WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1681

persons whose names have been changed by decree or order
of Court.

(b) The City Clerk shall periodically remove from the
registration lists the names of those persons who have not
voted in a City election for a period of five years.

(c) The City Clerk shall remove from the registration lists
the names of those persons who to his knowledge have lost
their right to registration in the City, whether because of
removal from the City or other cause of disqualification.

(d) The City Clerk shall not cancel the registration of any
person pursuant to the provisions of this section within a
period of sixty days prior to any regular election in the City,
nor within sixty days prior to any special election in the City
if it has been announced that far in advance.

(e) When the City Clerk cancels or changes in any way the
registration of any person pursuant to the provisions of this
section, he shall promptly send a written or printed notice of
said change to the last known address of such person. A
person whose registration has been so cancelled shall not be
able to vote again in the City except by registering again as
in this sub-title provided.

(f) No person's registration shall be so cancelled under the
provisions of this section during his service in the armed
forces of the United States.

11. DELIVERY OF BOOKS. The City Clerk shall deliver
the several registration books to the Board of Supervisors
of Elections at least three days prior to the municipal pri-
mary election, if any. The Board shall use them for the
primary and general municipal elections and within three
days thereafter shall return them to the City Clerk.

PRIMARY ELECTIONS

12. REQUIRED, (a) Candidates to be voted upon at
general municipal elections for the offices of Mayor and
Councilmen shall be nominated at primary elections. No
person who has not been so nominated in a municipal pri-
mary election shall have his name placed on the ballot for
the municipal general election, except that there shall be no
primary election for Mayor, if only one or two persons shall
file for the primary election for Mayor, and there shall be no
primary election for Councilman if only eight or fewer persons
shall file for the primary election for Councilman. In such lat-
ter event, those persons who have filed for the office of Mayor
or of Councilman, as the case may be, shall be considered as
nominated at the municipal primary election.