The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-02-10
GENERAL ELECTION LAW.
Full Text Of the Bill as 1t Finally Passed
the Legislature.


this Commonwealth.
Section 1. Be IL enacted, &c.-That it shall
be the duty of each of the assessors who are
required to perform any duties incident to the
holding of elections and the registration OF
voters in the different counties or cities of this
Common wealth, on the first Monday of June
of each year, to take up the transcript of the
next preceding assessment as transmitted to
them by the city or county commissioners, and
proceed to the revision of the same, and for
this purpose he shall visit every dwelling
house in his district, and make careful In
quiry IL any person whose name is on his list
has died or removed from the district, and II
so to erase the same therefrom, or whether any
qualified voter resides therein whose name Is
not on his list, and If SO to add the same there
to, and In all cases where name is added to
the list the person shall forthwith be assessed
and the assessor shall in all cases ascertain by
inquiry upon what ground the person so assess
ed claims to be n voter. Upon the completion of
this work It shall be the duty of each assessor
as aforesaid to proceed to make out list, in
alphabetical order, of the male citizens twenty
one years Of age and upwards claiming to be
qualified voters in the election district of which
he is the Assessor, and opposite each of said
name state whether said citizen is or is not q
housekeeper, and, If he is, the number of his
residence In towns where the same are num-
bered, with the street, alley or court in which
situated, and If in town where there are no
numbers, the name of the street, alley or court
on which said house fronts, also the occupa-
tion of the person, and where he is not house
keeper the occupation, place of boarding, and
with whom, and, If working for another, the
name of the employer, and write opposite
each of said names the word "voter." Where
any person claims to vote by reason of natu-
ralizatlon he shall exhibit his certificate thereof
to the Assessor unless he has been for two
consecutive years next preceding voter in
said district; and In all cases where the person
has been naturalized the name shall be marked
with the letter "N." Where the person has
merely declared his intentions to become a cit
izen and designs to be naturalized before the
next election he shall exhibit the certificate of
his declaration of intention and the name shall
be marked "DI;" and where the person shall
be entitled by existing laws to be naturalized
without making declaration of his intention
to be naturalized, and intends to be naturalized
at least one month before the next general
election, the name of such person shall be
added to the list, and the name OF such per-
son shall be marked 81 N" Where the claim
is to vote by reason of being of the age of
twenty-one and under twenty-five as provided
by law, the word sage" shall be entered and
If the person has moved into the election dis
trict TO reside since the last general election,
the letter "R" shall be placed opposite the
name. It shall be the further duty of each as
SCISSOR, as aforesaid, upon the completion of
the duties herein imposed to make out sepa-
rate list of all new assessments made by him.
On the lists being completed and the assess
ments made as aforesaid the same shall forth
with be returned to the County Commission
ers.
Correction Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of Duty By
assessors.
Sec. 2. The county Commissioners shall
Immediately add the names on the list of new
assessments 10 the tax duplicate of the ward,
borough, township or district In which they
have been assessed, and cause duplicate copies
of the other list, with the observations and eX-
plantations required to be noted as aforesaid to
be made out as soon as practicable, and
placed in the hands of the assessor, who shall,
prior to the first Monday of August in each
year, put one copy thereof on the door of or on
the house where the election of the respective
district is required to be held, and retain tho
other In his possession for the inspection, free
of charge, of any person resident iu the said
election district who shall desire to see the
same; and II shall be the duty of the said
assessor to add from time to time, on the
personal application of any one claiming the
right to vote, the name of such claimant, and
mark opposite the name &C. "" and imme-
diately assess him, noting us in all other cases
his occupation, residence, whether boarder or
housekeeper; If n boarder with whom he
boards, and whether naturalized, or designing
to be, marking in all cases opposite the name
the letters en-" sd l." or "I M as the
case may be. If the person claiming to be as
sessed be naturalized, he shall exhibit to the
assessor his certificate Standardization, and If
he claims that he designs to be naturalized be-
fore the next ensuing election he shall exhibit
the certificate Of his declaration of intention, If
such previous declaration Is required by the
laws of the United States. 1t shall be the duty
OF the said TO be present at the election
house of the said election district, during the
two secular days next preceding the day fixed
by the third section of this act for returning the
lists to the county commissioners, from ten
AM. to three p. NJ, and from six p. NJ. to
nine p. NJ. of each of said days, for the purpose
OF hearing and acting upon applications to be
made under the provisions of this section, or
relating the names upon said list, or that are
sought TO be placed thereon or struck there
from; and 1t shall be his duty to correct said
list by adding thereto the names of persons
entitled to vote not already thereon, and by
striking therefrom fictitious names or names of
persons who may have died or removed from
said district; aad the said lists shall be open
for inspection by any qualified elector of the
county or ward In which the election district
Is situated, as well as by the person claiming
10 be registered and the Court Of Common
Pleas OF the proper county, or any law judge
thereof at chambers, on the application of any
qualified elector of the ward or county under
oath, setting forth breach of any of the duties
imposed on said assessor by this act, which
oath may be made at any time before the day
OF election, shall call the assessor and the COM
plainant before II or him by citation or rule,
to show cause, and shall hear the parties and
dispose OF the subject In a summary manner as
TO law and justice shall belong, and shall II
need be order the assessor to correct the regis
try accordingly, and the said court or judge
may enforce such order by attachment as Ia
proceedings for contempt.
Final Return ef Corrected Registry 20 COmmissioa-
ers
Fec. 3. After the assessments have been COM
pleel, on tho 6lst day before the Tuesday next