The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-05-03
provided, to be used in case of special

provided, to be used in case of specia'
election.
............ registers of voters
........ precinct or district, ........
ward, .......... county Cor city,
Is. On Tuesday, seven weeks pre-
ceding the election to be held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
in November. 1896. which shall occur
after the enactment of this Article
each Board of Registry shall meet at
the place designated by its Board OF
Supervisors of Elections and shall
| proceed to make general registra
ton of all the voters in its precinct
or district, as the case may be. The
proceedings of each Board of Regis.
try shall be as follows: l. They
shall open the registry in the city OF
Baltimore at nine o'clock a. m
and continue in session until
nine O'Clock p. m. on the Tues
| day aforesaid. In the counties the
| hours of session shall be from eight
o'clock a. m. to eight o'clock p. m.
One of the officers of registration
shall administer to all persons who
shall personally apply to register. the
| following oath Or affirmation: "You
| do solemnly swear Tor affirm that
you will fully and truly answer all
such questions as shall be put to you
touching your place Of residence,
name, place of birth. your qualifica-
tons as a voter and your right as
such to register and vote under the
laws of this State" 2. The two Of
ficers of registration designated by
the Supervisors to have the custody
of the two registry books. or such of
their colleagues as each of them may
respectively ask to temporarily re-
place him in the discharge OF this
duty. shall make the entries therein
required by this Article. and the ques-
tons as to qualifications shall be ask
ed by the other officers of said Board.
s. The name and age of every apEli-
cant shall be entered in such registry
books. and all the facts of his appli-
cation shall be therein stated as here
in provided, whether he be entitled
to vote or not. If it shall be deter
mined by the board that he is not
qualified voter in the precinct, then
an entry shall be made in the appro-
pirate column. no and a line shall
be drawn in red ink through
his name, and through all other en-
tries on the line on which his name is
written, but SO that the name and said
other entries shall remain legible. and
if qualified, an entry shall be made in
the same column, Eyes" 4. Only per-
sons constitutionally qualified to vote
in the precinct at the next election.
and personally applying for registra-
ton. shall be registered as qualified
voters. 5. The headings to the regis
try books shall be so prepared that
the registry shall be made alphabet
cal. according to the surname of each
person applying. and so that the resi-
dence and postoffice address of such
persons shall appear in the first
column. The registers shall be ruled
and one name shall be written on each
line but no names shall be written be-
tween the lines. The entries shall be
as follows: (A) Under the column.
residence and postoffice address. the
name and number of the street, ave-
nue. or other location of the dwelling.
if there be a definite number. and if
there shall not be number. or If
there shall be duplicate numbers.
such clear and definite description of
the place of such dwelling as shall
enable it to be readily ascertained; if
there shall be more than one house
as his place of residence it shall be
stated in which house he resides, and
if there be more than one family re-
siding in said house, either the floor
on which he resides, or the number
or location of the room or rooms oc-
cupied by him shall be stated. every
floor below the level of the street or
ground being designated as the base
hn
such level being designated as the
first floor. and each floor above that
as the second. or such other floor as
it may be: in county precincts it
shall only be necessary to give such
general description as may be suffi-
cient for identification. OBJ Under
the column. name" the name of the
applicant, writing the surname first.
and full given or Christian name af
ter. Co Under the column, age" the
age of the applicant. Cd Under the
column. nativity" the state, coun-
try, empire, kingdom or dominion, as
the facts shall be. (E) Under the
column, color" the words white" or
"colored." as the case may be. CD
Under the Subdivisions OF the general
column, term of residence the per
iod by day, month or year stated by
the applicant. GO Under the column
''naturalized," the word yes or mo.
or native" as the fact may be. CID
Under the column, date of naturali-
zation," the date of naturalization, if
naturalized. No naturalization papers
need be produced if a majority of the
Board are satisfied that for three
years next preceding the applicant
claiming to be naturalized has been
a registered voter in this State. and
has actually voted on such previous
registration: but they shall note his
answers to the questions. when and
in what court he was ndturalized, and
also in the column headed REMARKS
where and when he was SO previously
registered. Cd Under the column.
court" the designation of the court
in which. if naturaliZed. such natural
ization was had. (k) Under the col
umn. ''qualified voter" the word yes
if the fact shall appear or be deter
mined by a majority of the Board of
Registry. or the word no" if such
fact be not established to the salts
faction of majority of the board.
CD Under the column. date of appli-
cation" the month. day and year
when the applicant presented himself.
M After the answers of the an