258                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 121

to the hours of registration prescribed by Sections 29 and 39
of said Article.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 18 of Article 33 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Elections, " sub-title
"Registration, " be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

18. On Tuesday six weeks preceding the election to be held
on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1896,
which shall occur after the enactment of this Article, each
Board of Registry shall meet at the place designated by the
Board of Supervisors of Elections, and shall proceed to make a
general registration of all voters in its precinct or district, as
the case may be. The proceedings of each Board of Registry
shall be as follows: (1) They shall open the registry in the
City of Baltimore at 2 o'clock P. M., and continue in said ses-
sion until 10 o'clock P. M. In the counties the hours of session
shall be from 9 o'clock A. M. to 9 o'clock P. M. except that in
Wicomico County the said Board of Registry shall hold a session
from 10 o'clock A. M. to 7 o'clock P. M., and that in Talbot
County the said Board of Registry shall hold a session from 8
o'clock A. M. to 7 o'clock P. M. One of the officers of registra-
tion shall administer to all persons who shall personally apply
to register the following oath or affirmation: "You do solemnly
swear (or affirm) that you will fully and truly answer all such
questions as shall be put to you touching your place of residence,
name, place of birth, your qualifications as a voter, and your
right as such to register and vote under the laws of this State. "
(2) The two officers of registration designated by the Super-
visors to have custody of the two registry books, or such of
their colleagues as such of them may respectively ask to tem-
porarily replace him in the discharge of his duty, shall make the
entries therein required by this Article, and the questions as
to qualifications shall be asked by the other officers of said Board.

(3) The name and age of every applicant shall be entered
in such registry book and all the facts of his application shall
be therein stated as herein provided, whether he be entitled to
vote or not. If it shall be determined by the Board that he is
not a qualified voter in the precinct, then an entry shall be made
in the appropriate column "No, " and a line shall be drawn in
red ink through his name and through all the other entries on
the line on which his name is written, but so that the name and
said other entries shall remain legible; and if qualified, the
entry shall be made in the same column "Yes. " (4) Only
persons constitutionally qualified to vote in the precinct at the