12 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 3

be entered in a book or books marked "Applications of
Registered Absentee Residents". If the applicant is not
registered, or if the Board cannot determine whether or not
the applicant is registered, such record and the precinct and
ward or district in which his home residence is located shall
be entered in a book or books marked "Applications of Un-
registered Absentee Residents". Such books shall also show
the date on which an Absentee Ballot was mailed to the
applicant. Upon receipt of an Absentee Ballot from an un-
registered Absentee Resident, said Boards shall determine
from the oath on said Ballot Envelope whether said applicant
is entitled to be registered under the provisions of this sub-
title, and, if such applicant is entitled to be registered, he
shall at once be registered and the letters "A. R." placed
after his name in or on the appropriate registration book or
card. His registration and the date thereof also shall be
noted in the book marked "Applications of Unregistered
Absentee Residents". The books herein provided for shall be
open to the inspection of any candidate or his duly author-
ized representative and to the War Ballot Commission or its
representatives.

134. It shall be the duty of the several Boards to meet as
frequently as may be necessary to examine promptly applica-
tions for Absentee Ballots, and unless a Board, in any case,
shall be unable to ascertain from an application the identity
of the applicant or the address to which the Ballot requested
is to be sent, or unless the Board determines to its satisfac-
tion that the applicant is not an Absentee Resident it shall,
as soon as possible after receipt of the application, mail each
Absentee Resident a State Absentee Ballot, Ballot Envelope,
Return Envelope and the Instructions.

Not more than one State Absentee Ballot shall be mailed
to any one applicant unless the Board has reasonable grounds
to believe that the Absentee Ballot previously mailed has
been lost, destroyed or spoiled.

135. Any absentee resident, as herein defined, who is
eligible to receive a ballot under the provisions of this sub-
title and who may be at home on leave during the period of
50 days preceding an election, may deliver in person a writ-
ten application to the Board of Supervisors of Elections of
the County or Baltimore City, as the case may be, in which
he resides, for an absentee ballot, and the Board shall de-
liver such ballot together with a ballot envelope and instruc-
tions to the applicant; such applicant shall thereupon mark
said ballot and execute the oath on the ballot envelope be-
fore any member of the Board, who shall administer the
oath and witness the same, whereupon the ballot envelope,
with the ballot enclosed and sealed therein shall be left with
the Board at its regular office. Thereafter the Board shall