HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1129

Election sitting as Registration Officials may also on said
first registration day take such action with regard to any
name of their own motion. On the second of said registration
days, the said Supervisors of Election sitting as Registration
Officials shall pass upon all of the names noted as above set
out, and after hearing such evidence as may be presented be-
fore them, shall determine whether such name shall remain
upon said books, or shall be stricken off, and in case they shall
decide that any of such names shall be stricken off, they
; shall draw a line in red ink through such names on the registra-
tion books, and shall write in red ink at the end of said
line the words "stricken off" and the date, and the party
whose name is thus stricken off shall not be entitled to vote
in said town until his name be replaced thereon as hereinafter
provided.

Any person feeling aggrieved at the action of the Super-
visors of Election acting as Registration Officials in refusing
to register him, or in striking his name from the books, or in
registering some other person, or refusing to strike from the
books the name of some other person, shall have the right of
appeal to the Circuit Court for Prince George's County at
any time within five days, exclusive of Sundays and legal
holidays, from the action of the Officials by which he is
aggrieved, which appeal shall be by way of petition for review
addressed to said Court and naming as defendants the Reg-
istration Officials and the party whose name the petitioner
desires to have stricken from the books, if it be such a case,
and said Court shall as soon as possible set said case for hear-
ing of the Registration Officials aforesaid, and if the determi-
nation of said Court upon such question is different from the
determination thereof made by the Registration Officials, it
shall direct such Officials to correct their records in accordance
with its order, which said Registration Officials shall forth-
with do.

765. The Supervisors of Election shall sit on the 10th day
next preceding and exclusive of the date of any election for
Mayor or Councilman at the same place at which the election
is to be held between the hours of 6 P. M. and 8 P. M. to
receive nominations. Any person desiring to have his name
placed upon the official ballot at the ensuing election shall at
such time present to said Supervisors of Election a petition
setting forth his name, residence, age, the length of time he
has lived in the town, the office which he seeks, and in case
of Mayor and Councilmen a reference to the title of the
real estate in the assessed value of f 500. 00 claimed to be owned,
and in case of Councilman the ward in which he lives, and
such petition shall be signed by at least twenty qualified voters
and in case of a candidate for Councilman at least a majority