578 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 341

the Mayor, upon the recommendation of the Town Council,
shall appoint a qualified person to fill said vacancy.

43C. (Registration Days.) The third Monday and the third
Friday in the month of April preceding the biennial election
are hereby designated as days of registration, and the super-
visors of election shall give public notice, at least ten days
prior to said third Monday by not less than ten printed or
written notices posted at conspicuous places in each ward,
stating the place and the hours during which they will sit
for the purpose of registering qualified voters, provided said
supervisors shall sit not less than six hours on each of said
days, to be arranged by them, to best suit the public con-
venience.

43D. (Registration Books.) Each of said deputy super-
visors shall be furnished by the Town Council, prior to the
first registration under this sub-title, with a well-bound regis-
tration book in which book there shall be provided spaces
for the name of each person registering in the particular
deputy supervisor's ward, his age, color, actual place of resi-
dence and date of registration, and a space where each per-
son registering shall sign his or her name, or in which his
or her mark shall be made if he or she is unable to write.
Said books shall be returned to the Town Council within
three days after each election, and such books shall there-
upon become the official registration books of the town and
shall be delivered to the deputy supervisors of the election
the day preceding the next registration. The deputy super-
visors, acting as registration officials, shall swear each appli-
cant for registration, and if upon the examination of such
applicant, it appears to both of them that such applicant
is a qualified voter, in accordance with Section 43A hereof,
they shall each register his name in said registration books;
and all persons so registered shall be entitled to vote at
town elections so long as the names appear upon such regis-
tration books.

43E. (Challenging Registration.) The deputy super-
visors of election, acting as registration officials, for the
ward involved, on the first of said registration days,
whenever an affidavit is made before them by a regis-
tered voter of said town, that any name upon said books
is not entitled to be thereupon, shall make note of said
name and shall place in the United States mail, on said first
registration day, addressed to said voter at the place of
residence set out in said registration books, postage pre-
paid, a notice that his name has been noted for striking off