1616 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 694

between the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. on the said days
for the purpose of enrolling and registering the qualified voters
for their respective wards, in such places as shall be designated
by the Commissioners of Cambridge, and shall receive such
compensation, not exceeding three dollars per day, for such ser-
vices as the Commissioners of Cambridge shall prescribe, either
by order, passed at the time of appointment or by ordinance.
Said registration shall specify the name, age, color and the resi-
dence of the voters on each street, lane or alley of the town,
and for this purpose the Commissioners of Cambridge shall pro-
vide the necessary registration books, one for each ward, suitable
for said purpose. After the registration is completed, the said
books shall be returned by the said officers of registration to the
Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector, who shall safely keep and
preserve them; and in every year after the year 1912, in the
month of June, and on the first Tuesday of said month and
the Wednesday following the said Tuesday, in the said month,
the Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector shall sit as an officer
of registration, in the Council Chamber or in some other and
convenient place, for the purpose of revising the registration
books of the several wards and for transferring voters from one
ward to the other in case such voters have changed their resi-
dence, and also for the purpose of adding the names of new and
qualified voters to the list of registration, and of striking off
from said registry the names of voters, known to be dead or
proved to be dead to his satisfaction, or who are known to have
changed their place of residence by removal from the town of
Cambridge or by removing from one ward to the other, or
names of persons whose removal as aforesaid is proved to the
satisfaction of said officer. In case of any special election, the
registry lists, as revised at the preceding June revision shall be
used as evidence of the right of any person to vote. When
sitting as an officer of registration, the Town Clerk, Treasurer
and Collector shall have power to administer an oath to every
applicant for registration and to any person, called as a witness
to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,
and any false swearing shall be perjury. The Commissioners
of Cambridge shall cause due advertisement of such registra-
tion, as well as the sitting of the Town Clerk, Treasurer and
Collector as an officer of registration as hereinbefore specified,
by advertisement inserted in at least two newspapers, published
in the town of Cambridge, stating the time and place of such
registration and the wards in which it shall be held. Such offi-