1360 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Elections," including the provision for furnishing new regis-
try books and transcribing the names of qualified voters re-
siding in Dorchester County from the registry books in use
to the new registry books, and providing for the payment of
the cost thereof by the County Commissioners of Dorchester
County, the respective Boards of Supervisors of Elections in
the several counties of the State were authorized and required
immediately upon the passage of said Act to have prepared new
books of registry for use in all of the districts or precincts of
the said several counties of the State for the transcribing of
the names of the qualified voters residing therein from the reg-
istry books in use, and the said Board of Supervisors of Elections
for each county were therein authorized to select four (4) clerks
to transcribe the names as therein called for; and,

WHEREAS, The Supervisors of Elections of Dorchester County,
either through oversight or neglect, have failed to provide said
new books of registry and to have the said names transcribed
therein; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 160-E of Article 33 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, title "Elections," sub-title "Pri-
mary Elections," as said Section was amended by Chapter 347
of the Acts of 1912, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments in so far as the said Section applies
to or affects Dorchester County, so as to read as follows:

160-E. As many different sets of official ballots shall be
printed and supplied by the Board of Supervisors of Elections
of Dorchester County at each polling place, and as many ballot
boxes shall be used at each polling place as there are separate
party nominations, delegates, executives or managing or ex-
ecutive bodies to be voted for; and to prevent voters belonging
to or acting with one political party from inadvertently or in-
tentionally casting their ballots for the candidate for nomina-
tion for office, or election as delegate to any convention or as
executive or member of an executive or managing committee
of any other party, and to facilitate its being promptly detected
if so cast, the ballots of the several parties shall be printed upon
opaque paper of different colors, to be determined by the Board of
Supervisors of Elections of Dorchester County; and until after
the next general registration in Dorchester County every person
offering to vote at a primary election shall be required to state to
which party he belongs and which party's candidate he intends