The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-09-07
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS
CHAPTER Of

sections to be known as Sections
407A and 407B and to follow i'm
mediately after Section 407, re-
lating to the registration of vOt-
ers in the town of Oakland.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
Section 4O7 of Article II of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland
1880 Edition., title Garrett Coun-
ty', subtitle Oakland, be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments and that two new sec
tions be and they are hereby added to
said Article, said new sections to be
known as Sections 4O7A and 4O7B, to
follow Immediately after Section 407
of said Article and all to read as fol-
lows:
407 The Mayor and Town Council
of Oakland shall cause to be main
tanned registration of the legal and
qualified voters residing within the
corporate limits of the Town of Oak
land; said registration shall specify
the residence of the voters on each
street, lane and alley and such further
information as the Mayor and Town
Council of Oakland may consider
necessary to show their quail
fications as such voters as pro-
vided by Section 4O6, and such reg
istration shall be essential to the
right to vote at any election held I'M
der the Charter of the Town of Oak
land. The Mayor and Town Council of
Oakland shall on the first Monday of
September, 1889, appoint two persons,
being citizens of the Town of Oakland
and qualified to vote therein, to act as
officers of said registration, and they
shall sit for the purpose of registering
voters at the Council Chamber in said
town, or at such other place as may be
designated by the Mayor and Town
Council, on the first Tuesday in Oc-
tober, 1889. They shall sit not less
than nine (9) hours and ten days
public notice of the said sitting shall
be given prior thereto by advertise
ment by way of hand bills posted in
not less than ten public places within
the corporate limits of the Town of
Oakland, or by advertisement in at
least one weekly newspaper published
in said town. And if necessary in the
opinion of the Mayor and Town Coun-
Gil of Oakland the officers of
registration shall sit for such addi-
tional day or days as are designated
by the said Mayor and Town Council
for the purpose of continuing said
registration, the public notice of reg
istration so stating. After causing the
registration of the duly qualified vot-
ers they shall return the said list to
the Mayor and Town Council of Oak
land. Before the said officers of regis
tration shall sit for this purpose they
shall go before a Justice of the Peace
for Garrett County and make oath in
due form of law that they will only
permit the registration of such per-
sons as are entitled under the pro-
visions of Section 406 to be registered
as voters of the Town of Oakland.
407A. On the first Monday in Jan
uary in every year thereafter the
Mayor and Town Council of Oakland
shall appoint two qualified voters of
the Town of Oakland to act as officers
of registration, and they shall sit on
the last Monday in January for the
purpose of registering additional quail
flied voters upon the lists maintained
by the Mayor and Town Council of
Oakland and for the purpose of re-
vision, ten days notice of the same
having been given and all other pro-
visions in Section 406 of this Act ap-
plicable hereto complied with. 1t shall
be the duty of such registration Off
GERS in addition to registering voters,
to examine and check over the regis
tration lists, and they shall make a
list of those who, in their opinion, may
be disqualified thereon as voters, and
they shall deliver such list to the Clerk
of the Town who shall forthwith send
written notice by mail to all persons
whose names are so given to him, no
tifying them to be and appear before
the Mayor and Town Council on the
next succeeding revision day to show
cause, if any they have, why their
names should not be stricken from the
lists of qualified voters of the Town of
Oakland, and the said Clerk shall GER
tify to the Mayor and Town Council
under oath the fact that such notices
were mailed and the time thereof. For
the purpose of revising such registra-
ton lists and striking therefrom the
names of those no longer qualified to
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Town Council shall sit one evening,
between the hours of 1880 P. M. and
1000 P. M, known as Revision Day,
to be selected by the said Mayor and
Town Council, and which shall be not
less than five days prior to the cleo
ton. Notice of the same shall be given
at the same time and manner as notice
of the preceding registration sitting.
1t will be the duty of the Mayor and
Town Council on such evening to
strike from the lists all those to whom
notice has been mailed by the Clerk
as ordered, who do not appear before
them at that time and show cause
why their names should not be
stricken off the lists of qualified vot-
ers or who have not otherwise shown
to them their qualifications as quail
fed voters, provided such notice has
been mailed by the Clerk at least ten
DAYS before Revision Day. Any person
feeling aggrieved by the action of the
registration officials or the Mayor
and Town Council shall have the right
to an appeal to the Circuit Court for
Garrett County.
407B. Whenever in the opinion of
the Mayor and Town Council of Oak
land new general registration OF all
the qualified voters of said town is
desirable, then the advertisement and
notice of registration provided to be
given in this Act shall clearly state
the fact that all qualified voters are
required to again register, whereupOn
the old registration lists shall be