The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-08-04
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A N ACT
RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF THE
VOTERS OF THE STATE.

RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF THE
VOTERS OF THE STATE.
Sec. /. Be At enacted By the Genera,
assembly Of Maryland, That there shall
disappointed by the Governor, from among
the citizens of the State most known fol-
loyalty, frmness and uprightness, three
persons for each ward in the city of Bal
timore, and for each election district in
the several counties of the State, who shall
be styled officers ofregistration, who shall
register the names of all free white male
persons claiming and entitled to the right
OF elective franchise, resident in or tenn.
porarily absent from the several wards OF
the city of Baltimore and the several cleo
ton districts in the counties, in the mann CT
herein prescribed, and the said officers of
registration shall receive for their services
the sum of three dollars for each and every
day occupied aud required in discharging
the duties imposed on them under this
act, any two of whom shall be competent
to act, and any vacancies in any board
shall be filled by the Governor from among
the citizens of the State as hereinbefore
provided. All officers of registration
before entering upon tho discharge of
their duties as such, shall take the oath
prescribed in the Constitution and sub.
scribe the same in the book of registration
for their respective wards or election dis
tricts.
Sec. 2. lad be II enacted, That the
Governor shall appoint three persons as
officers of registration, whose duty it shall
be to register the soldiers of this State,
IN the military service of the United
States, and such persons in the naval ser.
vice of the United States as may be
stationed at convenient and accessible
posts, who are absent from their regular
places of voting on account of such service :;
and it shall be the duty of said officers of
registration to visit the different regiments,
camps and hospitals or other posts where
SAID soldiers may be, for the purpose of
ascertaining all such as shall or may
be qualified to vote according to the pro-
visions of the Constitution and laws of
this State, and said officers of registration
shall perform said duty in like manner as
is required in other sections of this act,
and shall return their books or lists of
registration for the different counties and
the city of Baltimore, to such officers of
registration in the said city or counties,
as the Governor shall designate, on or
before the first day of September, eighteen
hundred and sixty-Gve, and it shall be
the duty of the officers of registration to
whom such returns shall be made, to
cause the names SO returned to be regis
tered IN the several election districts of
their respective counties or wards in the
city of Baltimore in which said soldiers
reside, or are entitled to vote and in ad.
dition to the per diem allowed by this act
to officers of registration, they shall be
allowed their necessary travelling expenses
for the discharge Of the duties imposed by
tbs act.
Sec. 3. And be IL enacted, That it
shall be the duty of said officers of regis
tration, after having received the register
of said soldiers, to furnish certified copy
of the duly qualified voters on such lists to
the County Commissioners Of the several
counties and the Mayor of the city of
Boltimore, on or before the fifth day of
October, eighteen hundred and sixty.fve,
to be by them or him transmitted to the
Judges appointed to take the votes of said
soldiers as directed by law.
SEc. 4. And be ii enacted, That the
Governec shall cause to be prepared suita-
Bile books for the registration of names and
facts required by this act, to be furnished
to said officers Of registration in each ward
in the city of Baltimore and election dis