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LAWS. OF MARYLAND.

of Registration shall safely keep and protect said
books and lists from alteration, mutilation and de-
facement whilst in their possession.

Sit with open
doors.

Sec. 5. For the purpose of discharging duties
imposed on them by this Article, said officers of
Registration shall for six successive days in Balti-
more City and Allegany County, and three days
in the remaining counties of the State, commen-
cing on the third Monday in September, and on the
same Monday in every year thereafter, at some
place in their respective wards and districts in Bal-
timore City and the several counties convenient to
the voters .thereof, sit with open doors from nine
o'clock A. M., until nine o'clock P. M., in Balti-
more City, and from nine o'clock until six o'clock
P. M. in the several counties, and they shall give
at least ten days' notice of the time and place of
their sitting by publication in three newspapers

Publish notice

published in Baltimore City, one of which shall be
printed in the German language and in one news-
paper in the several counties in which a newspa-
per is published, having the largest circulation,
and by hand bills posted at such public places, as
said officers shall select in said ward and district,
and in case of change in the place of sitting, they
shall at once publish in said papers notice of such
change.

Died or re-
moved.

Sec. 6. At the time and place published by said
officers of Registration, they shall proceed to strike
from the list of qualified voters the names of all
persons known, or made known to them, who have
died or removed from the ward or election district
or have become disqualified, under the provisions
of the second and third Sections of the first Article
of the Constitution, and to deliver to any persons
applying whose names appear on the said list of
qualified voters, a certificate of registration, and to
strike from the Books of Registration the name of
said dead, removed, or disqualified, and for what
cause under the Constitution and laws of this State

White male
person.

as the case may be, and to register the name of
every white male person who shall apply to said
officers to be registered as a qualified voter, who
shall satisfy them he possesses, or before the day
of election next ensuing, will possess the requisite
constitutional qualifications of age, citizenship and