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REGISTRATION OP VOTERS. [ART. 4.

precinct to the register of such respective wards, on or before the

day when the register opens his office for the registration of voters

in such respective wards, and such census shall be made and returned

in the same manner before each election of the members of the

General Assembly, and copies thereof shall be furnished to the

register as aforesaid.

Id s 7.

10. If any person shall deem himself aggrieved by the refusal

of any officer of registration to register his name as a qualified

voter, or by the striking off his name from the list of qualified voters

Appeal from
decision of

for any cause, he shall have the right to appeal by petition from such

register

decision or action to the judge or judges of the Circuit Court of the

county where he applied for registration, or to a judge of the Su-

preme Bench of Baltimore city in case the person applied for regis-

tration in Baltimore city, and if said judge or judges shall determine

that the party so appealing is entitled to be registered or to be re-

stored to the list as a qualified voter, he shall so certify to the officer

of registration from whose decision the appeal was taken, and the

said officer shall thereupon register the said person as a qualified

voter, and in that case the cost of said appeal shall be paid by the

mayor and city council of Baltimore, or by the county commission-

ers of the county in which the appeal was taken; and it shall be the

Duty of State's

duty of the State's attorneys of the several counties and of the coun-

attorneys and
counsel of

sel for the officers of registration of Baltimore city, as hereinafter

registers.

provided, to appeal on behalf of the officers of registration and

against the appellant at the hearing of all appeals from the decision

of officers of registration within their respective counties and Balti-

more city, as the case may be.

Id s. 8.

11, Immediately after the expiration of the days in which said

officers of registration shall have sat for such corrections of the

registry lists, commencing on the first Monday in September, they

Lists to be made
and published

shall proceed without delay to make or cause to be made two alpha-

betical lists, one of which lists shall comprise the names of those

registered persons which said officers have stricken from the lists of

qualified voters and from the books of registration, delivered to said

officers by said clerks of courts, and the other one of which lists

shall comprise the names of the persons which said officers have reg-

istered at the registration just made, and also the names of those

persons whom the judge of a court to whom an appeal from the de-

cision of said officers of registration has been taken has decided to

be entitled to be registered, and said officers of registration shall

cause said lists to be published by handbills posted in such public

places as they may elect in the several precincts of Baltimore city,

and said election districts in the counties, and one-third of the hand-

bills so posted in Baltimore city shall be printed in the German

language.

Id s. 9

12. For the purpose of revising said books of registration and

Revision.

said lists as made and published by said officers of registration,

they shall for three successive days in the city of Baltimore and two