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the said first article of the Constitution, as causes of disqualifi-
cation; and if the evidence brought to their knowledge shall
satisfy them that he is disqualified under either of said sections,
they shall not enter his name as a voter in said eighth column
or register of qualified voters, but shall carefully exclude it
therefrom, notwithstanding he may have taken the oath of
allegiance prescribed in section four of said first article of the
Constitution.

19. The officers of registration shall not allow the name of
any foreign born citizen or resident to be entered in said eighth
column or register of qualified voters, unless his naturalization
papers be produced and exhibited to them, and by them be
endorsed with the date of their exhibition, and entering in the
sixth column the facts required in the third section of this act.

20. It shall be the duty of said officers of registration to enter
in the said register of qualified voters, the name of every person
who shall apply to them to be registered, and who shall satisfy
them that he is qualified to vote under the provisions of the first
article of the Constitution and the Laws of the State, or who
shall prove to their satisfaction, that he will be of age and so
qualified to vote on or before the day of the next ensuing
election.

21. It shall be the duty of the said officers of registration or
a majority of them, to meet and sit at some convenient place in
the several wards of the city of Baltimore and the several elec-
tion districts of the respective counties for which they shall be
appointed, the first Tuesday and Wednesday of every week,
from the first Monday in August, to third Wednesday of Sep-
tember inclusive, for the purpose of discharging their duties as
officers of registration according to the provisions of this act,
and they shall give notice of the time and place of meeting at
least ten days before the day of their first meeting, by publica-
tion in three newspapers in the city of Baltimore, one of which
shall be published in the German language, and one or more
newspapers in each county having the largest circulation, and
also by handbills posted at such public places as they may