of acquiring a bonâ fide residence therein, but for the purpose of voting at an approaching election, or who shall vote in any election district or ward in which he does not reside (except in the case provided for in this article), or shall, at the same election, vote in more than one election district or precinct, or shall vote, or offer to vote, in any name not his own, or in place of any other person of the same name, or shall vote in any county in which he does not reside. 1867, c.336; 1866, SEC. 5. The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniform registra- Registration. tion of the names of all the voters in this State who possess the qualifications 1865, c. 159, 174; prescribed in this article, which registration shall be conclusive evidence to the res. 3; 1967, c. 17: 33 Md. 135; judges of election of the right of every person, thus registered, to vote at any 23 Md. 512; 22 election thereafter held in this State; but no person shall vote at any election, Md. 176. Federal or State, hereafter to be held in this State, or at any municipal election in the city of Baltimore, unless his name appears in the list of registered voters ; and until the General Assembly shall hereafter pass an act for the registration of the names of voters, the law in force on the first day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in reference thereto, shall be continued in force, except so far as it may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution; and the registry of voters, made in pursuance thereof, may be corrected, as provided in said law; but the names of all persons shall be added to the list of qualified voters by the officers of registration, who have the qualifications prescribed in the first section of this article, and who are not disqualified under the provisions of the second and third sections thereof. c. 18; 4 Md. 189; 28 Md. 1. SEC. 6. Every person elected or appointed to any office of profit or trust Oath of office. under this Constitution, or under the laws made pursuant thereto, shall, before 1852, c. 172; 1854, he enters upon the duties of such office, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: I, do swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that I will support the Constitution of the United States; and that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the State of Maryland, and support the Constitution and laws thereof; and that I will, to the best of my skill and judgment, diligently and faithfully, without partiality or prejudice, execute the office of according to the Constitution and laws of this State (and, if a governor, senator, member of the House of Delegates, or judge), that I will not directly or indirectly receive the profits, or any part of the profits, of [of] any other office during the term of my acting as take oath. 28 Md. 1. SEC. 7. Every person, hereafter elected or appointed to office in this State, New election who shall refuse or neglect to take the oath or affirmation of office provided for on refusal to in the sixth section of this article, shall be considered as having refused to accept the said office; and a new election or appointment shall be made, as in case of refusal to accept, or resignation of, an office; and any person violating said oath shall, on conviction thereof in a court of law, in addition to the penalties now or hereafter to be imposed by law, be thereafter incapable of holding any office of profit or trust in this State. 1874, c. 490, s. 2. Appointment of registers. STATUTES. ARTICLE IV. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. 1. Appointment of registers; oath. 2. What recorded in the books of registration. 4. Correction of lists. 3. Clerk of court to issue certificate of registration when requested. REVISION OF REGISTRATION. 5. Registers to obtain books of registration 6. Time and place of sitting; publication of 7. Duties of registers; oath of applicant for 8. Preliminaries to striking from or adding 9. Census of voters furnished by police com- 10. Appeal from decision of register; duty of ters. 11. Lists to be made and published. 12. Revision; publication of notice. 13. Manner of revising. 14. Revised lists to be made and published. 15. Copies of lists for sheriff and clerk of 16. Residence required. 18. New or special election; time and place of 20. Police officers to preserve order in Baltimore city. 21. Clerks of courts to preserve the lists and 22. Sheriff to safely keep copies of lists. 24. Compensation; expenses, how paid; coun- 25. Neglect of duty; penalty. 1. The governor shall nominate and, by and with the advice of the Senate, appoint at every regular session of the legislature, one person in each ward of Baltimore city, and one person in each election district in every county, voters in said wards and districts 23 Md. 512, 532, respectively, to be styled officers of registration, who shall perform the duties imposed on them by this article, and all such officers, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, shall take and subscribe, before the clerk of some one of the courts of Baltimore city, and the clerks of the Circuit Court of the several counties respectively, the oath prescribed in the sixth section of the third article of the Constitution. 33 Md. 142. Oath. 1874, c. 490, s. 8. What recorded in the books of registration. 