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day upon which he shall sit for the purpose of correction of the registries
of voters as aforesaid, the original registries of voters for the ward for
which he was appointed an officer of registration, which respective dupli-
cate registries it shall be the duty of the said Clerk to deliver forthwith
to the said respective officers of registration, who are applicants therefor,
upon the proper receipt of said respective officers of registration.

1892, ch. 36, sec. 159N.

250. Said officers of registration, when sitting at their respective
sittings, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two and in each year
thereafter, as in this article provided for the purposes in this article before
mentioned, shall proceed in all particulars in relation to persons apply-
ing to them to be registered in the manner directed by section 247 of this
article; at each of said sittings they shall strike from each of the dupli-
cate registries of voters of the wards of which they are in charge, as officers
of registration, the names of all persons in such wards who are personally
known to them, or who shall be satisfactorily proved to them by the oath
or affirmation of a competent witness or competent witnesses, to be then
dead or to have removed from the ward in which their names are regis-
tered (subject, however, to the provisions of Section 236 of this article),
or who may have become or may be disqualified, under the provisions of
the second or third sections of the first article of the Constitution of this
State, and such names shall be so stricken from such duplicate registries
in such manner as to remain legible; they shall note on any of said regis-"
tries from which any name was so stricken, under the head of "remarks,"
in each of said cases, the cause of striking off the name of each of said
persons; and they shall briefly state whether the same was done upon their
own knowledge, or upon the evidence of others; and if it was done on the
evidence of others, they shall state the names and addresses of such wit-
nesses ; they shall deliver to any person applying for the same, whose
name may appear in the registries of voters of any ward, of which they
may be officers of registration, a copy certified by their signature and
official title of all entries in said registries relating to the registration of
said person; if such person should apply for the same, alleging that he
has acquired a residence elsewhere in the city of Hagerstown, and that he
desires the same for the purpose of being registered in the ward in which
he has acquired a new residence. They shall strike from the duplicate
registries of voters the name of such person, and shall give to such person
a certificate, certified by their signature and official title, of the particulars
of his said former registration from which his name has been so stricken;
said certificate shall contain all the entries relating to the said former
registration of such person and shall show that the name of such person
has been stricken from said duplicate registries of voters of the ward in
which he was formerly registered; when any person applying for regis-
tration at any sitting of officers of registration appointed under the pro-
visions of this article, shall be found upon proper inquiry to have been
previously registered within the city of Hagerstown, under the provisions