ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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liver forthwith to the said respective officers of registration who

are applicants therefor upon the proper receipt of said respective

officers of registration; for the same purpose the board of super-

visors of elections in Baltimore city shall demand from the clerk

To demand

of the superior court before the third Monday of September,

original

eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and each alternate year there-

registratries

after, the original duplicate registries of voters of each election

precinct in the city of Baltimore, which respective registries it

shall in like manner be the duty of said .clerk of the superior

court to deliver to said board of supervisors of elections in Bal-

timore city.

19. Said officers of registration when sitting at their respective

sittings in the year eighteen hundred and ninety and in each year

thereafter in the counties, and in the year eighteen hundred and

ninety-one and each alternate year thereafter in the city of Bal-

timore as in this article provided for the purposes in this article

before mentioned, shall proceed in all particulars in relation to

persons applying to them to be registered in the manner directed

by section fourteen of this article; at each of said sittings they

shall strike from each of the duplicate registries of voters of the

election district or election precincts of which they are in charge

as officers of registration, the names of all persons in such elec-

tion district who are personally known to them, or who shall be

satisfactorily proved to them by the oath or affirmation of a com-

petent witness or competent witnesses to be then dead or to have

How to

removed from the election precinct or election district in which

proceed.

their names are registered, or who have left the State without

making, acknowledging and recording the affidavit prescribed in

section fourteen of this article, or who having made such affidavit

shall have failed to return to this State as in said section fourteen

provided, or who after having made such affidavit shall have

failed to return as in said section fourteen prescribed, or who

may have become or may be disqualified under the provisions of

the second or third sections of the first article of the constitution

of this State, and such names shall be so stricken from such dupli-

cate registries in such manner as to remain legible; they shall

note on any of said registries from which any name was so

stricken under the head of "remarks," in each of said cases the

cause of striking off the name of each of said persons; and they

shall briefly state whether the same was done upon their own

knowledge or upon the evidence of others; and if it was done on

the evidence of others, they shall state the names and addresses:

of such witnesses; they shall deliver to any person applying for

the same whose name may appear on the registries of voters of

any election precinct or election district of which they may be

officers of registration a copy certified by their signature and

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