FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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to alter, mutilate or deface any of the said registries of

voters ; the said clerk, when notified by said Board of

If Regis-

Supervisors of Election of Hagerstown, that any one or

tries of
Votes are

more of the registries of voters in the keepiug of such clerk

Missing.

of the court is or are missing, shall proceed without delay-

to make or cause to be made a fair and accurate copy or

copies, certified under his hand and the seal of his court,

of said missing registries and deliver the same to said

Board of Supervisors of Elections of Hagerstown at least

twelve hours before the opening of the polls at the election

next ensuing.

SEC. 159 T. The Board of Supervisors of Elections in the

Super-
visors to

city of Hagerstown shall on or before the second day prior

see if

to each and every election ascertain whether they have in

Registries
are in

their possession all the said registries committed to their

their
Custody.

custody ; and, if it shall appear that one or more of said

registries is or are not in their possession, they shall with-

out delay serve a written notification, accurately describing

the missing registry or registries, or the clerk of the court

having the custody of the registry of voters, or regis-

tries of voters, that said registry, or registries, is or are

not in their possession ; and said Board of Supervisors of

Elections shall receive the said missing registry, or

registries, when tendered to them by said clerk, and said

Board of Supervisors of Election shall deliver, or cause to

be delivered, on the day of each and every election, at the

polls, at or before the time of opening said polls, to the

Deliver

judges of election thereat, within their respective juris-

Duplicate
Registries

diction, the duplicate registries pertaining to the ward, or

to judges

wards, over which said judges are to preside.

of
Election

SEC. 159 U. The respective judges of election shall

Supei-

receive from the said Board of Supervisors of Elections in

visors to
deliver

the city of Hagerstown the registries of qualified and

Registries

registered voters pertaining to their respective ward and

preserve the same without alteration, mutilation or deface-

ment wliile in their possession, and shall within cue day-

after the close of their respective polls, in their respective

When to

ward or wards, return to said Board of Supervisors of

Return
Books.

Elections the said registries of qualified and registered

voters from them respectively received ; and the said Board

of Supervisors of Elections shall, upon so receiving the

same, forthwith deliver the same to the clerk of the court,

Super-

from whom the same were received. The said respective

visors to
Deliver

judges of election shall not at any election receive or deposit

Books to
Clerk.

in the ballot box the ballot of any person offering to vote

until they have found his name in the registry for their

respective wards, delivered to them for the purposes of said