Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1844-07-04


towns in this State shall meet in their respective
towns at such convenient place as they may APP
no;nt ON Monday of the week preceding tue week
on which the meetings specified IN the prece0ing
section of this Act are to be holden having gwen az
Iost tyvn DAYS previous notice thereby by posting
the same on the posts ntheirrespe towns
And said board may adjourn from time TO tlme' out
shall be in session, if necessary on Saturday next
nrecedng said electors meeting, from 10 O'clock
4 M to o'clock P. M, and longer IT necessary tor
the properdscharge of their duties. Ilts e
Sec. 3. Said board shall be organized and sworn
in the manner provided in the Act entitled " An
Act to provide for the Registration Of the Names
ofthe Electors of this State"-they shall nave De-
fore them copy Of the list OF electors gual,neo 20
vote in said town, and which was used at the next
preceding electors meeting IN SAID town: ana snsAl
during said week, have the same power 20 correct
and revise said list, and to examine and decide up
on an applications to be admitted an elector, and TO
oJmneter the oath to those SO found to be quallh.
ed az they now by law have during the week next
preceding the first Monday OF April an each
year. .-.,.ol, ,,o.adL
inc snch congressional election, while the board
are NOT in session, said list, as altered by thems
shall be left in the Office of the town clerk Tor pup
lie inspection y.lE a. =. 2
Of such congressional election al Ihe page w1ele
election is held and before the opening OF Inc elec
tors meeting, for the purpose of admitting ana reg
stering as electors those applicants legally quail
fed to he so admitted but no person whose name
has been refused registration at any feraee meeting
of the board authorized by this Act, snau pc
oermitted to make application tor the registration
Of his name at said session.
Src. 6. Duplicate copies of said corrected lists
sball he made-authenticated by the signatures OF
said hoard. or majority Of them--one OF Whlcn
shall on the Saturday next proceeding the Gay OF
said congressional election be lodged IN the once
l.<s
other SHALL before the opening OF the Poiis on tne
Sav of said meeting, be delivered to the presiding
~feer thereof who shall conform thereto lnreceav-
inc the votes of the electors at such meeung' Tex
cent so far as the same may be altered IN the man
ner hereinafter prescribedl and he shall recetyes
the votes Of all persons whose names arg Fpn saiu
list and he shall not receive the votes persons
whose names are act on said lists. And the names
ofthe electors voting shall be checked IN the man
ner prescribed in the Act entitled "An act 10 pro-
vide for the Registration Of the Names OF the Elec-
ors of this State " and said list and checks tnere-
on shall be preserved In the manner sPecnea ~
said Act. And said board shall be IN session du-
ring the time of voting, for the purposes only
which are specified in the proviso to the l4th sec
ton Of said Act. -.
SEC. 4. Said board, whiic in session under the
provisions of this Act, shall examine witnesses ana
applicants under oath, II they snail .nsre.o De -,
ouired by any elector ofsad town; and any person
SO examined who shall be guilty Of wilful false
swearing. upon conviction thereof shall suffer the
punishment prescribed by law for the crime OF per-
jury as &c
this Act shall be punished in the manner provided
for the like offences in the Act entitled can Act to
provide for the Registration Of the names OF the
Electors of this State" s..g 10 IS *, s5t.
SEC. 9. All Acts and parts of acts relating TO
election and the Admission OF electors inconslst-
sent herewith, are hereby repealed. s~s.
Approved, June 6, 1sit. S 59pq1zs44.e
An act concerning courts. - A.
fSEc. /. Be it enacted By the Senate and Eous.
That whenever any Judge of County Court shat
be legally disqualified to act as judge IN any &C.
Yion bending before said court which IS appeala
BILE, either party shall have power to remove SAID
cause to the next Supreme Court in the county up
on giving bond with surety to the adverse party
to prosecute such removal to effect and the party
so removing said cause shall enter the same In the
Superior Court in the same manner as Is by law
proyided in case Of appeals and such Superior
Court shall have power to proceed to final judge.
ment in said cause, in the same manner as II said
cause had been brought there BY appeal 80, -,
shall be legally disqualified to act as judge an any
matter pending before him, provided the parties or
their attornies shall file written agreement to
waive all objections to his acting in such matter,
such Judge may thereupon proceed to hear and try
the same. f s7 lt 7a t.t n t5~
SEC. 3. IF such Judge shall not act in such matter
under the provisions Of the preceding section, or If
he shall decline to try any matter pending before
him, by reason of his having been council therein
or for other sufficient reason, the same may be
heard and tried before any justice of the peace for
the county wherein such court is held, to be named
by such Judge Provided, the parties outheir ator-
MES shall file their written consent that such ust-
ces may so act NJ .engj
Sec. S. In all the cases mentioned in the two
preceding sections of this Act if any matter shall
not be heard and decided under the provisions there
Of the same shall be heard and decided by one Of
the county commissioners for said county, to be no
tilted by the clerk Of the coart. go rae
Sec. S. All acts and parts OF acts inconsistent
herewith, are hereby repealed. 'n gltIta
Approved, June 6, 1914. y
Lynch;ng at yNauuoo.- I'VE mentioned the 9TH
er day that some of the Mormons, who had turned
against 10 Smith, were about establishing paper
at Nauvoo, for the avowed purpose Of exposing his
immoralties and crimes. The new paper was cal
led the Expositor. II had but brief EXISTENCE
The city council of Nauvoo, alarmed for holy JOS
character met on the 10th inst, and declared the
paper a nuisance, whereupon the city marshal,
at the head Of the police seized the press type, SC
ana burnt and demolished the whole in the street.
affairs at NaucOo.--Great excitement was pro-
siuced at Warsaw by the news ofthe destruction Of
the Office Of the Nauvoo Expositor, and handful
was issued inviting an appeal to arms Writs were
procured at Carthage, the county seat of Hancock
county the officers despatched to Nauvoo to arrest
the persons concerned in the outrage. But this,
remarks the St. Louis Republican, we venture to
saw. will not be done. The law is powerless for
good in that region A rumor prevailed at War