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LAW6 OF MARYLAND.

voters and poll books and the registration of
qualified voters.
SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That said

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officers of registration, when sitting at their
respective May, June, July and September sit-
tings, and the first sitting in October, shall reg-
ister as provided in the said act of eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-two, chapter twenty-two, all
qualified voters who shall present themselves for
registration ; and in addition to said work of reg-
istration they shall carefully revise and scruti-
nize the said registries of voters so received by
them from said clerks of the several circuit
courts and of the superior court of Baltimore
city, to the end that all errors therein shall be

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corrected ; and the names of all voters entered
therein who shall have died or become for any
reason disqualified, or who for any cause shall
have ceased to be entitled to remain on said
registration books, shall be stricken off. In
order that the work of striking off from the reg-
istries the names of all dead and disqualified
persons, and of all persons erroneously or im-
properly placed thereon, may be thoroughly and
accurately accomplished, it shall be the duty of

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said several officers of registration at their
May sitting to go carefully over the whole list
of names upon said registries in their respective
precincts and election districts, and to note for
striking off the names of all persons whom from
their own information, or from information fur-
nished to them from others, they have good

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reason to believe to be proper to be stricken off.
Having made out this list, which shall be at all
times open to public inspection, it shall be their
duty, to address written notices to all the per-
sons whose names are set down thereon, except
those known to be dead, calling on said persons
to appear before them on or before the first day
of July sitting in the city of Baltimore, and the
first day of the September sitting in the counties,
to show cause why their names should not be
stricken from said registries, which notices
shall be served in Baltimore city by the police
of Baltimore city, and in the counties by the
sheriff of the several counties, upon all of such
persons who can be found by them, and said