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REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. [ART. 4.

registry books and the list of qualified voters the names of all per-

sons known or made known to them, who have died, removed from

the precinct or district, or who may not be residents or entitled to

vote in the precinct or district in which they are respectively regis-

tered or have otherwise become disqualified; and the said respective

officers of registration shall give at least five days' previous notice

Publication of

of the time and place of sitting, by publication in at least one news-

notice.

paper published in said county, or three newspapers, if in Baltimore

city, one of which shall be in German.

Id s 16

19. Immediately after the expiration of the days on which said

officers of registration shall have corrected said lists, as provided in

Method of
procedure

the preceding section, they shall proceed without delay to make, or

cause to be made, two alphabetical lists, one of which shall comprise

the names of those registered persons which said officers of registra-

tion have stricken from the list of qualified voters, and the books of

registration delivered to said officers by said clerks of courts, and

the other one of said lists shall comprise the names of those persons

whom said officers have added to the registry, and also the names

of those persons whom the judge of a court as aforesaid, to whom

an appeal hath been taken from the decision of an officer of registra-

tion, has decided to be entitled to be registered; said officers of

registration shall immediately cause said lists to be published by

handbills, as hereinbefore provided by this act, commencing at the

expiration of six days from the end of the sitting last mentioned;

the said officers of registration shall sit two consecutive days during

the hours aforesaid, for the purpose of revising said lists and books

of registration, notice of the time and place of which sitting shall

be given by publication in newspapers as hereinbefore provided;

immediately on the expiration of said two days said officers of regis-

tration shall make out the lists, as provided in the twelfth section

of this act, and said lists and the said books of registration shall

be immediately returned in the manner stated in the said last-named

section

Id s 17.

20. The board of police commissioners for Baltimore city, shall

Police officers to

detail police officers sufficient to preserve order at the places where

preserve order
in Baltimore

said officers of registration in Baltimore city, upon the written re-

city.

quest of the registers of voters, are discharging the duties of their

office.

Id s 18.

21. Said clerks of the Circuit Courts of the several counties of

this State, and of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, shall re-

ceive said copies of the lists of qualified voters, and said books of

registration, and file said lists as other papers are filed, and care-

Clerks of courts

fully preserve such lists and books, and said clerks shall permit ex-

to preserve the
lists and books.

amination of the same in their presence, or in the presence of their

deputies, and not otherwise; 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; and said clerks, when notified by

the sheriff that any one or more of the list of voters committed to his