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Section 20. Before separating on the last day, eaid Board
of Registry shall make out and deliver to two of their number
of opposite politics, a list of the registered addresses of all those
who have be,en 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 officers of registration to whom such list has been deliv-
ered shall, on or before Friday next following, sign a notice and
fiend the same through the mail, duly stamped, to the address
as given in the registry of each person who is upon the sus-
pected list, requiring such person to appear before the Board
of Registry upon the Tuesday following, giving the time of
each session, and show cause why hie name should not be
erased from such registers; proper blanks and postage stamps
shall be furnished for this purpose by the Board of Super-
visors. A similar notice shall be served by said officers upon
such person before the following Tuesday, and if he cannot be
found at the place designated upon said registers 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 perform his
duty touching such scrutiny shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
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List of
suspected
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demeanor and on conviction shall be imprisoned in jail not
less than six months nor more than twelve months. In case
of temporary disability on the part of said officers 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 other officer is removed. And it
shall also be the duty of each of the other officers of registra-
tion, so far as may be in his power, to inform himself as to all
persons whose names may be on such suspected list.
Section 21. On Tuesday, three weeks preceding such
regular election, said Board of Registry shall again meet at
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the place designated, and they shall remain in session during
the hoars prescribed in section 16, for the sole purpose of
revising their registry, and no new name shall be added. At
the beginning of the session the officers of registration to whom
such suspected list was delivered shall make affidavit as to the
mailing of the notices sent by them, and to whom directed and
where, and as to the personal service upon such person or as
to the leaving of the same at his place of residence so desig-
nated ; and if any person to whom such notice was sent shall
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