ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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making a list thereof the names of all persons, whom from their

own information or from information furnished them from others,

they have good reason to believe to be proper to be stricken off ;

having made out the list, which shall be at all times open to pub-

lic inspection, it shall be their duty to address written notices to all

the persons whose names are set down thereon, except those known

to be dead, calling on said persons to appear before them during

their October sittings, to show cause why their names should not

be stricken from said registries, which notices shall be served in

Baltimore city by the police of Baltimore city, and in the coun-

ties by the sheriffs of the several counties upon all such persons

who can be found by them, and said notices shall also be sent by

mail to said persons addressed to them at the place from which

they were registered, which said notices shall be so delivered and

mailed as aforesaid not later than the Friday succeeding the Sep-

tember sitting; should no cause, or in the judgment of said

officers of registration an insufficient cause to the contrary

be shown on said Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday of

their October sitting in the counties, and on Monday and Tues-

day of their October sitting in the city of Baltimore, it shall be

the duty of said officers of registration during the Friday of said

October sitting in the counties, and during the Wednesday of

their said October sitting in Baltimore city to strike off the names

of all persons on said list, but if said officers of registration shall

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be satisfied by competent sworn testimony produced before them,

or from their own knowledge or information, that any of said

persons, notwithstanding their failure to appear in answer to said

notices are in reality entitled to have their names retained on said

registration books, then the names of said persons shall be so re-

tained; moreover, whenever any suggestion shall be made to them

in writing signed by any person, that said registration books con-

tain any specified name or names which should be stricken off,

it shall be their duty diligently to inquire into and investigate

every such suggestion and to strike off every name which upon

such investigation they shall ascertain to have been improperly

registered in the first instance or to be no longer entitled to re-

main upon the registration books for any lawful cause; it shall

in like manner be the duty of said officers of registration to send

notices in the same modes as prescribed for their September sit-

tings, to all persons whose names have been stricken off at such

October sitting, other than the names of those known to be dead,

notifying them that their names have been stricken off; which

said notices shall be delivered and mailed as aforesaid not later

than the Friday of such October sitting; in all cases when a

name is stricken off the reason shall be recorded opposite such

name in said duplicate registries, and when a name is stricken

off upon the oath of any person, the name of such person shall

be recorded opposite the name stricken off; at the end of each