1404 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

resenting the minority party as the said parties are now con-
stituted in this State, except Baltimore County, where said
transcribing shall be done in the office of the Board of Super-
visors of Elections by twelve (12) clerks, to be selected, six by the
Supervisors representing the majority party and six by the Su-
pervisors representing the minority party, as the said parties are
now constituted in this State. The transcribing shall be done
by the said clerks and the new books, after being transcribed,
shall correspond in all respects, and if they do not correspond
at the conclusion of the work, or if any error in transcribing
be alleged to exist, either or any one of said clerks or any citizen
or voter in any one of said Counties may file a petition in the
Circuit Court within ten days after said work is finished, nam-
ing said clerks and the Board of Supervisors of Elections as
defendants, and the said Court shall have the power to make
such order for the correction of said books as may be proper.
The cost of such preparation of proper registry books shall be
paid by the County Commissioners of the County in which
such sub-division shall be made, upon proper requisitions and
vouchers presented by the Boards of Supervisors of Election.
Any political party that polled more than one per cent, of the
votes cast at the last election may, through its political com-
mittee, if it has one, or by citizens representing said party, if
there be no political committee, name a watcher and substitute
watcher who shall be permitted to attend at the transcribing
of said names and have power to examine the said books dur-
ing the sittings of said clerks for the said work and for a
period of five days thereafter in the presence of said Board
of Supervisors. In the books of registry so provided for to be
used in transcribing said registered voters in each and every
County of the State, subsequent to the passage of this Act,
there shall be provided a distinct column headed "Party Affilia-
tions," and the Board of Registers shall enter in this column
the name of the political party, if any, to which the voter is
inclined and with which the voter desires to have himself re-
corded as affiliated. It shall be the duty of the Board of Reg-
istry to explain to each voter that the statement of such party
affiliation does not bind him to vote for the candidate of such
party at any given election; also that he has the right to de-
cline to state any party affiliations; but that no one who is
not recorded upon the registry as affiliated with a particular
political party will be qualified to vote at subsequent primary
elections of said political party. Whenever a. voter declines
to state his party affiliations, the word "Declined" shall be