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REGISTRATION. [ART. — .

certificate has obtained a residence therein, and said
clerk shall record the name of every person to whom
such a certificate has been issued, and delivered to the
officers of registration at the ensuing sitting of said
officers a certified copy of said names, so that thereby
said officers may be informed that such person intended

Change of resi-
dence.

to change his residence, but residence shall not be con-
sidered as changed until six months after actual remo-
val from the city, county, legislative, congressional or
other electoral districts in which a voter has been re-
gistered.

Ibid. s. 18
Clerks, &c , to
file and record
copies of lists,
&c.

29. Said clerks shall receive said copies of lists of
qualified voters and file the same in their office as other
papers are filed, and said clerks shall receive and pre-
serve the books of registration, and said clerks in the
city of Baltimore shall record said lists, and said clerks
shall permit examination of the lists of voters and
books of registration in their custody, and in their
presence or in the presence of their deputies, and they
shall not alter, mutilate or deface, or suffer others to
alter, mutilate or deface the said lists of voters or
books of registration, except as herein provided for ;
and said clerks, when notified by the sheriff that any
one or more of the list of voters committed to his cus-
tody are missing, shall proceed without delay to make,
or cause to be made, a fair and accurate copy or copies
of said list or lists, and deliver the same to said sheriff
at least twelve hours before the opening of the polls at
the election next ensuing.

Ibid. s. 14.
Sheriffs to re-
ceive copies.

30. The sheriff of Baltimore city and the sheriffs of
the several counties respectively shall receive and safely
keep said copies of lists of qualified voters delivered to
him by the officers of registration, and shall, on the
second day prior to each and every election, ascertain
whether he has in his possession all the copies of said
lists committed to his custody, and if it shall appear
that one or more of said lists are not in his possession,
he shall, without delay, serve a written notification,

Hissing lists.

accurately describing the missing list, on the clerk of
the court, that said list or lists are not in the possession