FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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endorse upon the back and write at the head of each reg-

Officer of
Regis-

istry of voters delivered to him, as aforesaid, the number

tration.

of the ward of which such books may be respectively the

registry of voters ; and shall sit for the purpose of ascer-

taining and registering in the said two duplicate registries

of voters of each of the wards of which tliey may be officers

of registration, at some place to be selected by him as con-

venient as possible to all residents of said Avards for three

successive days in March in each year ; said sittings to begin

Sittings of
Registrar

on the first Monday in March. They shall also sit on the

second Wednesday after the first Monday in March for

hearing applications for reinstatement by persons whose

name shall have been stricken off; the said respective

officers of registration shall sit at said several sittings with

open doors from nine o'clock a. in. to nine o'clock p. m. on

each day of their sessions, and their proceedings while so

sitting shall be public and open to free inspection without

any obstruction whatever.

SEC. 159 J. The several officers of registration shall give

in each year a collective notice signed by them of their said

Notice.

respective sittings to be held in said year under the pro-

visions of this article, and of the places of sitting in each

ward, and of the times at which each of said respective

sittings shall take place ; said notice shall be given by said

officers of registration five days before the first day of their

respective sittings, by publication in two newspapers pub-

Publica-
tion.

lished in Hagerstown, of opposite political opinions, and

by hand bills set up in such public places in each registra-

tration district, as each of said officers of registration shall

select in their respective district.

SEC. 159 K. The said respective officers of registration

to whom, when sitting at any time appointed by this

article, and between the hours appointed by this article for

the registration of qualified voters in their proper registries

Regis-
tration.

of voters, or for the revision of their registry or registries

of voters, an application is made by any person personally

appearing before such officers of registration that his name

shall be registered /as a qualified voter in any ward of

which they are respectively officers of registration, shall

thereupon record in its proper column in each of the proper

duplicate registries of voters for the wards of which they

arc respectively officers of registration, and in which the

person applying to be registered may have his legal resi-

dence, in the proper alphabetical place of the surname of

the applicant; first, the exact name of such person, record-

ing the surname and the first Christian name of the said

applicant in full ; second, the color of the applicant ; third,