New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-11
THE NEW REGISTRY LAW.

to the City and County of New-York and to the
City of Brooklyn.
2. Provisions which are applicable to all cleo
ton districts in which any part Of an incorpo-
rate city or village is included.
The remainder of the State-districts which
form no part of city or incorporated village
remain under the former Registry Law, the act
of 1889
We herewith present such provisions OF the
law of 1865 as are applicable to the City and
County of New-York and to the City of Brook
lyn, reserving for another article the proviS-
ions applicable to the State at large.
During the months Of August and September
in each year, the Commissioners of Metropolitan
Police are to appoint four Inspectors of Registry
and of Elections and tro Canvasscrs of Votes for
each election district in the City and County OF
New-York, and within the same period of time
the Board of Supervisors of the City of Brooklyn
make similar appointments for each election dis
trict in the City of Brooklyn. The persons so
appointed are to be:
!. Qualified voters within the Assembly Dis
trict in which such election district is situated,
and liable to jury duty in courts Of record
therein
.. And be able to read, write and speak the
English language understandingly.
They are not required to be residents or voters
of the election district for which they are ap.
pointed. Such officers are exempt from military
and jury duty during the time they hold such
ofiice.t
The Board of Commissioners of Metropolitan
Police and the Board of Supervisors of the City
of Brooklyn, respectively, are to designate and
appoint polling-places and places for registry in
each election district in the City and County of
New-York and in the City of Brooklyn, and
give notice thereof to the Inspectors of Registry
and of Elections of such districts respectively.
The business of registry is to be carried on at
the places so designated. No building,o or part OF
a building, can be designated or used as place
of registry or polling place, in which, or in any
part Of which, spirituous or intoxicating liquor is
sold or has been sold, within sixty days next
place is to be designated or used in the City and
County of NewYork, or in the City Of Brook.
Ign, as a polling.place, unless the same be
lighted with gas, provided there be suitable
place then lighted with gas in the election dis
trict.
The Board of Registry also form the Board of
Inspectors for holding the elections and the law
contains stringent provisions as TO the discharge
of the several duties deyolving on the officers
which the law provides may be appointed.
Three meetings of the Board of Registry and
of Elections are provided for.
The first meeting is to be held on Tuesday
three weeks before the General Election, at the
place designated for holding the poll of the cleo
ton in the district. The Board organize for the
purpose of registering the names Of the legal
voters Of the district, and proceed to make list
Of all persons qualified and entitled to vote at
the ensuing election in the election district for
which they are inspectors. They have power to
sit two days if at the preceding General Flee
ton the number of voters in the district exceeded
four hundred. At this first meeting they are
to make the list Of electors of their district as
complete as practicable; it is to be true list
of the voters in the district, so far as the same
are known to the inspectors" A copy OF this
list is to be filed with the County Clerk within
two days after the first meeting.
The second meeting Of the Board is TO be held
on Friday Of the week preceding the day of the
General Election, for the purpose of revising
and correcting the list. They remain in session
two days.
The hird meeting Of the Board il to be held on
Monday, the day before the election, for the
purpose Of further correcting, revising, adding
to, substractng from, and completing the list
AT neither meeting of the Board of Registry
is the name Of any person to be added to the
list Except as provided for at the first meeting,
when the list is to be made as complete as prac-
ticable by Incorporating in it the names of all
legal voters in the election district who are
known to the inspectOrs) unless the person de-
string his name to be added appears in person
before the Board.
No vote can be received at any annual or
charter election in the City and County Of New
York or in the City Of Brooklyn, unless the
name OF the person offering to vote be on the
registry made and completed before the day of
election.
1t is not provided that the Boards of Registry
and Of Elections for the City and County of
New-York or for the City of Brooklyn may have
a clerk, nor is it provided that they may use the
poll-list used at the preceding general election