1818 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apr. 1

at Rockville on the Tuesday .succeeding the date of
said primaries. The Election Supervisors shall on
that day tabulate the vote and certify the result
to the governing bodies of the political parties.

"Sec. 6. To prevent voters belonging to or acting
with one political party from inadvertently or inten-
tionally casting their ballots for candidates for nomi-
nation or for election as delegates to any nominating
convention of any other party, the ballots of said
party shall be printed upon paper of different colors,
and until after the next general registration^every per-
son offering to vote shall be required to state to which
party he belongs and the candidate of which party he
intends to vote for at the State .or county election, and
he shall be supplied only with the official ballot pre-
pared for the candidates of such party.

"Sec. 7. The polls shall be opened at nine o'clock,
a. m. and closed at 6 o'clock, p. m., on the day fixed
for said primary. The books of registry shall be
furnished the return judge of each polling place, for
the purpose of determining the right of the party to
vote, and no one shall be entitled to vote at said pri-
mary election who is not a registered voter in the pre-
cinct in which he applied to vote ; provided, however,
that any person who may since the last preceding
registration, come of age or otherwise acquire the right
to vote at the election next succeeding said primary
election, may voie upon satisfying the judges by
proper evidence that he will be entitled to register
under the laws of this State at the next succeeding
registration, and for the purposes of this section, the
said judges of election may examine upon oath or af-
firmation such witnesses as may be adduced before
them, including the applicant himself ; the person
making said oaths and affirmations shall be subject to
the same penalties as if the same were made in judic-
ial proceedings. But the said judges of election are
not to make any marks or entries whatever upon said
registration books, but are to use the same only for
the purpose of determining the right of au applicant
to vote.

"Sec. 8. The clerks in each precinct shall keep in