FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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fied," and a line shall be drawn across his name as first

entered, but in such manner that said name shall remain

legible. If the said officers of registration shall be in doubt

after the primary examination of said applicant and of such

other evidence given upon oath or affirmation as may be

immediately accessible, or because of lack of sufficient proof

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Proof.

whether said applicant is a qualified voter they may

adjourn their determination of the said matter to any

subsequent day of their sittings, on which appointed day

the said officers of registration shall proceed to determine

the matter in question and to enter the applicant in each of

the proper duplicate registries of voters as a qualified voter,

or as disqualified ; but is expressly hereby declared and

set forth that nothing herein contained shall be construed

as authorizing any of said officers of registration to ask any

question of or concerning any applicant for registration as

a qualified voter touching any cause of disqualification not

expressly enumerated in the Constitution of the State of

Maryland.

SEC. 159 L. The officer of registration appointed for

any registration district of the city of Hagerstown shall on

Close of

First

the day succeeding the close of their first sitting in each

Sitting.

year deliver to the clerk of the Circuit Court for Wash-

ington County the duplicate registration of voters so com-

pleted, as aforesaid, of the ward of which he is the officer

of registration, and shall append to each of said registries,

before so delivering the same, a certificate, signed by himself

and verified by his oath or affirmation, that the entries in

,said registries of voters of the names and residences of the

persons shown thereby to be qualified voters were made

bona fide and according to the requirements of this article,

and that no name has been omitted from or added to said

registries of voters contrary to the requirements of this

article, and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the Circuit

Duty of

Court for Washington County to deliver one of such dupli-

Clerk.

cate registries for each ward to the Board of Supervisors of

Election in Hagerstown on or before the Saturday next pre-

ceding the election in each year.

SEC. 159 M. For the correction of the registries of voters

For Cor-

made, as aforesaid, in each ward of the city of Hagerstown,

rection.

each of said officers of registration appointed for eacli reg-

istration district in Hagerstown, shall demand from the

clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington County, before

the second Wednesday of March, eighteen hundred and

ninety -two, and before the same day in every year there-

after, the original duplicate registries of voters for the

Duplicate

wards' for which he was appointed an officer of registration, '

Registries.