2. In registering any person who shall apply to said officers of registration to be registered, said officers shall first record the name of such person in the proper column of said books of registration, and second, administer to him the oath as directed in this article, and enter in the column of said books whether he has or has not been sworn; third, his age; fourth, the place of his birth; fifth, his residence; sixth, the time he has resided in Baltimore city or the county in which he applies to be registered; seventh, if naturalized, the date of his final paper or certificate of naturalization, and the court, county and State where issued; eighth, if disqualified by non-age, non-residence, alienage, or non compos mentis, or conviction of bribery, or larceny or other infamous crime, as described in the second and third sections of the first article of the Constitution, the cause of such disqualification; ninth, the name of the qualified voter, omitting from said ninth column the name of the person so above disqualified, and inserting in lieu thereof the names of the witnesess by whom said disqualification was established, or, in case of conviction of bribery, or larceny, or other infamous crime, a statement of the record proof thereof, and in what court said conviction was had, or other proof by which such disqualification was established. 1874, c. 490, s. 20. Clerk of court to issue certifi cate of registration when re 3. The clerks of courts shall issue under seal, to any person applying to them, whose name appears on the list of qualified voters in their offices respectively, a certificate that said applicant is a registered, qualified voter; which certificate shall, upon presenta- quested. tion to the judge of election, entitle the holder to vote at the precinct or district at which he offers to vote; provided, that he has satisfied said judges that he is the person named in said certificate, and he has acquired the residence necessary to entitle him to vote at said precinct or district, and that he has delivered to said judges said certificate, to be filed with the list of voters or books of registration for said ward or district; and, provided further, that no registration of voters has occurred in said ward or district since the holder of said certificate has obtained a residence therein; and said clerk shall record the name of every person to whom such a certificate has been issued, and deliver to the officers of registration, at the ensuing sitting of said oflicers, a certified copy of said names, so that thereby said officers may be informed that such person intended to change his residence, but residence shall not be considered as changed, until six months after actual removal from the city, county, legislative, congressional or other electoral districts in which a voter has been registered. REVISION OF REGISTRATION. Correction of 4. For the correction of the lists of registered voters in this 1876, c. 249, s. 1. State, the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, and the lists. clerks of the Circuit Courts of the several counties shall, between the last Monday in August and the first Monday of September, in every year, deliver to the officers of registration for Baltimore city and the several counties, the books of registration deposited in the offices of the said clerks respectively, and also duly certified copies of the lists of qualified voters remaining in their respective offices. 5. The officers of registration as aforesaid shall, between the last Id. s. 2. Monday in August and the first Monday in September, in every tain books of year, demand from the clerks of the said courts of Baltimore city from court and of the Circuit Courts of the several counties said books of registration, and certified copies of the lists of qualified voters directed to be delivered to said officers by said clerks in the preceding section of this act, and said officers of registration shall safely keep and protect said books and lists from alteration, mutilation, and defacement whilst in their possession. Registers to ob registration clerks. Id. s. 3. of sitting. 6. For the purpose of correcting said respective lists of qualified voters, said officers of registration shall, for fifteen successive days, Time and place Sundays excepted, in Baltimore city, and five days in each of the counties of the State, commencing on the first Monday in September, and on the same Monday in every year, at some convenient places to the voters in the several precincts of the city of Baltimore, and the several election districts of the counties, sit with open doors from 9 o'clock A.M. until 9 o'clock P.M., in Baltimore city, and from 9 o'clock A.M. until 6 o'clock P.M., in the several counties, and they shall give at least ten days' notice of the time and place of sitting Publication of by publication in at least one newspaper publised in the counties, and three in Baltimore city, one of which shall be in German; provided, that the notice aforesaid, shall be published for each county in one notice, to which the names of the registers of all the districts or a majority of them shall be appended, and the notice for the city. of Baltimore shall be published in one notice, to be signed by the registers for all the wards in the city of Baltimore, or a majority of them. notice. Id. s. 4. ters. 7. At the times and places of which notice shall be so given the Duties of