508 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 274

CHAPTER 274
(Senate Bill 230)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-
section (c) of Section 37 of Article 33 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Elections", sub-
title "Registration", providing that the Board of Super-
visors of Elections of Baltimore City may transfer a
challenged registration of a voter from one precinct to
another.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sub-section (c) of Section 37 of Article 33 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Elec-
tions", sub-title "Registration", be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

37.

(c) In Baltimore City, two members of the Board of
Supervisors of opposite political parties, and in the respec-
tive counties the two members of the Permanent Board of
Registry or such supplemental Boards of Registry, consist-
ing each of two persons of opposite political parties, as may
be appointed, if deemed necessary, by the Board of Super-
visors, shall sit for the purpose of hearing applications for
changes in such registration lists, or challenges of the right
to vote on such lists, on the Tuesday two weeks before an
election in Baltimore City and on the Tuesday three weeks
before an election in the counties, at such hours as the
Board of Supervisors may designate. If all such applica-
tions or challenges be not determined on that day, they
shall sit during the same hours on succeeding days until
all cases are heard and decided. If it is not possible to hear
all such cases within one week from the time when such
sessions shall commence, the Board of Supervisors may
appoint one or more boards, each consisting of two mem-
bers of opposite political parties to aid in hearing such
applications or challenges at a compensation fixed as pro-
vided in Section 4 of this Article. Persons whose right to
register has been challenged and persons whose names are
alleged to have been erroneously omitted or dropped from
the registration lists shall be notified and may appear in

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