ART. — .] REGISTRATION.

157

16. For the purpose of discharging the duties im-
posed on them by this article, said officers of registra-
tion shall, for six successive days in Baltimore city,
and three successive days in each of the counties of the
state, commencing on the third Monday in September,
and on the same Monday in every year thereafter, at
some convenient place, to the voters in the several
wards of the city of Baltimore, and the several elec-
tion districts of the counties, to sit with open doors
from nine o'clock A. M., until nine o'clock P. M., in
Baltimore city, and from nine o'clock A. M., until six
o'clock P. M., in the several counties ; and they shall

Ibid. s. 5.
Time of Bitting.

give at least twenty days notice of the time and place
of sitting, by publication in at least one newspaper
published in the counties, and three in Baltimore city,
one of which shall be in German.

Notice

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 regis-
. tration, and to strike from the books of registration the
name of said dead, removed or disqualified persons,
and for what cause, [Sic.] under the constitution and

Ibid s 6
To correct lists
of voters, &c.

laws of this state, as the case may be ; and to register
the name of every person who shall apply to said offi-
cers to be registered as a qualified voter who shall sat-
isfy them he possesses, or before the day of election
next ensuing, will possess the requisite qualifications
under the constitution of the United States and the
law made in pursuance thereof, and of the constitution
of the state of Maryland, the qualifications of age, citi-
zenship and residence, and is not disqualified under the
provisions of the second and third sections of the first

Register all
qualified voters

article of the constitution ; provided, however, that be-
fore registering any person as a qualified voter, the said
11

Proviso.