PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1665

wards of which they were in charge as officers of registration,
the names of all persons in such wards who are personally
known to them, or who shall be satisfactorily proved to them
by the oath or affirmation of a competent witness or com-
petent witnesses, to be then dead or to have removed
from the ward in which their names are registered
(subject however, to the provisions of Section 159-B of this
Article) or who may have become or may be disqualified under
the provisions of the second or third Sections of the first Ar-
ticle of the Constitution of this State, and such names shall be
so stricken from such duplicate registries in such manner as to
remain legible; they shall note on any of said registries from
which any name was so stricken, under the head of "remarks"
in each of said cases the cause of striking off the name of each
of said persons; and they shall briefly state whether the same
was done upon their own knowledge, or upon the evidence of
others; and if it was done on the evidence of others, they shall
state the names and addresses of such witnesses, and they shall
deliver to any person applying for same, whose name may ap-
pear in the registries of voters of any ward, of which they
may be officers of registration, a copy certified by their signa-
ture and official title of all entries in said registries relating to
the registration of said person; if such person should apply for
the same, alleging that he has acquired a residence elsewhere
in the City of Hagerstown, and that he desires the same for
the purpose of being registered in the wafd in which he has
acquired a new residence, they shall strike from the duplicate
registries of voters the name of such person and shall give to
such person a certificate, certified by their signature and offi-
cial title, of the particulars of his said former registration from
which his name has been so stricken; said certificate shall con-
tain all the entries relating to the said former registration of
such person and shall show that the name of such person has
been stricken from said duplicate registries of voters of the ward
in which he was formally registered; when any person apply-
ing for registration at any sitting of officers of registration ap-
pointed under the provisions of this Article, shall be found
upon proper inquiry to have been previously registered with-
in the City of Hagerstown, under the provisions of this Article,
the officers of registration to whom such application was made
before registering such person shall demand and receive from
him a certificate of his last previous registration, made by the
officers of registration, or by the Clerk of the Court in whose
custody the duplicate registries of voters may then be, in which