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canvassers of the city, the Circuit Court for Frederick County
may, by order, require said board to correct such errors or
show cause why such corrections should not be made ; and in
event of the failure of the said board to make such correction
or show cause aforesaid, said Court may compel said board, by
a writ of mandamus, to correct such errors, and if said board
of canvassers shall have made its determination and dissolved,
said Court may compel it to reconvene for the purpose of mak-
ing snch corrections. For the purpose of making snch correc-
tions as the Court shall order, the meeting of the board of can-
vassers shall be deemed a continuation of its regular session,
and the statements and certificates shall be made and tiled as
the Court shall direct, and, so far as the same shall vary from
the original statements and certificates, the statements and cer-
tificates made under the order of Court shall stand in lieu
thereof, and shall in all cases have the same effect as if such
corrected statements had been a part of the original statement
required by law. The practice in said cases shall be as in man-
damus proceedings, and the Court shall determine the time for
the speedy hearing thereof, in its discretion ; and for the pur-
pose of service of papers and other proceedings the board of
canvassers, as organized and existing at the time of making
the original canvass, shall be deemed a continuing board.
There shall be the same right of appeal as in other mandamus
cases, but such appeal 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 possible, and the testimony taken in such cases
shall be sent up to the Court of Appeals as part of the record,
OFFENSES.
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Errors made
by boards of
canvassers.
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270 vvv. If at any general registration of voters or at any
meeting of a board of registry held for such purpose or for
revision thereof, as provided in this article, any person shall
falsely personate a voter or other person, and register or
attempt, or offer to register in the name of such voter or other
person ; or if any person shall register or attempt, or make
application to register in or under the name of any other per-
son, or in or under any false, assumed or fictitious name, or in
or under any name not his own ; or shall register in two elec-
tion precincts ; or, having registered in one precinct, shall
attempt or offer to register in another ; or shall fraudulently
register or attempt, or offer to register in any election precinct,
not having a legal right to register therein ; or shall knowingly
or wilfully do any unlawful act to secure registration for him-
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Unlawfully
registering,
etc.
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