1010 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

shall be furnished for this purpose by the board of supervisors.
A similar notice shall also be served by said officers 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 six
months nor more than twelve months. In case of temporary
disability on the part of said officers, 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 tempo-
rary clerk shall perform all the duties of the office until the
disability of the other officer is removed. And it shall also
be the duty of each of the other officers of registration, so far
as may be in his power, to inform himself as to all persons
whose names may be on such suspected list.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 21. 1902, ch. 133.

22. On Tuesday three weeks preceding such regular elec-
tion said board of registry shall again meet at the place
designated and they shall remain in session during the hours
prescribed in section 17 for the sole purpose of revising their
registry, and no new name shall be added. At the beginning
of the session the officers of registration to whom such sus-
pected list was delivered shall make affidavit as to the mailing
of the notices sent by them, 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 board of registry during that session he shall make
and sign an affidavit in substance as follows: "I do solemnly
swear that I am a citizen of the United States and that I have
resided in the ———— precinct of the ———— word in the city
of ———— (or ————district of ———— county), in the State
of Maryland, from the ———— day of ———— up to the ————
day of ————, 19——, and that I have not since acquired a
legal residence giving me the right to vote elsewhere." If it
is charged that he has been convicted of any infamous crime
and has not been pardoned he shall further make oath that he
has never been so convicted, or if convicted, that he was
pardoned at a time stated. This affidavit shall be signed and
sworn to before one of such board of registry and it shall be