The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-05-23

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missioners of such county /; the like necessary
expenses incurred in the city of Baltimore
shall be paid by the mayor and city council
thereof; the accounts said respective officers
of registration shall be verified by vouchers
and be subject respectively to the approval of
the mayor and city council of Baltimore and
of the respective county commissioners.
80. The board of supervisors reflections in
the city of Baltimore shall biennidly appoint
some practiclng member of the bar of Balti-
more city as general counsel to the said board
of,superyisors oflelecton in said city, whose
duty it shall be to advise and counsel, the SAID
board, the said officers of registration and the
judges of election appointed by the said board,
in all matters oflaw arising before them respec-
lively; he shall also appear for and defend the
said officers of registration at the hearing of
all petitions which may be filed under the pro-
visions of this article against said officers of
registration; and for his services shall receive
an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars
to be paid by the mayor and city council of
Baltimore in equal monthly instruments; the
said board shall also have power to appoint
additional counsel to appear for and defend
said officers ofregistration in all cases brought
against them as such officers, whenever in the
opinion of the said board it shall become
necessary, whose combined compensation to
be paid by the said mayor and city council
upon written requisition made by the said
board shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars
in any one year; in the respective counties of
this State it shall be the duty Of the States
attorneys of said respective counties in the
| same manner to advise and appear for the
officers of registration appointed to act in
| their respective counties and for the respective
clerks of the respective circuit courts for their
| counties and the States attorneys shall be
paid by the county commissioners of the
several counties fifty dollars for annum for
such services; and said States attorneys shall
prepare for publication the necessary notices
to be given by the registers in each and every
year of the times and places of the sittings of
said registers.
| 83. 1t shall be the duty of the person or
officers having charge of the vital statistics of
any city or county to furnish to the officers of
| registration of the election districts of the
several counties or to the board of supervisors
| of elections in Baltimore city as the case may
be, by the first Monday in October in each
year, a report of the names and the previous
| residence OF all male persons over the age OF
twenty-one years who have died since the
close of the October sitting of the preceding
year, to the end that said names may be
promptly stricken from the registration books
IS. In the year eighteen hundred and
ninety and biennially thereafter, there shall be
| in the city of Baltimore in the several pre-
cincts of the several wards thereof, an entire
new general registration of the voters thereof;
and for the purpose of making said new gen.
eral registration the registers of said several
wards hereinbefore provided for shall sit in
| their several and respective precincts in one
or more places therein, as the convenience of
the voters in their Judgment may require as
hereinbefore provided, for registration, re-
vision and correction of the registration books
OF the several precincts of said several wards,
and said new general registration shall be con-
Quoted in all respects under the rules and pro-
visions as are already by this article prescribed
for the registration of voters and at such new
general registration the registers of their
several precincts as aforesaid shall be entitled
to receive the preceding registration books
from the board of supervisors of elections in
the city of Baltimore for the purpose of COM
parson and assistance in Identification; and
if any one shall apply for registration who ap-
pears in such former registry as disqualified,
his name shall be entered in the new registres
but he shall be marked disqualified" unless
such grounds of disqualification shall be re-
moved; it shall not be necessary for any
naturalized citizen applying to be registered
to produce his original naturalization papers
or any certified copy thereof if he shall prove |
to the satisfaction of said officers Of registration
by his own oath and the oath of two other |
persons that he has been registered voter in |
the State for three years next preceding such |
application and that he has actually voted |
upon such previous registration the registra- |
ton books OF new general registration shall |
be by said registers completed, compared and |
made TO agree, and shall be returned to the |
clerk of the superior court OF Baltimore city |
within two days after the last day of the Octo- !
Der sitting for the registration of voters; in |
the case of any one registered to whose regis /
tration objection in writing under oath shall |
have been or shall be made and filed with said |
register, or in case of refusal on the part of |
said registers to register any one applying to |
be registered, an appeal may be taken within |
one week after the final day Of the Octo- |
Der sitting for revision, but not afterwards,
from the final action of said registers to any |
one of the courts Of Baltimore city, and the
action of said court shall be final and conclu. |
siye in any such case, and the registration |
shall st once be made to conform to the order |
of said court unless reversed by the court of /
appeals upon appeal as provided in section |
twenty.one. .......a
81. If any officer of registration shall |
fraudulently register or fraudulently permit
to be registered in any registry OF voters in
his charge as officer of registration, any per-
son who is not entitled to be registered there
in as qualified voter, or if any other person
scribe the name of any person as qualified
and registered voter in any registry of voters,
or If any officer of registration shall fraudu-
lently refuse or omit TO register or shall fraud
ulently misspell in any registry of voters in
his charge as an officer of registration, the /
name of any person entitled under the pro
visions of this article to have his name in
scribed in such registry of voters, or if any |
Officer of registration shall fraudulently strike
If vote in 10 nhor
officer of registration, the name of any quail |
fled and registered voter entitled 10 remain |
inscribed upon such registry of voters or If |
any person not authorized by the proper order |
of the registration judges shall fraudulently |
strike from any registry of voters the name of
any person therein inscribed as q qualified and |
registered voter, or if any officer of registra-
ton shall enter the name Of any person as
qualified voter In any registry Of voters in his
charge as an officer OF restration at any time
except on day appointed by this article for
one of his public sittings as an officer of regis
tration, and except between the hours ap-
pointed for such public sittings, or if any
officer of registration shall do any act which
Is by this article forbidden to be by him done,
or shall omit 10 do any act which is by this
article required 10 be by him done, such officer
of registration whether he be principal or
assistant officer, or such other person SO OF.
1enQlng as AFORESAID, Snail DC Sulty Vi his
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof by Q
competent court shall be punished by fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by i'm
prisonment not exceeding three years or ty
both fine and Imprisonment as aforesaid.
80. If any clerk of court, sheriff or mem
Der of the board of police commissioners for
the city of Baltimore or the board ofsupervi-
sors of elections in Baltimore city, officer Of
registration or judges of election shall lose any
| registry of voters which may be in his or their
charge or custody, or ii any such officer or
any other person shall wilfuly destroy, mutt
late, deface, falsify or fIaudulently remove or
secrete any registry of voters, or shall fiaudu-
lently make any false entry in or false copy of
any registry of voters or part thereof, or shall
| fraudulently make any entry, erasure, or alter
alton in any registry of voters or part thereof,
be shall be guilty of q misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished by fine