2ml. How long after the first sitting
before I Imvo tomato a icturu of all tho
names and do the books have to be return
ed after each sitting ?
In answer to this I refer you to
Section 18 of the present registration
act which provides that within six
days after the close of his October
sitting, the registrar shall deliver to
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for his
county, the registry of voters and the
two poll-books so completed as afore
said. The books remain in his cus
tody during the time intervening be
tween the respective sittings and ho
is responsible for their loss, in a pen
alty not exceeding a fine of five
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment
not exceeding three years, or by both
fine and imprisonment aforesaid,
(See Section 36.)
3rd. Whal is the form of oath taken by
persons wishing to register ?
You do make oath that
you wiil true answers make to such
questions as I may propound to you
touching your right to be registered
and to vole in election distiictNo.—.
Read section 15 of the Registration
Act carefully and if you have not n
copy apply to the Secretary of State
at Annapolis for one.
Permit me also to call your atten
tion to Section 17, requiring name ol
the applicant for registration to bo
entered immediately thereafter in the
presence of tho voter in its proper al
phabetical place in both of the poll
books.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
David W. Sloan,
The State’s Attorney for Allegany
county.
The following letter on the subject
of registration explains itself.
MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT REGISTRA
TION AND ANSWERS i’ROU STATE S
ATTORNEY SLOAN.
Cumberland, Md., June 5,1888.
