Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-09

pensation as the general council NAV alS
low. He shall have an office in some
suitable place in his ward and shall open
books for the registration of all persons
allowed by existing law to vote in any
municipal election, and who reside in
said ward, and every voter in such ward
shall before Offering to vote cause him
self to be registered in said books. and
shall receive from the Register a certif-
cate of registration which shall be num-
bered to correspond with the name and
number on the books of the Register. and
no person shall be suffered to vote at any
municipal election who shall not have
and produce to the judges of election his
certificate as aforesaid, and no voter shall
be allowed to vote in any other ward than
the n where he resides and is registered.
These books shall be kept Open until If
teen Jays before the election, when they
shall be delivered to the City ComptrolIer
for safe keeping, who shall not allow them
TO be altered or amended or removed
from his possession, except as hereinafter
provided. On the day ofthe election the
City Comptroller shall deliver to the
Judges OF election in the different wards
the proper books of such ward. with a
llst OF the voters therein arranged in al
phabetlcal order, and after the polls are
closed these books shall be returned nv
theJudges TO the Comptroller to be kent
by nm Tor future use and reference.
Inc Judges Of election shall not allow any
one TO vote who shall not have been fully
registered, and who shall not produce a
certificate thereof which shall corresDond
with the entry in the registers books.
The judges Of election and the register
shall each take an oath before enterinV
upon the discharge of their respective dn-
ties to comply with the provisions of the
law as applicable to each, and every viola
ton thereof shall be considered a felony
and subject the offender Oh conviction 10
a fine OF not less than five hundred dollars
nor more than one thousand dollars and
Imprisonment in the county iaiI not
both.
Sec. Y. Any person who shall make
false representations to the ward register
in regard to his residence and qualiica-
tions as a voter, for the purpose of obtain
ing a certificate of registration, or who
shall vote or offer to vote upon a certif-
cate not IN his own name and issued TO
himself, or who shall ATTEMPT to vote
twice at the same election, shall be puiltv
of a felony, and upon conviction shall be
lined not less than fifty nor more than
one d dollars, and be Imprisoned
IN the county Jail not exceeding twelve
months, or either or both.
Sec. %. At all elections for city officers
the voters shall vote by ballot, and the
election shall continue one day and du-
ring the hours between 10 am. and 5p.m..
a. which time the polls shall be oDened
and closed.
Sec. "A. No man shall be a qualified vo-
ter unless he be twenty-cne years Of ACE.
a citizen of the United States and fbe
State Of Tennessee, and shall have been
an actual bona hde resident of the city of
Memphis SIX months, and OF the ward in
which he offers his vote thirty davs navt
nFGcndlnW the nIAaffnn NJ urRs.H H. *
his vote, and shall have registered as
hsrein provided.
Sec. 70. So much of the act passed
March the 9th, 1865, entitled an oact To
compel Yolers 10 register in their resnec-
tive wards" etc, as relates to the ragis-
tratlon Of votes in the city Of Memphis
shall be IN full force and effect until affer
the election for officers, etc. of h civ Of
Memphis in January, 1870.
Sec. 40. hat an election be held undar
under this charter for a Mayor of the city
OF Memphis, and members Of the Common
Council and Board of Aldermen on
Thursday the 9th day of January. is7O:
and upon their election and qualification
mat the terms Of the present Aldermen
OF the city of Memphis shall expire, and
that said General Council Shall organiza
and enter upon the discharge of their dn-
ties: The sheriff of Shelby county shall
hold all general and special elections pro-
yided for by this charter, under the reru-
lations herein prescribed.
Sec. II. This charter shall 90 into effect
the first Thursday in January. $50. and
all acts and parts of acts conflicting with
the provisions of this act, are hereby re-
pealed, to take effect from and after that
date.
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Passed, December l, 1889,
w. OK. PERKINS.
Speaker House of Representatives.
D. b. THOMAS,
Speaker of the Senate.
l, Andrew J.. Fletcher, Secretary of
State ofthe State of Tennessee, do certify
that the foregoing is a copy Of sections
nom number one to seventy-seven of an
act OF the General Assembly of the State
of Tennessee, the original of which is now
Of record in my office.
- In testimony whereof, l have
sr.r hereuntO subscribed nv official
signature, and, by order OF the
- Governor, affixed the Great Seal
Of the State of Tennessee, at the Depart
ment in the city of Nashville, this 9Th day
December, A. D., 1869.
a. j. FLETCHER,
Secretary of State.