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shall be essential to the right of voting at any election
under this charter, but shall not be conclusive evidence
of such right to vote; all applicants for registration must be
citizens of the State of Maryland, and resident in the City of
Cumberland for one year, and registered or entitled to regis-
tration as a voter in Allegany County; said Mayor and City
Council shall bi-annually after the year 1924, on or before the
first Monday of February in such year elect two persons of
opposite political faith in each precinct to act as officers of
registration, who shall sit as officers of registration at the usual
polling places in each precinct on the third and fourth Monday
of February, bi-annually from the hours of 9 A. M. to 8 P. M.
each day, and ten days public notice of such sitting shall be
given by the City Clerk by advertisement in at least two of the
daily newspapers of said city.

104. The Mayor and City Council of Cumberland shall,
prior to the third Monday in January, 1924, elect two persons
of opposite political faith from each precinct in said city, and
said persons so elected shall be registration officials in their
respective precincts, and shall, on the first and second Monday
and Tuesday in February, 1924, conduct a general registration
of all voters in the precincts of said city; said registration shall
be conducted in each precinct by the persons so elected at the
usual city polling places in said precincts, and said registra-
tion officials shall sit on the days indicated from 8 A. M. to
8 P. M., and shall sit during the same hours on the third Mon-
day in February, 1924, for purposes of revision; ten days'
public notice of such general registration shall be given by the
City Clerk by advertisement in at least two of the daily news-
papers of said city and by posting" handbills in the most public
places in each precinct of said city; the books for said registra-
tion shall be prepared by the City Clerk and shall be substan-
tially the same form as those used by the Board of Supervisors
of Election for Allegany County, and except when being used
for registration or election purposes, said books shall be kept at
the City Hall in the custody of the City Clerk of said city;
said registration shall be made and corrected in the manner
provided in the general registration law of the State, and shall
specify the residence of the voter of each street, lane or alley,
and such registration shall be essential to the right of voting
at any election under this Charter, but shall not be conclusive
evidence of such right to vote; all applicants for registration
must be citizens of the State of Maryland and resident in the