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1888, ch. 155, sec. 9.

34. In case any error should be found in any of the poll books
delivered to the judges of election, in the name or address of any

voter, as the same are set down upon the registration books, a
copy from the registration books, duly certified by the clerk of
the circuit court for the county, or the superior court of Balti-
more city, as the case may be, shall be accepted by the judges of

election as a conclusive correction of said error, and the voter
presenting said certificate shall be entitled to vote thereon, not-
withstanding such error on the poll books, precisely as if said
error had not been made; and it shall be the duty of the said

clerks, respectively, to issue said certificates free of charge to the
parties applying therefor, and the cost thereof shall be paid to

said clerk by the county commissioners, or the mayor and the

city council of Baltimore, as the case may be; and it shall be the
duty of the said clerk to keep his office open on the day of

election from the hour of nine A. M. to the hour of five P. M., for
the purpose of issuing such certificates to those voters who may
apply for them.

Ibid. sec. 10.

35. In the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and bien-
nially thereafter, there shall be in the city of Baltimore, in the
several precincts of the several wards thereof, an entire new
general registration of the voters thereof. And for the purpose
of making said new general registration, the registers of said
several precincts, hereinbefore provided for, shall sit in their
several and respective precincts in one or more places therein, as
the convenience of the voters in their judgment may require, in
the months of May, June, July, September and October, denom-
inated the May, June, July, September and October sittings, as
hereinbefore provided, for registration, revision and correction of
the registration books of the several precincts of said several
wards; and said new general registration shall be conducted in all
respects under the rules and provisions as are already by this
article prescribed for the registration of voters; and at such new
general registration the register of their several precincts as
aforesaid shall be entitled to receive the preceding registration
books from the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city for