Litchfield enquirer., 1868-09-17
PUBLIC ACTS.
PASSED MAY SESSION, 19G8

Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House Oi Repro | sentatives in General Assembly convened:
 Sec. 1. The annual town meetings fo
 the choice of town officers, of every tovI
 of this State, shall be holden on the frs >I Monday Of October in each year.
 \ Sec. ,. At the annual town meetings il
 the towns of Hartford, New Haven. Mid
 dletown and Bridgeport, registrars Of 70
 tars for said towns respectively, shall b
 elected in the manner now provided b law, except that the registrars now in of
 fee ii said towns, and tHEAeputy regis
 trars appointed under tEaza, ,fhaIl discharg
 the duties Of their Tespectiya. oaiass anti
 the first Monday in October,.e5oilteen Eg1n dred and sixty nine. it t4.er1nual tow. meeting Of every other town of tii5 Stat
 the legal voters shall choose, by genera
 ticket, two persons for each voting distric
 Ill such town. where there are voting dis trlcts, CT two persons for tlc sown at iarg, where there are no voting districts to b. registrars of voters. The tgopersons hay ing the highest number of votes for eacl voting district, or for the town at large, .: the case may be, shall be declared elected
 but no person shall vote for more than ont registrar for each voting district, or for ths town at large .s tue case may be.
 Sec. 3. Each Of the registrars So elected shall immediately appointa a deputy regis trar, who shall assist his principl when re
 qulred and discharge the duties of the reg istrar in case Of his alscHeD or inability
 and in case of the death CT resignation ol the registrar, the deputy registrar shall be- come registrar, and immediately appoint his deputy, and the registrar may i.t any time fiji any vacancy in the otiioo of his deputy by new appointment, All regis
 trars and deputy registrars shall before cn
 tering on the duties of their office, take the oath by law provided for executive and judicial officers, and, ill every caso, certi ticate of said appointment and oaths shal
 be recorded in the records Of such town.
 Sec. f. Said reg e;strars shall, at least three weeks before tie day of any electors meeting, prepare list as ne9rly perfect as practicable of those, in tho several dis, tricts in the town of Hartford, and in th Gil respective towns or districts in- the other who are electors of their town, and who will be entitled to vote iii said district or town at said electors meeting, and the place of residence of each eiectcr, y street and number or other description sufficient to identify it, shall be written opposite his name. Said registrars shall also place on said list, under the title 10 De made, . the name of those who claim to said regis ] trars that they will be entitled to be made electors in such town, on or before the day of said electors meeting, g47ing i4 each case their place of residence as aforesaid. A notice of such claim shall be fled with said registrars before tha co1spietion of sad list, and carefully preserved by them until after the day of said electors meeting which notice shall be in writing, suoscrlb- ed by the intended applicant or by some l elector of said town, and shall state the full name of such applicant, his residence in said town, by street and number or oth- CT description sufficient to identify 1t, the place where the applicant was born, the date, as nearly as can be ascertained, when he became or will became twenty one years of age, the dates when he commenced his residence in this State and in said town, and in case he is an alien born, the date when he commenced his residence in the United States; and said registrars shall place on said list, under the title ''To be made" the names of all those and of those only, who are shown by said written noti- ces to be entitled thereto. Said registrars shall hold sessions on Friday and Saturday of the fourth week proceeding the day of said electors meeting continuously, from nine o'clock ill the forenoon until five o'clock in the afternoon. at some suitable place in their respective districts or towns, of which notice shall be given by publica- tion in a newspaper, if any is published in such town, or upon the public sign posts in such town, at least three days before said meetings, for the purpose of perfect ing said list and receiving said notices of intended applicants. In case any inten- ded applicant was not born i'll the United States the word Naturalization" shall be placed opposite his name, and in case it appears that anyl Intended applicant 's:requi- site age or time of residence will have ma tured after such registration, and on or be- fore the day of said electors meeting, the date when such qualifications will all ma mature and be complete shall be entered opposite his name. The place of residence and registration in each case, either ot an elector Or of an intended applicant, shall be in the town and district Ill which the person resides at the time of such reglstra- tion, and no person shall be registered ln more than one district. Said lists shall be alphabetically arranged, completed, cer- tltied to by the respective registrars, ana deposited in the office of the town clerk oi such town, at least three weeks before the udS Ol Sdiu eIeClOTS uleGtlut5, t'LA ShA'N1A Stt all time be open to public inspection, and a certified copy of the list for each district where there are voting districts, shall, on the same day in which such list Is deposl- ted in the office of the town clerk, be pos ted at the place in such district where the registrars meet in such district by such registrars Each registrar shall keep copy of said list for his use ln revision, and in the towns of Hartford, New Haven, Middletown and Bridgeport shall circulate and dispose of ofprinted copies of the same, in the manner now provided by law, and they shall give notice in said list of the times and places at which they VIII hold four session within the next twelve days for the revision and correction of said list and shall also give notice of such times and places by publication in newspaper 1n said town, or by posting the same on the sign post of said town, at least three days before the first day of said meetings.
 1 Sec. 5. Said registrars shall meet at the times and places designated in such noti- ces for the revision and correction of theli list. Any elector of such town may apply to said registrars for the addition of his own name or the name of any other cleo tor which is improperly omitted from said list, or for the erasure of any name which he claims should be omitted rom said list . and if he should have fled with each oi said registrars at least forty-eight hours be-