The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-03-24

cant 10 the clerk so causing MS name 10
be entered upon such seperate paper,
knowing or having good reason to be-
lieve himself not to be such resident
and qualified to vote in such township
at the then next election, shall, upon
conviction thereof, be punished by fine
and imprisonment as provided in the
thirteenth section of this act.
REGISTRATION IN TOWNSHIP AFTER
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Sec. II. On the Saturday next pre-
ceding the general election, the annual
township meeting and preceding any
special election after the year one thou
sand eight hundred and fifty-nine, the
board of registration of each township
clerk, from nine o'clock in the forenoon
until FIVE o'clock in the afternoon for
the purpose of completing the list of
qualified electors; during which session
it shall be the right of each and every
person, who, at the next approaching
election or township meeting, may be
a qualified elector and entitled to vote
thereat, and whose name duly entered
on said register, which shall be done in
the manner above set forth. The
board shall have the power and the duty
of the clerk and of the supervisors in
dividually, when acting under this
statute, to question every person pre-
senting himself for registration, touch
ing bis residence and his other qualif-
cations as an elector of the township !:
and it shall be the duty of the appli-
cant to make truthful answers to all
such questions. And the board, super
visor, clerk, or treasurer, as the case
may be, may, for the more perfect ex-
animation of the applicant swear and
employ an interpreter truly and impair
TALLY to interpret such questions and
answers. And if anO such applicant
shall in his answers make any material
statement which is false, he shall, upon
conviction thereof, pay fine of not
more than one hundred dollars, nor less
than five dollars and be imprisoned in
the county jail not more than thirty nor
less than five days.
Sec. 13. The name of no person but
an actual resident of the township at
the date of the registration, and enti-
tied under the constitution if remaining
such resident to vote at the then next
election or township meeting shall be
entered in the register. Neither the
board nor any member thereof, shall
write or enter therein the name of any
person, nor suffer him to write or enter
his name therein, whom they know or
have good reason to believe not to be
such resident and so qualified; nor shall
any person, knowing or having good
reason to believe himself not to be such
resident and SO qualified, write his
name therein and every porson SO of
Tending shall, upon conviction, pay for
each offense fine of not more than
five hundred nor less than twenty-five
dollars, and be imprisoned in the coun-
ty jail.no more than three months nor
less than ten days.
Sec. IA. At such election or town
ship meeting, and as soon at least as
the poll is opened, the township clerk
shall cause the register to be placed in
the hands of the inspectors of the elec-
ton, to be used by them during the
election, and to be returned to the clerk
Immediately thereafter; and they shall
not receive the vote of any person
whose name is not written thereon.
But in case any person shall offer and
claim the right to vote whose name is
not registered, his name may then be
registered by the clerk, under the direc-
ton of the inspectors, upon the terms
and conditions following: One of the
inspectors shall administer to him an
oath in the following form viz You do
solemnly swear that you will true an
swers make to such question as shall be
asked you touching your qualifications
as an elector at this poll, so help you
God, or an affirmation to the same eff
feet, which oath or affirmation, if he be
unable to understand the English Ian
guage, may be interpreted to him by
an inspector, which inspector shall also
interpret his answers to the inspectors.
If, in his answers on oath, that he shall
state positively that he has resided in
the township ten days next preceding
said election, designating particularly
the place of his residence, and that he
possesses the other qualifications of an
elector under the constitution, stating
such qualification; and shall, further
more, swear that owing to the sickness
or bodily infrmity of himself or of
some near relative, risiding in the same
household (giving the name of said re-
lative, or, owing to his absence from
the township, on public or official busi-
ness, or on his own business, and with
out intent to avoid OF delay his regis
tration, during the then last session of
the board, he has been prevented from
causing his name to be previously regis
tered; and if, Furthermore, some quail
fed elector of the township, and not a
candidate for any Office at that election
shall take an oath before said inspec-
tors, which oath any one of them may
administer, that he is well acquainted
with such applicant, that he has in fact
resided in the township ten days pre-
vious TO such election, and that he the
freeholder, has good reason to believe
and does believe, that all the statements
of the said applicant are true, the in
spectors may, in their discretion, direct
the clerk to register his name in the
proper place, with the proper date; and
if such applicant or such qualified cleo
tor shall in said matter willfully make
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