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retained on the registry, and under the head of " remarks," opposite each
name erased, shall be stated the facts as to such erasure, the date of the
making the same and the grounds and evidence on which it is made.

Where a foreigner applies to the registers sitting in September, stating that he
would be of age October 13th following and would then apply for naturalization and
present his papers to the registers, and registration is refused him, he may be
registered by registers sitting under this section. Barret v. Taylor, 85 Md. 175.

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

This section referred to in construing sec. 27. Collier v. Carter, 100 Md. 385.

Cited but not construed in Wilson v. Carter, 103 Md. 123; Ticer v. Thomas, 74
Md. 343.

An. Code, sec. 24. 1904, sec. 23. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 22. 1914, ch. 723. 1916, ch. 158, sec. 24.
1918, ch. 247, sec. 24. 1922, ch. 155.

26. At the end of the last session above provided for, the said Board of
Registry shall compare and correct the two registers and make them agree,
and the officers having them respectively in their custody shall then immedi-
ately under the last name registered under each letter of the registers sign
their names, so that no other names can be added without discovery; all of
said officers of registration shall then subscribe, at the end of each register,
a certificate, in substance, in the words following: "We, the undersigned,
constituting the Board of Registry in............ precinct or district of

............ county, or in......... precinct of the......... ward of

the city of............... in the State of Maryland, do jointly and sever-
ally certify that, at the general registration of voters in said precinct, closed
on this ...... day of ............. there were registered by us, in said

precinct, the names which in this book are entered, and that the number of
registered and qualified voters was and is the number of ........"

(Signature.)
Dated........................

During the next day the Board of Registry shall return the two registers
to the Board of Supervisors of Elections, and in the counties the said Board
of Registry shall, at the same time, return the alphabetical' list of names,
party affiliation, color and addresses of the persons registered and erased by
them, and in Baltimore City the Boards of Registry shall, at the same time,
return the lists made by them, at their last session; and in the counties the
said Boards of Supervisors of Elections shall at once cause said alphabetical
lists to be printed in handbill form in long-primer type, and copies thereof
posted, within three days after the return of said lists, as aforesaid, in such
manner that they may be easily read, in at least ten prominent places in the
respective precincts. The Board of Suvervisors in the several counties shall
cause to be printed at least ten extra copies of all the handbills prepared by
them, respectively, under this Article, and as many more copies as may be
required to supply all demands for any of them made, with the tender of
the price before the printing thereof, which copies they shall sell to the
public at five cents per copy, the proceeds of said sales to be applied towards
paying the expenses of printing the same. The said Boards of Supervisors
in the counties and in the City of Baltimore shall furnish to any one making