Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-29
cancy occurring in the said canvassers shall be
filled by appointment by the board ofalder-


canVassers or majority Of them to meet at
the fegul ar places for holding elections in
their respective election divisions at ter o.
clock in the forenoon Of the first Monday in
September, Of each year, and proceed upon
that and the two days next ensuing, to max
out a h alphabet tical list of all such persons as
as they shall know 10 be qualified electors,
who have voted at any preceding general
election therein, and shall state opposite said
names whether said elector is or is not a
housekseper, and if he be, the number of his
residence and also his occupation, and where
he is not housekeeper, his occupation, place
of boarding, ard with whom: Said lists,
when completed, shall be signed by the said
canvassers, or a majority of them, who shall
take and subscribe an oath Or affirmation be-
before an alderman of said city, that said list
| is true list Of the voters in the said election
division who have Heretofore voted in said
election division, so far as the sameare known
to them and said canvassers shall then pre-
| pare three copies Of sold list, one of which
shall be left with the city commissioner, one
with the board 0: aldermen, and the other
they shall retain. The city commissioners
Immediately on the receipt Of the same shall
cause to be printed and posted, at least in ten
! places in each election division, copy of the
| said list with the Oaths Of the can7assers ap-
pended thereto, together with notice that
the board Of canYassers will meet at the place
of holding The general election in said divis-
ion on the twelfth day Immediately preceding
the day Of general election and for two DAYS
then ensuing. for the purpose Of revising, cor
rectins, adding TO, subtractng from, and COM
| pleting the list.
| Sec IA. 1t shall be the duty of the said
| canVassers of each division or a majority of
them, to meet at the place for holding the
general election in said division on the 18th
day Immediately preceding the day of gen.
eral election, and for two days next ensuing,
and they shall then and there proceed to re-
wise said list, and correct the same by strik-
ing from it the pame Of any person whom
they shall know or receive satisfactory proof
| Of being deceased, or who shall have removed
| from said election division, and by adding
thereto the tams, residence, and occupation
of any person who shall to their satisfaction
| in conformity with the provisions Of this act,
! prove himself to be qualified elector Of said
election division, and for this purpose the said
canyassers shall temain in session from ten
O'Clock in the forenoon until seven o'clock in
| the afternoon of each of said days. Each
| person so claiming to be entitled to vote
therein, shall produce at least one qualified
voter Of the said division. az witness Of the
residence of said claimant in said division, for
| the period of at least ten days next preceding
the general election then next ensuing, which
witness shal.take and subscribe an affidavit
| to the fact stated by him, which affidayit
shall define clearly the residence of tie per-
son SO claiming to be voter; and thcsper-
son so claiming the right to be registered,
| shall also take and subscribe an affidavit,
stating where and when he was born, that
| he is citizen OF the Commonwealth of Penn
| sylvania, and of the United States and if q
naturalized citizen, he shall also state when,
where, and by what court he was naturalized
and also present his certificate of naturaliza-
tion for examination, unless he has been
voter in said election division for FIVE, years
then next preceding the general election next
ensuing that he has resided in this Com.
monwealth one year. or if formetely cti-
zen therein and has removed therefrum, that
he has resided there in SIX months preceding
the general election then next following .
that he has not moved into the division for
the purpose of voting therein and that be
has not been registered as voter elsewhere.
| Which sal 1 affidavits, both of the claimant
and his witness, shall be preserved by the
canvassers.
SEC. Is. Immediately upon the completion
of said lists of voters by revision, correction,
and addition thereto, the caDyassers shall
make four copies of the same, one Of which
they shall retain one of which copies they
shall deposit with the said board of alder.
men, together with the written affidavits of
the claimant and their witnesses, taken as
hereinbefore provided one Of which copies
they shall furnish to the assessors OF the
ward, who thereupcn shall Immediately as
sess a tax. according to law, upon every per-
son whose name is contained in said list, and
deliver the same Immediately to the city
commissioners, who shall cifise sufficien:
number of copies to be printed fol the use of
the receiver OF taxes, and one of which copies
they shall deliver to the inspectors and judg-
es of election of the proper election division
on the morning of the general election, before
the opening of the polls at said election and
the only evidence that such person has rcsid-
ed in such election division for ten days next
preceding $ uch election shall be the fact that
his name is found thereon, as hereinbefore
provided, and the reception Of the vote of
any person not so provided shall constitute q
misdemeauor in the election officers so re-
ceiviDg it, and on conviction thereof the elec-
ton officers so offending shall be subject to
fine not exceeding three hundred dollars,and