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citizens, aud had never voted. It was almost impossible for the board to detect when they were 

 swearing falsely. 



I should suggest an enrollment of males every two years. The enrollment should consist of two 

 classes : one between the ages of twenty and forty -five years ; the other of those over forty-five years. 

 No one shouM be allowed to vote nnless he presented a certificate of enrollment, for which he 

 should pay a small fee ; thereby the ofiBce could be made self-sustaining. No man should be allowed 

 to claim alienage after being drafted, as he should have taken care to have his name erased from 

 the enrollment-sheets, a correct list being always on file at the office. We should thus get rid of 

 the illegal votes of foreigners, and they would be unable to escape military duty. Should an emer- 

 gency arise, a draft could be ordered at very short notice, and it would be comparatively easy to 

 ascertain the population fitted to do military duty. If considered necessary, it might be well to 

 have the names of those persons unfit for military duty (of course from i)liysical causes) marked; 

 also that the provost-marshal's department should be required to furnish the State and city author- 

 ities with a correct list of all per.sons exempted, with the wards and districts in which they lived. 

 Those who failed to report when drafted, or who fled to escape the draft, and ]iersons who were in 

 the rebel army, should be reported and excluded from the right of suffrage by the act of assembly 

 of the State of Maryland. 



THOMAS P. MURDOCH, 

 Surgeon Board of Enrollment Third District of Maryland. 



Baltimore, Md., June 28, 1865. 



MARYLAND— FIFTH DISTRICT.^ 

 Extracts from report of Dr. R. E. Dorse y. 



« ♦ * My experience in the examination of men for military service is but slender : 



commencing as late as the 2d of June, 1864, and terminating Oa the 15th of April, 1865; a little over 

 ten months. The number examined cannot be given with precision, because, being much of that 

 time without an assistant, aud not being a.ware, through inexperience, of the proi)riety of providing 

 a regular book of entry to be kept by ii clerk, I made at the time a few notes on loose sheets, to the 

 preservation of which but little attention was i)aid, and it was not till late in November, in obedience 

 to orders sent from the Department, that suitable books ot record were i)rovided, hence the number 

 below may be rather inaccurate, more particularly as regards enrolled and drafted men : 



Enrolled men examined, not exempted 1, 248 



Enrolled men examined and exempted 633 



Drafted men examined, not exempted 1, 959 



Drafted men examined aud exempted 1, 267 



Recruits and substitutes examined and accepted 895. 



Recruits and substitutes examined and rejected 282 



Total 6,284 



The Fifth Congressional District of Maryland,. for which I am examiuiug-surgeon, is of consid- 

 erable extent, reaching from Point Lookout, at the confluence of the Potomac River with the 

 Chesapeake Bay, to the northern part of Baltimore County, near the Pennsylvania line, and from 

 east to west from the shore of the Chesapeake to the Point of Rocks on the Potomac River; in 

 some places more than one hundred miles across from opposite i)oints. Tbe counties of Balti- 

 more, Howard, and Montgomery may be called the upper or hilly sections of the district, and 

 Anne Arundel, Prince George, Charles, Calvert, and Saint Mary's Counties the lower or tide-water 

 section of the district. 



The upper section is traversed — in Baltimore aud Howard Counties particularly — by numerous 

 Etreams, which aflbrd considerable water-power, which is employed for various manufacturing 



'No report was received from the fourth district. 



