FREDERICK COUNTY. 2457

prior to the day of the first sitting, and all persons qualified as such who
shall apply shall be by him registered in a book to be furnished for that
purpose, and the said register shall have the same powers and authority
to administer an oath and examine those who apply for registration, and
to hear evidence relating to the same as the register of voters of this
State now have, and shall receive the same compensation, and on the-
close of the day of the last sitting he shall sign his name in said book
under each letter immediately under the last name registered at said
sitting, and on the following day shall return the said register book to
the president of the Board of Commissioners, and any voter refused regis-
tration shall have the same right of appeal now allowed from registers of
voters of this State; and on the third Tuesday in April annually there-
after the register of voters appointed, as above set forth, shall sit to
register new voters who may apply, and be properly qualified, and to
revise the registration list of said town, and notice of the said sitting
shall be given by the Burgess ten clays before the same, and the president
of the Board of Commissioners shall deliver the registration book in his
charge to the said register eight days before said sitting, and the register
shall go over the said book and make out a list from his own knowledge
or on information from any citizen of the town, of those whose names
are on the said book who are dead or shall have removed from the said
town, or shall otherwise become disqualified, and shall five days before
said sitting mail a notice at the postoffice of said town to each of said
voters on said list thus made out, excepting those who are dead, warning
them to be and appear before him at said sitting, and if they fail to appear
at said sitting and he is satisfied by such information that he has re-
ceived they are not qualified to vote at the next corporation election, or if
they appear and, after a hearing of the proper evidence, he is satisfied
they are not qualified to vote at the next corporation election, he shall
strike their names off the list, of qualified voters of the town; but any
voter disqualified by him shall have the right of appeal as now allowed
by law from the action of any register of voters of this State; and on
the close of the said sitting the said register shall sign his name in said
book under each letter immediately under the last name registered at said
sitting, and on the following day he shall return the said register book
to the president of the Board of Commissioners.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 111. 1918 Code, sec. 166.

156. If the inhabitants of said town shall at any time neglect to make
an election at the time herein required, the power of electing a burgess
and commissioners shall not therefore cease, but the power of said inhabi-
tants in that respect shall continue, and the burgess and commissioners
for the time being shall continue in office until the said election shall be
held, and their successors qualify.

1910, ch. 70, sec. 112. 1918 Code, sec. 167.

157. In case of the death, refusal to act, disqualification, resignation
or removal of the burgess or any of the commissioners out of the limits