ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 725

election district or election precinct in which he resides, and shall
desire to be registered therein for the purpose of voting at any
election to be held therein before the next appointed sitting of the
officers of registration for such election district or election pre-
cinct, or if any person shall think himself aggrieved by the refusal
of the officers of registration of any election district or election
precinct at any sitting appointed by law for the purpose of regis-
tration of qualified voters in such election district or election pre-
cinct, or for the revision and correction of the duplicate registries
of qualified and registered voters in such election district or elec-
tion precinct, or by the striking off his name or the name of any
other registered voter from the duplicate registries of voters of
such election district or election precinct, or by misspelling his
name in such registries of voters or either of them, or by the reg-
istration of any person in any such election district or election
precinct who was not entitled to be registered therein, or by re-
fusing to strike from the duplicate registries of voters the name
of any person who has ceased to be a qualified voter in said dis-
trict or precinct since he was registered he shall have the right
to appeal forthwith from such decision or action to the judges or
judge of the circuit court for the county in which such election
district or election precinct is situated in which such matter of
complaint arose, or to one of the judges of the supreme bench of
Baltimore city if such election precinct in which such matter of
complaint arose is situated in said city, by petition verified by his
oath or affirmation, within one week after the final day of the
October sitting for revision; such petition shall fully state the
matter whereof complaint is made; there shall be filed therewith
as exhibits certified copies of all the entries in the proper registry
of voters of such election district or election precinct which relate
to the subject-matter of such petition, and the officers of registra-
tion of such election district or election precinct, and the clerk
of the circuit court for the county in which such election district
or election precinct is situated, or the clerk of the superior court .
of Baltimore city, if such election precinct is situated in said city,
shall be named in and made defendants in said petition; such
judges or judge, if such petition and exhibits show prima facie
cause of complaint, shall order a summons to be issued forthwith
to said officers of registration and to said clerk directing them to
appear and answer forthwith upon oath or affirmation and in per-
son or otherwise'as said judges or judge may direct; said officers
of registration shall not be required to appear in person upon any
day appointed by this article for the performance of their duties
under this article, but at such times may appear by counsel; if
the said judge or judges, after considering said petition and ans-
wer or answers and hearing such testimony as may be adduced
or or against said petition, shall determine that said petitioners
get to be registered in such election district or election precinct