FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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such petition, and the officer of registration of such ward

and the clerk of the Circuit Court shall be named in and

made defendants in said petition, such judge or judges, of

such petition and exhibits show prima facie cause of com-

plaint, shall order a summons to be issued forthwith to said

officers of registration and to said clerk, directing them to

appear and answer forthwith upon oath or affirmation, and

in person or otherwise as said judge or judges shall direct;

said officers of registration shall not be required to appear

in person upon any day appointed by this article for the

performance of their duties this article, but at such

times may appear by counsel; if the said judge or judges

after considering said petition and answer or answers, and

Hearing

hearing such testimony as may be adduced for or against said

Testi-

petition, shall determine that said petition ought to be

mony.

registered in such ward, or has been unlawfully refused

If refused;
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registration in such ward, or that the name of such petitioner

tion.

has been unlawfully stricken from, or incorrectly entered in

the duplicate registries of voters of such ward, or that the

Unlawful

person named in such petition has been unlawfully placed

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tion.

on the registries of such ward, he or they shall order said

clerk and officers of registration to enter the name of such

petitioners, or to enter again or enter correctly the name of

said petitioner as a qualified and registered voter, and his

residence in the proper duplicate registries of voters, or shall

order the said clerk and officers of registration to strike the

name of the person named in the petition whom he or they

Improp-

may determine to have been improperly registered, from the

erly
Regis-

proper duplicate registries of voters then in the custody of

tered,

such clerk or officers of registration ; it shall be the duty of

said clerk or other officer or officers thereto lawfully author-

Duty of
Clerk, &c.

ized, respectively to produce on the exhibition of such order

of said judge or judges by such officers of registration, the

registry of voters to which such order relates if the same be

then in his or their custody, to the end that such entry or

striking out may be so made as ordered by said judge or

judges; when any name is so entered as a qualified voter in

Name
Entered.

any registry of voters, or is so stricken from any registry

of voters there shall be noted in such duplicate registries

of voters under the head of "remarks," a memorandum of

the order of court directory, the same aud the date of such

order, and the name and title of the officer by whom the same

was done and the date of such entry or striking out, in every

such appeal if it shall appear to the said judge or judges

Appeal..

upon the consideration thereof tliat the officers of registration

from whose decision or action such appeal was taken acted

in good faith in so deciding or acting. The cost of said

appeal shall be paid by the mayor and council of Hagers-