1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 333.

man, commissioners, shall be allowed interest upon
the amount, at the rate of six per cent per annum, from
and after the first day of October next, the said money
when so paid to be applied by the commissioners of the
road aforesaid to the payment of the expenses already
incurred in laying out and opening said road.

CHAPTER 333.

Passed Mar. 27,
1838.

An act to guard against Fraud in the exercise of the
Elective Franchise, in the city of Baltimore, and to
secure the Rights of Voters, and to establish with
greater certainty the Rules of Evidence to be observed
at all Elections in said city.

Register, the on-
ly evidence of
qualification.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act
the registration of the names of voters, within the city
of Baltimore, according to the provisions of this act,
shall be taken and held as the only evidence of the
qualification of said voters to vote at any election that
may hereafter be held in the said city.

Appointment of
registers of vo-
ters.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Governor, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall, on or
before the first day of May, in each and every year,
appoint three discreet persons in each of the wards
of the city of Baltimore, residents in the respective
wards for which they shall be appointed, who shall be
called the Registers of Voters within the city of Balti-
more, and who shall serve for one year from the date
of their commissions, and until successors shall be ap-

Their compen-
sation.

pointed, and who shall receive for compensation two
dollars per day, for every day on which they may be
actually engaged in the discharge of the duties of their
office, and the said registers shall be, and they are

Clerks.

hereby authorised to appoint a clerk for each of their
several wards, to aid them in making a clear and per-
fect registry of the legal voters of the said ward, and

Their compen-
sation.

the said clerks shall receive for such service, from the
said city of Baltimore, two dollars for every day they
shall be so employed; and the said compensation of
said registers and clerks shall be raised as the other