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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 127.

Registry
books to be
furnished.

141 G. Immediately after their appointment the said Supervi-
sors of Election shall furnish to the city clerk for the purpose
of registration, registry books for said city, which it shall be the
duty of said clerk to protect and keep safe ; the registry books
shall be prepared substantially in the same form as the registry
books of Harford county are now by law required to be
prepared.

141 H. On the third and fourth Mondays and Tuesdays in
April, and on the first Monday and Tuesday in May, in the

New
registration.

year nineteen hundred and two, the city clerk shall sit at the
Council Chamber between the hours of nine o'clock A. M.
and seven o'clock P. M. for the purpose of a new and general
registration of the legally qualified voters of the city of Havre
de Grace. And likewise thereafter on the second Monday
and Tuesday of April in each year in which a municipal elec-
tion is to be held, the said city clerk shall likewise sit during
the same hours as officer of registration 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 appearing
before him at the times above specified and requesting to be
registered ; provided he shall be satisfied by the oath of said
person, or otherwise, that he is a citizen of the Untied 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 closing of

List
to be revised.

the registration the Mayor and City Council shall revise
the list, striking therefrom the names of all persons
who are dead, or who have removed 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 registra-
tion 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 refusing to register the name of any person as
aforesaid, or by the Mayor, and City Council in striking out or
in refusing 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 the matter, subject to an appeal

Notice to be
given.

to the Circuit Court for Harford County. The clerk, by
handbills and by advertisement inserted in two of the news-
papers, 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