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tary of the Mayor and Council, a certificate in writing" con-
taining the name and address of the person seeking office,
and the office to which he seeks to be elected, such certifi-
cate to be duly acknowledged by the person filing the same
before an officer duly authorized under the General Laws
of the State of Maryland to take acknowledgments, who
shall append thereto a certificate of such acknowledgment,
and no votes cast for any person failing to file such certifi-
cate shall be counted in such election; and on or before the
second Tuesday in April, 1921,, and annually thereafter
the City Council of Snow Hill then in office shall appoint
two officers of registration for said town of Snow Hill who
shall on the second Thursday of April, 1921, and the fol-
lowing Wednesday and on the same days annually there-
after, after having been duly sworn before the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, to faith-
fully discharge their duties as such registration officers,
attend at the usual place of voting in the Municipal Building
in the town of Snow Hill for the purpose of revising said
registration list; the first day of such annual sitting be-
ginning with the year 1921, shall be devoted to adding
new names to said list and to making up a list of persons
then on -said list but who may be suspected of having be-
come disqualified as voters iii Snow Hill. At the close of the
sitting on said first day beginning with the year 1921, the
said registration officers shall make a list of the persons so
suspected of having become disqualified and shall within
twenty-four hours thereafter deposit in the postoffice at
Snow Hill by first class mail a notice addressed to said
suspected person at Snow Hill and likewise to such other ad-
dress of said person as may be known to such registration
officers or either of them giving notice to the said suspected
person to show cause on or before the following Wednes-
day why his name should not be stricken from said list
and in the sitting of said registration officers on said
following Wednesday they shall consider such suspected
cases and act on the same by striking the same from said
registration list or allowing the same to remain thereon
as in their judgment may be proper and they may also at
said second day of their sittings register such applicants
for registration as they may deem are entitled thereto and
who shall present themselves for registration; and any
person feeling himself aggrieved by the action of said
registration officers in registering, failing to register, strik-
ing off or failing to strike off the name of any person or
persons from said registration list shall have the right to
appeal to the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Mary-
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