Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-08-26

filling vacancies prescribed in the preceding sec
tion two, and that prescribed in the thirty-ninth
section of the Registry Act, shall apply only to
such vacancies as may exist when there is no
alternate present and consenting to supply it.
Every alternate before officiating in place of n
member of the Board shall take the same oath of
office as is required of such member. The pro
visions of this section shall not be deemed to
modify or interfere with those of the fourteenth
section of the Registry Act about permanently
filling vacancies in the cases therein mentioned.
Act of March 81, 1866, S3.
Sec. %. No person shall be allowed to vote
except at the polls held in the election district
where he resides nor unless his name is en-
rolled the poll list where he offers his vote in
such district, nor for local or representative Of
fcers, unless he shall have had his residence for
thirty days next preceding within the territorial
limits prescribed for the election of such officers.
If any person enrolled on the poll list, whose
vote shall be objected to on the day of election
by any qualified elector shall be proved to the
satistactioWof the Board of Judges either by his
own oath or by the oath of any other qualified
elcctor and householder of the district, or by
other clear and competent evidence, not to be le-
gally qualified and entitled to be enrolled on said
poll list, or if it be proved aforesaid that he
is enrolled on more than one poll list when he
offers to vote or otherwise not legally qualified
to vote at such election, his vote shall be reject
ed. The Board of Judges and Board of Regis
tration, and each member and officer thereof,
shall cause to be carefully taken down and pre-
served in the office of the Clerk of Elections, all
the ailidavits and brief statement or record of
the substance of the oral testimony taken before
them or either of them, either in relation to the
right and qualification of any person to vote, or
to have his name enrolled on the poll list.
l49 At all elections the polls shall be open
ed at eight O'Clock in the morning, and shall
continue open until sunset, at which time the
Judges shall close the polls /; proUjdcd that the
Judges of the Election may take recess of one
hour at any time they may think proper during
the day before three o'clock in the afternoon.
Amendment, April %, 1851. 20, p. l80.]
l4O The Board of Judges, before they com
mence receiving ballots, shall cause it to be pro-
claimed aloud at the place Of voting that the
polls are opened. Act March 3d. 1850, $23 p.
l0l.
l5l The voting shah be by ballot. The bal
lot shall be a paper ticket containing the names
of the persons for whom the elector intends to
vote, and designating tue Office to which each
person named is intended by him to be chosen.
Act March 23d, l8l0 $24.
1872. Whenever any person presents himself
at the polls and offers to vote at any Election uu-
thorized by law, the Clerk Of Elections or one Of
the Judges shall pronounce his name in an audi
BILE voice, so that it may be distinctly heard by
the other Judges and the Clerks present, and if
his name be found enrolled on the poll list, and
his vote be not rejected on objection made and
proofs taken for one or more of the causes pre-
scribed in section twenty-nine of the Registry
Act, shall receive his ballot, and in the presence
OF the other Judges, put the same, without be-
ing opened or examined, into the ballot box.
Act March 81, 1866, al
l53 The Board of Judges of Elections and
each officer and member thereof, shall have
power in the discharge Of their or his functions,
to administer oaths and take and certify allida-
yts and to examine on oath any person touch
ing such right or qualifications of any other per-
son and the vote Of every person shall be re-
jected who shall refuse to be sworn or to answer
any pertinent questions touching his own right
and qualifications to vote as aforesaid and any
person refusing to be sworn or to answer any
pertinent questions affecting the right and quail
ications of any other person to vote when law
fully required by said Board of Judges, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Act March
81, 1866, o..
l51 At every election, and at each precinct,
the Board of Judges of Elections shall cause to
be kept, separately and distinct from the poll list,
list Of all persons who shall have actually
voted at such election, on which list shall be set
down the name Of all voters successfully as soon
their ballots have been received, the names be-
ing numbered with successive numbers placed
at the left hand, and placing in a column direct
y opposite and to the right Of each name the
proper number prcGXed to such name ds it stands
enrolled on the poll list This list shall be
known as the @ List Of Noters,' and shall be at
tached to the duplicate poll list with the tallies
and other papers constituting and known in law
as the " Election Returns to be returned to the
County Clerk of the county in which the election
is held, as now provided by law; proDtded, that
the State Board of Registry shall have power to
dispense with this list, if in the judgment OF
said Board it should be found unnecessary and
inconyenient in practice. Act March II, 1866,
26.1
3d. If the vote Of any person be challenged
on the ground that he has been convicted of an
infamous crime, or disfranchised by any Court
Of competent jurisdiction, he shall not be requir-
ed to answer any questions respecting such al
legged conviction and in the absence Of any au-
thenticated record of such facts, it may be com
petent for two dsinterested witnesses upon oath
to prove the same. Act March 23 1850, S3l,
p l0l.
So When the polls are closed, proclamation
thereof shall be made at the place of voting, and
no votes shall be afterwards received. Same
Act, S32.l
COUNTING, cANyAssG, DECLARING THE RESULTS MAKING
RETURNS, AND oiyISG CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION
l57 As soon the polls are closed on the af-
ternoon of the day Of election, the Judges shall
open the ballot box and commence counting the
votes and in no case shall the ballot box be
removed from the room in which any election
may be held until all the ballots are counted ;
the counting Of ballots SHALL in all cases, be
public. The ballots shall be taken out carefully,
one by one, by the Inspector or one of the Judges,
who shall open them and read aloud the name
of each person contained therein, and the office
for which every such person is voted for, Each
Clerk shall write down each Office to be filed,
and the name of each person voted for for such
office, and shall keep the number Of votes by tai
lies, they are read aloud by the Inspector or
Judge. The counting Of the votes shall be con-
tinued without adjournment until all are count
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