Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-28

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| form and discharge the duties by this act inn
posed, it shall be bis duty, and be is hereby re
CURED, TO select and to direct and assign to th,
performance thereof, in his place and stead
such one Of the judges Of the district court
as he shall deem best and upon snci
selection and assignment being made, it shall
be lawful for and shall be the duty of the dis
trict judge so designated to perform and dis
charge, in the place and stead of the circuit
Judge ali the duties, powers, and obligations
imposed and conferred upon the said circu
judges by the provisions Of this act.
SEC. Atad be it further enacted, That il
/ shall be the duty the supervisor of election
| appointed under this act and they and each
of them are hereby authorized and required
to attend at all times and places fixed fer the
registration of voters who, being registered
wouid DO entitled to vote for Representative
or Delegate in Congress, and to challenge any
person offering to register to attend at all times
and places when the names of registered voters
may be marked for challenge and to cause such
names registered as they shall deem proper to
be so marked; to make, when required. the
lists, or either of them provided for in section
thirteen of this act, and verify the same, and
upon any occasion, and at any time when in at
tendance under the. provisions Of this act, to
personally inspect and scrutinize such registry,
and for purposes of Identification to affix their
or his signature to each and every page of the
original list, and of each and every copy of any
such list of registered voters at such times,
upon each day when any name may or shall be
received, entered. or registered, and in such
manner as viii, in their or his Judgment, detect
and expose the improper or wrongful removal
thesefrom, or addition thereto, in any way, of
any name or names.
SEC. g. lind be 1t fssrtAer enacted, That il
shall also be the duty of the said supervisors of
election, and3they, and each of them, are hereby
authorized and required, to attend at all times
and places for holding elections of Representa-
tives or Delegates in Congress and for counting
the votes cast at said elections to challenge
any vote offered by any person whose legal
qualifications the supervisors, either of them
shall doubt TO be and remain where the ballot
boxes are kept at all times after the polls are
open until each and every vote cast at said time
and place shall be counted, the canvass of all
votes polled be wholly completed, and the pro-
per and requisite certificates or returns made.
whether said certificates or returns be required
under any law of the United States or any
State, territorial, or municipal law, and to per-
sslally inspect and scrutinize, from time to
time, and at all times, on the day of election,
the manner in which the voting Is DONE and
the way and method in which the poll-books,
registry-lists and TALES or check- books wheth-
er the same are required by any law of the
United States, or any State, territorial, or mu-
nicipal law, are kept; and to the end that each
candidate for the Office of Representative or
Delegate in Congress shall obtain the benefit
of every vote for him cast, the said supervisors
of election are. and each of them is, hereby re-
qu;red, in their or his respective election dis
tircts or voting precincts, to personally scru-
tinize count, and canvass each and every bal
lot in their or his election district voting pre-
cinct cast whatever may be the Endorsement on
said ballot or in whatever box it may have
been placed or be found; to make and forward
to the officer who in accordance with the pro-
visions dissection thirteen of this act, shall have
been designated as the chief supervisor of the
judicial district in which the city or town
wherein they or he shall serve shall be, such
certificates and returns of all such ballots as said
officer may direct and require, and to at
tacl to the registry list and any and all copies
thereof, and to any certificate, statement, or re-
turn, whether the same, or any part or portion
thereof, be required by any law of the United
States, or of any State, territorial, or municipal
law, any statement touching the trouth or ac-
curacy of the registry, or the truth or fair
ness of the election and canvass which the
said supervisors of election, either of them,
may desire to make or attach, or which should
properly and honestly be made or attached, in
in or that the facts may become known, any
law of any State or Territory to the contrary
SEC 6. And be 1t further enacted, That the
better to enable the said supervisors of election
to discharge their duties, they are and each of
them is. hereby authorized and directed. in
their or his respectative election districts or
voting precincts, on the day days of registra-
ton. on the day or days when registered voters
may be marked to be challenged, and on the
day or days of election, to take. occupy and re-
main in such position or positions, froa time
to time, whether before or behind the ballot
boxes, as will, in their judgment, best enable
them or him to see each person offering himself
for registration or offering to vote, and as will
best conduce to their or his scrutinzing the
manner in which the registration or voting is
being conducted; and at the closing of the polls
for the reception of voters, they are, and each
of them is, hereby required to place themselves
or himself in such position in relation to the
ballot boxes for the purpose of engagingin the |
work of canvassing the ballots in said boxes
contained as will enable them or him to fully
perform the duties in respect to such canvass |
provided in this act, and shall there remain
until every duty in respect to such canvass
certificates, returns, and statements shall have |
been wholly completed, any law of any State or |
Territory To the contrary Notwithstanding.
SEC. 7. Ind be 1t further enacted, That if
in any election district or voting precinct in any I
city, town, village for which there shall have /
been appointed supervisors Of election for any |
election at which Represen alive or Delegate |
in Congress shall be voted for the said |
supervisors of election, or either of I
them, shall not be allowed 10 exercise and dis
charge, fully and freely, and without bribery, |
solicitation, interference hindrance, moiest;,-
ton violence or threats thereof. on the part of
Or from any person or persons, each and every |
ofthe duties, obligations, and powers conferred
upon them by this act and the act hereby !
amended, it shall be the duty of the supervisors
Of election. and each of them, to make prompt,
under oath, within ten days after the day OF
election, to the officer who, in accordance with |
The provision Of section thirteen of this act shall
have been designated as the chief supervisor of |
The judicial district in which the city town
wherein they or he served shall be, Of the man.
ner and means by which they were or he was,
o.,f cp ail0sva6 RI fully or6 fraalx- ovor,,ea