The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-07-14
OF VOTERS.
1892
CHAPTER ~
AN ACT.

AN ACT,
1op0cWe for tie Inform Registration IF Tie
Name& IF Attic Qualified Ioters IN this State.
SECTION /. BE it enacted by tie General As
Selab}y Of Wdfytand That the Governor shall
nominate, and by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, appoint Mt the present
session of the General Assembly one capable
person in each election district in every coun-
~ in this State, who shall be Il voter and re-
sidrnt III the election district for which he
shall he appointed, TO bc an officer Of regis
tration for the said election district.
SEC. ,. And he it eaacted, That the said Gov
crnOr shall also nominate and by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint
at the present session of the General Assem-
bly,, twenty capable persons from each Of the
three Legislative Districts into which the
City of Baltimore was divided on the first
day of January, in tho year eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, to he officers of registration
in the said City of Baltimore, for the rcspec-
tive election precincts in which they shall be
respectively assigned TO act; each of the per-
sons SO appointed shall be a voter and resi-
dent in the Legislative District from which
he was appointed, as said Legislative District
was constituted on the day hereinbeforc last
named when the wards of the City of Bal
timore are newly divided, as directed by an
Act passed ut this session of the General AS
scmbly, he shall assign one of the officers of
registration, so appointed, to each three of
the nine election precincts of which each
ward in said City of Baltimore shall then be
composed, assigning to the three first cleo
ton precincts in each ward, as then laid out,
in the regular order of their numbers, one of
said officers of registration to the second
three election precincts in each ward, as then
lp.l t,.
one Of said officers of registration and to the
third three election precincts in each ward as
then laid out, in the regular order OF their
numbers, one of the said officers of registra-
ton the said Governor, in making said as
signmcnts of officers of registration in said
city, to the said respective groups Of election
precincts shall be controlled by a careful con
sidcration of the fitness of each officer to per-
form the duties of which he is assigned ut
each regular session Of the General Assembly,
TO be held after the present session, he shall
appoint one officer of registration for each
ward in the City of Baltimore, as then laid
out, competent for the duties which he is re-
quired 10 perform, who shall be, when SO APP
pointed, Il resident of the ward for which he
is appointed.
SEC. ,. And be ii emdcted That each of the
said officers of registration shall have, in adj
NlllbH ~ lhC OtHtl IONtIS tOllltIltI upon
him by this Act, or which may be hereafter
conferred upon him by law, during the re-
spcctivc times Of his appointed sittings under
the provisions of this Act, the powers of Il
Justice of the Peace to preserve order and
enforce obedience to his lawful commands, ut
or around his place of rcgistration--to keep
the access TO such place open and unobStruct-
ed, To prevent and suppress riots, tumult,
violence and disorder and all other improper
practices, ut, around or near to his place of
registration, tending to intimidation, or to the
obstruction of the work of Registrations, or of
the revision of the registration, and TO pro-
tcCt and keep snte the registries of voters or
pOll,books hereinafter referred to, while in
his custody and possession he may compel
the presence of witnesses before him, while
sitting as m officer of registration, for all
purposes connected with the performance of
the duties of his office, by summons and at
tachments he may, while sitting MS such
officer of registration, commit for trial, any
person committing, III or around his place of
registration, any offence forbidden by this
Act he shall have the power 10 issue any of
said summons, attachments or commitments.
when sitting in any county of this State, to
the Sheriff of said county, or to any Consta-
bic thereof; and when sitting in the CITY of
Baltimore, to the Marshal of Police, or to any
police officer of said city all such processes
shall be served by said respective officers in
,nc SAINT iiin a. "S II lhey were ISSUED oy
9uusc VI "a o9uI. VI hecoiu, naNlhS Jurisdlc
~. ; vi 'lio euuJe1.,ni"''oi vi ny Justice OF
smcl, resucctiyc inris1icto,,s no Sbor;s riri.
Constable in any county of his S,,tn wln
aI,ol serve INV of cid nrocn..ne sLniI roo";,.a
the game fees and in liEo manner ~. II u ",
mac ho Inv INV nrovidnd Tint ho shnIl ron,i,,a
Fac. in nibrr Siotr c,srs Int M ot,ioou ,e
nnIiro In tho civ of baltimore ah,Il nhar,.r
~, recnivo nnv fro far ,nv .nrvicn mnrfnr,,,aS
undrr Ills Act and mn officer of rnmistr,t;nn
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oEc' d. ana 90 u e"dcte", mat the term OF
once OF each ana every person SO appointed
TO act as an ofilcer OF registration IN any
county OF TINS otate, ana IN the CITY OF Baltl-
MORE snail commence on the frst Monday III
May next ensuing his appointment, and shall
continue lor TWO years, unless such officer
shall be sooner removed from Office for in
competency or misconduct, or because dis
quallhed by sickness from performing the
duties OF ms ONCE IN case it is made known