416 ARTICLE 33.
hold a session from 2 o'clock P. M. to 10 o'clock P. M., and names may
be added to the registers in the same way, upon sworn application, as in
the case of a general registration, and all the same forms and requirements
shall be observed. If it shall appear that any applicant had been upon
the registers in any other precinct or election district in the State of
Maryland at any time since the beginning of the last general registra-
tion for such precinct, his name shall not be added to the registers when
application is made until he produces a certificate of removal given him
by the Board of Registry for such other precinct, or by the Board of
Supervisors of Elections or a clerk to be designated by them for the city
or county in which said precinct is located, which certificates shall be in
substance as follows:......... Precinct,................... Ward or
county. This is to certify that the name of.......................
heretofore residing at..................... in this precinct has been
stricken from the registry of the precinct and proper erasures made, and
that upon the registers of this precinct the following entries appear with
reference to him: Name........................... color.........
residence.....................; nativity...........; time of resi-
dence in precinct........; time of residence in city, or county........;
time of residence in State...........; naturalized............; date
of papers.............; Court.............; qualified...........;
voter................; date of application.
Board of Registry.
The foregoing certificate shall be granted by the Board of Registry
when in session, or by the Board of Supervisors of Elections or a clerk to
be designated by them prior to said session of the Board of Registry,
under the following regulations, that is to say: If at the time of applica-
tion for said removal certificate is made the name of said voter is already
erased from the registers, then it shall be the duty of the said Board of
Registry to grant the certificate to the voter himself or to any other person
making application therefor, but if at the time such application is made
the name of the voter be still upon the registries of voters as a qualified
voter, the removal certificate shall be granted and the name stricken off
only upon personal application of such voter to the said Board of Registry
and after his taking and subscribing an oath substantially as follows:
"I,............................... do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I now reside at.................... in the city of..............
county of...............; that I am the same person who is entered
by that name as a qualified voter in the registers of the precinct of said
.................. city or county; that I have removed from said last
mentioned residence, and that I do request that the proper entries and
records be made and that my name be erased from the registers of said.
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