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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

official title of all entries in said registries relating to the regis-

tration of said person; if such person should apply for the same

alleging that he has acquired a residence elsewhere in this State,

and that he desires the same for the purpose of heing registered

in the election precinct or election district in which he has ac-

quired a new residence; they shall strike from the duplicate reg-

istries of voters the name of such person and shall give to such

person a certificate certified by their signature and official title of

the particulars of his said former registration from which his

name has been so stricken; said certificate shall contain all the

entries relating to the said former registration of such person,

and shall show that the name of such person has been stricken

from said duplicate registries of voters of the election precinct or
election district in which he was formerly registered when any

person applying for registration at any sitting of officers of reg-

istration appointed under the provisions of this article, shall be

found upon proper inquiry to have been previously registered

within the State under the provisions of this article the officers

of registration to whom such application is made before register-

ing such person, shall demand and receive from him a certificate

of his last previous registration made by the officers of registra-

tion, or by the clerk of the court in whose custody the duplicate

registries of voters may then be, in which such applicant was

formerly registered, showing the entries relating to said person

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in such former registration, and showing that the name of such

proceed.

person has been stricken from the duplicate registries of voters

in the election precinct or election district in which he was last

before recorded as a qualified and registered voter; such certi-

ficate of previous registration shall be cancelled by the officers of

registration who shall register such person anew; .said officers of

registration when sitting at their respective September and Octo-

ber sittings, shall register as provided in section fourteen of this

article all qualified voters who shall present themselves for regis-

tration; and in addition to said work of registration they shall

carefully revise and scrutinize the said registries of voters so re-

ceived by them from said clerks of the several circuit courts and

of the superior court of Baltimore city to the end that all errors

therein shall be corrected, and the names of all voters entered

therein who shall have died or become for any reason disqualified,

or who for any cause shall have ceased to be entitled to remain on

said registration books shall be stricken off; in order that the

work of striking as from the registries the names of all dead and

disqualified persons and of all persons erroneously or improperly
placed thereon may be accurately and thoroughly accomplished

it shall be the duty of said several officers of registration on the

first and second day of their September sittings to go carefully

over the whole list of names upon said registries in their respec-

tive precincts and election districts, and to note for striking and