The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-07-14

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with certainty, such place Of residence, and
enable it to be readily found; seventh, the
time such applicant has resided in the City
| OF Baltimore, and in the election precinct and
ward, in which he applies to be registered, or
in the county, and in the election district of
the county, or election precinct of such dis
trict, ii II be so divided, in which he applies
to be registered; eighth if naturaliZed, the
date OF his final papers or certificate of ma
urnlization, and a minute of the Court by
which the same was issued ninth and tenth
II it is found, upon such examination, that
| the applicant possesses, or before the day OF
election next ensuing will possess, the re-
| qusite qualifications, under the Constitution
of Maryland, and the laws made in pursll-
ancc thereof and is not disqualified under
! the provisions of the second and third sec
| lions Of the first Articles of the Constitution
| OF this State, and that the said person has not
been registered under the provision of this
| Act, in any other election precinct, or cleo
ton district Of this State, the said applicant
Shall be entered forthwith by said officer of
registration, in the presence of said applicant,
ms qualified voter, by recording his name, in
the same manner in which it was first record
ed in the proper column, otthe proper registry
| OF voters, under the head Unqualified voter"
il the applicant is found to be disQuallit us
a voter in the election precinct, or election
district in which he shall apply to be regis
tered line shall be heavily drawn in ink, Op-
| posite to his said name, under the head,
qualified voter" ana the cause of his dis
| qualification shall be briefly stated, opposite
to his name, as first recorded, under the head
of "disqualicd,' and line shall be drawn
across his name, us first entered, but in such
manner that said name shall remain egible
II the said officer of registration shall be in
| doubt, after his primary examination of said
| applicant, and of such other evidence given
| upon oath or affirmation, as may be mmed-
lately accessible, or because oflack ofsufficient
proof, whether said applicant is II qualified
voter he may adjourn his determination of
the said matter To any subsequent day of the
particular sitting then being held, but such
| adjournment shall not in any event, he to II
time beyond the last day of the particular
sitting at which application is made on
| which appointed day, the said officer OF reg.
istraton shall proceed TO determine the mat
ter in question, and to enter the applicant in
the proper registry of voters, ms II qualified
voter, or AS disqualified; but, ii is expressly
hereby declared and set forth, that nothing
herein contained shall be construed as all.
thorizing any of said officers of registration
to ask any question Of or concerning any
| applicant for registration us qualified voter,
touching any cause of disqualification not
expressly enumerated in the Constitution of
this State
SEC 1G. AndM ii enoct,d, That when any
officer of registration shall, at any of his APP
pointed sittings, in the year eighteen hun
dred and eighty-two, enter in his proper re-
glstry OF voters of any election precinct or
election district, of which he is an officer
OF registration, the name of any applicant
for registration rs II qualified voter, he shall
Immediately thereafter enter in the presence
OF the applicant, il he is in attendance, in
its proper alphabetical place, in both of the
poll-books, or lists Of qualified and register
cd voters of such election precinct, OF cleo
tlon district, the name and residence of said
applicant, as the same are recorded in said
registry of voters.
SEC Il. I"dbe Il saacted, That each officer
OF registration appointed for group of clcc-
ton precincts in any ward OF the City orBal-
tlmorc, shall, within six days after the close
OF his October sittings, in the year eighteen
hundred and cighty.two, deliver TO the Clerk
OF the Superior Court of Baltimore CITY, the
registry of voters and the two poll books, so
completed rs aforesaid, of each ofthe election
precincts OF which he is an officer of rcrstra-
ton; and shall append to each of said poll
books, before so delivering the same, a certi-
ilcatc, signed by said officer Of registration
and verified by his oath or affirmation that
inc SAID poil'book is complete list of the
qualified and registered voters in said cleo
ton precinct, and of the residence of each of
said qualified and registered voters, as the
same are recorded in the registry ofvoters of
such election precinct as then made up and
that the entries in the said registry ofvotcrs
OF the names and residences of the persons
shown thereby to be qualified voters, were
made d0nd Fde, and according to the require
ments OF this Act; and that no name has
been omitted from, or added to, said registry
of voters or poll-book, contrary TO the re-.
quirements of this Act and each of said re.
spectiye officers of registration appointed for
group of election precincts in any wards
Tor the year eighteen hundred and eighty
three, and for any ward in each year after
the year eighteen hundred and cighty-three,
shall within ten days after the close of his
October sitting, in any OF said years, make,
or cause to be made in two proper pol-books,
arranged as directed by the seventh section
of this Act, and endorsed and headed as
directed by the ninth s, elton of this Act,
Two n alphabetical lists of the names of the
qualified and registered voters in each of the
election precincts of which he is an officer of
registration, us the same are recorded in the
registry of voters of each of such election pre-
cincts, with the residence of each of said
qualified and registered voters in such cleo.
ton precinct, as the same is recorded in the
registry of voters of such election precinct,
set opposite 10 the name OF the said voters,
and shall, in the year eighteen hundred and
clghty-thlee, and in each year thereafter,
within ten days after the close of his October
sitting in any such year. deliver to the said |
Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, the registry of voters, and the two poll. |
books 50 completed rs aforesaid, OF each of |
the election precincts of which he is an oili- |
Ger OF registration and shall append to each |
OF said poll-books, before so delivering the |
same certificate signed by himself, and |
verified by his oath faftirmaion, ofthe tenor |
and to the effect of the certificate in this sec. |
ton before mentioned; and it shall be the |
duty ofthe said Clerk ofthe Superior Court |
OF Baltimore City to deliver one OF said poll |
books or lists of qualified and registered |
voters OF each said election precincts, SO de- |
Ilyered to him in the year eighteen hundred |
and eighty-iwo, and in each year thereafter, |
to the Board of Police Commissioners for the |
City of Baltimore, ON or before the third |
Wednesday in October, in the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, and on or before the |
same day in each year thereafter
SEC 1S Ind be denacted, That each officer
OF registration appointed for any election dis |
trct in any county of this State, shall with.
in six days after the close OF his October sit
ting, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty.
two, deliver to the Clerk of the Circuit Court |
for his county, the registry ofvUlcrs and the |
two poll books so completed as aforesaid, of |
the election district or the regislrics of voters
and the two pollho so completed MS
of each of the election precincts in
his election district, his election district is
so divided, OF which he is an officer of regis