ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  497

conduct a registration to determine the qualified voters of the
town and hold an election of officers and declare the results
thereof. Said registration shall be held on two consecutive
days, the second of which shall be not less than fifteen days
before said annual election, That said Board shall not less
than one week before the first such registration days post in
five or more places within the boundaries of said town notices
to the citizens of said town that said registration is to be held
at a definite place within the limits of the town between the
hours of 7. 00 o'clock P. M. and 9. 00 o'clock P. M. of each of
said two days. All citizens of the United States who have at-
tained the age of twenty-one years and who have been bona fide
residents of the said town for at least one year prior to said
registration shall be eligible to register, and after registering
shall be eligible to vote at all town elections so long as they
remain bona fide residents of said town. The said Board of
Election Supervisors shall have power to determine the eligi-
bility of each applicant for registration by propounding to each
applicant for registration, under oath, the following questions:
First: Are you a citizen of the United States ? Second: What
is your name ? Third: Have you resided in Colmar Manor for
a period of one year immediately preceding this registration?
Fourth: Are you twenty-one years of age or over ? Fifth: In
what ward do you reside?. For the purpose of making this
examination, any member of the said Board of Election Super-
visors shall have the power of administering oaths in all mat-
ters applying to or incident to the exercise of his duties as
Election Supervisor as set forth in this Act. Should the an-
swers of the applicant to the first, third and fourth questions
be in the affirmative, then it shall be the duty of said Board of
Election Supervisors to accept such applicant for registration.
Should the answer of said applicant to any of the above ques-
tions be in the negative, then it shall be the duty of said Board
to refuse to register such applicant. Should the applicant
answer any of the above provided questions falsely he shall
be guilty of perjury and be subject to the penalties in such
cases provided by the laws of the State of Maryland. Said
Board of Election Supervisors shall conduct an election by
ballot on the second Tuesday in July, ' if not a legal holiday,
and if a legal holiday then on the following day, for the elec-
tion of officers as provided for in this charter. The polls shall
be open between the hours of 5. 00 o'clock P. M. and 9. 00 P. M.
Said Board of Election Supervisors shall provide booths, a