636 ELECTIONS—REGISTRATION. [ART. 33.
qualified voters in the election precinct or election district in
which he was last before recorded as a qualified and registered
voter; such certificate of previous registration shall be cancelled
by the officers of registration who shall register such person anew.
Said officers of registration, when sitting at their respective May,
June, July and September sittings, and the first sitting in October,
shall register as provided in section 14, all qualified voters who shall
present themselves for registration; and in addition to said work
of registration they shall carefully revise and scrutinize the said
registries of voters so received by them from said clerks of the
several circuit courts and of the superior court of Baltimore
city, to the end that all errors therein shall be corrected; and the
names of all voters entered therein who shall have died or be-
come for any reason disqualified, or who for any cause shall have
ceased to be entitled to remain on said registration books, shall
be stricken off. In order that the work of striking off from the
registries the names of all dead and disqualified persons, and of
all persons erroneously or improperly placed thereon, may be
thoroughly and accurately accomplished, it shall be the duty of
said several officers of registration, at their May sitting, to go
carefully over the whole list of names upon said registries in
their respective precincts and election districts, and to note for
striking off the names of all persons whom, from their own infor-
mation, or from information furnished to them from others, they
have good reason to believe to be proper to be stricken off.
Having made out this list, which shall be at all times open to
public inspection, it shall be their duty to address written notices
to all the persons whose names are set down thereon, except those
known to be dead, calling on said persons to appear before them on
or before the first day of the July sitting in the city of Baitimore,
and the first day of the September sitting in the counties, to
show cause why their names should not be stricken from said
registries, which notices shall be served in Baitimore city by the
police of Baltimore city, and in the counties by the sheriffs of the
several counties, upon all of such persons who can be found by
them, and said notices shall also be sent by mall to said persons,
addressed to them at the place from which they were registered.
Should no cause, or, in the judgment of said officers of regis-
tration, an insufficient cause to the contrary be shown by the first
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