THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

expenses of elections in said city are raised by tax or
otherwise.

CHAP. 333.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That before entering on
the duties of their respective offices, and on the day on
which they shall first enter on the discharge of said
duties, the said registers and their clerks, and the
judges of all elections in said city and their clerks re-
spectively, shall solemnly swear or affirm, that they
will faithfully and honestly perform the duties of their
respective offices, and observe, in all things, the re-
quirements of the Constitution of the United States,
and the State of Maryland, and the laws of the Gene-
ral Assembly of Maryland in relation to elections, in
conducting said registry or election, and any justice
of the peace for said city shall be competent to admin-

Oath of regis-
ters and clerks.

ister said oath or affirmation, and it shall be the duty
of any such justice of the peace, on being applied to by
said registers or judges of election, to administer said
oath or affirmation under a fine of one hundred dol-
lars.

Penalty for re-
fusing to ad-
minister.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the said registers, or a majority of them, to sit at
some public and convenient place within the limits of
their several wards, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays of
every week, from the first Monday of August to the
third Wednesday in September, inclusive, in each and
every year,for the purpose of registering the names of
voters, who may apply to be registered, the said re-

Sit to register
votes.

gisters in each ward to cause to be inserted in all the
daily papers of the city of Baltimore, which will insert
it, a notice of the times and places in each ward, when
and at which the said votes will be registered, and to

Publication of
notice.

cause notice to be given by placing hand bills at such
public places as they shall select, the first notice to bo
published in the said daily papers, or in as many of the
said papers as will consent to publish the same, at
least two weeks before the said first Monday of Au-
gust, and to be continued for at least two weeks, and

Handbills.

in case of a change of such being made by the said re-
gisters they shall at once publish in the said papers
notice of such change, as often as they may deem pro-
per, the expenses of giving the said notices to be paid

Case of change
of place.