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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

town; but if said judge or judges shall upon consideration

of such case, be of the opinion that said officers of registration

did not act in good faith in the matter whereof complaint is

made, they or he may adjudged that the costs of said

appeal shall be paid by said officers of registration ; if said

appeal is dismissed by said judge or judges the cost thereof

shall be paid by the petitioner, but no attorney's appearance

fee shall in any case be taxed as part of the costs of such

Excep-
tions

proceeding ; exceptions may be taken to any ruling of said

Taken.

judge or judges, and appeal allowed to the Court of Appeals

as in other cases; all such appeals shall be taken within five

days from the date of the decision complained of, and shall

be lieard and decided by the Court of Appeals as soon after

the transmission of the records as may be practicable.

New or

SEC. 159 Q. For the purposes of any new or special

Special
Election

. election to be held in the city of Hagerstown in any year

the registries of voters in the several wards which were

returned to the clerk of the court, subsequent to the sitting

of the respective officers of registration, subject to such

corrections as may be made in them respectively by the

order of the proper judge or judges, as hereinbefore pro-

vided, shall be the registries of voters in the several wards

for the purpose of said new or special election.

SEC. 159 R. No officer of registration appointed under

the 'provisions of this article shall register any name in any

registry of voters of which he may have the custody as

Time to
Register

officer of registration, or strike any name from any such

and

registry of voters, or make any other entry in any such

' Strike
from

registry of voters, except upon a day appointed by this

Registry

article for a public sitting of such officers of registration,

nor except between the hours appointed by this article for

his sittings on such day, except by or under the order of

the proper judge or judges, as in this article provided.

SEC. 159 S. The clerk of the Circuit for Washington

County and each of the respective officers of registration

Clerk and

appointed under this article, and the Board of Supervisors

Super-
visors to

of Hagerstown shall carefully and safely keep all books

Keep
Books

named or referred to in this article which may come into

his or their custody under the provisions of this article

during the times appointed for his or their custody of such

books; he or they shall at all times permit examinations

of the same in his or their presence or in the presence of

one or more of his or their deputies, specially authorized

for that purpose and not otherwise ; he or they shall not,

unless duly authorized by the order of the proper judge or

judges, alter, mutilate or deface, or suffer any other persou