The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-17

| 9Th and 9th.
District No: ., at the Store of ]. Oliver
/ Wadlow, Freedom
District No. G, at the Residence of the Reg
ister, in Manchester.
| District No. I, at the Office of the Register
three doors east OF the Farmers and Mechan-
les National Bank, Westminster.
District No. s, at the Hotel of II. II. La
motto, in Hampstead.
District No. Q, at Mount Airy, on Monda-
September I'd; at Franklinville, ON Tuesday.
September Sd; and on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, September 4th, 9TH and 9th at
the Residence of the Register, Denning' s
Postoffice.
District No. 10, at Lewis Lynn's Hotel.
Middleburg, on Monday, Tuesday and We'd.
nesday, September I'd, Sd and 4th; and nj
Washington Shorb's, Keysville, on Thursday
and Friday, September 9TH and 9th.
District No. II, at the Residence of the
Register, New Windsor
District No. u, at the Residence Of the
Register in Union Bridge.
On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday. the ed, Sd, nh, 9th,
and 9th days Of September, 1878, from
8 o'clock, 4. H., to 6 O'Clock, p. III.
for the purpose of discharging their duty as
ulcers OF Registration, according 10 said Act
of the General Assembly.
The Registration Act of 1876 provides:
4. SIC. 1. At the times and places of which
notice shall be so given, the said respective
| Officers of Registration shall proceed Ia strike
from the list disqualified voters the names of
all persons in RETROSPECTIVE wards, or elect
ton districts, known or made known 10 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 auali-
I he'd voters, and who may be DESTROYS of reg
istering elsewhere, a certificate of registration
and shall strike from the books of registration
the names of all persons so applying for Ger.
titicates 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 on 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
4 hcatlons under the Constitution OF the United
I States, and the laws made in pursuance there
of, aud of the Constitution of the State of
Maryland, and the qualifications of age, citi
Zenship and residence, and Is not disqualified
I under the provisions of the second and third
sections OF the first article of the Constitution:
and before registering any person as q quail
I 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 to all
| questions necessary to ascertain my qualiiica-
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
l the Constitution of the State of MARYLAND. or
of the United States.
SIC. .. 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
\ qnire and accurately ascertain that said req
istered person does not possess, or before the
election next ensuing will not possess, the
requisite qualifications to entitle him to be
/ registered as n qualified voter in such precinct
or election district, OF that such person is dis
| qualified under the provisions of the second
Z and third sections of the first article OF the
Constitution; and if 1t 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.
I 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 Officers of Registration TO be reg
istered as qualified voter, said officer shall
/ diligently inquire aud 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
I 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 a 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
I plying, as aforesaid, forregistraton, shall have
been previously registered within this State,
/ the Officer Of Registration 70. whom such ap-
/ plication is made, before registering such per
I son, shall demand and receive from him a
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 q 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 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 a misdemeanor and shall, on pre-
sentiment and indictment therefor, and con
yictlon thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not
less than live 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,
aud shall also be liable in damages 1T the
suit Oft the party aggrieved.
The constitutional provisions above refer
red to are as follows:
SEC. ,. No person above lineage 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 lunatic, or as per
son non cOmpOs meHtis, shall be entitled to
vote.
SEC. 3. IL any person shall give, or offer to
give, directly or indirectly, any bride, pres
eut or reward, or any promise, or any secu-
riiy tor the payment, or the delivery Of money,
or any other thing, to induce any voter to re-
Tram from casting his vote, or to prevent him,
N any way, from voting, or to procure vote
for any candidate, or person proposed, or
voted for, as Eleetor of President aud Vice
President OF the United States, or Represen-
tative IN Congress, or for any office Of profit
or trust, created by the Constitution or laws
OF this State, or by the ordinances or author /
ity Of the Mayor and City Council of Balt-
more, the person giving, or offering to give
and the person receiving the same, and any
person who gives, or causes to be given, an
illegal vote, knowing it 10 be such. at any
election hereafter held in this State. shall on
conviction in Court of Lav, in addition 10
the penalties now, or hereafter to be, impos-
ed by law, be forever disqualified to hold any
Office OF profit or trust or 10 vote nj any cleo