on at least five prominent places in said city.
Said officer of registration shall at said registration register all
male citizens of the said Ellicott City applying for registration
of the age of twenty-one years or over who have resided therein
for six months previous to any municipal election, who have
never been convicted of any infamous crime under the laws of
the State of Maryland, and who shall come within any one of
the four following classes of male citizens: (1) All taxpayers of
Ellicott City assessed on the city tax books for at least five
hundred dollars. (2) And duly naturalized citizens. (3) And
male children of naturalized citizens who have reached the age
of twenty-one years. (4) All citizens who prior,to January 1,
1868, were entitled to vote in the State of Maryland or any
other State of the United States at a State election, and the
lawful male descendants of any person who, prior to January 1st,
1868, was entitled to vote in this State or in any other State
of the United States at a State election, and no person not com-
ing within one of the four classes above enumerated shall be
registered as a legal voter of Ellicott City or qualified to vote
in municipal elections held therein, and any person so duly
registered shall while so duly registered be qualified to vote at