ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1157

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 re-
moval certificate shall be granted and the name stricken off
only upon personal application of such voter to the said Board
of Registry and after his taking and subscribing an oath sub-
stantially 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 said............................................ city or county;

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 fur-
nished 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 re-
sides, 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, or by the Supervisors of
Elections or a clerk designated by them the name of such ap-
plicant shall be erased from the register of the precinct from
which he removed. At the end of each such sessions the reg-
isters shall be made to agree where there is any difference be-
tween 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
all persons who are suspected to be otherwise disqualified as
voters, and they shall, before separating, make out a list of all
persons so noted for erasure with the address as the same ap-