ART. 33] REGISTRATION. 1011

preserved and filed in the office of the said board of super-
visors of elections. Thereupon said board of registry shall
further examine him and shall also swear the officer of regis-
tration who has made the inquiry and hear him upon the
question, and they shall also have the power to examine on
oath any other witness that may appear or be produced before
them in regard to the matter and make any further examina-
tion or inquiry that they may deem proper; and if after such
further examination and hearing the majority of said board are
of the opinion that such person is not a qualified voter in such
precinct they shall draw a line in red ink, through his name
and through all other entries on the line on which said name
is written, but so that the name and said other entries shall
remain legible, which memorandum in case of any registration
shall indicate that the name of such person is erased from the
registry and such person shall not be entitled to vote unless
his name is restored as hereinafter provided. During the last
hour of said session if any person so notified to appear at such
session has not yet appeared and shown cause why his name
should not be erased from the registry the name shall be so
erased in the manner aforesaid, unless a majority of the board
are satisfied of their own knowledge or upon competent testi-
mony that such person is entitled to have his name retained
on the registry, and under the head of "Remarks," opposite
each name erased, shall be stated the facts as to such erasure,
the date of the making the same and the grounds and evidence
on which it is made.
Summerson v. Schilling, 94 Md. 590.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 22.

23. At the end of the last session above provided for, the
said board of registry shall compare and correct the two regis-
ters and make them agree, and the officers having them
respectively, in their custody, shall then immediately under
the last name registered under each letter of the registers sign
their names, so that no other names can be added without dis-
covery; all of said officers of registration shall then subscribe,
at the end of each register, a certificate in substance, in the
words following : "We, the undersigned, constituting the board
of registry in precinct or district of ———— county, (or in
———— precinct of the ———— ward of the city of————), in
the State of Maryland, do jointly and severally certify that, at
the general registration of voters in said precinct, closed on
this ———— day of ——— there were registered by us, in said