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stated upon his application within not less than ten days from the receipt
of said application, a certificate of removal in substantially the following
form, to wit:

CERTIFICATE OF REMOVAL.

........ Precinct of the........ Ward or District of the.........

City or County.

This is to certify that the name of............... heretofore residing

at................... in the above precinct, has been stricken from the

registry books of the said precinct and the proper erasures have been made.
The following entries appear upon said books with reference to said voter:
Name................. age........... color............ residence

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

............. time of residence in county or city.............. time

of residence in State............. naturalization............ date of

papers.............. court............. qualified voter...........

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

Signature of Board of Supervisors of Elections or
their duly authorized clerk.

It shall be the duty of the respective Boards of Supervisors of Elections
throughout the State to furnish, upon request of any registered voter, a
suitable blank form for the making of an application for a certificate of
removal as herein provided.

Provided, however, that no such removal certificate shall be required to be
issued and forwarded by mail under the provisions of this section, unless
the application therefor be received at the office of the Board of Supervisors
of Elections within not later than fifteen (15) days before the first day of
registration preceding any election, and unless the said application be ac-
companied by an envelope properly addressed to the applicant, and having
affixed thereto sufficient postage to procure the return of said application
through the United States mail.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 41. 1912, sec. 33. 1904, sec. 32. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 28.

1929, ch. 355, sec. 41.

41. It shall be the duty of the board of registry after the close of the
first session, viz: on the Tuesday five weeks preceding the regular fall elec-
tion to note for erasure from such registry the name of all persons known
or supposed to be dead, and the name of all persons who are suspected of
being disqualified under Sections 2 and 3 of Article 1 of the Constitution
of the State, and the names of all persons who are supposed to have re-
moved from such precinct and have not taken out removal papers, and of
all persons who are suspected to be otherwise disqualified as voters, and
they shall before separating make out a list of all persons so noted for
erasure, with the address as the same appears upon the registers. In mak-
ing out such list said board of registry shall treat as persons suspected of