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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of those persons whom said officers have stricken from the

Publica-

duplicate registries of voters delivered to said respective

tion of
List.

officers by said clerk of the court, and the other one of which

alphabetical lists shall comprise the names of the persons

whom said respective officers of registration have newly

registered as qualified voters in the respective wards of the

city of Hagerstown at their said sittings, and also the said

respective officers of registration shall cause said respective

lists to be published by hand-bills posted in such public

places as they may respectively select in their respective

wards, in not less than teu of such places in each ward of the

registration district of which such ward shall be a part.

SEC. 159 P. If any resident of any ward, wlio may become

qualified to vote in such ward after the occurrence of an

election therein subsequent to the last appointed day of the

last sitting of the officers of registration for such ward shall

Qualified

desire to be registered therein for the purpose of voting at

to Vote.

a new or special election to be held therein before the next

appointed sitting of the officers of registration for such ward,

or if any foreign born person shall become a naturalized

citizen of the United States, and of the State of Maryland,

subsequent to the last appointed day of the last sitting for

registration of the officers of registration for the ward in

which he resides, and shall desire to be registered therein

for the purpose of voting at any election to be held therein

before the next appointed sitting of the officers of registration

for such ward, or if any person sliall think himself aggrieved

by the refusal of the officers of registration of any ward at

any sitting appointed by law for the purpose of registration

of qualified voters in such ward, or for the revision and cor-

rection of the duplicate registries of qualified and registered

voters in such ward, or by striking off his name, or the name

of any other registered voter from the duplicate registries of

voters of such ward, or by misspelling his name in such

registries of voters or either of them, or by the registration

of any person in any such ward who was not entitled to be

registered therein, or by refusing to strike from the duplicate

registries of voters the name of any person who has ceased

RBight to
Appeal.

to be a qualified voter in said ward since he was registered,

he shall have the right to appeal forthwith from such decision

or action to the judges or judge of the Circuit Court for

Washington County by petition verified by his oath or affir-

mation, within one week after the day of the sitting for

revision; such petition shall fully state the matter whereof

complaint is made ; there shall be filed therewith as exhibits

certified copies of all the entries in the proper registry of

voters of such ward which relate to the subject matter of