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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

district, and after recording the surname and
Christian name, shall administer to such person
the oath of allegiance as prescribed by the fourth
section of Article first, of the Constitution, and the
further oath, that he will make true answers to
such questions as they may propound to him,
touching his right to registration and voting, and
enter in the proper column the fact whether such
person has or has not been sworn, third, the age
of such person; fourth, the place of his birth fifth,
the time he has resided in the city of Baltimore or
the county in which he is to be registered; sixth,
if naturalized, the date of his final paper or cer-
tificate of naturalization, and the court, county
and State whence issued; seventh, if disqualfied,
the cause or reason of disqualification, whether
non-residence, non-age, alienage, infamy, lunatic,
or non-compos mentis, disloyalty under the fourth
section of Article first of the Constitution, or
bribery as described in the fifth section of said first
Article; eighth, the name of qualified voters, omit-
ting from said column the names of disqualified per-
sons, and inserting in lieu thereof the names of one
or more witnesses by whom the disqualification
was proven, if the disqualifying cause arises from
the provisions of the fourth or fifth sections of said
first Article.

Name may be
excluded.

Sec. 6. Be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the officers of registration, before entering any
name on the register of voters, to diligently enquire
and ascertain that such person has not done any
of the acts which are declared in the third, fourth
and fifth sections of the said first Article of the
Constitution, as causes of disqualification, and if
the evidence brought to their knowledge shall
satisfy them that he is disqualified under either of
said sections, they shall not enter his name as a
voter in said eighth column or register of qualified
voters, but shall carefully exclude it therefrom,
notwithstanding he may have taken the oath of
allegiance prescribed in section four of said first
Article of the Constitution.

Naturalization
papers to bo
produced.

Sec. 7. Be it enacted, That the officers of regis-
tration shall not allow the name of any foreign
born citizen or resident to be entered in said eighth
column or register of qualified voters unless his
naturalization papers be produced and exhibited
to them, and by them be endorsed with the