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of registration to whom such list has been delivered, shall, on or
before the Friday next following, sign a notice, and send the
same through the mail, duly stamped, to the address as given in
the registry, of each person who is upon such suspected list,
requiring such person to appear before the board of registry
upon the Tuesday following, giving the time of such session,
and show cause why his name should not be erased from such
registers; proper blanks and postage stamps shall be furnished
for this purpose by the board of supervisors. A similar notice
shall also be served by said officer, so acting as clerk, upon such
person before the following Tuesday, and if he cannot be found
at the place designated upon said registers, the notice may be
left there, if such place can be found. Any officer of registra-
tion, or other person acting temporarily as such as hereinafter
provided, who wilfully neglects to perform his duty touching
such scrutiny, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction, shall be imprisoned in jail not less than thirty days,
nor more than sixty days. In case of temporary disability on
the part of said officer acting as clerk, the board of registry may
appoint a temporary clerk belonging to the same party, and
administer to him the usual oath of office, and said temporary
clerk shall perform all the duties of the office, until the disabil-
ity of the regular clerk is removed. And it shall also be the
duty of each of the other officers of registration, BO far as may
be in his power, to inform himself as to all the persons whose
names may be on such suspected list.

1896, ch. 202.

21. On the Tuesday, three weeks preceding such regular
election, said board of registry shall again meet at the place des-
ignated, and they shall remain in session during the hours pre-
scribed in section 16, for the sole purpose of revising their
registry, and no new name shall be added. At the beginning of
the session the officer of registration to whom such suspected list
was delivered, shall make affidavit as to the mailing of the
notices sent by him, and to whom directed, and where, and as
to the personal service upon such person, or as to the leaving of
the same at his place of residence so designated; and if any
person to whom such notice was sent, shall appear before the