ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 37

as officers of registration, who shall sit as officers of
registration in the council chamber at least five days,
commencing on the third Monday of February in each
year, from the hours of 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. 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 newspapers of said city.

71A. The Mayor and City Council of Cumberland
shall, prior to the third Monday in January, 1922, elect
two men of opposite political faith and two women of
opposite political faith from each ward and precinct in
said city, and said persons so elected shall be registra-
tion officials in their respective wards and precincts, and
shall, on the first and second Monday and Tuesday in
February, 1922, conduct a general registration of all the
voters in the wards and precincts of said city; said regis-
tration shall be conducted in each ward and precinct by
the persons so elected at the usual city polling places in
said wards and precincts, and said registration officials
shall sit on the days indicated from 8 A. M. to 8 P. M.,
and shall sit during the same hours on the third Monday
in February, 1922, for purposes of revision; ten days'
public notice of such general registration shall be given
by the City Clerk by advertisement in at least two of the
daily newspapers of said city and by posting handbills
in the most public places in each ward and precinct of
said city; the books for said registration shall be pre-
pared by the City Clerk and shall be in substantially the
same form as those used by the Board of Supervisors of
Flection for Allegany County, and, except when being
used for registration or election purposes, said books
shall be kept at the City Hall in the custody of the City
Clerk of said city; said registration shall be made and
corrected in the manner provided in the general regis-
tration laws of the State, and shall specify the residence
of the voter of each street, lane or alley, and such regis-
tration shall be essential to the right of voting at any
election under this charter, but shall not be conclusive
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