The clerk compiled the official register from a list of all voters who voted at least once in the past two years. The registration agents updated the register and turned it over to the election judges to record ballot numbers on the day of election. The register was then returned to the county clerk for comparison when canvassing the election. Thereafter, the register was to be filed in the clerk's office for use in preparing a new register for the next election. The registers are arranged numerically by district number.
Entries are alphabetical by the first letter of the voter's surname.
The 1983 schedule calls for registers of years ending in six to be microfilmed and destroyed, with other years being discarded. The registers present included those between 1955 and 1963, but 1956 was missing. Therefore, the 1960 registers were saved as a sample with the others discarded. Processed by A. C. Cone in 1989.