4762 ARTICLE 22.

officers of registration to strike the name of the person named in the peti-
tion whom he or they may determine to have been improperly registered,
from the proper duplicate registries of voters then in the custody of such
clerk or officers of registration; it shall be the duty of said clerk or other
officer or officers thereto lawfully authorized, respectively to produce on
the exhibition of such order of said judge or judges by such officers of
registration, the registry of voters to which such order relates if the same
be then in his or their custody, to the end that such entry or striking out
may be so made as ordered by said judge or judges; when any name is
so entered as a qualified voter in any registry of voters, or is so stricken
from any registry of voters there shall be noted in such duplicate regis-
tries of voters under the head of "remarks," a memorandum of the order
of court directly, the name and the date of such order, and the name and
title of the officer by whom the same was done and the date of such entry
or striking out, in every such appeal if it shall appear to the said judge
or judges upon the consideration thereof that the officers of registration
from whose decision or action such appeal was taken acted in good faith
in so deciding or acting. The cost of said appeal shall be paid by the

mayor and council of Hagerstown; but if said judge or judges shall upon

consideration of such case, be of the opinion that said officers of registra-
tion did not act in good faith in the matter whereof complaint is made,
they or he may adjudged that the costs of said appeal shall be paid by

said officers of registration; if said appeal is dismissed by said judge
or judges the cost thereof shall be paid by the petitioner, but no attorney's
appearance fee shall in any case be taxed as part of the costs of such pro-
ceeding; exceptions may be taken to any ruling of said judge or judges,
and appeal allowed to the Court of Appeals as in other cases; all such
appeals shall be taken within five days from the date of the decision com-
plained of, and shall be heard and decided by the Court of Appeals as
soon after the transmission of the records as may be practicable.

1892, ch. 36, sec. 159Q.

253. For the purposes of any new or special election to be held in the
city of Hagerstown in any year the registries of voters in the several wards
which were returned to the clerk of the court, subsequent to the sitting of
the respective officers of registration, subject to such corrections aa may be
made in them respectively by the order of the proper judge or judges, as
hereinbefore provided, shall be the registries of voters in the several wards
for the purpose of said new or special election.

1892, ch. 36, sec. 159R.

254. No officer of registration appointed under the provisions of this
article shall register any name in any registry of voters of which he may
have the custody as officer of registration, or strike any name from any
such registry of voters, or make any other entry in any such registry of
voters, except upon a day appointed by this article for a public sitting of
such officers of registration, nor except between the hours appointed by this