LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

the registry of voters as a qualified voter, the removal certifi-
cate shall be granted and the name stricken off only upon the
personal application of such voter to the Board of Supervisors

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for to the said board of registry, and after his taking and ,
subscribing on oath substantially as follows : "I, — ——— , do
solemnly swear (or affirm) that I now reside at ———— , in
Frederick city ; that I am the same person who is entered by
that name as a qualified voter in the registers of the ———
precinct of Frederick city ; that I have removed from the said
last mentioned residence, and I do request that the proper
entries and records be made, and that my name be erased from
the registers of said last mentioned precinct, and that a certifi-
cate of removal be furnished meat this time." The forego-
ing affidavit shall be written or printed on the back of such
certificate of removal, and when presented to the board of
registry of the precinct in which such applicant resides, it shall
be taken by said board and returned to the office of Super
visors of Elections. When such certificate shall be granted,
either by the board of registry or by the Supervisors of Elec-
tions, as the case may be, the name of such applicant shall
be erased from the registers of the precinct from which he
removed.
270 x. At the end of each of such sessions the registers
shall be made to agree, where there is any difference between

Oath of appli-
cant for
removal
certificate.

them, and then the officers of registration having the custody
thereof shall sign their names or initials in their respective
registry books immediately under the last name registered,
under each letter on said registers, so that no new name can be
added thereto without discovery.
270 Y. It shall be the duty of the board of registry, after
the close of the last mentioned session, to note for erasure from
such registry the names of all persons known or supposed to be

Registers to
agree and
be signed.

dead, and the names of all persons who are suspected of being
disqualified under sections 2 and 3 of Article 1 of the Consti
tution of the State, and the names of all persons who are
supposed to have removed from such precinct and have not
taken out removal papers and of all persons who are suspected
to be otherwise disqualified as voters, and they shall, before
seperating make out a list of all persons so noted for easure,
with the address as the same appears upon the registers. In
making out such list said board of registry shall treat as per-
sons suspected of not being qualified voters, all persons against
whom a sworn complaint is tiled by any voter in the city.
Such complaint shall be, in substance as follows : "I, ———— ,

List of
persons sus-
pected to be
disqualified,