Litchfield enquirer., 1861-08-15


 presiding officer in each of the other dis tricts, who shall be resident of the dis trict in which he is appointed to act, who shall preside at the place of voting in said district in which he is designated, and who shall have all the powers and perform all the duties, within said district, of the presiding officer at electors meetings, ex- cept as herein otherwise provided for.
 SEC. 6. Immediately after the ballot boxes are closed, the presiding officer in said town, and his assistants in nthesever- al districts shall, with the aid of tho 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 district; and said assistant presiding of: fcers shall each make true certificate o1 all the ballots given for the respective officers in said districts, and shall forth with transmit such certificates, together with the ballots received, and the ballot boxes containing the same, and the list of votes as checked, to the presiding officer in the first district; and thereupon tine presiding officer in said first district, af- ter having ascertained the result of the ballots in the whole town, as given in the several districts as aforesaid, shall de- clare the same in open meeting. And said presiding officer in said town shall make out the list of votes given in said | town, and make return thereof in the manner now prescribed by law for presid- ing officers at electors meetings.
 SEC. z. That at each annual town meet ing, held for the choice of town officers, in the town of Hartford, the legal voters of said town shall choose, by general tick ct, two electors residing in said town, 1 to be registrars of voters for the year en- suing, for the said several districts, but no person shall vote for more than one of l said registrars, and the two having the highest number of votes for registrars of said town shall, at least three weeks be- fore the day of holding any election, for the choice of state officers, or for the choice of electors of president and vice president of the United States, or for choice of town officers, prepare list, as nearly perfect as is practicable, of the names of all the electors who are entitled to vote at the ensuing election in the sev- eral districts, which names shall be alph- abetically arranged, and opposite the name of each person in said list, the name of the street in which he resides, and the number of his residence in said street, or its location therein, as nearly as may be, shall be written. And the place of such residence shall be in the district wherein such person has his place of lod- ging at the time of such registration And said lists shall be published by said registrars in a convenient form, and be circulated by them in the respective cleo tion districts. And said registrars shall in said printed list, give notice of tho time when and the places where they will hold at least four meetings within the twelve days next following the publica. tion of said lists of voters, for the purpose of making any proper corrections, by ad- dition, 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 are already entitled to vote at either of said elections, and those who claim to said registrars that they shall be legally entitled to become votersat the ensuing election ,andwho claim that their legal qualifications will mature subsequently to the completion of said correctedlists, which last list shall bcunder the title '' to be made'; and they shall give copy of such corrected lists to any eleotor asking for the same, and shall de- posit certified copy of the same in the town clerks office.
 SEC. 8. Whenever the registrars afore- shall find any elector of this State resid- ;,, +I, rl have been duly admitted an elcctor in some other town, and may be entitled to vote in their respective districts, and who shall present certificate from the town clerk of said town, of that fact, to said re- gistrars, said registrars shall, after hav- ing received said certificate and satisfied themselves of the identity of the person so claiming to have been admitted such elector, enter tho name and residence of such elector on their respective lists, and add thereto the words "by certificate from -" (thcrein naming the town from which such electors certificate came;) but the name of no elector shall be added to such list unless, in addition to proof that he is legally qualified elector of this state, he shall also furnish proof, if required, that he has or will have resided in said town where said registrars reside, the period of four months next immedi- ately proceeding the day of the ensuing election. And said registrars may, on the day of election, add in writing the name and residence of any elector which may have been omitted by mistake or in advertence, fraud or clerical error, and may erase from said lists the names of any persons who were not entitled to vote at said election; prorided, that no such names shall be added or erased, unless upon consent of both of the registrars |: and no person shall be allowed to vote for any officer, at any election holden within said town, whose name is not on said re- gistry lists in the district where he offers to vote; prorided, that whenever said reg istrars shall refuse to add the name of any elector to said lists, or shall erase the name of any elector who claims right to vote at said election, such elector may ap- peal from the decision of said registrars to the board of selectmen, and said regis reasons of their refusal, when the appeal is taken; and the board of selectmen shall examine, under oath, such elector, and such other persons, as may appear as witnesses, either in behalf of or against his claims; and if such elector shall prove to the satisfaction of the board of select men, that his name was omitted from the registry list by fraud or clerical error, they may direct the registrars to add his name to said registry list.
 SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of each re- gistrar, immediately after his election, to appoint deputy registrar whose name and appointment shall be deposited with the town clerk of said town of Hartford, and shall be, by said town clerk, record ed on the town records, at the end of the record of the town meeting at which said | registrars were elected; and in case said registrar shall from any cause be unable to perform the duties of his office, then the deputy shall perform the duties of the office of registrar during the time of ina bility of the registrar to act and in case of the resignation or death of the regis trar, then said deputy registrar shall be- come the registrar, and shall immediately appoint another person to the office of de- putty registrar, which said appointment shall be duly recorded by the town clerk. SEC. 10. Each of said registrars shall also appoint an inspector of elections for each of said several voting districts ex- cept the first, which inspectors shall be electors residing in their respective dis.