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Session Laws, 1916
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EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1457
held in said City under this Charter, and they shall have
charge of all regular and special City Elections; all questions
shall be decided by a majority vote of the said Board.

Section 287. Immediately after their appointment the said
Supervisors of Election shall furnish to the City Clerk for the
purpose of registration registry books for said City, which it
shall be the duty of said Clerk to protect and keep safe. The
said registry books shall be prepared substantially in the same
form as the registry books of Harford County are now by law
required to be prepared.

Section 288. On the third and fourth Mondays and Tues-
days in April, and on the first Monday and Tuesday in May
in the year nineteen hundred and two, the City Clerk shall
sit at the Council Chamber between the hours of nine o'clock
A. M. and seven o'clock P. M. for the purpose of a new and
general registration of the legally qualified voters of the City
of Havre de Grace. And likewise thereafter on the second
Monday and Tuesday in April of each year in which a munici-
pal election is to be held the said City Clerk shall likewise
sit during the same hours as officer of registration for said
City for the purpose of registering the legally qualified voters
of said City.

It shall be the duty of said Clerk to enter in alphabetical
order upon the registry book the name of every person appear-
ing before him at the times above specified, and requesting to
be registered; provided he shall be satisfied by the oath of said
person, or otherwise, that he is a citizen of the United States
above the age of twenty-one years and has the property and
other qualifications required by this Act for voters of said
City, and the Clerk shall have power to administer the oath
required by this Section. On the Monday following the close
of the registration the Mayor and City Council shall revise
the list, striking therefrom the names of all persons who are
dead, or who have removed from the City, or who are other-
wise disqualified as voters; and within one week thereafter
they shall publish by hand-bills to be set up at the City Hall,
and in at least two other public places in said City, a list of
names that have been stricken from the registration books, as
well as a list of the new names added thereto. Any person
feeling aggrieved by the action of the Clerk in registering or
refusing to register the name of any person as aforesaid, or by
the Mayor and City Council in striking out or in refusing to
strike out the name of any person, as aforesaid, shall have the

 

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