1028 LAWS OF MARYLAND,
CHAPTER 617.

AN ACT to repeal Section 71 of the Public Local Laws of the
State of Maryland, title "Allegany County," sub-title "Cum-
berland, '' as enacted by the Acts of the General Assembly
of 1912, Chapter 8, providing for registration of the voters
in the City of Cumberland, and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 71 of the Public Local Laws of the State of
Maryland, title "Allegany County," sub-title "Cumberland,"
as enacted by the Acts of the General Assembly of 1912, Chap-
ter 8, providing for the registration of voters in the City of
Cumberland, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments so as to read as follows:

71. The Mayor and City Council of Cumberland shall cause
to be maintained a registration of the legal voters in the city
wards of said city, and registration made under authority of
existing law, shall, together with such additional changes and
alterations as may be or become necessary, constitute such reg-
istration; said registration shall be made and corrected in the
manner provided in the general registration law of the State,
and shall specify the residence of voter on each street, lane or
alley, and such registration shall be essential to the right of
voting at any election under this Charter, but shall not be con-
clusive evidence of such right to vote; all applicants for regis-
tration must be citizens of the State of Maryland and resident
in the City of Cumberland for one year, and registered or en-
titled to registration as a voter in Allegany County; said Mayor
and City Council of Cumberland shall annually, on or before
the first Monday of February in each year, elect two persons of
opposite political faith to act as officers of registration in the
Council Chamber at least five days commencing on the third
Monday in February of each year for nine hours each day, and
ten days' public notice of such sitting shall be given by the
City Clerk by advertisement in at least two of the daily news-
papers of said city.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10th, 1914.