The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-08-20

| FRANK Flick, on Inc DAVIS hOad, near Inc
| Deer Park Chapel. Postolice address, Small
wood.
District No. 5, on Monday, September 9th,
at J. NJ. Berry's, Sykesville; Tuesday, Sep
| TENDER 9th, at James France Store, on the
/ Washington Road; and on Wednesday, Thurs
/ day and Friday, September 18th, sth and Sth,
at the Office of the Register in Freedom.
District No. 9th, at the Residence of the
Register, in Manchester.
District No. I, at the Office of Yingling 4
| Matthews, Insurance Agents, on Main street,
west of the Railroad, in Westminster.
District No. s, at Lamotte's Hotel, in
Hampstead.
District No. 9, on Monday, September 9Th,
at W. P. Andersou's Store, ut. Airy; on
| Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
/ September 9th, 9TH, Sth and 9th, at the
Residence of the Register in Frauklinville.
/ District No. 10, on Monday, Tuesday and
| Wednesday, September 9th, 9th and 9Th, at
Daniel Lynn's Hotel, in Middleburg; and on
! Thursday and Friday, September Sth and
9th, at Washington Shob's, in Keysville.
District No. II, at the Residence Of the
Register in New Windsor.
District No. -. at the Residence of the
Register in Union Bridge.
On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
dag aud Friday, the 18th, Oh, 7th. Sh and
Oh days Of September, 1881, from 9 clock,
A. N, to o'clock, p. IT,
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
Officers of Registration shall proceed to strike
from the list of qualified voters the names of
all persons IN their respective wards, or cleo
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 ander 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
fed voters, and who may be DESTROYS of reg
istering elsewhere, a certificate of registration,
and shall strike from the books ofregistration
the names Of all persons SO applying for GER
tihcaies of registration, as alss 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 alse
state in such books the cause for each strik-
ing OF Of the names respectively, and to reg.
lister the name Of every person who shall
apply to said officers TO be registered as a
qualified voter, who shall satisfy them that
he possesses, or before the day Of election
next ensuing viii possess, the requisite quail
ficaiions under the Constitution Of the United
States, and the laws made in pursuance there.
OF, aud Of the Constitution Of the Slate of
Maryland. and the qualifications Of age, citi-
zeuship and residence, and is not disqualified
under the provisions Of the second and third
sections of the 6rst article Of the Constitution;
and before registering any person as a quail
fed voter, the said officers Of Registration
shall administer 10 him the following oath of
affirmation 81, do soiemnly swear or
affirm, that | viii true answers make to all
questions necessary 10 ascertain my quali6ea-
lion or disqualification 10 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 rot 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
isiered person does not possess, or before the
election next ensuing will not possess, the
requisite qualifications to entltle him to be
registered as a qualified voter IN such precinct
or election district, or thas such person is dis.
qualified under the provisions Of the second
.r,l I'D of the first a~fsTia Of fba
Constitution; and il 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 of registration,
but if il 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 a qualified voter any person who has APP
Piled 10 said Officers Of Registration to be reg
istered as a 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 10 entitle him to be registered |
as qualified yater, and that be 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 not or will not possess said qualifications, |
or is so disqualified, and when any person APP !
plying asaioresaid, for regiStration, shall have |
been previously registered within this State, |
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plicaiion is made, before registering such per |
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. -. That il any Officer of Registration, !
Clerk offs Court, Sheriff, Judge Of Election, |
or Police Commissioner 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 aud indictment therefor, and con-
,viction thereof, forfeit and pay fine OF not
less than nVe hunufeu nor nOFc tuhA oHo
thousand dollars for every such offence, or be
imprisoned, 10 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 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 q lunatic, or as a per-
son non compos meRtis, shall be entitled to
vote.
SEC. 8. If any person shall give, or offer to
give, directly or indirectly, any bride, pres
emit or reward, or any promise, or any secu-
rity for the payment, or the delivery of 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 vote
for any candidate, or person proposed, or
voted for, as Elector of President and Vice
President of the United States, or Represeh-
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 Balti
more, the person giving, or offering TO give,
and the person receiving the same, and any