ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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notices shall also be sent by mail to said persons
addressed to them at the place from which they
were registered. Should no cause, or, in the
judgment of said officers of registration, an
insufficient cause to the contrary be shown by

Notices— how
sent.

the first day of their July or September sitting,
as the case may be, it shall be the duty of said
officers of registration, during said sitting, to
strike off the names of all persons on said list ;
but if said officers of registration shall be sat-
isfied by competent sworn testimony produced
before them, or from their own knowledge or
information, that any of said persons, notwith-
standing their failure to appear in answer to

When to strike
off.

said notices, are in reality entitled to have their
names retained on said registration books, then
the names of said persons shall be so retained ;
moreover, whenever any suggestion shall be
made to them in writing, signed by any person,
that said registration books contain any speci-

Names— when
retained.

fied name or names which should be stricken
off, it shall be their duty to diligently inquire
into and investigate every such suggestion, and
to strike off every name which, upon such in-
vestigation, they shall ascertain to have been
improperly registered in the first instance, or to
be no longer entitled to remain upon the regis-
tration books, for any lawful cause, within three
days after the sittings in May, June, July and
September and the first sitting in October in the

Inquire into
and investi-
gate.

city of Baltimore, and after the May, September
and October sittings in the counties, said regis-
tration officers shall publish, as provided in said
act of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, chap-
ter twenty-two, the two alphabetical lists
required to be published by section twenty-one
of said act ; and shall also put up and retain dur-
ing their subsequent sessions, in a conspicuous
place in the room occupied by them as a registra-
tion office, two of said printed alphabetical lists ;
and the said officers of registration, within
three days after the close respectively of their

Publish alpha-
betical lists.

sittings in May, June, July and September, shall
send by mail, and through the police of Balti-
more city and the sheriff in the several counties,
notices to all persons whose names have been
stricken off at said respective sittings, notifying

Notices— how
sent.