Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1889-05-02
Monday ind Tuesday,
Mayl3th and l4til, 1899,

the same being designated in the Act of
Assembly as the May Sitting),
from o'clock, a. m. TO 6 o'clock, p. m OF
each of the designated days, for the pur-
pose of registering the voters of said dis
tricts as prescribed by chapter 155 of the
act Iassed by the General Assembly oil
Maryland, at the January Session of 1888.
Sections 3, 5, 6, and 2, of the new law pro-
vides as follows:-
Section 8. That said several officers OF
registration for the respective election dis
tricts in the counties of this State, instead
Of sitting five days in September and two
days in October in each year. as prescribed
by said act of eighteen hundred and eigh-
ty-two, section 10, shall sit for the purpose
of performing the duties imposed upon
them by said act, and by this act, daily for
tive successive days in the month of May,
for three successive days in September and
for five successive days in October in every
year In which an election shall be held in
said counties; said sittings in May and
September to commence on the second
Monday of said months respectively, and
the October sitting 10 commence on the
frs: Monday in October. Said sittings shall
in like manner be called the May, Septem-
Der and October sittings. The said respec-
tive Officers of Registration shall sit at said
several sittings in the several counties with
open doors from eight o'clock, q M. until
six O'Clock, p. m, ON each day of their ees-
sions, and their proceedings shall be pub
lie and open to free inspection, without any
obstruction whatever. The places of their
sitting shall be selected as prescribed in said
act OF eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
chapter twenty-five.
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of Registration shall give notice signed by
him or them Of the times and places of his
or their several respective sittings for five
days before his or their several respective
sittings in May, June, July, September
and October, by publication, as prescribed
In the said act Of eighteen hundred and
eighty-two, chapter twenty-five; and should
changes OF the places of their sittings be-
come necessary, due notice thereof shall be
given as provided by section fourteen Of
said act.
Section O. That instead of demanding
from the clerks of the circuit courts and OF
the superior court of Baltimore city respec-
lively, the registries of voters and poll books
between the last Monday in August and
the first Monday in September In each year,
is provided in said act Of eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, chapter twenty-five, the
said Officers Of Registration shall demand
and receive the same from the clerk Of the
circuit court of their respective county and
OF the superior court OF Baltimore city, be-
tween the last Monday in April and the
second Monday in May in each year, for
the correction of said registries Of voters
and poll books and the registration ofqual-
ified voters.
Section 2, The said Officers ofRe istra-
ton, when sitting at their respective May,
June, July and September sittings and the
first sitting in October, shall register as pro-
vided in the said act Of eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, chapter twenty-five, all
qualified voterswho shalipresent themselves
TOR registration; and in addition 70 said
work Of registration they shall carefully re-