FREDERICK COUNTY. 2523

This affidavit shall be signed and sworn to before one of such board of
registry, and it shall be preserved and filed in the office of the Board of
Supervisors of Elections. Thereupon, said board of registry shall fur-
ther examine him, and shall also swear the officer of registration who has
made the inquiry, and hear him upon the question, and they shall also
have the power to examine on oath any other witness that may appear
or be produced before them in regard to the matter, and make any further
examination or inquiry that they may deem proper; and if, after such
further examination and hearing, the majority of said board are of the
opinion that such person is not a qualified voter in such precinct, they
shall draw a line in red ink through his name, and through all other en-
tries on the line on which said name is written, but so that the name and
said other entries shall remain legible, which memorandum, in case of
any registration, shall indicate that the name of such person is erased
from the registry; and such person shall not be entitled to vote unless
his name be restored as hereinafter provided. During the last hour of
said session, if any person so notified to appear at such sessions has not
yet appeared and shown cause why his name should not be erased from
the registry, the same shall be so erased in the manner aforesaid, unless
a majority of the board are satisfied of their own knowledge, or upon com-
petent testimony, that such person is entitled to have his name 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 making the
same, and the grounds and evidence on which it was made. All provi-
sions now by law provided for returning the registers and for appeals-
from the action of the registration officers shall be applicable to this
general registration.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270U. 1918 Code, sec. 371.

346. 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 immediately, under the last name registered under each letter of
the registers, sign their names, so that no other names can be added with-
out discovery; all of said officers of registration shall then subscribe at
the end of each register, a certificate in substance, in the words follow-
ing: "We, the undersigned, constituting the board of registry in precinct
No....... in the City of Frederick, in the County of Frederick, in the

State of Maryland, do jointly and severally 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 true registers
to the Board of Supervisors of Elections, and return the alphabetical list
of the names, color and addresses of the persons registered and erased by
them; and the said Board of Supervisors shall at once cause said alpha-