ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 119

which a municipal election is to be held the said City Clerk
shall likewise sit during the same hours as officer of reg-
istration 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 re-
questing 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 years and
has the property and 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 re-
moved from the City, or who are otherwise disqualified as
voters; and within one week thereafter they shall publish
by handbills 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
aggrieved by the action of the Clerk in registering or re-
fusing to register the name of any person as aforesaid, or
by the Mayor and City Council in striking out or in refus-
ing 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 determine matter, subject to an appeal to
the Circuit Court for Harford County. The Clerk, by hand-
bills and by advertisement 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 registration 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 (1933) or at any other time than as herein ex-
pressly 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 law and necessary for