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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

hearing of any such petition and appeal allowed to the Court
of Appeals, as in other cases ; all such appeals shall be taken
within five days from the date of the decision complained of,
and shall be heard and decided by the Court of Appeals as soon
after the transmission of the record as may be practicable.

INTERMEDIATE REGISTRATION.

Revision of
registration

270 w. Before every April election held in the said city
the general registration hereinbefore, provided for shall be
revised by the board of registry of each precinct where such
election is 'to be held ; and for that purpose the board of regis-
try shall meet on the Tuesdays, respectively, tive and four
weeks preceding the regular April election, and shall hold a
session from 8 o'clock A. M. to 8 o'clock P. M., and
names may be added on the registers in the same way,
upon sworn application as in the case of a general registration,
and all the same forms and requirements shall be observed.
If it shall appear that any applicant had been upon the
registry in any other precinct of said city at any time since
the beginning of the last general registration for such precinct,
his name shall not be added to the registry where application
is made until he produces a certificate of removal given him

Certificate of
removal.

by the board of registry, for such other precincts, which cer-
tificate shall be in substance as follows : ———— precinct,
Frederick city. This is to certify, that the name of ———— , here-
tofore residing at ———— , in this precinct, has been stricken from
the registry of the precinct and the proper erasure made, and
that upon the registers of this precinct the following entries
appear with reference to him. Name ———— , age ———— ,
color ———— , residence ———— , nativity ———— , time of resi-
dence in precinct ———— , time of residence in city ———— ,
time of residence in State ———— , naturalized ———— , date of
papers ———— , court ———— , qualiiied voter ———— , date of
application ———— , ———— .
BOARD OF REGISTRY.
The foregoing certificate shall be granted by the board of
registry when in session, or by the Board of Supervisors of
Elections prior to said session of the board of registry, under
the following regulations — that is to say : If at the time appli-
cation for said removal certificate is made, the name of the
voter is already erased from the registry, then it shall be the
duty of the said Board of Supervisors, or the said board of
registry to grant the certificate to the voter himself or to any
other person making application therefor. But if at the time
such application is made the name of the voter be still upon