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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

officer of registration, which respective registries

and lists or poll- books, it shall be the duty of the

said respective clerks to deliver forthwith to the said

respective proper officers of registration, who are

applicants therefor, upon the proper receipt of said

respective officers of registration.

SEC. 2C. And be it enacted. That each officer of

registration, when sitting at his respective Septem-

ber and October sittings, in the year eighteen hun-

dred and eighty-two, and in each year thereafter,

How to pro-

as is in this act provided for the purposes in this act

ceed.

before mentioned, shall proceed in all particulars

in relation to persons applying to him to be regis-

tered, in the manner directed by the fifteenth sec-

tion of this act, at each of said sittings he shall

strike from the registries or register cf voters, and

from the lists or list of qualified and registered

voters of the election district or election precincts

Who to strike

of which he is in charge as an officer of registra-

off.

tion, the names of all persons in such election dis-

trict who are personally known to him, or who shall

be satisfactorily proved to him by the oath or affir-

mation of a competent witness or of competent

witnesses, to be then dead, or to have removed from

the election precinct or election district in which

their names are registered, and to have acquired a

residence elsewhere, or who may have become, or

may be disqualified under the provisions of the se-

cond or third sections of the first article of the Con-

stitution of this State, such names shall be so stricken

from such registries or lists in such manner as to re-

Note under
head of "re-

main legible. Be shall note on any of said regis-

marks."

tries or lists of voters from which any name was eo

stricken, under the head of " remarks," in each of

said cases, the cause of striking off the name of

each of said persons, and ho shall briefly state

whether the same was done upon his own knowl-

edge or upon the evidence of others; and if it was

done on the evidence of others he shall state the

names and addresses of such witnesses. Be shall

deliver to any person applying for the same, whose

name may appear on the registry of voters or list of

qualified and registered voters of any election pre-

Deliver certi-

cinct or election district of which he may be the of-

fied copy.

ficer of registration, a copy certified by his signa-

ture and official title, of all entries in said registry