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

five DAYS from the date of the decision com
l planned of,sand shall be heard and decided b,
! the court of appeals as soon after the trans
mission Of the records as may be practicable
| %. For the purposes of any new or specla
election to be held in this State in any yea
/ the registries of voters In the several election
\ districts and election precincts of this Stat
which were returned to the respective prope
clerks of courts in this State, subsequent tt
the last preceding October sttings OF tn
respective officers of registration, subject Il
such corrections as may be made in them re
spectively by the order of the proper judge
or Judge as hereinbefore provided, shall b,
the registries of voters in the several election
precincts. of the State for the purposes of sale
| new or special election.
49, No officer of registration in this Stat,
shall register any name in anV registry o
voters Of which he may have the custody al
officer of registration, or strike any name
| from any such registry Of voters or make any
other entry in any such registry of voters
except upon day appointed by this articl,
for public sitting of such officers of registra
ton, nor except between the hours appointed
by this article for his sittings on such day
except by or under the order of the proper
judges or judge as in this article provided.
"a. A copy of any registry of voters re
lating to a particular person or tc
particular persons, certified by the
clerk of the circuit court in whose custody
such registry of voters may then be under
his hand and the seal Of his court, or certified
by the officers OF registration in whose custody
such registry of voters may then be by his
own hand and by his official title referring tc
said registry of which it purports to be 8
copy in whole or in part, so accurately as
fully to identify the same, shall be evidence
in any court or before any judges or Judge Of
this State or before any officer of registration
Of the matter set forth and contained in such
copy.
25. Every person whose name shall ap-
pear in said respective duplicate registries as
amended by The order of the proper judges
or judge as hereinbefore provided, shall be
entitled to vote in the election precinct OF
election district in which he is so registered
at every election held thereafter until another
registration of voters or correction thereof
has been duly made and completed. ,.l,.,
~. On or before the first Monday of Sep
TENDER, eighteen hundred and ninety. the
board of police commissioners for the city OF
Baltimore shall cause census of qualified
voters in each of the election precincts into
which the several wards of Baltimore 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 qualified
voters so returned as residents in each cleo
ton precinct of said city 10 the board oil
supervisors of elections in the city of Baltl-
more, on or before the: second Monday of
September, and such census shall be made
and returned biennially after the. year eigh-
teen hundred and ninety, in the same manner
and within the same time, and copies thereof
shall be furnished to the respective officers of
registration by said board Of supervisors of
elections. =..- .. ss.a. e. .:. s.. ....
&, 20. Each of the said respective clerks of
the respective circuit courts for the several
counties of this State, and the clerk OF the
superior court of Baltimore city, and each of
the respective officers of registration ap.
pointed under this article and the board of
supervisors of election in the city of Balii-
more, and the sheriff of each county in the
State shall carefully and safely keep all books
named or referred 10 in this article which may
come into his or their custody under the pro-
visions of this article during the times ap-
pointed for his or their custody ofsuch books :;
he or they shall at all times permit examina-
ytion of the same in his or their presence or
in the presence of one or more of his or their
deputies specially authorized for that purpose
and not otherwise !; he or they shall not I'M
less duly authorized by the order of the
proper judges or judge alter. mutilate or de-
face, or suffer any other persons to alter,
mutilate or deface any of the said registries of
voters; each of the said respective clerks
when notified by the sheriff of his county, or
in case of the clerk of the superior court of
Baltimore city by the board ofsupervisors of
elections in the city of Baltimore, that any
one or more of the registries of voters in the
keeping of such clerk, is or are missing shall
proceed without delay 10 make or cause to
be made fair and accurate copy or copies
certified under his hand and the seal of his
court of said missing registries and deliver
the same to said sheriff, or to said, board of
supervisors of elections at least twelve hours
before the opening of the polls at the election
next ensuing. .H .....r ni .
3 80. The sheriffs of the respective counties
and the board of supervisors of elections in
the city of Baltimore shall respectively, on or
before the third day prior to each and every
election ascertain whether he has or they
have in his or their possession all the said
regis;ries committed to his or their custody !;
and If it shall appear that one or more fsaid
registries is or not in their possession he or
they shall without delay serve written noti-
fication, accurately describing the missing
registry or registries on the clerk ofthe court
having the custody of the registry of voters
or registries of voters; that said registry or
registries is or are not in their possession, of
the said sheriff or of said board of supervisors
of elections in the city of Baltimore; and said
sheriff or board of supervisors of elections
aforesaid respectively, shall receive the said
missing registry or registries when rendered
to him by said clerk and said sheriff or board
of supervisors of elections in the city of Balti-
more respectively, shall deliver or cause to be
delivered on the day of each and every cleo
ton at the polls at or before the time of OPEN
ing said polls to the judges of election thereat
within their respective jurisdiction, the
duplicate registries pertaining to the election
precinct or election district over which said
judges are to preside ,,.,..,,r.... ... I'D.
30. The respective judges of election shall
receive fion retrospective sherifs of their re.
spective counties or from the said board of
supervisors OF elections in the city of Baltimore,
the Tegistries of qualified and registered voters
pertaining to their respective election pre-
cincts or electiondistricts and preserve the same
without alteration, mutilation or detacement
while in their possession, and shall withil two
days after the close of their respective polls in
their respective election districts or election
precincts return to said respective sherihs or
to the said board of supervisors of elections in
the city of Baltimore the said registries of
qualified and registered voters from them re-
spectively received and the said respective
sheriffs and the said board of supervisors of
elections inthe 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 pot
at any election receive or deposit in the ballot
box the ballot of any person Offering to vote
until they have found his name in the registry
for their respective election precincts or cleo
tion districts, delivered to them for the pur-
poses of said election and shall be satisfied
that the person so offering to vote is the per-
son named in said list, and have checked 1t
thereon in the column ruled thereon for the
purpose; and they shall receive and deposit
In the ballot-box the ballot of every person
offering to vote whose name appears in said re-
spective registIies. ....... ...r.
81. Each of said officers of registration in
Baltimore city shall be entitled to receive
thirty dollars per annum for the discharge OF
his official duties exclusive of Office rent and
the cost of stationery; and each of said regis
tration officers in the county shall receive