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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

which respective duplicate registries it shall be the duty of

the said clerk to deliver forthwith to the said respective

officers of registration who are applicants therefor, upon

the proper receipt of said respective officers of registration.

SEC. 159 N. Said officers of registration, when sitting at

their respective sittings, in the year eighteen hundred and

ninety-two and in each year thereafter, as in this article

provided for the purposes in this article before mentioned,

shall proceed in all particulars in relation to persons appli -

ing to them to be registered in the manner directed by sec-

tion 159 K of this article ; at each of said sittings they

shall strike from each of the duplicate registries of voters of

the wards of which they are in charge; as officers of regis-

tration, the names of all persons in such wards who are

personally known to them, or who shall be satisfactorily

proved to them by the oath or affirmation of a competent

witness or competent witnesses, to be then dead or to have

removed from the ward in which their names are registered

(subject, however, to the provisions of section 159 B of this

Names
Stricken

article), or who may have become or may be disqualified,

from
List.

under the provisions of the second or third sections of the

first article of the Constitution of this State, and such

names shall be so stricken from such duplicate registries in

such manner as to remain legible ; they shall note on any

of said registries from which any name was so stricken,

under the head of "remarks," in each of said cases, the

cause of striking off the name of each of said persons ; and

they shall briefly state whether the same was done upon

their own knowledge, or upon the evidence of others ; and

if it was done on the evidence of others, they shall state the

names and addresses of such witnesses ; they shall deliver

to any person applying for the same, whose name may ap-

pear in the registries of voters of any ward, of which they

may be officers of registration, a copy certified by their sig-

nature and official title of all entries in said registries

relating \o the registration of said person ; if such person

should apply for the same, alleging that he has acquired a

residence elsewhere iu the city of Hagerstown, and that

he desires the same for the purpose of being registered in

the ward in which he has acquired a new residence. They

shall strike from the duplicate registries of voters the

name of such person, and shall give to such person a cer-

Certificate

tificate, certified by their signature and official title, of the

particulars of his said former registration from which his

name has been so stricken ; said certificate shall contain all

the entries relating to the said former registration of such

person and shall show that the name of such person has