Litchfield enquirer., 1855-08-02
port lying easterly of the Pequonnock river and Bridgeport harbor, shall be and remain

| Sec. 2. The constables of the town O
 Bridgeport, in warning the electors meet ings herein provided for. shall in addition
 to the warning now required by law. give notice therein that ballot boxes will be
 opened in the several districts aforesaid foI the reception of the votes of the electors ol
 said town, residing in said districts accord. ing to the provisions of this act.
 I Sec. 3. At the annual electors meeting for State officers and other officers, required by law 10 be voted for at such meetings, and
 at the electors meetings for the election ol
 electors of President and Vice President of the United States, the electors of said town
 of Bridgeport shall give in their ballots for
 such oflisers as are required by law to be
 ballofed for at such meetings. in the several
 districts wherein the electors respectively
 reside on the day of such election.-resi. dence for this purpose being where the elec-
 tor has lis usual place of lodging.
 And if any person shall vote for any of-
 fcer to he voted for at such meetings, in any district wherein he is not entitled to vote ny this act, he shall forfeit the sum of seventeen dollars to the treasury of the town of Bridgeport.
 Sec. 1. The selectmen of said town of Bridgeport shall provide suitable and con venient places for voting at such electors meetings in each of such districts, and shali give notice thereof at least one week before the day of such meetings; and they shall provide for the use of said electors at said meetings the necessary ballot boxes for the purpose of receiving the votes of the cleo tors in the said several districts, which bal lot boxes shall be used in the said districts in the same manner as is now provided in sections twenty aud twenty five of the act to which this is an addition.
 1 Sec. 5. At such electors meetings the presiding officer who shall be chosen under the provisions of section sixteenth of the 1 act to which this is an addition, shall preside at the place of voting in the First District. and the town clerk and selectmen of said | town shall designate for his assistance in 1 tine duties of his said office, an assistant presiding officer in each of the other districts, | who shall be a resident Of the district in | which he is appointed to act; who shall preside nt the place of voting in said district to which he shall be designated, and who shall have all the powers and perform all the duties within said district, of the pre- siding officer at electors meetings, except as herein otherwise provided.
 Sec. 6. The selectmen and town clerk Of said town of Bridgeport, shall meet in the 1 manner and for the purposes prescribed in the first section of ihe act to which this is ! an addition, on the day named in said sec- lion at such convenient place within said Eirss District as they may appoint, and on such other days within the same week, at such convenient place within each of the districts as they may appoint; of all of which said meetings notice shall he given in the manner provided in said first section of the ac, to which this is an addition: And during every electors meeting the said selectmen and town clerk shall be and re- main in session, from the opening of the ballot boxes to the closing of the same, at such convenient place as they may appoint, within said first district, for the purposes mentioned in the second section of the act to which this is an addition: And every per son admitted 10 the privilege of an elec,or in said town during said session, shall be entitled to receive certificate from the town clerk that he has been so admitted. and on his presenting the same to the presiding of- ficpr of the district where said elcctor resides. before the ballot box is closed, shall be entitled to vote in said district
 Sec. !. The town clerk of said town of Bridgeport, shall at least one week before the day of holding any electors meeting, prepare for each district list as nearly perfect as practicable, of the names of ali | the electors who are entitled to vote in said district. and of the officers for whom they may vote, the name of all tlH electors shall be duly arranged in alphabetical order and n written or printed copy, or copy part printed and part written thereof, with the boundaries of said distric, printed herewith, shall be posted in at least two public places within said district, at least six days before the day of holding the electors meeting; and to the list so prepared, said town clerk shall thereafter add the names of all per sons residing in the respective districts. as shall have been admitted electors, or found entitled to the privilege of voting under the provisions of the act to which this is an ad- di,ion. And said town clerk, shall he al- lowed and paid reasonable compensation by the town of Bridgeport, for his services l in preparing said list. and every elector of said town shall be entitled to demand and receive of said town clerk u copy or copies of said lists so prepared, on paying therefor the same fees as town clerks arc by law en- titled to receive for copies of records.
 Sec. 8. The presiding officer of each dis ,rict shall receive the ballots of all persons whose names are on the list prepared by the town clerk, for the district wherein sucl, officer Is presiding. unless the right of such person 10 vote in such district at such cleo ton is ischallenged. And whenever the vote of any such etector is challenged, it shall be the duty of the presiding officer to receive the same, if he is of tho opinion that such person is legal voier. and entitled to vote in said district, otherwise he shall reject said vote; but said presiding officer shall receive the vote of no person whose name Is not on said list, or who does not at the time of his offering to vote, presen, certificate from the
 town clerk that he is entitled 10 vote in said district.
 Sec. 9. If the vote of any person shall
 hc challenged as aforesaid, and shall he re-
 jecied by the presiding officer in any dis,rict,
 said person whose vote is thus rejected, mag
 refer his case. with the questions arising thereon, to the selectmen and town clerk, by whom the same shall Do immediately heard and datarminei and if saiA ealans,s..o an4