ART. 4. ] REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.

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successive days in the several counties of the State, commencing on

the first Monday in October, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and

on the same days respectively in every year thereafter, at some place

in their respective precincts and districts 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 A. M. until six o'clock

P. M. in the counties, and the respective officers of registration shall

give at least three days' notice, by a notice signed by them respect-

Publication of

ively, of the time and place of sitting in said precincts and districts

notice.

by publication in three newspapers published in Baltimore city, one

of which shall be printed in the German language, and in one news-

paper in each county in which a newspaper is published, and also

by handbills posted at such public places as said officers shall select

in said precincts and districts.

13. At the time and place published by said officers of regis-

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tration for receiving said books of registration and lists, as men-

tioned in the preceding section, the said officers shall proceed to

strike from said books and said lists the names of all persons known

Manner of
revising

or made known to them as required in section four of this act, or

who may not be residents of or entitled to vote in the precinct or

election district in which they are respectively registered, who have

died or who do not possess the requisite qualifications, or who will

not possess said qualifications before the election next ensuing, or

who are disqualified under the provisions of the second or third sec-

tions of the first article of the Constitution, and to register the name

of every person who shall apply to them to be registered who shall

satisfy said officers of registration that they possess or will possess

the requisite qualifications before the election next ensuing, and who

are not disqualified under the second and third sections of the first

article of the Constitution, and also the name of every person whom

a judge of a court, to which an appeal has been taken from the de-

cision of said officers of registration has decided to be entitled to

be registered as a qualified voter; provided that when any person

applying as aforesaid for registration shall have been previously

registered within this State, the officers of registration to whom such

application is made, before registering such person, shall demand

and receive from him the certificate of his previous legal registration

and cancel the same, and they shall then finally revise and complete

said lists.

14. Immediately after the expiration of the three days on which

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said officers of registration of Baltimore city, and of the two days

on which the said officers of registration in the several counties of

the State, shall have sat to correct said books of registration and

Revised lists to

said lists, and within two days thereafter they shall proceed without

be made and
published

delay to make, or cause to be made, an alphabetical list of the names

of the qualified voters in their respective precincts and districts, and

the lists of any counties whose districts are divided into precincts,

as well as of Baltimore city, shall be arranged according to precincts