HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 87

who are not now registered. And likewise thereafter on the
second Monday and Tuesday in April of each year in which a
municipal election is to be held the said City Clerk shall like-
wise sit during the same hours as officer of registration for
said City for the purpose of registering the legally qualified
voters of said City.

It shall be the duty of said Clerk to enter in alphabetical
order upon the registry book the name of every person ap-
pearing before him at the times above specified, and request-
ing to be registered; provided he shall be satisfied by the
oath of said person, or otherwise, that he is a citizen of the
United States above the age of twenty-one year and has the
other qualifications required by this Act for voters of said
City, and the Clerk shall have power to administer the oath
required by this section. On the Monday following the close
of the registration the Mayor and City Council shall revise
the list, striking therefrom the names of all persons who are
dead, or who have removed from the City, or who are otherwise
disqualified as voters; and within one week thereafter they
shall publish by hand-bills to be set up at the City Hall, and
in at least two other public places in said city, a list of names
that have been stricken from the registration books, as well as
a list of the new names added thereto. Any person feeling ag-
grieved by the action of the Clerk in registering or refusing
to register the name of any person as aforesaid, or by the
Mayor and City Council in striking out or in refusing to strike
out the name of any person, as aforesaid, shall have the right of
a hearing before the Council, which shall have power to deter-
mine the matter, subject to an appeal to the Circuit Court for
Harford County. The Clerk, by handbills and by advertise-
ments inserted in two newspapers if so many be published in
said City, shall give at least two weeks' previous notice of the
Time and place of the sitting for the registration of voters, and
at the same time he shall give notice of the time and place of
the sitting of the City Council for the review of the registra-
tion lists.

The Mayor and City Council shall provide for an entire new
registration in the year 1940 and every seven years thereafter,
but no entire new registration shall be made by the Mayor and
City Council or the Clerk thereto in the year 1937, or at any
other time than as herein expressly set forth.

In the event of the sickness or temporary absence of the
Clerk, the Mayor is hereby authorized to appoint a Deputy
Clerk to discharge the duties of said officer.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency Act and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and being