1680 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 702

shall accept his registration. He shall immediately give to
the registrant a small identification card, attesting over his
signature to the registrant's name, address, ward and pre-
cinct numbers, and to the fact of the registration. There-
after, as soon as practicable, the City Clerk shall record the
registrant's name and such other data as necessary in the
registration book or books containing the registration lists
for the ward and precinct in which the registrant has been
registered. The original form on which the applicant's
answers were recorded shall be filed alphabetically in a per-
manent file.

(c) The City Clerk shall not accept any such registration
or change in registration during the period extending from
twenty days before the municipal primary election to seven
days after the municipal general election, in any year in
which such elections are held in the City, nor within the
period extending from seven days before to seven days after
any municipal special election.

9. EVIDENCE OF REGISTRATION. Registration shall
be essential to the right of voting at any election held under
the provisions of this Article, but it shall not be conclusive
evidence of such right to vote. If at any municipal general
or primary election the poll books or other records in any
precinct shall show no record as to the registration of a
particular person, and the City Clerk shall ascertain as a
matter of fact that there is in his office an original form of
registration for such person, the City Clerk shall issue to
such person a temporary certificate of registration. Such
temporary certificate shall be a sufficient evidence of the
right of such person to vote in the particular election and at
the proper precinct. Thereafter, as soon as practicable, the
City Clerk shall make such additions and corrections as
necessary to the said poll books or other records, in order
to list said person therein as a qualified voter.

10. CANCELLATION, (a) The City Clerk shall ascertain
from the Board of Election Supervisors of Allegany County
the notifications received by said Board as to deaths of
registered voters, as to marriages of female voters, as to
changes of names by decree or order of Court, and as to in-
famous crimes committed by registered voters, all such being
reported agreeably to the provisions of Article 33, Section 33
of the Annotated Code (1947 Supplement). The City Clerk
shall thereupon remove the names of deceased persons and of
persons committing infamous crimes from the registration
lists, and shall change the registration names of women
whose names have been changed by marriage, and of other