ALBERT G. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 317

applying for registration who are entitled to vote under the
provisions of this section, in alphabetical order as in State
registration books, and for the purpose of ascertaining the
facts, the said officer of registration is hereby empowered to
administer oaths to applicants and witnesses, touching the
qualifications of applicants for City registration. Said officer
of registration shall sit, with his official books, for registration
of qualified applicants, from eight o'clock A. M., to five o'clock
P. M., on the Wednesday and Thursday preceding every muni-
cipal election. And biennially after the year 1922, and on the
Wednesday and Thursday preceding every municipal election,
from eight o'clock A. M., to five o'clock P. M., said registra-
tion officer shall sit in the council chamber, or at some other
public and convenient place, for the purpose of revising such
registry by adding the names of new and qualified voters, and
of striking off the said registry the names of voters known to
him to be dead, or who have changed their place of residence
by removal from the City, or who have otherwise become
disqualified to be voters in said City. A right of challenge
and of presentation of facts relating to qualifications, and a
right of appeal from the decisions of the registration officer
is hereby granted to any person or persons aggrieved by his
decision, to the Mayor and Council, which shall sit between
the hours of two o'clock P. M. and five o'clock P. M., on the
Friday before the election to hear such appeals, if any, and
the evidence relative thereto. Every applicant and challenger,
concerned in said appeal or appeals, shall be at the conclusion
of the registration, duly notified by the registration officer of
the time and place of said meeting of the Mayor and Council,
and the decision of the Mayor and Council shall be final.
The Mayor shall give at least five days notice of the time and
place of the sittings of the officer of registration, by hand-bills
posted in at least ten conspicuous places in said City, or by
advertisement in one or more newspaper published in said City.
The said registration officer, as soon as his sittings are
finished, shall forthwith return all books and other official
papers and documents to the Clerk of the Mayor and Council.

Any person who shall wilfully swear falsely before such
registration officer, in order to procure his name or that of any
other person to be placed on or removed from the registration
list, shall be guilty of the crime of perjury and shall be liable
to presentment and indictment therefor, in the Circuit Court
for Somerset County, and on conviction thereof shall be fined