Wilmington journal., 1872-07-19
EIFcrIos AND J. REGISTRATION

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North Ca1olina Co enact, There shall be
an election held for the following offi-
Gers, on the first Thursday Of August, in
the year OF our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two:
Firs5, Governor; second, Lieutenant
Governor third, Secretary of State; fourth,
Auditor; fifth, treasurer; sixth, Superi1l-
tendent of Public instructions; seventh,
Superintendent of Public Works; eighth,
Attorney General; ninth, Members of Con
gress in the Seventh District; tenth, Mem
bers of the General Assembly, for their re-
spectiVe counties and districts, and elev-
enth, County Treasurer; twelfth, Regis
ter OF Deeds; thirteenth, County Surveyor;
! fourteenth, Five County Commissioners;
| fifteenth, Coroner; sixteenth, a Sheriff,
! for their respective counties.
Sec. 2. The County Commissioners shall
! have power to establish, alter, discontinue
or create such separate places of election
| i'll their respective counties as they may
deem expedient, giving thirty days notice
thereof by advertisement in some public
journal, if there be one published in the
! county, or in lieu thereof in three places
in such county and at the Court House
thereof, but there will be at least one poll
| ing place i'll every township, as nearly CEN
tral as possible, and there shall be a
polling place open in each ward of a /
city numbering over three thousand in
habitants.
Sec. ,. The Secretary of State shall, on |
or prior to the first Monday of June, year |
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred |
and seventy-two, provide and forward to
the Commissioners of Counties, on their |
requisition, suitable registration books, |
when needed, for each election precinct as
established heretofore, and for any new
precincts which may be established under
this act.
Sec. 4. If the Commissioners of Coun-
ties do not receive sufficient number of
registration books, as provided in the last
section, they are authorized and directed
to provide the same for their respective
counties at the expense of the State.
Sec. 5. The Commissioners Of Counties
shall select, on or before the first Monaay
of July, year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-twO, one Justice
of the Peace for each election precinct,
f who shall act as registrar of voters for
, such precinct; and when, for any cause,
there are not enough Justices of the Peace
to have one at each precinct, the Commis-
, siOners shall appoint some discreet person
, to act as registrar Of voters. Said Commits
4 sioners shall make publication of the
names of the persons so selected, at the
, Court House door Immediately after such
y appointment, and shall caaSe notice TO
a be served upon such persons by the Sheriff.
Sec. 6. Registrars shall be furnished with
>. 4 registration book, and it shall be their
o duty to revise the existing registration
= books of their precinct or township in such
~ manner that said books shall show an ac-
J, curate list of electors previously registered
!. .. in such precinct or township, and still re-
= siding therein without requiring such cleo
y tors to be registered anew; and such regis
r trars shall also, between the hours of sun
# rise and sunset on each day, (Sundays eX-
! cepted,) from the first Thursday in July,
! 1872, up to and including the day preced-
- ing the first Thursday in August, 1872,
keep open said books for the registration of
any electors residing in such precinct or
: township and entitled to registration,
o whose names bave never before been regis
IS tered in such precinct or township, or do
, not appear in the revised list.
+ Sec. 7. No elcctor shall be entitled to
/ register or vote i'll any other precinct or
1I township than the one in Which he is an
'e actual and bona file resident on the day
of election and no certificates OF registration
u shall be given.
l. Sec. s. 1t shall be the duty of the regis
s, tar and judges OF election to attend at the
; polling place of their township or precinct,
}, with the registration books, on the SatIIr-
IS day preceding the election, from the hour
IS of nine o'clock, a. m. till the hour of five
y o'clock, p. m., when and where the books
e shall be open to the inspection of the cleo
e tors of the precinct or township, and any
of said electors shall be allowed to object
e to the name of any person appearing on
IS said books. In case of any such objection
IL the registrar shall enter upon his books
e opposite to the name OF the person SO OBJ
jected to the word ''challenged," and shall
appoint time and place on or before the
election day, when he together with said
judges Of election shall hear and decide
- said objection, giving due notice to tie vo-
ter so objected to Prorided, That notll-
ing in this section contained shall be COM
strued to prohibit the right of any eleCtor
to challenge or object to the name of any
A persons registered, or o1lerering to register,
at any time other than that above speci-
=, fed. If any person challenged or objected
- : TO shall be found not duly qualified, as
- provided in this act, or as provided in the
~ Constitution, the registrar shall erase his
" name from the books.
Sec. 9. The County Commissioners, on
! or before the first Monday Of July next,
shall appoint four judges or inspectors of
g election, two Of whom shall be of a differ
- ent polical party, where possible from the
- registrar, at each place Of holding election
;, in their respective counties Tile said
= judges OF election shall attend at the places
u for which they are severally appointed, on
the day of election, and they together with
- the registrar for such precinct OF township
- who shall attend with his registration
/ BOOKS, after Delng sworn by some Justice
OF the Peace or other person authorized to
y, administer oaths, to conduct the election
fairly and impartially according to the
Constitution aud laws of the State, shall
:, open the polls and superintend the same
until the close of the election. They
shall keep poll books in which shall be
entered the name of every person who
- shall vote and at the close Of the election
; the judges OF election shall certify the
: same over their proper signatures, and
! deposit them with the Register of Deeds
" for safe keeping. And said poll books
= shall in any trial for illegal or fraudulent
y voting he received as evidence. The
= County Commissioners shall Immediately
. after the appointment of the judges Of elec
ton as herein provided, furnish list of
, the names of such judges to the sheriff of
their county, who shall within ten days
! serve notice OF saDch appointment upon the
. said judges and if, for any cause, any
. person appointed judge Of election shall
> fail to attend, the registrar of such town
! ship shall appoint some discreet person to
= act as such, who shall be by him sworn
= before acting, and shall be Of the same
political party as the absent judge or judges.
= Sec. 10. Every male person born in the
:, = United States, and any male person who
has been naturalized, twenty-One years
old or upwards, who shall have resided in
, the State twelve months next preceding
y the election and thirty days in the county
= in which he offers to vote, shall be deemed
:, = ali elector in the township in which he re-
u CidaC and cho1I ha 90 =;