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county at any time since the beginning of the last general registration for
such precinct, his name shall not be added to the Registry where applica-
tion is made until he produces a certificate of removal given him by the
Board of Supervisors of said County or by the Board of Registry for such
other precincts, which certificates shall be in substance as follows:

".............. precinct,.............. ward or county. This is to

certify that the name of............. heretofore residing at...........

in this precinct, has been stricken from the registry of the precinct and the
proper erasure made, and that upon the registers of this precinct the fol-
lowing entries appear with reference to him: Name............... age

................ color...............; residence...............:

nativity..............; time of residence in precinct..............;

time of residence in county (or city)..............; time of residence

in State................; naturalized............... date of papers

..............; court..............; qualified voter...............

date of application...............

Board of Supervisors of Elections,
(or of Registry)

The foregoing certificate shall be granted by the Board of Registry when
in session, or by the Board of Supervisors of Elections prior to said session
of the Board of Registry under the following regulations; that is to say:
If at the time application for said removal certificate is made the name of
the said voter is already erased from the registry, then it shall be the duty
of the said Board of Supervisors or 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 registry of voters as a qualified voter, the removal
certificate shall be granted and the name stricken off only upon the personal
application of such voter to the Board of Supervisors or to the said Board
of Registry, and after his taking and subscribing to an oath substantially
as follows: "I,................... do solemnly swear (or affirm) that

I now reside at................. in............... county; that I

am the same person who is entered by that name as a qualified voter in the
registers of the.............. precinct of.............. county; that 1

have removed from the said last-mentioned residence and I do request that
the proper entries and records be made, and that my name be erased from
the registers of said last-mentioned precinct, and that a certificate of re-
moval be furnished me at this time. " The foregoing affidavit shall be writ-
ten or printed on the back of such certificate of removal, and when pre-
sented to the Board of Registry of the precinct in which such applicant
resides, it shall be taken by such Board and returned to the office of Super-
visors of Elections. When such certificate shall be granted, either by the
Board of Registry or by the Supervisors of Elections, as the case may be,
the name of such applicant shall be erased from the registers of the precinct
from which he removed.