LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

the office of the Board of Supervisors of Elections. There-
npon, said board of registry shall further examine him, and
shall also swear the officer of registration who has made the
inquiry, and hear him upon the question, and they shall also
have the power to examine on oath any other witness that may
appear or be produced before them in regard to the matter,
and make any further examination or inquiry that they may
deem proper ; and if, after such further examination and hear-
ing, the majority of said board are of the opinion that such
person is not a qualified voter in such precinct, they shall draw
a line in red ink through his name, and through all other
entries on the line on which said name is written, but so that
the name and said other entries shall remain legible, which
memorandum, in case of any registration, shall indicate that
the name of such person is erased from the registry ; and such
person shall not be entitled to vote unless his name be restored
as hereinafter provided. During the last hour of said session,
if any person so notified to appear at such sessions has not yet
appeared and shown cause why his name should not be erased
from the registry, the name shall be so erased in the manner
aforesaid, unless a majority of the board are satisfied of their
own knowledge, or upon competent testimony, that such per-
son is entitled to have his name retained on the registry ; and
under the head of "remarks," opposite each name erased, shall
be stated the facts as to such erasure, the date of making the
same, and the grounds and evidence on which it was made.

270 U. At the end of the last session above provided for,
the said board of registry shall compare and correct the two

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registers and make them agree, and the officers having them,
respectively, in their custody, shall then immediately, under the
last name registered under each letter of the registers, sign
their names, so that no other names can be added without dis-
covery ; all of said officers of registration shall then subscribe
at the end of each register, a certificate in substance, in the
words following : "We, the undersigned, constituting the board
of registry in precinct No. ———— in the city of Frederick, in
the county of Frederick, in the State of Maryland, do jointly
and severally certify that, at the general registration of voters
in said precinct, closed on this ———— day of ———— , there were
registered by us in said precinct, the names which in this book are
entered, and that the number of registered and qualified
voters was and is the number of —— . Signature.)
Dated ———— . During the next day the board of registry shall
return the true registers to the Board of Supervisors of Elec-

Registers to
agree and
be signed.