The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-07-21


thereof, has been duly made and completed.
SEC. 81 And be ii enacted, That the Board
of Police Commissioners for the City of Bal
tinlore shall detail police officers and the
sheriffs for the respective counties, shall de-
tail deputy sheritis, by them appointed, suffi-
cent in number to preserve order at the
places in said City of Baltimore and in said
respective counties, where said respective
officers Of registration may be sitting for the
discharge OF the duties of their respective
offices
SEC % ..lad BE- Il endctea, That within one
month before the time hereinafter provided
Tor the first summer sitting of the officers OF
registration appointed in the City of Balti-
more, under the provisions of this Act, the
Board of Police Commissioners for the City
Of Baltimore shall cause census of the
qualified voters in each of the election pre-
cincts into which the several wards Of Balti-
more City shall then be divided to be made
by their police officers, and to be returned by
said officers to the said Board and the said
Board shall furnish copy of the list of quail
ed voters so returned as resident in each cleo
lion precinct, Of said city, to the officer OF
registration for such election precinct, on or
before the day of the first summer sitting OF
said officer oi registration and such census
shall he made and returned after the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-two, in the same
manner and within the same time before the
September sitting of said officers Of registra-
ton in said city, occurring before each cleo.
ton of members of the General Assembly
and copies thereof shall be furnished to the
respective officers OF registration mike man
ner aforesaid.
SEC %. And be HeHacted. That each of the
ooiJ tiun ('1o,lyc r ba (Nir
cult Courts for the several counties of the
State, and the Clerk of the Superior Court OF
Baltimore city, and each of the respective
officers of Registration appointed under this
Act. and the Board of Police Commissioners
for the City of Baltimore, and the sheriff OF
each county in the State shall carefully and
safely keep all books or lists named or refer.
red to in this Act, which may come into his
or their custody under the provisions of this
Act, during the times appointed for his or
their custody of such books or lists; he or
they shall at all times permit examination OF
the same in his or their presence or in the
presence of one or more of his or their depu-
ties specially authorized for that purpose, and
not otherwise; he or they, shall not, unless
duly authorized by the order of the proper
Judges or Judge. alter. mutilate or deface,
or suffer any other person to alter, mutilate
or detace, any of the said lists Unqualified and
registered voters, or registres OfvOters each
of the said respective Clerks, when notified
by the sheriff of his county, or in the case Of
the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, by the Board of Police Commissioners
for the City of Baltimore, that any one or
more of the lists OF voters committed to the
custody of such Sheriff or of such Board,
contained in any registry of voters in the
keeping of such Clerk. is, or are missing,
shall proceed. without delay to make or cause
to be made. n fair and accurate copy, or
copies, certified under his hand, and the seal
of his court, of said missing list or lists, and
deliver the same to said Sheriff, or to said
Board of Police Commissioners. at least
twelve hours before the opening of the polls
at the election next ensuing.
SEC. 30. and bel eHncte9, That the Shcriifis
of the respective counties, and the Board of
Police Commissioners for the City of Balt.
more, shall respectively, on or before the
third day prior to each and every election, as.
certain whether he has, or they have, in his or
their possession, all the copies of said lists
committed to his or their custody; and if it
shall appear that one or more of said lists are
not in his or their possession, he or they
shall, without delay, serve n written notfica.
ton, accurately describing the missing list,
on the Clerk of the Court having the custody
OF the registry ofvoters, or registries ofvoters,
from which such missing list or lists was or
were made up, or of such original list or
lists, that said list lists are not in the pos
session of the said sheriff, or ofthe said Board
of Police Commissioners for the CITY of
Baltimore; and said sheriff. or Board of
Police Commissioners aforesaid, respectively
shall receive the copy or copies of said mis-
sing list or lists when rendered to him by
said Clerk; and said Sheriff or Board of
Police Commissioners for fhe City of Balti.
more, respectively, shall deliver, or cause to
be delivered, on the day of each and every
election at the polls, at or before the time of
opening ofsaid polls, to the Judges ofelection
thereat, within their respective jurisdictions.
n copy of the list of qualified and registered
voters pertaining to the election precinct, or
election district, over which said Judges are
topreside.
Sec. 81. And be II elacted, That the respec-
tive Judges of Election shall receive from the
respective Sheriff of their respective coun.
ties, or from the said Board of Police Com
mssioners for the City of Baltimore, the lists
of qualified and registered voters pertaining
to their respective election precincts, or cleo.
ton district, and preserve the same without
alteration, mutilation or DETACHMENT, while
in their possession and shall, within two
days after the close of their respective polls
in their respective election districts or cleo
ton precincts, return to said respective
Sheritis, or TO the said Board of Police Com
mssioners for the City of Baltimore, the said
respective lists of qualified and registered
voters from them respectively received and
the said respective Sheriffs and the said
Board of Police Commissioners for the
City of Baltimore, shall, upon so receiving
the same, forthwith deliver the same to the
Clerks of the respective Courts from which
the same were respectively received ; the said
respective Judges of Election shall not, at
any election receive or deposit in the ballot
box. the ballot ofany person offering to vote,
until they have found his name In the list of
qualified and registered voters for their re-
spective election precincts, or election dis
tricts, delivered to them for the purpose of
said election, and shall be satisfied that the
person so Offering to vote is the person named
in said list, and have checked it therein and
they shall receive, and deposit in the ballot
box, the ballot of every person offering to
vote, whose name appears In said respective
lists of qualified and registered voters.
SEC. 32. And be ii enacted, That each officer
of registration, or assistant officer of regstra-
ton, for any group of election precincts of
Baltimore city, shall receive, subiect to the
deduction in this section provided, in the
years eighteen hundred and eighty.two, eigh.
teen hundred and eighty-three, four dollars
per day for each day of his appointed service
under this Act which he shall actually per-
form; each officer of registration appointed
in the year eighteen hundred and cighty.four
or thereafter, for any ward In the City of Bal.
timore, shall receive an annual salary of Five
Hundred dollars for each year Of his service I;
each officer ofregistratlon, or assistant officer
of registration in each of the counties of this
State, shall receive, subject to the deductions
in this section provided, four dollars per day
for each day of his appointed service under
this Act which he shall actually perform;
each officer, or assistant officer ofregistration
in the City of Baltimore. and in any county
of this State shall be paid the per diem which
may become due to him in the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, out of the Treasury