1238 ARTICLE 33.

written application therefor, within ten days after such application has
been received, or in less time, if practicable, a certified copy, under their
hands, of the names, addresses, color and ages of all persons registered in
any ward in said city, or in any election precinct or district of said county,
for the sum of two dollars for a 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 hereinbefore required. But the provisions of this section in
reference to the printing and posting of copies of the alphabetical list of
registered voters and the names erased from the books of registry shall not
apply to Baltimore City.

If an officer of registration under 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 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.

A certificate in the form prescribed by this section held admissible in evidence.
Simund v. State, 127 Md. 39.

An. Code, sec. 25. 1904, sec. 24. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 23.

27. 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 dis-
qualified 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 petition, 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 haye the registry corrected. The court shall
forthwith set the petition for hearing, 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
registered 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 residence at
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 resident of any