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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

any ward of the city of Baltimore shall on the days succeeding

the close of their October sitting in each year, deliver to the clerk

of the superior court of Baltimore city the duplicate registries of

voters so completed as aforesaid of each of the election precincts

of which they are officers of registration, and shall append to

each of said registries before so delivering the same a certificate

signed by themselves and verified by their respective oaths or

affirmations, that the entries in said registries of voters of the

names and residences of the persons shown thereby to be quali-

fied voters, were made bona fide and according to the require-

ments of this article, and that no name has been omitted from or

added to said registries of voters contrary to the requirements of

this article; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the superior

court of Baltimore city to deliver one of such duplicate registries
for each of said precincts to the hoard of supervisors of elections

in Baltimore city on or before the Saturday next preceding the

election in each year.

17. Each officer of registration appointed for any election dis-

trict in any county of this State, shall on the second day after

the close of his October revision in each year deliver to the clerk

of the circuit court for his county the duplicate registries of

voters of the election district, or of each election precinct in the

election district of which he is an officer of registration, and shall

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duplicates

append to each of said registries before so delivering the same a
certificate signed by himself and verified by his oath or affirm-

ation that the entries in said registries of voters of the names and

residences of the persons shown thereby to be qualified voters

were made bona fide according to the requirements of this article,

and that no name has been omitted from or added to said reg-

istries of voters contrary to the requirements of this article; and

it shall be the duty of the said clerk of the said circuit court for

said county to deliver one of said duplicate registries of each of

said election districts so delivered to him to the sheriff of his said

county on the Saturday next preceding the November election in

each year.

18. For the correction of the registries of voters made as afore-

said in each election district of a county in this State, each of

said officers of registration appointed for each election district in

this State shall demand from the clerk of the circuit court for

his county before the third Monday of September, eighteen hun-

dred and ninety, and before the same day in every year thereafter,

in the counties the original duplicate registries of voters for the

election district for which he was appointed an officer of regis-

tration, or original duplicate registries of voters for the election

precincts of the election district for which he was so appointed,

if such election district is so divided, which respective duplicate

registries it shall be the duty of the said respective clerks to de-