JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 789

SEC. 17. Immediately after the ordering of any	Special elec-
new or special election as provided by the Constitu-	tions
tion, except for Senators or members of the House
of Delegates, the clerk of the circuit court of the
county in which such new or special election is to be
held, or the Clerk of the Superior Court for Balti-
more city, if such election is to be held in said city,
shall deliver to the officers of registration of said
county or city, the books of registration, and lists of
qualified voters for said county or city, whereupon
said officers of registration shall, for three successive
days, if in Baltimore city, or for two successive days
if in either of the counties, commencing not more
than ten days after the ordering of such election, at
some convenient place to the voters of the several
election districts of said county, or of the several
wards of Baltimore city, set with open doors from
nine o'clock A. M. to six o'clock P. M., in the sev-
eral counties, or from nine o'clock A. M. to nine	Sit with open doors
o'clock P. M., in Baltimore city, for the purpose of
registering all persons applying to them for that pur-
pose, who may possess the necessary qualifications
to vote at such election in the manner hereinbefore
prescribed, and shall proceed to strike from the list
of qualified voters the names of all persona known
or made known to them who have died, removed
from the ward or district, or who may not be resi-
dents, or entitled to vote in the ward or district, or
who may not be resident or entitled to vote in the
ward or election district in which they are respective-
ly registered, or have otherwise become disqualified;
and the said officers of registration shall give at least
five days' previous notice of the time and place of
sitting, by publication in at least one newspaper pub- lished in said county, or three newspapers if in Bal-
timore city, one of which shall be in German.
SEC. 18. Immediately after the expiration of the
days on which said officers of registration shall have
corrected said lists, so as provided in the preceding	Make two alphabetical
. sections, they shall proceed without delay to make,	lists
or cause to.be made, two alphabetical lists, one of
which shall comprise the names of those registered
persons which said officers of registration have
stricken from the list of qualified voters, and the
books of registration delivered to said officers by
said clerks of courts ; and the other one of said lists