The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-14

| the list taken from the once as aIOre-
said, shall be filed by said Board in
the office of the Township Trustee, in
the precinct, in which said election
precinct may be; or if such election
precinct is in city, then it shall be
filed ia The Office Of the City Clerk OF
said city; and one copy of said list
shall be kept by each of said judges
and Inspectors. and carefully pre-
served by him for their use on the
day or days hereinafter mentioned, for
the revision and correction of the
same. One copy of said list shall,
Immediately after its completion, be
posted in some conspicuous place
where the last preceding election in
said precinct was held, and be Access
sible to any elector who may desire to
examine the same or make copies
thereof. $3.50
Sec. 5. Any person who shall take
down, tear down, or deface any list,
so posted, shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor, and shall be punished
by fine of fifty dollars. or by impris-
onment in the county Jail for the term
of sixty days, or by both fine and i'm
prisonment. The Board may, in their
discretion, cause printed copies of said
list to be posted up in such places as
they may direct, and may cause the
same to be published in some news
paper in the county in which such
precinct is situated, at an expense not
exceeding one cent for each name on
said list.
Sec. 6. In case new election pre-
cinct shall be formed by the organiza-
ton of new township, or by the
division of any township or ward, or
in the Incorporation of city or town,
the Judges or Inspectors of the cleo
ton in the new precinct thus. formed
may make their registry of electors
on the day prescribed by this act, in
such manner as a majority of them
may direct, and for that purpose may
make a list, or cause to be made, a
certified copy Of the poll list, or lists,
of the district in which such new
district is situated, or they may dis
pense with such list or lists, and pro-
ceed to make register of electors
from the best means at their COM
mand. Said lists shall only embrace
the names of such persons as are
known to them to be electors in their
district, and shall be posted up, and
copies thereof made, as prescribed in
the preceding section, and shall be
corrected in the same manner that
other lists are corrected.
SEC. z. The said Board shall again
meet on Tuesday of the week pre-
ceding the said elections, in their re-
spective election districts, at the place
designated for holding the polls of the
election, for the purpose of revising,
correcting, and completing said lists,
and for this purpose, in cities, they
shall meet at eight o'clock in the
morning and remain in session until
| nine o'clock, p. NJ, of that day, and
the day following; and in other dis.
tricts they shall meet at nine o'clock
in the morning, and shall remain Ia
session until four o'clock, P. NJ, of
that day ~
SEC. 5. The proceedings of said
Board shall be open, and all persons
residing and entitled to vote in said
precinct, shall be entitled TO be heard
BY said Board in relation to correc-
tions or addition to said register. One
of The lists so kept by the Judges or.
Inspectors as aforesaid, shall be used
by them, on the day or days of max
ing corrections or additions, for the
purpose Of completing the registry for
such precincts, II; ~. 5, ..@.s.,.
Sec. 9. 1t shall be- the duty of said
Board, at their meeting for revising
and correcting said lists, to erase the,
name of any person inserted therein,
who shall be proved by the oath of
the satisfactf laid Board, to be
a non-resider said precinct, or
otherwise not ehtitlgd to vote, in said
precinct, at the election then to be
held. Any elector residing in. said
precinct, and entitled to. vote therein,
may appear before said Board and
require his name to be recorded, on
/ said alphabetical list. Any person so
requiring his name to be so. entered on
said lists, shall make the same State
ment, as to the street and number
thereof, and where he resides, re-
+ CURED by the provisions of this act of
persons offering to vote at cleo.
|, tons, and shall be subject to
I the same penalties for refusing to
give such information, or falsely
| giving the same, and shall also
be subjected to challenge, either
by the Judges, or Inspectors, or either
of them, or by any other elector
whose name appears on said alphabet
ical list; and the same oaths may be
administered by the Judges or In
spectors as now provided in case of
persons offering to vote at an cleo
ton, and in case no challenge is made
of any requiring his name to be en-
tered on said alphabetical list, or in
case of challenge, if such person shall
make oath that would entitle him to
vote in case of challenge at an cleo