The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-09-28

District No. Q, at the Residence of the
Register, Denning's PostofRce.
District No. 10, on Monday, the 9TH of
October, at Lewis Lynn's Hotel, Middleburg,
and en- Tuesday, the 9Th of October, at Wash.
ington Shorb s, at Keysville.
District No. =, at the Residence of The
Register, New Windsor.
District No. u, at the Residence of the
Register in Union Bridge.
On Monday and Tuesday, the IN and Sh
Of October, 1878, from, 8 o'clock, A. II.
to 8 O'Clock, r. IT.,
for the purpose of diseharging their duty as
Officers of Registration, according to said Act
of the General Assembly.
The Registration Act of 1876 provides:
SEC. 4. At the times and places of which
notice shall be so given, the said respective
Officers of Registration shall proceed to strike
from the list qualified voters the names of
all persons IN retrospective wards, or elect
ton districts, known or made known to them
who have died or removed from the precinct
or election district in which they have been
registered, or who may not be residents there
OF or entitled to vote therein, or have become
disqualified under the provisions ofthe second
and third sections of the first article of the
Constitution, and shall deliver to any person,
whose name appears on the said list of quail
he'd voters, and who may be DESTROYS of reg
istering elsewhere, certificate of registration,
and shall strike from the books of registration
the names Of all persons so applying for GER
thcstes OF registration, as also the names of
all dead, removed or disqualified persons, or
OF persons who may not be resident of the
precinct or election district in which he is
registered, or may not be entitled to vote
therein, under the Constitution and laws of
this State, as the case may be; and shall also
state in such books the cause for such strik-
ing OF OF the names respectively, and to reg
lister the name of every person who shall
apply 10 said officers to be registered as a
qualified voter, who shall Satisfy them that
he possesses, or before the day of election
next ensuing will possess, the requisite quail
tieations under the Constitution Of the United
States, and the laws made in pursuance there
! of, and of the Constitution of the State of
Maryland, and the qualifications of age, citi
zenship and residence, and is not disqualified
under the provisions of the second and third
sections of the first article of the Constitution
and before registering any person as quail;
fed voter, the said Officers of Registration
shall administer to him the following oath or
affirmation I'll, do solemnly swear or
Affirm, that will true answers make 10 all
questions necessary to ascertain my qualifica-
ton or disqualification to be registered as a
qualified voter" but nothing herein contained
shall be construed to authorize said Registers
to ask any questions touching any cause of
| disqualification not expressly enumerated in
the Constitution of the State of Maryland or
of the United States.
SEC. 8. Said Officers of Registration shall,
before striking from said list of qualified
voters and from said books of registration the
name of any registered person, diligently in
qulre and accurately ascertain that said reg
lstered person does not possess, or before the
election next enjuing will not possess, the
requisite qualifications to entitle him to be
registered as a qualified voter in such precinct
or election district, or that such person is dis
qualified 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 qualifications, 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 ofregistration,
but if it shall appear otherwise then said Off
Ger shall not strike the name of such person
from said books of registration and from said
list OF qualified voters, and before registering
as qualified voter any person who has APP
piled to said 0fieersof Registration to be reg
istered as a qualified voter, said officer shall
/ diligently inquire and accurately ascertain
that such person possesses or will possess, be-
fore the election next ensuing, the requisite
qualifications to entitle him to be registered
as a qualified voter, and that he is not dis
qualified under the provisions Of the second
and third sections Of the first article of the
Constitution, and if it shall appear that said
person so applying, possesses or will possess
before said day of election, said qualifications,
and IS not so disqualified, then said Officers
of Registration shall register the name Of
such person as q qualified voter, but they
shall not register the name of any person who
does not or will not possess said qualifications,
or is so disqualified, and when any person APP
plying, as aforesaid for registration, shall have
been previously registered within this State,
the Officer of Registration to whom such APP
pllcation is made, before registering such per
son, shall demand and receive from him u
certificate of his previous legal registration,
and such certificate of previous registration
| shall be cancelled by the officer who shall
register such person anew.
SEC. % Thatif any Officer of Registration,
Clerk of Court, Sheriff, Judge of Election,
or Police Commissioners shall knowingly re-
fuse or neglect to comply with any Of the
provisions of the several Sections of this Act
imposing duties upon him, or if any Officer
OF Registration shall enter upon the list Of
registered voters the name of a voter, or strike
from said list the name ofany person already
entered thereon except at the time and place
prescribed by this Act, he shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor and shall, on pre-
sentiment and indictment therefor, and con-
victiOn thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not
less than FIVE hundred nor more than one
thousand dollars for every such offence, or be
imprisoned, in the discretion of the Court, for |
period not exceeding three years, or both, |
and shall also be liable in damages at the !
suit ofthe party aggrieved.
The constitutional provisions above refer
red to are as follows:
SIC. .. No person above the age of twenty. |
one years, convicted of larceny, or other in |
famous crime, unless pardoned by the Gov
ernor, shall ever thereafter be entitled to vote /
at any election in this State, and no person /
under guardianship, as a lunatic or as per
son non compOs mentis, shall be entitled to
vote.
SEC. 8. If any person shall give, or offer to
give, directly or indirectly, any bride, pres.
ent or reward, or any promise, or any seeu-
rity for the payment, or the deliveryof money,
or any other thing, to induce any voter to re-
frain from casting his vote, or to prevent him,
in any way, from voting, or TO procure a vote
for any candidate, or person proposed, or
voted for, as Elector of President and Vice
President of the United States, or Represen-
tative in Congress, or for any office OF profit
or trust, created by the Constitution OF laws
of this State, or by the ordinances or author
ity of the Mayor and City Council of Balti
more, the person giving, or offering tn give,
and the person receiving the same, and any
person who gives, or causes to be given, an
illegal vote, knowing it to be such, at any
election hereafter held in this State, shall on
conviction in Court of Law, in addition to
the penalties now, or hereafter to be, impos-
ed by law, be forever disqualified to hold any
Office of profit or trust, or to vote at any cleo
ton thereafter.
All male citizens, without distinction of
color, who are entitled to registration under
the preceding sections, are hereby notified to