46 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 32

CHAPTER 32.

(Senate Bill 88)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tion 155 of Article 11 of the Public Local Laws of Mary-
land (1930 Edition), title "Frederick County", sub-title
"Emmitsburg", relating to the hours for registration and
voting in the town of Emmitsburg.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 155 of Article 11 of the Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Frederick
County", sub-title "Emmitsburg", be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

155. All elections shall be held by ballot, and in such
manner as shall from time to time be directed by ordinance,
and ten days before the election the Burgess, with the
consent and approval of the Commissioners, shall appoint
two judges to conduct the same, who shall keep the polls
open from 12 noon to 7 P. M., which shall be the hours for
sitting for the register of voters on the days of registration
in 1910, and the day of annual registration and revision
thereafter; provided, however, that the Burgess and Com-
missioners shall have the power by ordinance to change
from time to time the hours of registration and voting
in said town; and on the first Monday in April in the
year 1910, the Burgess, with the consent and approval of
the Board of Commissioners, shall appoint a register of
voters for said town, who shall sit on the 3rd and 4th Tues-
days of April in said year to register the voters of said
town, and notice shall be given of said sittings by the said
Burgess by publication in some newspaper published in
said town, or by handbills, of the time and place of said
sittings, ten days prior to the day of the first sitting, and
all persons qualified as such who shall apply shall be by
him registered in a book to be furnished for that purpose,
and the said register shall have the same powers and au-
thority to administer an oath and examine those who ap-
ply for registration, and to hear evidence relating to the
same as the register of voters of this State now have, and
shall receive the same compensation, and on the close of
the day of the last sitting he shall sign his name in said
book under each letter immediately under the last 'name
registered at said sitting, and on the following day shall
return the said register book to the president of the Board
of Commissioners, and any voter refused registration shall