The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-03-24
AC CASS COUNTY, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY MARCH a. 1859

original, the same or certified copy
thereof shall be used in its stead.
Sec. 7. AT the close Of their session
the board or the members who made
the registration in the particular ward
shall sign the list, adding the date Of
their signature, and shall Immediately
deposit the same for safe keeping with
the city clerk, who shall carefully pre-
serve the same in his Office until deliv
cred as hereinafter provided.
Sec. s. At any such general, special
or charter election in the city, and as
soon at least as the roll in each ward is
opened, the city clerk shall cause the
proper register to be placed in the hands
of the inspectors of election, to be
used by them during the same, and re.
turned to the city clerk Immediately
thereafter. And they shall not receive
the vote of any person whose name is
not written therein but if any person
shall offer and claim to vote at such
election, whose name is not so regis.
tered, his name may be registered by
the clerk of the election, under the
direction of the inspectors, upon the
same terms and conditions hereinafter
described, for the like cases arising at
elections in townships, substituting
acard for township. And both the APP
plicants and the qualified elector shall
be subject to the same penalties pre-
scribed in cases so arising.
REGISTRATION IN TOWNSHIPS.
Sec. 8. 1t shall be the duty of the
board of registration in each township
to wit: The supervisor, treasurer, and
clerk thereof, and in case of the alb
sense Of any of them, or his inability
to serve, the justice of the peace not
holding the office of supervisor or town
clerk, whose term of office will first ex-
pire, to provide, at the expense Of the
township, the like book for their town
ship for the purpose of the like regis
tration of the qualified electors thereof,
to be arranged in the same manner,
save that in cases where the elector
does not reside within the limits of an
incorporated village, a description of his
residence may be omitted; but in case
he resides within such limits and in the
township, description of his residence
by the street, and the number of the
dwelling, or other brief but ineligible
method; and the names of such resi-
dent electors of the village shall be
written in said register in list separ-
ate and distinct, from those of other
electors of the townships, so as to ex-
hibit correct registration for the vii
lage, which list shall be called the viI-
ldge election register.
REGISTRATION IN TOWNSHIPS IN 1859.
Sec. 10. At the annual meeting OF
each township on the first Monday OF
April in the year one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine, the township
Treasurer shall, at place as near as
practicable to that of the meeting and
of convenient access to the electors,
have said book or register in readiness
for the entry of their names, and each
qualified electOr residing in the proper
place in said register, if able and will
ling to do so, or the Treasurer shall.
upon request made in his presence by
the elector personally, write the name
of such electors in the proper place
And i'm all cases under this act the
board or the members therof, receiving
or making the entry Of name, shall
note, or cause to be acted the day and
year thereof During such township
meeting and during all future sessions
of the board the township poll list ot
the next preceding general election ol
township meeting shall be before him
or them for their better information in
making the registration, to be returned
to the clerk at the close of the meeting
or the session. The supervisor or 9th
er person or persons charged by law
with the assessment of property in the
township for the purpose of State taxa
ton, shall, while making such assess
ment and in connection with the per-
formance of that duty, in the year one
thousand eight hundred fifty-nine, have
with him the said register and shall al
low each qualified elector residing in
the township, whose name has not been
entered therein, to write the same OF
shall himself, at the like personal re-
quest of the elector, write the same
therein at the proper place, AID shall,
after completing his valuation of prop
erty and on or before the first day fixed
by law for reviewing his assessment,
deposit said register with the township
clerk, who shall carefully keep and pre-
serve the same in his office.
a Sec. H. After the year one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine, it shall be
the right of any such qualified elector
residing in the township and entitled to
vote at the next election therein, and
whose name has not been registered, on
any day except Sundays, the days OF
the session of the board of registration
and the days intervening between them
and the next approaching election, tc
apply to the township clerk in person
for the registration of his name, and if
upon such examination as is required
by the next following section of this
act, the clerk shall be satisfied thai
such applicant is resident of the
township and otherwise qualified and
entitled to vote at such township at the
next election to be held therein, the
name of such applicant shall be writer
either by himself or the clerk upon {
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