300                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 147

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 sus-
pected person at Snow Hill and likewise to such other address
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 Wednesday 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 ap-
plicants 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 registra-
tion officers in registering, failing to register, striking 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 Cir-
cuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, within five days'
from the decision appealed from and the Circuit Court for
Worcester County shall hear said appeals before the second
Monday in May; and on the docketing of such appeal cases^
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Worcester County shall issue
summons for the person whose right to vote is in question, re-
turnable at the hour and place to be fixed by the Court for hear-
ing of such* cases. The registration by revision shall continue
for nine years, but every tenth year there shall be an entirely
new general registration, the intermediate years being by re-
vision, that is to say, in the year 1920, there shall be a new
general registration and a^gain in 1930, and every tenth year
thereafter, the registration in intermediate years being by re-
vision as aforesaid. The right of appeal herein provided for
shall apply both to general and intermediate registration years.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That this
Act is hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,.
and being passed upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two1 Houses of
the General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date
of its passage

Approved April 6, 1931.