The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-05-19

at SAID several slttlngs In the several coun-
ties with open doors from s o'clock, a. m.
until o'clock, p. M, on each day of their
sessions, and their proceedings shall be
public and open to free inspection, without
any obstruction whatever. The places of
their sitting shall be selected as prescribed
in said Act of eighteen hundred and eighty
two, chapter twenty-five.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That
each of said Officers of Registration in Bal
timore city shall be entitled to receive four
dollars per day for every day he shall be
engaged in the discharge of his official
duties, exclusive of Office rent and the cost
of stationery, and each of said Registration
Officers in the counties shall receive a per
diem of four dollars for every day he shall
be engaged in the discharge of his official
duties.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted That
the said several Officers of Registration
shall give notice signed by him or them of
the times and places of his or their several
respective sittings for five days before his
or their several respective sittings in May,
June, July, September and October, by
publication, as prescribed in the said Act
of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, chap
ter twenty-five; and should changes of the
places of their sittings become necessary,
due notice thereof shall be given, as pro-
vided by section fourteen of said Act
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That
instead of demanding from the Clerks of
Circuit Courts and CT the Superior Court
Of Baltimore city, respectively, the regis
tries of voters and poll books between the
last Monday in August and the first Mon
day in September in each year, as provided
in said Act of eighteen hundred and eighty
two, chapter twenty-five, the said Officers
of Registration shall demand and receive
the same from the Clerk of the Circuit
court of their respective county and of the
Superior Court of Baltimore city, between
the last Monday in April and the second
Monday in May in each year, for the cor
rection of said registries of voters and poll
books and the registration of qualified
voters.
Sec, l. And be it further enacted, That
said Officers of Registration, when sitting at
their respective May, June, July and Sep
TENDER sittings, and the first sitting in
October, shall register as provided in
the said Act of eighteen hundred and
eighty-two, chapter twenty-five, all quail
flied voters who shall present themselves
for registration; and in addition to said
work of registration they shall careful
ly revise and scrutinize the said registries
of voters so received by them from said
Clerks of the several Circuit Courts and of
the Superior Court of Baltimore City, to
the end that all errors therein shall be
corrected; and the names of all voters en-.
tered therein who shall have died or be-
come for any reason disqualified, or who
for any cause shall have ceased to be emit
tied to remain on said registration books
shall be stricken off In order that the
work Of striking off from the registries the
names of all dead and disqualified persons
and of all persons enormously or improper
ly placed thereon, may be thoroughly and
accurately accomplished, it shall be the
duty of said several Officers of Registration
at their May sitting to go carefully over
the whole list of names upon said registries
in their respective precincts and election
districts, and to note for striking off the
names of all persons whom from their own
information, or from information furnished
to them from others, they have good rea-
son to believe to be proper to be stricken
off. Having made out this list, which
shall be at all times open to public inspec-
ton, it shall be their duty to address writ
ten notices to all the persons whose names
are set down. thereon, except those known
to be dead, calling on said persons to ap-
pear before them on or before the first day
of July sitting in the city of Baltimore,
and the first day of the September sitting
in the counties, to show cause why their
l'names should not be stricken from said
1 registries, which notices shall be served in
Baltimore city by the police of Baltimore
city, and in the counties by the Sheriff of
the several counties, upon all of such per-
sons who can be found by them, and said
notices shall also be sent by mail to said
persons addressed to them at the place
from which they were registered. Should
no cause, or, in the judgment of said Off
GERS of Registration, an insufficient cause to
the contrary be shown by the first day of
their July or September sitting, as the case
may be, it shall be the duty of said Officers
of Registration, during said sitting, to strike
off the names of all persons on said list;
but if said Officers of Registration shall be
satisfied by competent sworn testimony
produced before them, or from their own
knowledge or information, that any of said
persons, notwithstanding their failure to
appear in answer to said notices, are in re-
ality entitled to have their names retained
on said registration books, then the names
of said persons shall be so retained; more
over, whenever any suggestion shall be
made to them in writing, signed by any
person, that said registration books contain
any specified name or names which should
be stricken off, it shall be their duty to dill
igently inquire into and investigate every
such suggestion, and to strike off every
name which, upon such investigation, they
shall ascertain to have been improperly
registered in the first instance, or to be no
longer entitled to remain upon the registra-
ton books, for any lawful cause, within
three days after the sittings in May, June,
July and September and the first sitting in
October in the city of Baltimore, and after
the May, September and October sittings
in the counties, said Registration Officers
shall publish, as provided in said Act of
eighteen hundred and eighty-two, chapter
twenty-five, the two alphabetical lists re-
quired to be published by section twenty
one of said Act; and shall also put up and
retain during their subsequent sessions, in
conspicuous place in the room occupied
I nrasem as a registration Office, two of said
,lE<ed alphabetical lists; and the said
Aers of Registration, within three days
espgter the close respectively of their sittings
"a May, June, July and September, shall
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Baltimore city and the Sheriff in the sew s
raj counties, notices to all persons whose
names have been stricken off at said re-
pective sittings, notifying them that their !
names have been stricken of, so as to give t
hem an opportunity to appear at some
uture sitting, not later than the first of l
October sittings, and establish their right t
n he reinstated. At the end of the first c