The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-05-23

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said registries before so delivering the same a
certificate signed by himself and verified by
his oath or affirmation that the entries in said
registries ofvoters of the names and residences
| of the persons shown thereby to be qualified
voters were made bona tide according to the
requirements of this article, and that no name
| has been omitted from or added to said reg
| istries of voters contrary to the requirements
of this article and it shall be the duty OF the
said clerk of the said circuit court for said
| county to deliver one of said duplicate reg
istries of each of said election districts so de-
livered to him to the sheriff OF his said county
on the Saturday next preceding the Noyem-
Der election in each year.
49, Forthe correction of the registries Of
voters made as. aforesaid in each election
district of county in this State, each of said
officers ofregistration appointed for each cleo
ton district in this State shall demand from
the clerk of the circuit court for his county
before the third Monday of September, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety, and before the same
day in every year thereafter, in the counties,
the original duplicate registries of voters for
the election district for which he was appoint
ed an offlcerof registration, or original dupli-
cate registries of voters for the election pre-
cinct of the election district for which he was
SO appointed if such election district is 30
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it shall be the duty of the said respective
clerks TO deliver forthwith to the said respec-
tive officers of registration who are applicants
therefor upon the proper receipt of said re-
spective officers of registration; for the same
purpose the board of supervisors of elections
in Baltimore city shall demand from the clerk
ofthe superior court before the third Monday of
September, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,
and each alternate year thereafter, the original
duplicate registries of voters of each election
precinct in the city of Baltimore, which re-
spective registries it shall in like manner be
the duty of said clerk of the superior court
to deliver to said board of supervisors ofelec-
tions in Baltimore city.
10. Said officers of registration when sit
ting at their respective sittings in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety and in each year
thereafter in the counties, and in the year
eighteen hundred and nineiy-one and each
alternate year thereafter in the city of Balti-
more as in this article provided for the DUR
poses in this article before mentioned, shall
proceed in all particulars in relation to per-
sons applying to them TO be registered in the
manner directed by section fourteen of this
article; at each of said sitti1gs they shall
strike from each of the duplicate registries of
voters of the election district or election pre-
cincts ofwhich they are in charge as officers of
registration, the names of all persons in such
election district who are personally known to
them, or who shall be satisfactorily proved to
them by the oath or affirmation of a COM
petent witness or competent witnesses to be
then dead or to have removed from the cleo
ton precinct or election district in which
their names are registered, or who have left
the State without making, acknowledging
and recording the affidavit prescribed in
section fourteen of this article, or who having
made such affidavit shall have failed to return
to this State as in said section fourteen pro-
vided, or who after having made such affidavit
shall have failed to return as in said section
fourteen prescribed, or who may have become
or may be disqualified under the provisions
of the second or third sections of the first
article of the constitution of this State, and
such names shall be so stricken from such
duplicate rtgistries in such manner as to re-
main legible they shall note on any of said
registries from which any name was so
stricken under the head Of remark" in each
of said cases the cause of striking of the
name of each of said persons and they shall
briefly state whether the same was done upon
their own knowledge or upon the evidence of
others; and if it was done on the evidence of
others, they shall state the names and ad-
dresses of such witnesses they shall deliver
to any person applying for the same whose
of any election precinct or election district of
which may be officers Of registration a copy
certified by their signature and official title of
all entries in said registries relating to the
registration of said persons; if such persons
should apply for the same alleging that he has
acquired residence elsewhere in this State,
and that he desires the same for the purpose
of being registered in the election precinct or
election district in which he has acquired a
new residence, they shall strike from the
duplicate registres of voters the name of such
person and shall give to such person certif-
cate certified by their signature and official
title of the particulars of his said former reg
istration from which his name has been SO
stricken; said certificate shall contain all the
entries relating to said former registration of
such person, and shall show that the name of
such person has been stricken from said |
duplicate regstries of voters of tie election |
precinct or election district in which he was
formerly registered; when any person apply |
ing for registration at any sitting of officers |
appointed under the provisions
OF this article, shall be found upon proper |
inquiry to have been previously registered |
within the State under the provisions of this |
article the officers of registration to whom |
such application is made before registering |
such person, shall demand and receive from
him certificate of his last previous registra-
tion made by the officers of registration, or
by the clerk of the court in whose custody |
the duplicate registries OF voters may then |
be, in which such applicant was formerly |
registered, showing the entries relating to said
person in such former registration, and show
ing that the name of such person has been |
stricken from the duplicate registries of voters
in the election precinct or election district in |
which he was last before recorded as quail |
Sad av,1 nralx Of
previous registration shall be cancelled by the |
officers of registration who shall register such |
person anew; said officers of registration |
when sitting at their respective September |
and October sittings, shall register as provided |
in section fourteen of this article all qualified
voters who shall present themselves for regis
tratOn; and in addition to said work of reg
istration they shall carefully revise and scru-
tinize the said registries of voters so received |
by them from said clerks ofthe 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 entered |
therein who shall have died or become for |
any reason disqualified, or who for any cause |
shall have ceased to be entitled 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 dis |
qualified persons and of all persons erron-
eCusly or improperly placed thereon may be
accurately and thoroughly accomplished, it |
shall be the duty of said several officers of
registration on the first and second day of
their September sitting to go carefully over
the whole list of names upon said regstries
in their respective precincts and election |
districts, and to note for striking and making
a list thereof the names of all persons, whom
from their own information or from informa.
ton furnished them from others, they have
good reason to believe to be proper to be
stricken off having made out the list, which
shall be ct all times open to public inspection,
it shall be their duty to address written notices
to all the persons whose names are set down
thereon, except those known to be dead, call
ing on said persons to appear before them
during their October sittings, to show cause
why their names should not be stricken from
said registries, which notices shall be served
in Baltimore city by the police of Baltimore
city, and in the counties by the sheriffs of the
several counties upon all such persons who
can be found by them, and said notices shall
also be sent by mail to said persons addressed