4756 ARTICLE 22.

each ward and shall thereupon proceed to make a general registration of
all voters residing in the City of Hagerstown and entitled to be registered
in their said respective wards of the said City of Hagerstown. Said
officers of registration shall sit at some place to be selected by each of them
respectively in their respective wards with open doors, from 9 o'clock A. M.
to 9 o'clock P. M. for four successive days, beginning at said first Monday
in March, A. D. 1921. Said general registration shall be conducted in
the manner and in accordance with the requirements prescribed by the then
existing law for the registration of voters in said city, and said officers of
registration shall give, in at least two newspapers of the City of Hagers-
town, and by hand bills set up in such public places in each registration
shall select in their respective districts for at least eight days before the
first sitting, a collective notice signed by them, of their respective sittings
for the purpose of said general registration, and of the place of sitting in
each ward, and of the time at which each of said respective sittings shall
take place. The said officers of registration shall be entitled to receive
upon proper receipts given by them the old registries from the official
having custody of the same for the purpose of comparison and assistance
in identification. The officers of registration shall within three days after
their fourth sitting in this section provided for, make complete and pub-
lish two alphabetical lists, one of which shall comprise the names, ad-
dresses and color of all persons registered, in the respective wards of the
City of Hagerstown, and the other the names and addresses and color of
all persons refused registration and of all persons where the names are
erased from the registries in the respective wards, and the respective
officers of registration shall cause said respective lists to be published by
hand bills posted in such public places as they may respectively select
in their respective wards in not less than ten of such places in each ward.
All provisions 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. The said officers of registration shall receive
the sum of five dollars per diem for their services in said general regis-
tration, exclusive of office rent and the costs of stationery; the necessary
expenses incurred by said respective officers of registration for books,
stationery and fuel, office rent and for the publication of notices and lists
which are by this Article required to be published shall be paid by the
Mayor and Council of Hagerstown. The accounts of said respective officers
of registration shall be verified by vouchers and be subject respectively to
approval of the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown.

1892, ch. 36, sec. 159J. 1896, ch. 27, sec. 159J. 1927, ch. 680, sec. 159J.
246. The several officers of registration shall give in each year of their
sittings a collective notice, signed by them, of their respective sittings, to
be held in said year, under the provisions of this article, and of the place
of sitting in each ward, and of the times at which each of said respective
sittings shall take place; said notice shall be given by said officers of regis-
tration four days before the first day of their respective sittings, by publi-
cation in two newspapers published in Hagerstown of opposite political