THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1405

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 permanent 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.

162C. (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 evi-
dence of such right to vote. If at any municipal general or
primary election the poll hooks or other records in any precinct
shall show no record as to the registration of a particular per-
son, 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 of regis-
tration shall be 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.

162D. (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 infamous crimes com-
mitted by registered voters, all such being reported agreeably
to the provisions of Article 33, Section 33 of the Annotated
Code (1947 Supplement, as amended). 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 persons whose
names have been changed by decree or order of Court.

(b) The City Clerk shall periodically remove from the regis-
tration 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