The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-05-12
LNaVS-GenerOL

der the provisions of the second and third Sec
tons, OF the first Article of the Constitution, and
before registering any person as qualified voter
the said Officers of Registration shall administer
to him the following oath or affirmation:
d., do solemnly swear or affirm, that
will true answers make to all questions meet ssary
to ascertain my qualification or disqualification
TO be registered as Il qualified votor," but moth
ing herein contained shall be construed to ap-
thorize said Registers to ask any questions
touching any cause of disqualification no ex-
pressly enumerated in the Constitution OF int
Stat. of Maryland, or of the United States.
Sec. 5. And be 1t enacted, That said Officers
of Registration shall before striking from said
list of qualified voters and from said books OF
registration, the name of any re 'istered person,
diligently inquire and accurately ascertain that
said registered person does not possess or betore
the election next ensuing, will not possess til,
requisite qualifications to entille him TO be reg
istered as q qualified voter in such precint or
election district, or that such person is dsquali-
fed under the provisions OF the second and third
Sections of the first Article of the Constitution
and If it shall appear that said registered person
does not possess or will not possess said qua'i6-
cations, and that he is so disqualified, then said
officer shall strike the name Of such person from
said list of qualified voters and SAID books OF
registration, but if it shall appear otherwise then
such officer shall not strike the name of such
person from said books of registration and from
said list of qualified voters, and before register
ing as qualified voter any person who has APP
piled 20 said Officers of Registration to be regis
tered aa qualified voter, said officer shall dii
igently enquire and accurately ascertain that
such person possesses or will possess, before the
election next ensuing the requisite qualifications
to entitle him to be registered us qualified
voter, and that he is not disqualified under the
provisions Of the second and third Sections o.
the first Article of the Constitution, and if il
shall appear that said person So applying, pos
sesses or will possess before said day OF election,
said qualifications, and is not so disquall flied,
then said officers OF Registration shall register
.he name Of such person rs qualified voter,
but they shall not register the name Of any per
son who does not or will not possess said quail
fications or is so disqualified, and when any per-
son applying as aforesaid, for registration, shall
have been previously registered within this
State, the Officer of Regis tration TO whom such
application is made, before registering such
person, shalt demand and receive from him Il
certificate of his prev Gus legal registration, and
such Certificate of previous registration shall bt
cancelled by the officer who shall register such
person anew.
Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That in order to
enable the said Register to revise the list of reg
is,ered voters in each of the precincts OF the re-
spective wards of Baltimore city, the Board OF
Police Commissioners of Baltimore city shall,
within one month, before the time herelnbefore
provided for the revision of the lists of registered
voters cause a census Of the legal voters in each
Of the votsng precincts into which the several
wards of Baltimore city shall then be divi 4ed
10 be made by their police officers and returned
by said officers 10 the Office of the Board of said
Police Commissioners, and the said Board shall
Furnish copy of the list of voters so returned,
Ns residents in each precinct, TO the Register OF
such respective wards, on or before the day
when the Register opens his office for the reg
istration af voters in such respective wards, and
such census shall be made and returned i'll the
same manner before each election of the men,
bers of the General Assembly, and copies
thereof shall be furnished to the Register, as
aforesaid
Sec. I. And be it enacted That if any person
shall deem himself aggreved by the refusal Of
any officer Of Registration to register his mann
as qualified voter, or by the striking off his
name from the list Of qualified voters, for any
cause, he shall have the right to appeal by
petition from such decision or action to the
Judge or Judges of the circuit court of the
county where he applied for registration, or TO ii
Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore city,
in case the person applied for registration in
Baltimore city, and it said Judges shall deter
mine that the party appealing is entitled to be
registered, or to be restored to the list quail
fed voter, he shall so certify to the Officer o
Registration from whose decision the appeal
was taken, and the said officer shall thereupon
register the said person as qualified voter, and
in that case the cost OF said appeal shall be paid
by the Mayor and City Council Of Baltimore, or
the County Commissioners of the county in
which the appeal was taken, and it shall be the
duty of the States Attorneys of the several
counties, and of the counsel for the Officers OF
Registration of Baltimore city, as hereinafter
provided, to appear on behalf Of the Officers OF
Registration and against the appellant at the
hearing of all appeals from the dicison of Off
cers of Registration within their respective coun
ties and Baltimore city as the case may be.
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That Immediately
after the expiration of the days in which said
Officers of Registration shall have sat for such
corrections of the registry lists, commencing on
the first Monday in September, they shall pro-
coed without delay, to make or cause 10 be
made, two alphabetical lists, one of which lists |
shall comprise the names Of those registered per
sons which said officers have striker from the
lists of qualified voters, and from the books OF
registration delivered 10 said officers by said
clerks of courts, and the other one Of which lists |
shall comprise the mar Of the persons which
said officers have regis cred at the registration
gust made, and also the names of those persons
whom the Judge of Court to whom an appta al
from the decision of said Officers OF Registration
has been taken, has decided to be entitled to be
registered, and said Officers of Registration shall
cause said lists to be published by handbills
posted in such public places as they may elect
in the several precincs of Baltimore city, and
said election districts in the counties, and one
third Of the handblls so posted in Baltimore
city shall be limited in the German language.
Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That for the pur-
pose of revising said books Of registration and
said lists as made and published by said Officers
Of Registration, they shall, for three successive
days. in the City of Baltimore, and two success
sive days, in the several counties of The State,
commencing on the first Monday in October,
1876, and on the same days respectively in every
year thereafter, at some place in their respec-
tive precincts and districts, convenient to the
voters thereof, sit with opon doors from nine
O'Clock, A. M, until nine o'clock, p NJ. IN
Baltimore city, and from nine o'clock, A. NJ,
until six clock, p. NJ in the counties, and the
respective Officers of Registration shall give at
least three days notice. by notice signed by
them respectively, of the time and place of sit
ting in said precincts and districts, by publca-
ton in three newspapers published in Baltimore
city, one of which shall be printed in the Ger
man language, and in one newspaper in each
county in which a newspaper is published, and
also by handbills posted at such public places as
said officers shall select in said precincts and