Litchfield enquirer., 1868-09-17

ten noiice shall have been left at the regis
 tered place of residence of tue person chal lenged, or personal notice be given him.
 at least twentyiour hours before one O.
 said sessions, and no person whose right i: contested as aforesaid shall be entered ol retained on the revised list without the consent of both registrars
 Sec. G. in case any registrar shall refuse
 to enter on tho list the name of any person claiming to he an elector of the town wherein lie resides, and to be entitled to registration on such list, after hearing as provided i'll the preceding section, or in case such registrar shall refuse to allow z name entered on the first list to remain
 thereon aftar such hearing, the person claiming such right may appeal to the board of selectmen and town clerk of sai6 town, upon giving notice to such registrar of his intention to appeal, Said board shall be ln session on Monday and Tuesday of the week before any electors meeting al nine o'clock i'll the forenoon, and shall re- main in session until five o'clock in the aftern oon of said days, if necessary but shall not be i'll session after said five o'clock, for the purpose only of hearing such appeals, and they shall give the same notice of said session as of sessions for the admission of electors The several regis
 
 the hearing Of appeals from them, and said board shall require the testimony under oath of at least one other elector to the qualifications of the person in dispute, and they shall receive the testimony under oath of such persons as the registrars may offer, touching such qualifications, and if after such hearing by them, D majority of sald board shall by vote declare that the person Ill dispute Is entitled to such regis tratlOn, he shall be registered, otherwise he shall not be registered; but said board shall not hear the application or appeal of any person who has not been placed upon by the registrars of his town or district and notice of appeal given US aforesaid.
 Sec. 7 Said registrars shall, on or before | "Wednesday of the week next preceding said electors meeting, deposit in the office of the town clerk the list with the names thereon, arranged alphabetically as revised and corrected by them, and certified by them on oath to be q correct list, and they shall retain q true copy thereof to be used Ill sald electors meeting for the pur- 1 pose Of checking the names of those who l vote. They shall place on said revised list l as electors, Ill their proper alphabetical or der, those on the first list 'tTo be made. D who have been admitted electors by the board of solectmen and town clerk, and 1 they shalt place on said revised list, under the title ''Io be made, those only whose rights appear by said first list not to have 1 matured at the last session of said board for admission. Said revised list, deposited in the office of the town cerh shall be care fully preserved in said office, and shall at all times be open to the Inspection of any elector, and any elector may tale copies thereof
 Sec. S. No person shall be entitled to registration CT to vote it. electors meeting Ill any town of this State, unless he shall have been duly admitted an elector of this State ln such town or shall have heretofore been duly admitted a voter in SUCH town on certificate from another town or unless he shall have resided ill this State one year and in such town six months next proceed ing such electors meeting, and shall be du- ly admitted an elector of this state in such town, but this statute shall not be con- strued to exclude from the electors oath any person on the ground that he cannot read, who shall prove that he was duly ad- mitted an elector of this State before Oc- tober, 1855, and no person shall be regis tered or vote who shall have been conylct- ed of any crime winch dIsfranchises
 Sec. 3, At any electors meeting in any
 
 meeting in the towns or cities of Hartford, New Haven, MiddetoWn or Bridgeport, for the election of officers, those persons only shall vote who were registered on the revised list then last completed, in accordance with this act, and they shall vote i'll the respective districts iii which they wero so registered. Every person so registered shall be permitted to vote, un- less he shall have lost his right after such registration, by removal from said town or or city, or by tine conviction of some crime which dlsfranchlses, and every person of ferlng so to vote, and being challenged as to his identity or residence, shall before he votes, prove his identity with the person on whose name he offers to vote, or his continued resieence since the completion of the registry list in such town or city, as the the case may be by the testimony un- der oath of at least one other elector. Sec. 10. At every electors meeting in this State. and at every election of city or ward officers of any city by the legal voters thereof, the registrars of each town or dis trict may each appoint from one to five persons for each ballot box in his district or town as may be necessary to count the votes of such box, Wno shall make the off clal count of the same. Said registrars may also eacn appoint one or more per sons to act as cht.llengers Tn their respect i've town or district, who may be present at the offering of any vote, and challenge ! the person offering the same on the ground of identity, or disfranchisement, or contin- ued residence since the completion of said registry list; but nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any other elector from challenging for said causes; and the moderator of the poll shall decide upon the right of the person so challenged l to vote.
 Sec. II. At every electors meeting in this state, and at every election of city or ward officers of any city by the legal voters thereof, the registrars of each town or dis trict as the case may be, shall appoint a suitable and trustworthy elector, residing in such district or town, for each ballot box to be the box tender, and one or two oth- CTS, as may be necessary, to be substitute box tenders of each box; and the several | box tenders shall receive and deposit, or permit the voter to deposit, in their respec- tive boxes, the votes duly offered in accor- dance with law, and said votes if folded when offered shall not be opened by said box tender or other officer of the election until counted. Said registrars shall desig nate one of said box tenders to be modera- | tor of the poll in their town or district.