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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

session, and show cause why his name should not be erased
from such registers; proper blanks and postage stamps shall
be furnished for this purpose by the Board of Supervisors. A
similar notice shall also be served by one of said officers upon
such person before the following Tuesday, and if he cannot be
found at the place designated upon such registers, the notice
may be left there, if such place can be found. Any officer of
registration, or other person acting temporarily as such, as
hereinafter provided, who wilfully neglects to perform his
duty touching such scrutiny, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and on conviction shall be imprisoned in jail not less
than thirty days nor more than sixty days. In case of tempo-
rary disability on the part of any officer of registration the
Supervisors of Election may appoint a temporary officer
belonging to the same party, and administer to him the usual
oath of office, and said temporary officer of registration shall
perform all the duties of the office, until the disability of the
regular officer is removed. And it shall be the duty of the
officers of registration, so far as may be in their power, to
inform themselves as to all the persons whose names may be
on such suspected list.
270 T. On the Tuesday, three weeks preceding such regular

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election, said board of registry shall again meet at the place
designated, and they shall remain in session during the hours
prescribed in section 270 P, for the sole purpose of revising
their registry, and no new names shall be added. At the
beginning of the session the officers of registration to whom
such suspected list was delivered shall make affidavit as to the
mailing of the notices sent by him, and to whom directed,
and where, and as to the personal service upon such person,
or as to the leaving of the same at his place of residence so
designated ; and if any person to whom such notice was sent

Hearing of
persons to
whom
notices
were sent.

shall appear before the board of registry during that session,
he shall make and sign an affidavit in substance as follows : "I do
solemnly swear that I am a citizen of the United States, and
that I have resided in the city of Frederick, in the county of
Frederick, in the State of Maryland, from the ———— day of
———— up to the ———— day of ———— , and that I have not
since acquired a legal residence giving me the right to vote
elsewhere." If it is charged that he has been convicted of
any infamous crime and has not been pardoned he shall fur-
ther make oath that he has never been so convicted, or, if con-
victed, that he was pardoned at a time stated.
This affidavit shall be signed and sworn to before one of
such board of registry, and it shall be preserved and tiled in