ments of this chapter shall have been provided for such meetings and shall openly and publicly do and perform the following acts, namely: Each and every of the duties and requirements set forth in subdivisions one and three of section sixteen (16) of this act. They shall in each election district receive the applications for registration of such male residents of the election district, whose names are not then borne upon the registers thereof, as qualified voters therein, as shall personally present themselves, and who, on the day of election next ensuing, would be entitled to vote therein, and as to all applications made to them shall proceed therewith in the manner provided in subdivision four of section sixteen (16) of this act, provided that if, upon the examination as of this chapter provided for, of any applicant for registration it shall appear that he has, since the last day of any general registration of voters or revision thereof in cities governed by this act, moved into or become a resident of said election district, the said judges shall inquire from where such applicant removed or came from; and if it shall appear that such removal was from place within the said city and county, they shall inquire if, in the election district in which he resided at the time of the last preceding general registration (naming such time) or in which he has resided at any time subsequent thereto, he has been registered, or has applied for registration; and if he shall swear that he has not, then the said judges shall proceed with said application as with that of any other person who may apply to them; but if

he shall swear that he has been so registered, the
said judges shall, before further proceeding, require
him to present to them a certificate of removal as
provided for in this chapter so that his name shall
not be upon the registers of two election districts;
and upon the presentation to any board of judges
of
any
certificate of removal, the said board shall
treat the person presenting the same in the manner
provided in subdivision four (4) of section sixteen
of this act for applicants of registration.

in case of removal.

SEC. 18. Any person who shall at any time as Registration provided in this chapter, have personally applied' to the judges of election in any election district for registration, and shall have, in the registers thereof, been entered as a qualified voter, and who shall, at any time prior to the close of any revision of registration, have removed from the dwelling place under which he shall, as a resident, be borne upon the registers, may, upon any day provided in this chapter for meetings of the inspectors of election, other than the day of any election, personally appear before the said judges in the election district in which he resided at the time his name was entered upon the said registers, during the hours in this chapter provided for their sessions for such revision, and publicly take and subscribe before one of said judges the following oath or affirmation, which shall be known as the oath of removal:

[name of city], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that

I am duly entered in the

registers of said

a qualified voter, and that I have removed my
place of residence to number . . . in the

election district,
ward of said city and
county, and I do hereby request that the proper
entries and records be made as the same are pro-
vided for by law and that a certificate of removal
be furnished me at this time."

Upon such oath or affirmation being made and subscribed as herein provided, it shall be the duty of the said judges to carefully preserve the same and file it within twenty-four (24) hours after the close of any revision or registration, with the city Verification of clerk. And upon any such person so taking and subscribing said oath of removal, the said judges of election, if satisfied of the identity of the person making the same with the person he claims to be, as the description of said last mentioned

oath of appli

cant, how made.

Entries of removal, how made.

person shall appear on the registers, and if not satisfied therewith, shall at once, by a police officer present, or by anyone by whom said board shall specially authorize, make an examination and inquiry at the place of residence of said person, as the same shall be entered upon the registers, as to the fact of the removal of such person from said dwelling place, when if his removal therefrom shall be found by the report of such person to be a fact, shall immediately proceed to strike from said registers the name of such person by entering in each of the registers, opposite to and against the name of any such person, and in the column headed "Why disqualified," the word "Removed," in the column

headed "Date of erasing name," the month, day, and year of such striking from the said registers such name, and in the column headed "Remarks," the words "Transferred to," together with the number of the election district to which such person shall, in his oath of removal, state he has removed, and the initial letters of the name of the inspector who shall in each of said registers make such entries, and shall through the name of any such persons, as the same shall appear on said registers, and there only, draw a line indicative that such name is erased from the registers of that election district and the name of any such person so found stricken and erased from said registers shall, as to his name and residence at the place in said registers entered under the column of "Residence," be thereafter considered by the city clerk, all judges of election, and all other election officers to be stricken from the registers of that election district, and shall be treated as if never entered thereon. If the Removing to dwelling place to which any such person shall have same election removed be within the boundaries of the same election district as was his former residence as stated in the registers of said election district, the said. judges shall, in said registers, under the number or other description of the dwelling place to which such person has removed, enter his name and in the several columns opposite and against the same, such words and figures as prior to the striking from or erasing of the name of such person in the manner in this section above provided, were in the column similarly headed and opposite to and

other place, but within

district.

Form of certificate of removal

against the name of each person as upon said reg-
isters, it appeared under the dwelling place from
which he shall have declared he has removed; and
if the dwelling place to which
such person
shall have removed shall be within the boundaries

any

of
any other election district than was the residence
under which he was previously entered on said
registers, the said judges of election shall fill up,
sign, and deliver to such person a certificate which
shall be known as a certificate of removal, and
shall be in the words and figures following, to-wit:

., heretofore residing at. in this election district, has been by us, the judges of election in this district, stricken from the register of this district, and the proper erasures made, upon oath of removal and at the request of said abovementioned person; and that upon the registers of this election district were entered as to him the following statement: