Litchfield enquirer., 1860-08-30

.t Sslu a,,d Hooker, and extending from the middl
 of said bridge directly west to the town ine shal 1 be and remain in the First District.
 That portion of said town thst lies nc hwardly of said district. as above described, shall be ane remain the Second District. :. So much of said town as lies southwardly of said first district. as above described, shall De ana fe man the Third District.
 Sec 2, That the town of Middletown IS nereDF divided into four districts for the purpose of ac- co,nmodatine the electors of said town in voting at the electors meeting in said town, VIZ: so much of said town within the limits of the city oI Middletown as lies north of a line commencing at pont on the Connecticut river, opposlte tue centre of College street, and running tn,nce through the centre of College street 10 hISn street. and thence due west unt! u lnei east linc Inf Saddle Hill School District, and also the Newfelds School District and the two sclooi districts in Saddle Hill shall be and remain 'ne
 So mncb of said town as is included witn,n 'iie remaining part of the city, together Mi.n m .,l1 mainder of the late First School oo0io' n;nt.;"a tou,n SboI, he and remain the Second DistIlct 'oSn, s.ia f So;d town as is included in the late ,,;Jd1aGeld School Society, shall be and remain
 nS So much of said town as is included in the late West6eld School Society, shall be and remain the Fourth District. ,,:,.,o4
 
 next: tie electors meeting herein provided TOT, snall' in addition to the warning now requifeu oy h'"' give notice therein, that ballot boxes Will peo open ed in the several districts aforesaid TOT .ne tion of the votes of the electors Of sald to"ns e siding in said districts, according to the pfo'lS ions of this act. , o4;,o, for state officers and other officers. required py law ,o be voted for at such meetings, and at the eieo. ors meetings for the election of electors ot prcS- dent and vce-president of the United states, 'iie electors of said towns shall give in their paiiots for such officers are required ty la" u oo D
 lotted for at such meetings. Ill the several uis- tricts wherein the electors respectively reslae.
 Sec. 5. The selectmen of said towns shall pro vide suitable and convenient places tor young at such electors meetings in each of such ois',lG's and shall give notice thereof at least one week be- fore the day of such meeting and they shaii pro yide for the use of said electors at sad meetin9s' the necessary ballot boxes tor the pntPose, 'i no ceiying the votes of the electors in the said seve ral districts, which ballot boxes shall be used Ill said districts in the same manner as is now pro vidcd by law.
 Sec. 6. At such electors meeting in said towns, the presiding officer in eath town who shall be chosen in the manner now provided by law, snail preside at the rlace of voting in the first district, w" II shall designate for his assistance in the duties of his said office, assistant presiding officer in | each of the other districts, who shall be resi- dent of the district in which he is appointed tc act, who shall preside at the place of voting in said district to which he is designated, and who shall have all the powers and perform all the dl ties, within said district, of the presiding officer at electors meetings, except herein otherwise provided.
 Sec 7. Immediately after the ballot boxes are cosed the presiding officer in each of said towns, and his assistant in the several districts, shall with the aid of the civil authority then present, and such other persons as he may select, proceed in their respective districts to sort and count the ballots which have been given in in said districts and said assistant presiding officers shall each make true certificate of all the ballots given for the respective officers in said districts and shall forthwith transmit such certificates together wi h the ballots received, and the halot-boXes contain ing the same, and the list of votes as checked, to the presiding officer in the first district; and thereupon, the presiding officer in said first dis trict, after having ascertained the result of the ballots in the whole town as given in the several districts as aforesaid shall declare the same in open meeting. And said presiding officer, in each of said towns, shall make out the list of votes given in said town and make return thereof n the manner now prescribed by law for presiding officers of electors meetings
 Sec 8. That at each annual town meeting held for the choice of town officers in the towns of Hartford, New Haven and Middletown, which town officers are hereby directed to be voted for by the electors of said towns in their respective voting districts, the legal voters of said to"n> shall choose, by general ticket two electors le siding in each voting district of said town to be registrars of voters for the year ensuing, for their respectiye districts but no person shall vote for more than one of said registrars for each of said voting districts, and the two persons having the highest number of votes for registrars of each dis trict shall be declared elected. And said regis trars shall at least three weeks before the day of holding any election for the choice of state officers or for the choice of electors for president and vice nresi,lent of the United States, prepare list, nearly perfect as practicable, Of the names of all the electors who are entitled to vote at the ensu- inc election in the districts for which said regis trars are respectively elected which names shall bealphabetically arranged, and, opposite the name of each person in said list, the of the street in which he resides, and the number of his place of residence in said street or its location therein as nearly as may be shall be written. And said lists shall be published by said registrars in venient form. and be circulated by them in their respective election districts. And said registrars shall, in said printed list give notice of the time when and the places where they will hold at least four meetings within the twelve days next follow ing the publication of said lists of voters for the purpose of making any proper corrections by ad ditiOns, ensures, or other alterations in said lists ; and at least one week before the day of holding either of said elections, said registrars shall publish corrected lists of all those who already entitled to vote at either of said elections and those who claim to said registrars that they shall be legally entitled to become voters at the ensuing election and who claim that their legal qualifications will mature subsequently to the completion of said corrected lsts which last list shall be under the title {" To be made ;' and they shall give copy of such corrected list to any elector asking for the same. and shall deposit a certified copy of the same in the town clerk s office Sec. 9. Whenever the registrars aforesaid in the performance o their duties, shall find any elcctor of this state residing in their respective districts who may be entitled to vote in their respective districts, who may have been duly admitted an elector in some other town, and who shall present certificate from the town clerk of said town, oi that fact to said registrars, said registrars shall after having received said certificate and satisfied themselves of the identity of the person claim ing to be admitted such elector, enter the name and residence of such elector on their respective lists, and add thereto the words "by certificate | from -" theren naming the town from which such electors certificate came J but the name of no elector shall he added to such list unless, in addition to proof that he is legally qualified elector of this state he shall also furnish proof il
 required that he has resided in said town where said registrars reside, the period of four months next immediately preceding the day of the ensu ing election And said registrars may, on the day of election, add in writing the name and resi-. dence of any elector which may have been omit
 ted by mistake or inadvertence, fraud or clerical error. and may erase from said lists the names o any persons who were not legally entitled to vote at said election prouidtd, that no such names shall be added or erased, unless upon consent oi both the registrars of said district: and no per son shall be allowed to vote for any officer, at any