WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

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and registered voters then in the custody of such

clerk or officer of registration, and shall order the

said officer of registration to strike said name from

the poll-book or list of qualified and registered

voters of such election district or election precinct

which may then be in the custody of the sheriff of

his county, or of the Board of Police Commissioners

for the city of Baltimore. It shall be the duty of

the said clerk and of the said sheriff, and of the

said Board of Police Commissioners for the city of

Baltimore respectively, to produce, on the exhibi-

tion of such order of said judge or judges by such

Produce regis-
try of voters.

officer of registration, the registry of voters and

poll-book, or the poll-books, to which such order

relates, if the same be then in his or their custody, to

the end that such entry or striking out may be so

made as ordered by said judges or judge; when any

name is so entered as a qualified voter in any regis-

try of voters or poll book or list of qualified and

registered voters, or is so stricken from any registry

of voters or poll-book or list of qualified and regis-

tered voters, there shall be noted in such registry of

voters or poll-book or list, under the head of " re-

marks," a memorandum of the order directing the

same, and the date of such order, and the name and

title of the officer by whom the same was done, and

the date of such entry or striking out. In every

such appeal, if it shall appear to the said judges or

Right of ap-

judge upon the consideration thereof that the offi-

peal.

cer of registration from whose decision or action

such appeal was taken, acted in good faith in so de-

ciding or acting, the costs of said appeal shall be

paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,

if the appeal related to any election precinct in said

city, or by the County Commissioners of the county

in which the election district is situated to which the

said appeal related; but if said judges or judge shall,

upon consideration of such case, be of the opinion

that said officer of registration did not act in good

faith in the matter whereof complaint is made, they

or he may adjudge that the costs of said appeal shall

be paid by said officer of registration. If said ap-

peal is dismissed by said judges or judge, the cost

thereof shall be paid by the petitioner, but no at-

torney's appearance fee shall in any case be taxed as

part of the costs of such proceeding.

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