328 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of officers of registration appointed under the provisions of
this article, shall be found upon proper inquiry to have
been previously registered within the State, under the pro-
visions of this article, the officers of registration to whom
such application is made, before registering such person,
shall demand and receive from him a certificate of his last
previous registration, made by the officers of registration,
or by the cleric of the court, in whose custody the duplicate
registries of voters may then be, in which such applicant
was formerly registered, showing the entries relating to
said person in such former registration, and showing that
the name of such person has been stricken from the dupli-
cate registries of voters in the election precinct, or election
district, in which he was last before recorded as a qualified
and registered voter; such certificate of previous regis-
tration shall be cancelled by the officers of registration
who shall register such person anew, said officers of regis-
tration when sitting at their respective September and
October sittings, shall register as provided in section four-
teen of this article, all qualified voters wlio shall present
themselves for registration, and in addition to said work of
registration, they shall carefully revise and scrutinize the
said registries of voters so received by them from paid clerks
of the several Circuit Courts, and of the Superior Court of
Baltimore City, to the end that all errors therein shall be
corrected, and the names of all the voters entered therein
who shall have died or become for any reason disqualified,
or who for any Cause shall have ceased to be entitled to re-
main on said registration books, shall be stricken off. In
order that the work of striking off from the registries, the
names of all dead and disqualified persons, and of all per-
sons erroneously, or improperly placed thereon, may be
accurately and thoroughly accomplished, it shall be the
duty of several officers of registration, on the first and
second day of their September sittings, to go carefully over
the whole list of names upon said registries in their
respective precincts and election districts, and to note
for striking and making a list thereof the names of all
persons whom from their own information, or from infor-
mation 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 public
inspection, it shall be their duty to address written
notices to all the persons whose names are set down thereon,
execept th'ose 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