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county or State by death or other causes of disqualification,
there shall be designated or appointed by the Governor annually,
one officer, of registration in like manner as hereinbefore men-
tioned, who shall be qualified in like manner, and have and ex-
ercise all the powers herein conferred on the three original
officers of registration, so far as shall be necessary for the cor-
rection of the list of voters and the books of registration ren-
dered necessary by the provisions of sections three, four and
five of the first article of the Constitution, and the action of the
General Assembly.
27. The said officer of registration shall sit for the correction
of the said list of voters and the register of names, in the manner
prescribed in section eight of this act, [Sec. 20, ] and for this pur-
pose it shall be the duty of the clerk of the Circuit Court at such
time to hand over the said list and books to the said officer of
registration, who shall proceed in the manner hereinbefore men-
tioned to correct said list and book of registration, so that the
names of all persons legally entitled to vote shall appear thereon,
and the names of those disqualified shall appear on the book of
registration with the cause of disqualification, in like manner as
in the original registration, and when he shall have completed
his work, he shall dispose of said lists and book as herein-
before provided for; but said officer of registration shall not
put on the list of voters the name of any person who was en-
tered on the original book of registration as disqualified under
the third, fourth, or fifth sections of article first of the Constitu-
tion, without full legal proof that such disqualification has been
removed, in the manner prescribed in said sections of said
article in the Constitution.
28. If any person who has been registered as a legal voter in
one district or precinct shall remove into another, he shall take
from the officer or officers, or the clerk of the court in which
said lists or books may be deposited, a certificate of the facts of
his registration in such district or precinct, and it shall be the
duty of the officers of registration to notify each other of such
removal, certificates and re-registration, and unless the provi-
sions of this section are complied with, such person shall not be
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