regis- said respective officers of registration shall proceed to strike from the lists of qualified voters the names of all persons in their respective wards or election districts, known or made known to them, who have died or removed from the precinct or élection district in which they have been registered, or who may not be residents thereof, or entitled to vote therein, or have become disqualified under the provisions of the second and third sections of the first article of the Constitution, and shall deliver to any person whose name appears on the said list of qualified voters, and who may be desirous of registering elsewhere, a certificate of registration, and shall strike from the books of registration the names of all persons so applying for certificates of registration, as also the names of all dead, removed or disqualified persons, or of persons who may not be resident of the precinct or election district in which he is registered, or may not be entitled to vote therein, under the Constitution and laws of this State, as the case may be; and shall also state in such books the cause for such striking off of the names respectively, and to register the name of every person who shall apply to said officers to be registered as a qualified voter, who shall satisfy them that he possesses, or before the day of election next ensuing, will possess the requisite qualifications under the Constitution of the United States, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, and of the Constitution of the State of Maryland, and the qualifications of age, citizenship, and residence, and is not disqualified under the provisions of the second and third sections of the first article of the Constitution, and before registering any person as a qualified voter, the said officers of registration shall administer to him the following oath or affirmation: "I, ———— do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will true answers make to all questions necessary to ascertain my quali Oath of appli cant for registration. fication or disqualification to be registered as a qualified voter," but nothing herein contained, shall be construed to authorize said registers to ask any questions touching any cause of disqualification not expressly enumerated in the Constitution of the State of Maryland, or of the United States. lists. 8. Said officer of registration shall, before striking from said list Id. s. 5. of qualified voters and from said books of registration the name of Preliminaries to striking from any registered person, diligently inquire and accurately ascertain or adding to the that said registered person does not possess or before the election next ensuing will not possess the requisite qualifications to entitle him to be registered as a qualified voter in such precinct or election district, or that such person is disqualified under the provisions of the second and third sections of the first article of the Constitution, and if it shall appear that said registered person does not possess or will not possess said qualifications, and that he is so disqualified, then said officer shall strike the name of such person from said list of qualified voters and said books of registration, but if it shall appear otherwise, then such officer shall not strike the name of such person from said books of registration and from said list of quali fied voters; and before registering as a qualified voter any person who has applied to said officers of registration to be registered as a qualified voter, said officer shall diligently inquire and accurately ascertain that such person possesses or will possess before the election next ensuing, the requisite qualifications to entitle him to be registered as a qualified voter, and that he is not disqualified under the provisions of the second and third sections of the first article of the Constitution, and if it shall appear that said person, so applying, possesses or will possess, before said day of election, said qualifications, and if not so disqualified then said officers of registration shall register the name of such person as a qualified voter, but they shall not register the name of any person who does not or will not possess said qualifications, or is so disqualified; and when any person applying as aforesaid for registration, shall have been previously registered within this State, the officer of registration to whom such application is made, before registering such person shall demand and receive from him a certificate of his previous legal registration, and such certificate of previous registration shall be cancelled by the officer who shall register such person anew. 9. In order to enable the said register to revise the list of regis- Id. s. 6. tered voters in each of the precincts of the respective wards of Baltimore city, the board of police commissioners of Baltimore Census of voters city shall, within one month before the time herein before provided furnished by police commisfor the revision of the list of registered voters, cause a census of sioners. the legal voters in each of the voting precincts into which the several wards of Baltimore city shall then be divided, to be made by their police officers and returned by said officers to the office of the board of said police commissioners, and the said board shall furnish a copy of the list of voters so returned as residents in each |