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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tration, respectively, they shall sit at some convenient place

in their respective wards from nine o'clock in the morning

until five o'clock in the afternoon on the first Wednesday in

June and tri-annually thereafter, having given at least five

days prior notice, by advertisement inserted in some news-

paper published in Frederick City and by hand-bills set up

Correction
of list

at public places in their respective wards, of the time and

place of sitting to correct gaid list; and at the time and

place published by them for correcting said books of reg-

istration and list, as published by them respectively ; they

shall proceed to strike from said Hats persons known or made

known to them to have died or who do not possess the requi-

site qualifications, or who will not possess said qualifications

before the election next ensuing or who are disqualified under

the second and third sections of article first of the constitu-

tion, and to register the name of every person who shall

apply to them to be registered who shall satisfy said officer

of registration that he possesses or will possess the requisite

Qualifica-
tlons

qualifications before the election next ensuing and that he

is not disqualified under the second and third sections of the

first Article of the Constitution; and also the name of every

person whom a judge of the Circuit Court for Frederick

County to which au appeal shall be taken from the decision

of any officer of registration, shall decide to be entitled to be

registered as a qualified voter; but after the first registra-

tion under this sub-title of this article the old registration

list shall be used as a basis of the new registration, and no

person whose name appears on the last registry list of any

ward, shall have his name stricken therefrom, because of his

failure to again apply for registration, and after the first

registration it shall be the duty of the officer of registration,

Sit to cor-

when giving notice as aforesaid of the time and place he will

rect.

sit to correct the registry list of his ward, to publish in the

same manner that, said notice is published a list of all names

stricken from the registry list of his ward and a separate list

of all names placed upon said list since registration of the

year before.

SEC. 166. It shall be the duty of said officers of registra-

tion of the respective wards to cause a list of the qualified

To be pub-

voters in their respective wards of the city to be published

lished

in at least one newspaper in Frederick City, and in hand-bill

form, and to have the registry list of each ward posted up in

at least five of the most public places in said ward for at

least the days before the first Wednesday in June in each

year, and said lists shall state the names of each and every

registered voter of said ward, and state opposite the name of

each, whether white or colored, and any person who shall