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LAWS OF MAEYLAND.

or has been unlawfully refused registration in such election dis-

trict or election precinct, or that the name of such petitioner has

been unlawfully stricken from or incorrectly entered in the dupli-

cate registries of voters of such election district or election pre-

cinct, or that the person named in such petition has been unlaw-

fully placed on the registries of such election district or election

precinct, he or they shall order said clerk and officers of registra-

tion to enter the name of such petitioner or to enter again or to

Order
clerk to

enter correctly the name of said petitioner as a qualified and reg-

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istered voter, and his residence in the proper duplicate registries

of voters, or shall order the said clerk and officers of registration

to strike the name of the person named in the petition whom he

or they may determine to have been improperly registered, from

the proper duplicate registries of voters then in the custody of

such clerk or officers of registration; it shall be the duty of said

clerk and the said sheriff and of the said board of supervisors of

elections in the city of Baltimore, respectively to produce on the

exhibition of such order of said judge or judges by such officers

of registration, the registry of voters to which such order relates

if the same be then in his or their custody, to the end that such

entry or striking out may be so made as ordered by said judges

or judge; when any name is so entered as a qualified voter in any

registry of voters, or is so stricken from any registry of voters,

there shall be noted in such duplicate registries of voters under

the head of "remarks" a memorandum of the order of court direct-

ing the same and the date of such order, and the name and title

of the officer by whom the same was done and the date of such

entry or striking out; in every such appeal if it shall appear to

the said judges or judge upon the consideration thereof that the

officers of registration from whose decision or action such appeal

was taken acted in good faith in so deciding or acting, the costs-

of said,appeal shall be paid by the mayor and city council of Bal-

timore, if the appeal related to any election precinct in said city_r

or by the county commissioners of the county in which the elec-

tion district is situated to which the said appeal related; but if

said judges or judge shall, upon consideration of such case, be of

the opinion that said officers of registration did not act in good

faith in the matter whereof complaint is made, they or he may

adjudge that the costs of said appeal shall be paid by said officers

Costs of
appeal.

of registration; if said appeal is dismissed by said judges or judge

the cost thereof shall be paid by the petitioner, but no attorney's

appearance fee shall in any case be taxed as part of the costs of

such proceeding; exceptions may be taken to any ruling of said

judges or judge and appeal allowed to the court of appeals as in

other cases; all such appeals shall be taken within five days from

the date of the decision complained of, and shall be heard and

decided by the court of appeals as soon after the transmission of

the records as may be practicable.