HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 219

CHAPTER 211.
(Senate Bill 37)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
27 and 78 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1939 Edition), title "Elections", sub-titles "Registration"
and "Intermediate Registration", relating to the alpha-
betical list of voters.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 27 and 78 of Article 33 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Elections", sub-titles
"Registration" and "Intermediate Registration", be and they
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

27. At the end of the last session provided for, the said Board
of Registry shall compare and correct the two registers and
make them agree, and the officers having them respectively in
their custody shall then immediately under the last name regis-
tered under each letter of the registers sign their names, so
that no other names can be added without discovery; all of said
officers of registration shall then subscribe, at the end of each
register, a certificate, in substance, in the words following:
"We, the undersigned, constituting the Board of Registry in
....... precinct or district of........... county, or in.......

precinct of the............ ward of the city of..............

in the State of Maryland, do jointly and severally certify that,
at the general registration of voters in said precinct, closed
on this......... day of................ there was registered

by us, in said precinct, the names which in this book are
entered, and that the number of registered and qualified voters
was and is the number of................... "

Dated..................

(Signature)

During the next day the Board of Registry shall return the
two registers to the Board of Supervisors of Elections, and in
the counties the said Board of Registry shall, at the same
time, return the alphabetical list of names, party affiliation
color and addresses of the persons registered and erased by
them, and in Baltimore City the Boards of Registry shall, at
the same time, return the list made by them, at their last
session; and in the counties the said Boards of Supervisors
of Elections shall at once cause said alphabetical lists to be
printed in handbill form in long-primer type, and copies
thereof posted, within five days after the return of said
lists, as aforesaid in such manner that they may be easily read,
in at least ten prominent places in the respective precincts.