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REGISTRATION. [ART. — .

books of registration and certified copies of the lists of
qualified voters directed to be delivered to said officers,
by said clerks in the third section of this article, and
said officers of registration shall safely keep and pro-
tect said books and lists from alteration, mutilation and
defacement whilst in their possession.

Ibid, c 5.
Time of sitting.

16. For the purpose of discharging duties imposed
on them by this article, said officers of registration
shall for six successive days in Baltimore city and
Allegany county, and three days in the remaining
counties of the state, commencing on the third Mon-
day in September, and on the same Monday in every
year thereafter, at some place in their respective wards
and districts in Baltimore city and the several counties
convenient to the voters thereof, sit with open doors
from nine o'clock A. M., until nine o'clock P. M., in
Baltimore city, and from nine o'clock until six o'clock
P. M. in the several counties, and they shall give at
least ten days' notice of the time and place of their
sitting by publication in three newspapers published in
Baltimore city, one of which shall be printed in the
German language and in one newspaper in the several
counties in which a newspaper is published, having the
largest circulation, and by handbills posted at such
public places, as said officers shall select in said ward
and district, and in case of change in the place of sit-
ting, they shall at once publish in said papers notice of
such change.

Ibid, s G.
To correct lists
of voters, &c

17. At the time and place published by said officers
of registration, they shall proceed to strike from the
list of qualified voters the names of all persons known,
or made known to them, who have died or removed
from the ward or election district or have become dis-
qualified under the provisions of the second and third
sections of the first article of the constitution, and to
deliver to any persons applying whose names appear on
the said list of qualified voters, a certificate of registra-
tion, and to strike from the books of registration the
name of said dead, removed, or disqualified, and for
what cause under the constitution and laws of this state