1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 333

Penalty.

the execution of the duties of their office, they shall be
subject to a fine of five hundred dollars and imprison-
ment in the jail not less than six months nor more
than two years.

Hour of sitting.

SEC. 26. And be it enacted, That the said registers
shall sit, on the days required by the law, for making
said registration, or correcting the same, from ten
o'clock in the morning till five in the afternoon.

Registries depo-
sited.

SEC. 37. And be it enacted, That the official regis-
tries shall be deposited by the judges of election with-
in one week after every election, in the office of the
clerk of Baltimore county court, for safe keeping, and
the said clerk shall deliver said registries to the regis-
ters of the several wards, on their applying for the
same, whenever and so often as it may be necessary,
for the purpose of correcting or adding to the lists of
the voters, previous to any election, as provided by
this law.

Entry on regis-
tries instead of
record of name.

SEC. 28. And be it enacted, That it shall not he ne-
cessary for the clerks of the elections to keep a list of
the names of the persons who may vote at their respec-
tive wards, but they shall enter opposite to the name
of every person registered, the letter "V," in a line
under the date on which said vote was given, and keep
a tally of the number of votes as they are taken.

Elections not
according to
this act, void.

SEC. 29. And be it enacted, That any election held
in the city of Baltimore, at which the provisions of
this act shall not be observed, shall be, and the same
is hereby declared to be, null, void, and of none effect.

Acts of 1837,
ch. 149, &c.
repealed.

SEC. 30. And be it enacted, That the act passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and thirty seven,
chapter one hundred and forty-nine, entitled, an act to
guard against frauds in the exercise of the elective
franchise in the city of Baltimore, and all other acts
or parts of acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this
act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Ballot to be ta-
ken on this
act.

SEC. 31. And be it enacted, That at the first regis-
tration of voters under this act, every person, on mak-
ing his application to the registers to have his vote
registered, and who may, by said registers, be adjudg-
ed to be entitled legally to vote, may declare his ap-
proval or disapproval of this act, and for that purpose
the said registers shall provide a box in which the