The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-04-29
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF 1904.
GENERAL REGISTRATION LAW.
CHAPTER 254.


of Article SO of the Code of Public
General Laws, title Elections"
Sec. BE it enacted by the Cen
Grad Assembly of Maryland, That sec
uioIss II, %, and III OF Article SO of
tie Code Of Public General Laws, tit
le Elections" he and the same are
hereby severally repealed and re-en-
acted with amendments so as to read
as follows:
24.-In the counties a new general
registration shall be made by each
Board of Registry in the year 1906.
such new general registration shall
ne made in the sitme way, at the same
times and under the same rules and
provisions in all respects as are in this
article prescribed for the first general
reg .Stration.
%. In the city of Baltimore there
SHALL be a general registration in the
year 1906 and bi-ennially thereafter.
Before the November election 1904 and
1905. and in the year 1907, and in eV
cry alternate year thereafter, the last
general registration shall be revised By
the Board OF Registry i'll each precinct
where such election was to be
held and for that purpose a Board of
Registry shall meet on the Tuesdays
respectively seven, six, five and four
weeks preceding the regular electi"n
il November and shall hold sessi II
from 8 o'clock A. NJ. to 8 o'clock P.
NJ. and names may be added on the
Registers in the same way, upon
sworn application as in the case of a
general registration, and all the same
FORMS and requirements shall be OBJ
served. If it shall appear that any
applicant had been upon the Registries
in any other precinct of the city of
Baltimore at any time since the be-
g,ning of the last general registration
for such precinct, his name shall not
be added to the Registries when APP
plication is made until he produces
certificate of removal given him by the
Board of Registry for such other pre-
cinct. which certificate shall be in sub
stance as follows: .......... precinct
........... ward. This is to GER
tify that the name of ...............
heretofore residing at ...............
in this precinct, has been stricken from
the Registry of the precinct and the
proper erasure made, and that upon
the Registers of this precinct, the fol-
lowing entries appear with reference
to him: Name OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Age
.............. Color ........... Resi-
dence ................ Nativity $500.
........ Time of residence in pre-
Cinct .......... Time of residence in
CITY ..... Time of residence
in State .Naturalized ......
..... Date of papers .......... Court
........... Qualified voter ........
Date of application Observation-Disclosures.
Board of Registry.
The foregoing certificate shall be
granted by the Board of Registry when
in session, under the following regu-
lations: That is to say: If at the time
application for said removal, GER
tificate is made the name of said vot-
er is already erased from the Registries
then it shall be the duty of the said
Board of Registry to grant the GER
tificate to the voter himself or to any
other person making application there
for. but if at the time such application
is made, the name of the voter be
still upon the ItegistrieS of voters as
a qualified voter. the removal GER
tificate shall be granted, and the name
stricken off only upon the personal ap-
plcation of such voter to the said
Board of Registry, and after his taking
and subscribing an oath substantial
l. as follows: |. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. do
sClemnly swear (or affirm that ! now
reside at ................ IN
in the city of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
county Oh lHdI am
the same person VINO is entitled by
I'D IN, fho
Rcgisr'es of the ..........:...... pre-
cIncL OF The ............. city; tn2t
have removed from the said last men,
toned residence, and l do request that
the proper entries and records be made
and that my name be erased from the
RrgistIie< of said last mentioned pre-
cinct, and that certificate of remov-
al be furnished me at this time" Tne
fUregOin,y affidavit shall lie written or
printed on the back of such certificate
of removal, and when presented to the
Board of Registry of the precinct in
which such applicant resides, it shall
he taken by said Board and returned
to the office of the Supervisors of
Election. When such certificate shall
lie granted by the Board of Registry
the name of such applicant shall be
erased from the Re2iStries of the pre-
cinct from which he removed. At the
end of each of such sessions the Reg
istries shall be made to agree; where
there is any difference between them,
and then the officers of Registration
having the custody thereof shall sign
their names or initials in their respect
i've Registry books Immediately under
the last name registered under each
letter on said Registries so that no
new name can be added thereto with
out discovery. 1t shall be the duty
OF the Board of Registry, after the
clos, OF each session to note for eras-
ure from such Registries the names of
all persons known or supposed to De
dead and the names of all persons who
are suspected of being disqualified I'M
der Sections and 3 of Article l of the
constitution of the State, and the nam
es of all persons who are supposed to
have removed from such precinct and
have not taken out removal papers and
of all persons who are suspected to be
otherwise disqualified as voters, and