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respective wards and districts, convenient to the
voters thereof, sit with open doors from nine o'clock	Sit with open doors.
A. M. to nine o'clock P. M.,in Baltimore city; and
from nine o'clock A. M., until six o'clock P. M., in
the counties, and they shall give at least ten days'
notice of the time and place of sitting in said wards
and districts, by publication in three newspapers pub-
lished in Baltimore city, one of which shall be printed
in the German language, and in one newspaper in
each county in which a newspaper is published,
and also by handbills, posted at such public places as
said officers shall select in said wards and districts.
SEC. 11. At the time and place published by said
officers of registration, for correcting said books of
registration and lists as published by said officers,
they shall proceed to strike from said books and said
lists the names of all persons known or made known	Proceed to strike from
to them, or who may not be residents of or entitled	said books.
to vote in the ward or election district in which they
are respectively registered, who have died or who do
not possess the requisite constitutional qualifications,	Disqualified
or who will not possess said qualifications before the
election next ensuing, or who are disqualified under
the provisions of the second or third sections of the
first article of the Constitution, and to register the	Register.
name of every person who shall apply to them to be
registered, who shall satisfy said officers of registra-
tion that they possess or will possess the requisite
constitutional qualifications before the election next
ensuing, and who are not disqualified under the
second and third sections of the first article of the
Constitution, and also the name of every person
whom a judge of a court, to which an appeal has
been taken from the decision of said officers of
registration, has decided to be entitled to be registered
as a qualified voter ; provided, that when any person	Proviso.
applying as aforesaid for registration shall have been
previously registered within this State, the officer of
registration to whom such application is made,
before registering such person, shall demand and
receive from him the certificate of his previous regis-
tration as provided for in the sixth section of. this
act.
SEC. 12. Immediately after the expiration of the	Make alpha-
three days on which said Officers of Registration of	betical list.
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