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

the same right OF appeal as II they hau
been refused registration by the Officer OF
Registration The provisions of this sec
ton, so far as they refer to the striking
off of names from the registry lists, shall
not apply to the action of the Registries in
the city of Baltimore in the years in which
there is an entire new registration in said
city, as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the person or officers
having charge of the vital statistics of any
city or county to furnish to the Officer of
Registration of the several precincts of
Baltimore city, or of the election districts
of the several counties, as the case may be,
by the second Monday of May in each
year, a report of the names and the prevl-
Gus residence of all male persons over the
age of twenty-one years who have died
since the close of the October sitting of the
preceding year, and to furnish like month
ly report during the months of May, June,
July, August and September, and up to
the close of the October sitting, to the end
that said names may be promptly stricken
from the registration books.
Sec g. And be it further enacted, That
in case any errors should be found in any
of the poll books delivered to the Judges
of Election, in the name or address Of any
voter, as the same are set down upon the
registration books, copy from the regis
tration books, duly certified by the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for the-county, or the
Superior Court of Baltimore city, as the
case may be, shall be accepted by the
Judges of Election as a conclusive correc-
ton of said error, and the voter presenting
said certificate shall be entitled to vote
thereon, Notwithstanding such error on the
poll books, precisely as if said error had
not been made and it shall be the duty of
said clerks respectively, to issue said certifi-
cate free of charge to the parties applying
therefor, and the cost thereof shall be paid
to said Clerk by the County Commission
ers, or the Mayor and the City Council of
Baltimore, as the case may be; and it shall
be the duty of the said Clerk to keep his
office open on the day of election from the
hour of 9 \. NJ. to the hour of P. NJ,
for the purpose of issuing such certificates
to those voters who may apply for them.
Sec 10. And be it enacted, That in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty eight,
and biennially thereafter, there shall be in the
city of Baltimore, in the several precincts
of the several wards thereof, an entire new
General Registration of the voters thereof
And for the purpose of making said new
General Registration, the Registers of said
several precincts, hereinbefore provided
for, shall sit in their several and respective
precincts in one or more places therein, as
the convenience of the voters in their judg-
ment may require, in the months of May,
June, July, September, and October, demon
mated the May, June, July, September, and
October sittiugs, as hereinbefore provided
for registration, revision and correction of
the registration of books of the several
precincts of said several wards, and said
new General Registration shall be con-
Quoted in all respects under the rules and
provisions as are already by this Act and
the several Acts of which it is amendatory
and supplemental prescribed for the regis
tration of voters, and at such new General
Registration the Register of their several
precincts as aforesaid shall be entitled to
receive the preceding registration books
from the Clerk of the Superior Court of
Baltimore City for the purpose of compar-
ison and assistance in Identification, and if
any one shall apply for registration who
appears in such former registry as disqual-
flied, his name shall be entered in the new
registries, but he shall be marked d;squali-
fed unless such grounds of disqualification
shall be removed. 1t shall not be neces-
sary for any naturalized citizen, applying
to be registered, to produce his original
naturalization papers, or any certified copy
thereof, if he shall prove to the satisfaction
of said Officers of Registration, by his own
oath and the oath of two other persons,
that he has been registered voter for three
years next preceding such application, and
that he has actually voted upon such pre-
vious registration. The registration books
of said new General Registration, and the
poll books accompanying the same, shall
be by said Registers completed, compared
and made to agree, and shall be returned
to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Bal
timore City within five days after the last
day of the October two days sitting for the
registration of voters. In the case of any
one registered, to whose registration objec
lions, in writing, under oath, shall have
been or shall be made and filed with said
Registers, or in case of refusal on the part
of said Registers to register any one apply
ing to be registered an appeal may be
taken at any time during the continuance
of said period of registration and within
two weeks after the close thereof and the
return of the registration books to the
office of the Clerk of the Superior Court
from the final action of said Registers to
any one of the Courts of Baltimore city,
and the action of said Court shall be final
and conclusive in any such case, and the
registration and poll books shall at once be
made to conform to the order of said Conrt.
SEC. IL. And be it further enacted,
That the cost of printing and posting said
alphabetical lists, and of printing, serving
and mailing the notices required by this
Act to be issued, served and mailed, and
the office rent of said Officers of Registra-
ton, and the cost of the necessary station
cry used by them, shall be paid by the
County Commissioners of the several coun-
ties and the Mayor and the City Council
of Baltimore respectively, upon satisfactory
vouchers presented by said Officers of Reg
istration, provided the Sheriff S fee for serv-
ing said notice shall not exceed twenty-five
cents for each notice placed in his hands for
service.
SEC. u. And be it further enacted,
That the police census required by section
twenty eight of said Act of eighteen hun
bred and eighty-two, chapter twenty-five,
to he made one month before the first Mon
day of September, shall be made and COM
pleted one month before the second Monday
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SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, L
hat all parts of the said act of eighteen u
inbred and eighty-two, chapter twenty 7
70, and of the said several amendments !
ereto enacted by the Act of eighteen
inbred and eighty-two, chapter twenty
10, and eighteen hundred and eighty-four- .,