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tions as may be, or become necessary, constitute such regis-
tion; said registration shall be corrected in the manner pro-
vided in the General Registration Law of the State, and shall
specify the residence of the voter in each street, lane or alley,
and such registration shall be essential to the right of voting
at any general election for the office of Mayor and Councilman,
or at any primary election for the office of Councilman, but
shall not be conclusive evidence of such right to vote;
all applicants for registration must be citizens of the
State of Maryland, and resident in the territory of the City of
Hagerstown as set forth in this Act and in the ward in which
he offers to vote of six months. The Election Supervisors of
the City of Hagerstown shall in any year that an election is
to be held in said city under the Charter thereof, on or before
the first Monday in December, in such year elect two persons
of opposite political faith in each precinct to act as officers
of registration, who shall sit as officers of registration at the
usual polling places in each precinct on the second Tuesday
in January in the year of said election from the hours of 8
A. M. to 8 P. M. each day, and ten days' public notice of such
sitting shall be given by the City Clerk by advertisement in
at least two of the daily newspapers of said City.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 3, 1939.

CHAPTER 363.
(House Bill 739)

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Board of County Com-
missioners of Washington County to borrow on the faith
and credit of the County, to an amount not to exceed Four
Hundred Thousand ($400, 000. 00) Dollars and to issue and
sell bonds therefor, the proceeds thereof to be used for the
erection, construction, equipping, rebuilding and enlarge-
ment, repair, or remodeling of a Court House Building for
Washington County and/or a Jail Building for Washington
County, either on the present site or a new site to be ac-
quired; to provide for the acquisition of such new site, and
the sale of the present site and building; and to provide for
the payment of interest on said bonds and of the principal
thereof by the levy of taxes, and to authorize and empower
said Board of County Commissioners of Washington County