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REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. [ART. 4.

Id. s. 3

6. For the purpose of correcting said respective lists of qualified

voters, said officers of registration shall, for fifteen successive days,

Time and place
of sitting

Sundays excepted, in Baltimore city, and five days in each of the

counties of the State, commencing on the first Monday in Septem-

ber, and on the same Monday in every year, at some convenient

places to the voters in the several precincts of the city of Baltimore,

and the several election districts of the counties, sit with open doors

from 9 o'clock A. M until 9 o'clock P. M., in Baltimore city, and from

9 o'clock A. M. until 6 o'clock P. M., in the several counties, and they

shall give at least ten days' notice of the time and place of sitting

Publication of
notice

by publication in at least one newspaper publised in the counties,

and three in Baltimore city, one of which shall be in German; pro-

vided, that the notice aforesaid, shall be published for each county

in one notice, to which the names of the registers of all the districts

or a majority of them shall be appended, and the notice for the city

of Baltimore shall be published in one notice, to be signed by the

registers for all the wards in the city of Baltimore, or a majority of

them.

Id s 4.

y. At the times and places of which notice shall be so given the

Duties of regis-
ters

said respective officers of registration shall proceed to strike from

the lists of qualified voters the names of all persons in their respec-

tive wards or election districts, known or made known to them, who

have died or removed from the precinct or election district in which

they have been registered, or who may not be residents thereof, or

entitled to vote therein, or have become disqualified under the pro-

visions of the second and third sections of the first article of the

Constitution, and shall deliver to any person whose name appears

on the said list of qualified voters, and who may be desirous of

registering elsewhere, a certificate of registration, and shall strike

from the books of registration the names of all persons so applying

for certificates of registration, as also the names of all dead, re-

moved or disqualified persons, or of persons who may not be resi-

dent of the precinct or election district in which he is registered,

or may not be entitled to \ote therein, under the Constitution and

laws of this State, as the case may be; and shall also state in such

books the cause for such striking off of the names respectively, and

to register the name of every person who shall apply to said officers

to be registered as a qualified voter, who shall satisfy them that he

possesses, or before the day of election next ensuing, will possess

the requisite qualifications under the Constitution of the United

States, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, and of the Consti-

tution of the State of Maryland, and the qualifications of age, cit-

izenship, and residence, and is not disqualified under the provisions

of the second and third sections of the first article of the Constitu-

tion, and before registering any person as a qualified voter, the said

officers of registration shall administer to him the following oath or

Oath of appli-
cant for regis-

affirmation: "I, —————, do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will

tration.

true answers make to all questions necessary to ascertain my quali-