The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-24
REGISTRATION NOTICE.
To the VOTERS Of CARROLL co.

the requirements OF the Act of 1876. chantel
249, which makes il the duty Of Officers 81
Registration to sit ut some place convenient
to the voters of their respective districts, for
iye successive days, commencing on the first
Monday of September, in each year, for the
purpose of discharging their duties, hereby
give notice that they will attend as follows:
District No. l, at the Office of William
Fisher, in Taneytown.
District No. ,, at William A. Anders'
Tailor Shop, in Uniontown.
District No 3, at Thomas F. Kesselring' 5
Confectionery Store, Silver Run, on Monday
and Tuesday, September I'd and Sd; at Absa-
lom Heiser' 5 Store on Wednesday, September
18th; and at the Residence of the Register on
Thursday and Friday, September 9Th and 9th.
District No. 4, at the Finksburg Hotel, on
Monday and Tuesday, September I'd and 3D.,
and at his Residence, at Patapsco, on We'd
nesday, Thursday aud Friday, September 4th,
9th and 9Th.
District No. 3, at the Store Of ]. Oliver
Wadlow, Freedom.
District No. 6, at the Residence of the Reg
lister, in Manchester.
District No. :, 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. 9, at Mount Airy, on Monday,
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
Postoffiee.
District No. 10, at Lewis Lynn's Hotel,
Middleburg, on Monday, Tuesday and Wed.
nesday, September ID, Sd and 4th; and at
Washington Shorb's, Keysyille, on Thursday
and Friday, September 9th and 9th.
District No. IL, 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 aud Friday, lie ed, 81, Bth, 9Th,
and 9th days Of September, 1878, from
Q o'clock, A. M., to O'Clock, p. N.
for the purpose of discharging 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
Ohcers OF Registration shall proceed TO strike
from the list Of 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 fthe 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
tificates 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 off of the names respectively, and to reg
lister the name of every person who shall
apply 10 said officers to be registered as
qualified voter, who shall satisfy them that
he possesses, or before the day of election
next ensuing will possess, the requisite quail
AGaAiOlh CONSTITUTION OF the 4 UftEQ
States, and the laws made in pursuance there
of, and of the Constitution of the State of
Maryland, and the qualifications of age. eiti.
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
he'd voter, the said Officers of Registration
shall administer to him the following oath or
affirmation IL, do solemnly swear or
affirm, that | will true answers make to all
questions necessary to ascertain my aualifica-
ton or disqualification to be registered as
qualified voter" but nothing herein contained
shall be construed to authorize said Registers
TO ask any questions touching any cause of
not expressly enumerated in
the Constitution of the State of Maryland, or
of the United States.
SEC. 5. 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
quire and accurately ascertain that said reg
istered person does not possess, or before the
election next ensuing viii not possess, the
requisite qualifications TO entitle him TO be
registered as 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 lift shall appear that said
registered person does not possess, or viii
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 Officers of 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 n 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 a qualified voter, but they
shall not register the name of any person who
does motor will not possess said qualifications,
or Is so disqualified, and when any person ap-
plying, as aforesaid, forregistration, shall have
Deen previously registered within this State,
the Officer of Registration to whom such APP
plication is made, before registering such per
son, shall demand and receive from him n
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 voter, or strike
from said list the name of any 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 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
a period not exceeding three years, or both,
and shall also be liable in damages at the
suit of 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, OF 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
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