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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tration shall be revised by the Board of Registry in each pre-

cinct where such election was to be held, and for that purpose

a Board of Registry shall meet on the Tuesdays respectively

seven, six, five and four weeks preceding the regular election in

November, and shall hold a session from 9 o'clock A.M. to

9 o'clock P.M., and names may be added on the registers in

the same way, upon sworn application as in the case of a gen-

eral registration, and all the same forms and requirements

shall be observed. If it shall appear that any applicant had been

Applicants to

upon the registries in any other precinct of the City of Bal-

produce cer-
tificate in

timore at any time since the beginning of the last general

certain

registration for such precinct, his name shall not be added

cases.

to the registries when application is made until he produces

a certificate of removal given him by the Board of Registry

for such other precinct, which certificate shall be in substance

as follows :

...... precinct ...... ward. This is to certify that the

Form of cer-

name of ............. heretofore residing at ............ in

tificate.

this precinct, has been stricken from the registry of the pre-

cinct and the proper erasure made, and that upon the registers

of this precinct, the following entries appear with reference

to him : Name ............. Age ....... Color .......

Residence ............. Nativity ....... Time of residence

in precinct ....... Time of residence in city ....... Time

of residence in State ....... Naturalized ....... Date of

papers ....... Court ....... Qualified voter ....... Date

of application .......

Board of Registry.

The foregoing certificate shall be granted by the Board of

Board of

Registry when in session, under the following regulations,

Registry to
grant same.

that is to say : If at the time of application for said removal cer-

tificate is made the name of said voter is already erased from

the registries, then it shall be the duty of the said Board of

Registry to grant the certificate to the voter himself or to any

other person making application therefor; but if at the time

such application is made the name of the voter be still upon

the registries of voters as a qualified voter, the removal cer-

tificate shall be granted, and the name stricken off only upon

the personal application of such voter to the said Board of

Registry, and after his taking and subscribing an oath sub-