634 ELECTIONS—REGISTRATION. [ART. 33.

counties, the registry of voters and poll-books for the election
district for which he was appointed an officer of registration,
or the registries of voters and poll-books for the election precincts
of the election district for which he was so appointed, if such
election district is so divided, which respective registries and lists
or poll-books, it shall be the duty of the said respective clerks to
dellver forthwith to the said respective proper officers of regis-
tration, who are appllcants therefor, upon the proper receipt of
said respective officers of registration. For the same purpose the
several officers of registration in each election precinct in Balti-
more city shall demand from the clerk of the superior court,
between said days in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,
and each alternate year thereafter, the registry of voters and poll-
books of each election precinct in the city of Baltimore of which
they are officers of registration; which respective registries and
poll-books it shall, in like manner, be the duty of said clerk of the
superior court to deliver to said officers of registration upon their
proper receipt.

1882, ch. 22, sec 20. 1888, ch. 155, sec. 7.

19. Said officers of registration, when sitting at their respec-
tive sittings, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and in
each year thereafter in the counties, and in the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-nine, and each alternate year thereafter, in
the city of Baltimore, as is in this article provided for the pur-
poses in this article before mentioned, shall proceed in all par-
ticulars in relation to persons applying to them to be registered,
in the manner directed by section 14 of this article; at each of
said sittings they shall strike from the registries or register of
voters, and from the lists or list of qualified and registered voters
of the election district or election precincts of which they are in
charge as officers of registration, the names of all persons in such
election district who are personally known to them, or who shall
be satisfactorily proved to them by the oath or affirmation of a
competent witness or of competent witnesses, to be then dead, or
to have removed from the election precinct or election district in
which their names are registered, and to have acquired a resi-
dence elsewhere, or who may have become, or may be disqualified,
under the provisions of the second or third sections of the first
article of the constitution of this State, and such names shall be
so stricken from such registries or lists in such manner as to