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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

day's registry or revision of registration, one of said registers in

the city of Baltimore, or the register in the county, shall sign his

name or initials immediately under the last name registered

under each letter in each of said duplicate registries, so that no

new name can be added without discovery; and should any of

said officers of registration of the several counties of this State

he unable to sit and register the qualified voters of their respec-

tive election districts on the final day of the October sitting by

reason of sickness or other unavoidable cause, all persons quali-

fied to be registered who shall appear in person at the place of

registration on said day and who shall fail to be registered by

reason of such disability of the officer of registration, shall have

the same right of appeal as if they had been refused registration

by the officer of registration; the provisions of this section so

far as they refer to the striking off of any names from the regis-

try lists, shall not apply to the action of the officers of registra-

tion in the city of Baltimore in the years in which there is an

entire new registration in said city as hereinafter provided.

20. Said officers of registration shall within three days after the

expiration of their respective sittings make, complete and publish

two alphabetical lists, one of which alphabetical lists shall com-

prise the names of those persons whom said officers have stricken

from the duplicate registries of voters delivered to said respective

To publish

officers by said respective clerks of courts, and the other one of

alphabeti-

which alphabetical lists shall comprise the names and residences

cal lists,

of the persons whom said respective officers of registration have

newly registered as qualified voters in their respective election dis-

tricts or election precincts at their said sitting, and also the names.

of those persons whom the proper judges or judge acting under

the authority conferred by this article have or has ordered to be

registered in said election district or election precinct; the said

respective officers of registration shall cause said respective lists

to be published by hand-bills posted in such public places as they

may respectively select in their respective election districts or elec-
tion precincts, in not less than twenty of such places.

21. If any resident of any election district or election precinct

in this State who may become qualified to vote in such election

district or election precinct after the occurrence of an election

therein subsequent to the last appointed day of the last sitting

Right to

of the officers of registration for such election district or election

appeal.

precinct shall desire to be registered therein for the purpose of

voting at a new or special election to be held therein before the

next appointed sitting of the officers of registration for such elec-

tion district or election precinct, or if any foreign born person

shall become a naturalized citizen of the United States and of the

State of Maryland, subsequent to the last appointed day of the

last sitting for registration of the officers of registration for the