Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-01
" ENING STAR.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

10 mi AXE q list OF all persons In the severai
wards and precincts Of each ward in this city
subject to the school tax, and make a like list
annually at the time they assess to the taxa
BILE property of the city that is to say, they
shall ASCERTAIN the correct name OF every free
white male citizen of the United States Of the
age Of twenty one years and upwards who re-
side in this city at the time Of making said
list. or who win be of that age prior to the
thirty first day of December next preceding
the day Of election; and shall carefully pre-
pare, make out, and return to the Register
true and alphabetical lists of all such persons
in each ward and precinct Of each ward, and
none others.
Section two requires at the assessors shall
not enter upon said list the name of any per
SON or persons not known to be residents of
this city, or upon evidence under oath that
said person or persons reside in this city at
that time; and that they shall not enter on
said list the name OF any person or persons py
proxy, except on the oath of the person pre-
senting such name or names that the person
or persons whose name or names may be pre-
sented for registration is resident OF the
at that time.
Section three requires that the assessorsshall
have all oaths which may be required under
this act administered by justice of the peace
or some competent person, and shall hle all
such anidavits with the Register, whose duty
it shall be to carefully preserve the same.
Section four makes it the duty Of the as
SCISSORS annually to meet at some proper place
in their respective ward daily from ten ocloek
a. m. 20 three O'Clock p m, from the fifteenth
to the thirty first day Of December, inclusive,
Sundays and Christmas day excepted,) for
the purpose of correcting such errors as may
be brought to their notice and adding thereto
the names of such persons as may have been
omitted therefrom which said lists, after the
said corrections and additions, If any, shall
have been made by the said board, shall, on
the said thirty-frst day Of December then
present, be returned by the said Assessors to
the Register; and the said lists, so corrected
and added to and returned, shall be, and they
are hereby declared to be, the true and correct
return of all persons in this city subject to the
school tax for the year ending on the said
thirty-frst day Of December; after which il
shall rot be lawful for the Board of Assessors,
nor for any assessor, nor any other person
whatever, to strike any name from the said
lists or to add thereto the name of any person,
except as hereinafter provided, or to change
or alter the names on said lists in any respect;
and it is hereby made the duty of the Regis
ter to carefully preserve said lists 80 as to pre-
vent any such interference with them; and
any person who shall violate this section By
striking from, adding to, or altering the names
on said lists shall be liable to a fine CT not
less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars
for every offence, to be recovered and applied
as other fines of this Corporation are recovered
and applied; and if the said Assessors, or
either Of them, shall refuse or wilfully neg
lect to make return of any person subject to
the school tax as required by this act, they,
or the one 50 offending, shall be liable to a
fine Of not less than twenty nor moro than
fifty dollars, to be collected and applied as
other fines Of this Corporation are collected
and applied.
Al r..
heading thereof, and provides for having
printed copies distributed in the different
ward.
Section six makes it the duty Of the Regis
ter TO have prepared at least ten days prior
to every regular annual election day and ive
days prior to any special election day, fair
and correct copies of the lists of all persons
subject to the school tax in each ward and
precinct in this city for the year ending on
the preceding thirty first day of December, az
returned by the Board of Assessors under this
act, for the use of the commissioners of cleo
ton, and to be by him delivered to them be-
fore six o'clock on the morning Of the day of
election; and if the Register shall fail or omit
to prepare and deliver to the said commits
sioners fair and correct copies Of said lists, al
phabetically arranged, for each precinct Of
each ward, as herein provided, he shall, for
every such failure or omission, be liable to q
fine Of not less han twenty-five nor more than
fifty dollars, to be recovered and applied a.
other fines CT this Corporation are recovered
and applied.
Section seven provides that no part of this
act shall be so construed as to prohibit the Re-
gister from transferring the name Of any per.
sOn On the list Of any ward or a precinct of q
ward from that to another ward, he making
an entry on the list to what ward or precinct
Of the ward said person may be 80 transferred;
and it is hereby made his duty to make the
said transfer, and upon his refusal to do so he
shall be liable to fine of not less than TWEEN
ty nor more than fifty dollars; provided it
shall be done five days prior to the day OF
election.
Section eight requires that nothing in the act
shall prevent any person from voting at any
election who may be returned by the Asses
sOrs according to the provisions Of the third
section Of this act, if in transcribing, copying,
or making out lists of persons entitled to vote
for the use Of commissioners Of elections OF
for other purposes, errors Of any kind or omis.
siOns be made by the Register, or any one en-
ployed by or under him, by which such person
may be deprived of bis vote.
Section nine repeats any act Inconsistent
with the provisions of this act
TEE CHEsAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL, if the
business Of Georgetown and the lower end of
the line generally is to be the criterion. is
Just now doing next to nothing. The value
ard Importance Of the coal trade that has
been thus far developed through the canal,
demand that stoppages from causes so rene.
diable as low water, shall not take place.
Surely the experience of the past is amply
sufficient to prove the necessity Of attention to
the dams along the river as a thing beyond
question, and We believe that money can al
ways be had for purposes 80 Indispensable.
Numbers Of coal vessels are waiting cargoes
both at Georgetown and Alexandra, of course
at great expense Of time and money. At all
events, a time Of low water should be made
the most Of to discover and repair defects in
the condition Of the dams. Vigilance and en-
cry are essential to the faithful discharg of
duty in relation to a great public work like
this canal, on which so many interests depend.
IatetltgeHesr.
To BE REMEMBERED was the day Of enjoy
ment had at Arlington, yesterday, by the pri-
vate picnic party there assembled. The loss
Of the fine old oak, which shading the spring
50 long had come to be regarded as personal