ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 533

all voters residing in the City of Hagerstown and entitled to
be registered in their said respective wards of the said City of
Hagerstown. Said officers of registration shall sit at some
place to be selected by each of them respectively in their re-
spective wards with open doors, from 9 o'clock A. M. to 9
o'clock P. M. for four successive days, beginning at said first
Monday in March, A. D. 1921. Said general registration shall
be conducted in the manner and in accordance with the re-
quirements prescribed by the then existing law for the regis-
tration of voters in said city, and said officers of registration
shall give, in at least two newspapers of the City of Hagers-
town, and by hand bills set up in such public places in each
registration shall select in their respective districts for at
least eight days before the first sitting, a collective notice
signed by them, of their respective sittings for the purpose of
said general registration, and of the place of sitting in each
ward, and of the time at which each of said respective sittings
shall take place. The said officers of registration shall be en-
titled to receive upon proper receipts given by them the old
registries from the official having custody of the same for the
purpose of comparison and assistance in identification. The
officers of registration shall within three days after their
fourth sitting in this section provided for, make complete and
publish two alphabetical lists, one of which shall comprise the
names, addresses and color of all persons registered, in the
respective wards of the City of Hagerstown, and the other
the names and addresses and color of all persons refused regis-
tration and of all persons where the names are erased from the
registries in the respective wards, and the respective officers of
registration shall cause said respective lists to be published by-
hand bills posted in such public places as they may respectively-
select in their respective wards in not less than ten of such
places in each ward. All provisions now by. law provided for
returning the registers and for appeals from the action of the
registration officers shall be applicable to this general regis-
tration. The said officers of registration shall receive the sum
of five dollars per diem for their services in said general regis-
tration, exclusive of office rent and the costs of stationery;
the necessary expenses incurred by said respective officers of
registration for books, stationery and fuel, office rent and for
the publication of notices and lists which are by this Article
required to be published shall be paid by the Mayor and Coun-