PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1408

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 the same was enacted by Chapter 347 of
the General Assembly of Maryland of 1912, be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to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
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 executive bodies to be
voted for; and to prevent voters belonging to or acting with
one political party from inadvertently or intentionally casting
their ballots for the candidate for nomination for office, or
election as delegate to any convention or as executive or mem-
ber of an executive or managing committee of any other party,
and to facilitate its being promptly detected if so cast, the bal-
lots of the several parties shall be printed upon opaque paper
of different colors, to be determined by the several Boards of
Supervisors of Elections; and until after the next general reg
istration in the Counties every person offering to vote at a pri-
mary election shall be required to state to which party he be-
longs and which party's candidate he intends to vote for at the
State, City or County election, and every qualified person offer-
ing to vote in the several Counties in the State at a primary
election shall be permitted to vote in the primary election of
that party to which he belongs and which party candidate he
intends to vote for at the State or County election and in Balti-
more City and in the Counties. After the next general regis-
tration in the Counties, every qualified person offering to vote
at a primary election shall be permitted to vote in the primary
election of that party only with which he shall appear upon
the books of registration to be affiliated. The respective Boards
of Supervisors of Elections in the several Counties are hereby
authorized and required, immediately upon the passage of this
Act, to have prepared new books of registry for use in all of the
districts or precincts of the said several Counties for the tran-
scribing of the names of the qualified voters residing therein
from the registration books in use. The said transcribing shall
be done in the offices of the Boards of Supervisors of Elections
by four (4) clerks to be selected, two by the Supervisors rep-
resenting the majority party and two by the Supervisors rep-