836 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

consent and approval of the Commissioners, shall appoint two
judges to conduct the same, who shall keep the polls open from
9 A. M. to 2 P. M., which shall be the hours for sitting for the
register of voters on the days of registration in 1910, and the
day of annual registration and revision thereafter; and on the
first Monday in April, in the year 1910, the Burgess, with the
consent and approval of the Board of Commissioners, shall
appoint a register of voters for the said town, who shall sit on
the 3d and 4th Tuesdays of April in said year to register
the voters of the said town, and notice shall be given of said
sittings by the said Burgess by publication in some newspaper
published in said town, or by handbills, of the time and place
of said sittings, ten days prior to the day of the first sitting,
and all persons qualified as such who shall apply shall be by
him registered in a book to be furnished for that purpose, and
the said register shall have the same powers and authority
to administer an oath and examine those who apply for regis-
tration, and to hear evidence relating to the same as the
register of voters of this State now have, and shall receive
the same compensation; and on close of the day of the last
sitting he shall sign his name in said book under each letter
immediately under the last name registered at said sitting,
and on the following day shall return the said register book
to the president of the Board of Commissioners, and any voter
refused registration shall have the same right of appeal now
allowed from registers of voters of this State; and on the
third Tuesday in April annually thereafter the register of
voters appointed, as above set forth, shall sit to register new
voters who may apply, and be properly qualified, and to revise
the registration list of the said town, and notice of the said
sitting shall be given by the Burgess ten days before the same,
and the president of the Board of Commissioners shall de-
liver the registration book in his charge to the said register
eight days before said sitting, and the register shall go over
the said book and make out a list from his own knowledge or
on information from any citizen of the town, of those whose
names are on the said book who are dead or shall have re-
moved from the said town, or shall otherwise become disquali-
fied, and shall five days before said sitting mail a notice at the
postoffice of said town to each of said voters on said list thus
made out, excepting those who are dead, warning them to be
and appear before him at said sitting, and if they fail to ap-
pear at said sitting and he is satisfied by such information that
he has received they are not qualified to vote at the next cor-
poration election, or if they appear and, after a hearing of
proper evidence, he is satisfied they are not qualified to vote
at the next corporation election, he shall strike their names