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of fifteen dollars per ward in said city, and two dollars for a single
precinct, and for the sum of half a cent for each voter's name on said
registry in the counties, which said sum shall be applied towards paying
the expenses of making said certified copies. It shall be the duty of the
said supervisors to make proper provisions in advance, so that they
will be able to make and furnish such copies when ordered, as herein-
before required.

If an officer of registration under the act of 1882, ch. 22, knowingly
includes duly qualified and registered voters in a list of those stricken from
the registry, he is guilty of a crime. Sufficiency of indictment. Mincher v.
State, 66 Md. 227.

Registrars will not be directed by mandamus to make entries in the regis-
tration books after their control of such books has ceased. Summerson v.
Schilling, 94 Md. 590.

This section referred to in construing section 25. Collier v. Carter, 100
Md. 385.

1904, art. 33, sec. 24. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 23.

25. Any person who feels aggrieved by the action of any board of
registry in refusing to register him as a qualified voter, or in erasing or
misspelling his name, or that of any other person on the registry, or in
registering or failing to erase the name of any fictitious, deceased or
disqualified person, may at any time, either before or after the last
session of the board of registry, but not later than the Saturday next
preceding the election, if in the city of Baltimore, and not later than
the Tuesday next preceding the election, if in the counties, file a peti-
tion, verified by affidavit, in the circuit court for the county, or, if the
cause of complaint arises in Baltimore city, in any court of Baltimore
city, setting forth the ground of his application, and asking to have the
registry corrected. The court shall forthwith set the petition for hear-
ing, and direct summons to be issued requiring the board of registry
to attend at the hearing or by counsel; and when the object of the
petition is to strike off the name of any person alleged to be fictitious,
deceased or disqualified, summons shall also be issued to such person,
which shall be served by the sheriff within the time therein designated,
at his place of residence given in the registry. If the petition shall
allege that any person registered in any precinct does not reside in such
precinct, it shall be sufficient for the petitioner to show that the person to
whose registration he objects did not at the time when he was so regis-
ered reside at the particular house or place described as his residence on
the registry; but the person to whose registration objection is so made
shall have the right to show by affirmative proof that, although he may
not have had a legal residence at the place described by him as his resi-
dence the time of his registration, he had at such time a legal residence in
the said precinct. In determining whether any person is or is not a resi-
dent of any voting precinct, it shall be presumed that if a person is
shown to have acquired a residence in one locality, he retains the same
until it is affirmatively shown that he has acquired a residence in
another locality, and it shall also be presumed that if a person is shown
not to reside at the dwelling given in the entries relating to him on the