220. LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 129

entitled to be thereon, shall note said name, and shall by
placing in the United States mail addressed to said voter
to the place of residence set out in said registration books
with sufficient postage prepaid, a notice that his name has
been noted for striking off, and that they will on the day
of registration next thereafter act upon his right to re-
main upon said books as a qualified voter. The said Super-
visors of Election sitting as Registration Officials may also
on said first registration day take such action with regard
to any name on their own motion. On the second of said
registration days, the said Supervisors of Election sitting
as Registration Officials shall pass upon all the names
noted as above set out, and after hearing such evidence as
may be presented before them, shall determine whether
such name shall remain upon said books, or shall be
stricken off, and in case they shall decide that any of such
names shall be stricken off, they shall draw a line in red
ink through such names on the registration books, and shall
write in red ink at the end of said line the words "stricken
off" and the date and the party whose name is thus
stricken off shall not be entitled to vote in said town until
his name be replaced thereon, as hereinafter provided.

Any person feeling aggrieved at the action of the Super-
visors of Election acting as Registration Officials in refus-
ing to register him, or in striking off the books his name,
or in unlawfully registering some other person, shall have
the right of appeal to the Circuit Court for Kent County
at any time within five days, exclusive of Sundays and legal
holidays, from the action of the officials by which he is
aggrieved, which appeal shall be, by way of petition for
review, addressed to said court and naming as defendants
the Registration Officials and the party whose name the
petitioner desires to have stricken from the books, if it be
such a case, and said court shall as soon as possible set
said case for hearing and notify the defendants and re-
quire the presence at such hearing of the Registration Of-
ficials aforesaid, and if the determination of said court
upon such question is different from the determination
thereof made by the Registration Officials, it shall direct
such officials to correct their records in accordance with
its order, which said Registration Officials shall forth-
with do.

Any person desiring to have his name placed upon the
official ballot at the time of election for Mayor or Council-
man, shall at least fifteen days prior to the election file
with the Supervisors of Election, a petition seating forth