370 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 157

The foregoing certificate shall be granted by the Board of
Registry when in session, under the following regulations;
that is to say, if at the time of application for said removal
certificate is made the name of said voter is already erased
from the registers, then it shall be the duty of the said Board
of Registry to grant the certificate to the voter himself or to
any other person making application therefor, but if at the
time such application is made, the name of the voter be still
upon the registries of voters as a qualified voter, the removal
certificate shall be granted and the name stricken off only
upon the personal application of such voter to the said Board
of Registry, and after his taking and subscribing an oath
substantially as follows:

"I,..................... do solemnly swear (or affirm)

that I now reside at.................... in the city of......

......... county............ of..............; that I am

the same person who is entered by that name as a qualified
voter in the registers of the........ precinct of the..........

city; that I have removed from said last-mentioned residence
and that I do request that the proper entries and records be
made and that my name be erased from the registers of said
last-mentioned precinct, and that a certificate of removal be
furnished me at this time. "

The foregoing affidavit shall be written or printed on the
back of such certificate of removal and when presented to
the Board of Registry in the precinct in which such applicant
resides, it shall be taken by said Board and returned to the
office of the Supervisors of Elections. When such certificate
shall be granted by the Board of Registry the name of such
applicant shall be erased from the register of the precinct
from which he removed. At the end of each such sessions the
registers shall be made to agree where there is any difference
between them, and then the officers of registration having the
custody thereof shall sign their names or initials in their re-
spective registry books immediately under the last name reg-
istered under each letter on said registers so that no new
name can be added thereto without discovery. It shall be the
duty of the Board of Registry, after the close of each session
to note for erasure from such registers the names of all per-
sons known or supposed to be dead and the names of all per-
sons who are suspected of being disqualified under Sections
2 and 3 of Article 1 of the Constitution of the State, and the
names of all persons who are supposed to have removed from
such precinct and have not taken out removal papers and of