4760 ARTICLE 22.

of this article, the officers of registration to whom such application is made
before registering such person shall, demand and receive from him a cer-
tificate of his last previous registration, made by the officers of registra-
tion, or by the clerk of the court in whose custody the duplicate registries
of voters may then be, in which such applicant was formerly registered,
showing the entries relating to said person in such former registration,
and showing that the name of such person has been stricken from the dup-
licate registries of voters in the ward in which he was last before recorded
as a qualified and registered voter; such certificate of previous registra-
tion shall be cancelled by the officers of registration, who shall register
such person anew; it shall be the duty of said officers of registration on
the last day of their first sitting to send notices, one by mail and one to
be served by a policeman of the city of Hagerstown, to all persons whose
names have been stricken off at such sittings (other than the names of
those known to be dead), notifying them that their names have been
stricken off, the reason shall be recorded opposite such in said duplicate
registries, and when a name is stricken off upon the oath of any person,
the name of such person shall be recorded opposite the name stricken off;
at the end of each day's registry or revision of registration, the register
shall sign his name or initials immediately under the last name registered
under each letter in each of said duplicate registries, so that no new name
can be added without discovering, and should any of said officers of regis-
tration be unable to sit and register the qualified voters of their respective
wards on any day of their sittings, by reason of sickness or other unavoid-
able cause, all persons qualified to be registered, who shall appear in per-
son at the place of registration on said day, and who shall fail to be regis-
tered by reason of such disability of the officer of. registration, shall have
the same right of appeal as if they had been refused registration by the
officer of registration.

1892, ch. 36, sec. 159-O. 1927, ch. 680, sec. 159-O.

251. Said officers of registration shall within five days after the expira-
tion of their respective first sittings make, complete, and publish two alpha-
betical lists, one of which alphabetical lists shall comprise the names of
those persons whom said officers have stricken from the duplicate regis-
tries of voters deliver to said respective officers by said Clerk of the Court,
and the other one of which alphabetical lists shall comprise the names of
the persons whom said respective officers of registration have newly regis-
tered as qualified voters, in the respective wards of the City of Hagers-
town at their said sittings and also the said respective officers of registra-
tion shall cause said respective lists to be published by handbills 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 of the registration
district of which such ward shall be a part.

1892, Ch. 36, sec. 159P.

252. If any resident of any ward, who may become qualified to vote
in such ward after the occurrence of an election therein subsequent to the