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the vital statistics of any city or county to fur-
nish to the officer of registration of the several
precincts of Baltimore city, or of the election dis-
tricts of the several counties, as the case may be,
by the second Monday of May in each year, a
report of the names and the previous residence
of all male persons over the age of twenty-one
years who have died since the close of the Octo-
ber sitting of the preceding year, and to furnish
like monthly report during the months of May,
June, July, August and September, and up to the
close of the October sitting, to the end that said
names may be promptly stricken from the regis-
tration books.
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That in case

Furnish re-
port of names.

any error should be found in any of the poll books
delivered to the judges of election, in the name
or address of any voter, as the same are set down
upon the registration books, a copy from the
registration books, duly certified by the clerk of
the circuit court for the county, or the superior
court of Baltimore city, as the case maybe, shall
be accepted by the judges of election as a con-
clusive correction of said error, and the. voter
presenting said certificate shall be entitled to
vote thereon, notwithstanding such error on the
poll books, precisely as if said error had not been

Errors— how
corrected.

made, and it shall be the duty of the said clerks
respectively, to issue said certificates free of
charge to the parties applying therefor, and the
cost thereof shall be paid to said clerk by the
county commissioners, or the mayor and the city
council of Baltimore, as the case may be ; and it
shall be the duty of the said clerk to keep his
office open on the day of election from the hour
of nine A. M. to the hour of five P. M., for the
purpose of issuing such certificates to those
voters who may apply for them.
SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That in the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and bien-

Cost— how
paid.

nially thereafter, there shall be in the city of
Baltimore, in the several precincts of the several
wards thereof, an entire new general registra-
tion of the voters thereof. And for the purpose
of making said new general registration, the
registers of said several precincts, hereinbefore
provided for, shall sit in their several and re-

New general
registration.