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Fraudulent re~istra,fi-on, tampering with lists, intimidation of registers
loss of lists by their legal guardians, &o., are made misdeineamors, and as
such, punishable by law."-.-
Errors in the regisfml.tion book or poll-list given to the ,judges of elec-
tion may be corrected from the copy in tile possession of the Clerk of
Court, who is to sit on_ election d-
ay to issue certificates of c;orrec'tion to such
as apply.2
The Board of Sit iii Baltimore. and the Sheriffs in the counties,
are to net one of .the dnh~lcatt' books of registration from the Clerks of
Court
and deliver them to the--e~ec.tiun judges at the polls on the nuwnin g of
elec-
tion day.
In Baltimore, the siTpervisurs appoint registration officials before August
1, election officials two months before the election. at least five weeks
before
election, the names of election officials mast be published in the
newspapers.
For t\vo weeks, after such publication, the supervisors receive and consider
complaints against these-ufticials, filed in writing, and, remove them, if
they
.Midge the complaints proven. 'the supervisors, on October 23, 1895 ' voted
that they considered their authoritv to receive complaints against their
appointees expired with the two weeks above mentioned.,
The Supervisors' tlireno-lumt tile State appoint, before the second llun-
day in September, yearly, three ;judges of election, two clerks of election
and
two ballot-clerks for click precinc.t,v and five days after appointment
give a
\\-arrant to the Sheriff, who nlTist deliver it in ten days. X11 these
election
officers are to be duly sworn, and must serve unless excused. '.though tile
law intended that tile appointees of the minority party should be acceptable
to the minority Supervisor and the organization of his party, the spirit of
the la\v is constantly disren, ch, 1>X!>>VIII.
iGi e. ., in Somerset and Iloware~.
in Baltimore cite.
" to the effect that they ]it the rteht to name mnntrtty election officers,
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