ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1105

where previously registered. Under the column headed "Re-
marks" they shall note whether the applicant is male or female.
(J) Under the column "Court" the designation of the
Court in which, if naturalized, such naturalization was
had...(K) Under the column "Qualified Voter," the word
"Yes" if the fact shall appear or be determined by a majority
of the Board of Registry, or the word "No," if such fact be
not established to the satisfaction of the majority of the Board.
(L) Under the column "Date of Application," the month,
day and year when the applicant presented himself... (N)
After the answers of the applicant to the questions under the
heads of each and all of the above mentioned columns have been
properly entered by the officers in his presence in both registers,
and not until then he shall be asked to sign his name upon
the same line under the column "Signature," in each of them,
and shall sign his name, if he can do so. If, however, he shall
state his inability to do so, or decline to do so, the officers shall
make the entry "Cannot Write," or "Declines," as the case
may be, in the place for such signature. The Board of Registry
shall be entitled to receive from the officers having custody
thereof the last preceding registration books, for the purpose
of comparison and assistance in identification, and if anyone
shall apply for registration who appeared in such former reg-
istry as disqualified, his name shall be entered in the new reg-
ister, but he shall be marked "Disqualified," unless such
grounds of disqualification shall have been removed. At the
end of the day's registry said officers shall compare the two
registers so kept, and cause any errors in either of them to be
corrected, by the aid of the entries in the other, so as to make
the same agree where there is any difference between them.
Each of the said officers having the custody of any of said reg-
isters shall then sign his name or initials immediately under
the last name registered under each letter in the book kept
by him, so that no new names can be added without discovery.
The said board of Registry shall keep, on blanks to be provided
for that purpose by the Board of Supervisors of Elections, an al-
phabetical list of names, addresses and color of all persons
registered, and a separate list of all persons refused registra-
tion, and of all persons whose names are erased from the reg-
istry. In the City of Baltimore, at the end of each session, they
shall deliver these lists to the police officers on duty at the
registration office, and the list shall be delivered by the said
officer to the Police Board, and by the Police Board to the