Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-12-05

such city or town, and copy to be filed
in the office of the clerk there Of.
q. The mayor and alderman of such
city, aud the board of civil authority of
such town. shall hold a meeting at some
convenient place therein, within ten days
of such annual city, town and freemen's
meeting, and shall be in session resona.
BILE time to hear and determine al altera.
tions to be made in such list Of voters; and
may examine upon oath all persons claim
ing the right to vote and they may re-
quire the production of the natural.
lzation papers of all naturalized cit
zens Aud it shall be their duty to in.
sert upon said list lelt in the city or town
clerks Office as aforesaid, the name of
every legal voter omitted, and erase there
from the name of every person not legally
entitled to vote. And notice Of the time
and place Of their meeting shall be given
| by said aldermen and selectmen, by at
taehing such notice to the copies Of said
lists by them posted up, and lodged in
the clerks office as aforesaid. dar I.~
| So. The list of voters left IN said
city or town clerks office as provided in
the first section Of this act, shah be cor
rected as aforesaid at said meeting Of said
mayor andaldermen and board ofcivil au,
thority previous to the hour at which said
city, town, or freemen's meeting is called,
and shall be taken and deemed the cor.
rected list of voters, and no alteration
shall thereafter be made thereon, except
to add thereto the names of such persons
as shall at such city, town or frcemen's s
meeting become qualified to vote
therein. And no person shall be allowed
to vote at such meeting or meetings,
whose name is not upon said list as cor
rected. and the vote of no person whose
name is upon said list shall be rejected
if resident or inhabitant Of said city or
town on the day on which said election
is he'd. Provided I: that ersons not resi-
dents Of such city or town, may vote for
state officers, members Of Congress, and
for county officers, if residents Of said
State, district or county. as now provided
by law, npon making oath, if required by
any legal voter in the town in which he
resides, when list of such meeting, thai
he is ailegal voter in the town in which
he resides, when list Of such voters shall
be made and kept by the city or town
clerks aforesaid. aI7 ,atefs et go,a-,.
Pas 4. Said list Of voters corrected as
aforesaid, shall be returned to the city or
town clerk aforesaid, who, or in his alb
sepce one Of lie aldermen OF such city or
selcctmen Of such town, shall have present
said corrected list, and shall check there
on the names Of all persons voting at such
city, town, or freemen's meeting. and
whose names may be thereon, by making
a mark opposite such name for each vote
cast, in such manner as to indicate for
what officer or officers said person voted,
, and no other check list Of such voters
whose names are on said list shall be re.
quired to be made; and the said check
list shall be fled in said city or towr
clerks office, and the original or copy
thereof duly certified, shall be treated II
all courts in this State as legal evidence
/, Of the fact, that the person therein refer
red TO- and whose name is checked o.
aforesaid, voted as indicated by sale
, check. +
S5. If any person, shall. directly o
indirectly, procure or cause to be procure'
the psme of any person to be Inserted OF
said list of voters, knowing such persol
not to be legal voter in the city tow
for which said list is made, or shall ait
), therein. be shall forfeit and pay a sun
not exceeding one hundred dollars to tn
use Of such town. aued dsm ~ .
!, e o. Ifany person shall. directly o
! indirectly, procure or cause to be procure
: = the name Of any person to be erased froI
: :, said list knowing him to be legal vote
!. ii such city or town, OF shall aid therei
: he shall be subject to the penalty prov
/ dcd in the preceding section Of this act
a. S T.. If any person shall knowingl
e. falsely swear or affirm to any act or ma
gn ter which may bo the subject Of inqu''
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