LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

the ward or county shall go before the board of registry during
such sessions and make oath that he believes any specified per-
son upon such registry is not a qualified voter, such fact shall
be noted. At the end of the registration for each of these
days, the registers shall be examined, compared and made to
agree; and they shall then be signed immediately, under the
last name registered, under each letter in the same way as
hereinbefore provided.

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20. Before separating on the last day,. said board of registry
shall make out and deliver to one of their number chosen by
lot, as clerk, a list with the registered address of all those who
have been registered as qualified voters, whom either one of
the officers of registration suspects not to be qualified voters,
or against whom any voter of the ward or county may have
made complaint, as above provided. If said board of registry
shall, however, know that any person so complained of, is a
qualified voter, then such name need not be put upon the list
of suspected persons, unless required by a member of the board.
The officer of registration to whom such list has been deliv-

List of per-
sons sus-
pected to be
disqualified.

ered, shall, on or before the Friday next following, sign a no-
tice, and send the same through the mail, duly stamped, to the
address at given in the registry, of each person who is upon
such suspected list, requiring such person to appear before the
board of registry upon the Tuesday following, giving the time
of such session, and show cause why his name should not be
erased from such registers; proper blanks and postage stamps
shall be furnished for this purpose by the board of supervisors.
A similar notice shall also be served by said officer, so acting
as clerk, upon such person before the following Tuesday, and
if he cannot be found at the place designated upon said regis-
ters, the notice may be left there, if such place can be found.
Any officer of registration, or other person acting temporarily
as such as hereinafter provided, who wilfully neglects to per-
form his duty touching such scrutiny, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be imprisoned in
jail not less than thirty days, nor more than sixty days. In
case of temporary disability on the part of said officer acting
as clerk, the board of registry may appoint a temporary clerk
belonging to the same party, and administer to him the usual
oath of office, and said temporary clerk shall perform all the
duties of the office, until the disability of the regular clerk it
removed. And it shall also be the duty of each of the other
officers of registration, so far as may be in his power, to inform
himself as to all the persons whose names may be on such sus-
pected list.

Notices to be
sent.