Wilmington journal., 1875-08-06
CONVENTION.
The Election Law.

| hC EAccIAOkA LAW
The act calling the Convention pre-
J sbribes:
Sec. 2. The said Convention shal
consist of one hundred and twenty del
egates, and each county shall be enti
that it has members of the Ho Sc o.
Representatives under the present
apportionment, and the said delegates
shall have the qualifications required
of members of the House of Repre-
sentatives, of which qualifications the
, Convention shall be the Judge.
Sec. 3. On the 1st Thursday oi
August, 1866, the sheriffs of the State
shall open polls for the election of del
egates to the said Convention from
their respective counties, and the cleo
ton aforesaid, and the registration fo1
the same, shall be held and conducted
the officers thereof, including regis.
trars and judges of election appoint.
ed; the votes counted and compared
the result proclaimed, and certificates
Issued IN the same manner as pro-
Vided by law for the ele ctiOn of mem
bers Of the House of Representatives
of the General Assembly.
The following are the provisions of
the act of 1S73-74 relating to the cleo
tion Of members of the General As
sembly:
Section 1. The General assembly
of North Carolina do enact, That
there will be an election held for the
following officers on the firstThu rsday
of August, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sew
enty-four Q874,) and every two years
| thereafter: Members of the General
| Assembly for their respective counties
! and districts; county treasurer, register
of deeds, county surveyor, five county
commissioners, a coroner and sheriff
| for their respective counties, and also
| for members of the House of Repre-
| sentatives of the United Sta es Con-
| gress for their respective districts.
Sec. II. That all elections herein
| ordered shall be conducted in all par
ticnlars in such mauLer and form, and
under such rules and regulations, as
are prescribed in chapter one hundred
and eighty-fve, acts of one Thousand
eight hundred and seventy one and
one thousand eight hundred and sew
enty-two, and one hundred and twen-
ty-fOur, acts of one thousand eight
hundred and seventy two, both of
which, SO far as they are not jucOnsist-
aut with the prOv1slOnS of this act, are
hereby re-enactad PTOTidcd that
any eIector shall be eligible "a regis
trar for their several townships in all
such elections, and any provisions of
chapter one hundred and eighty-fve,
laws Of one thousand eight hundred
and severty-one and one thousand
| eight hundred and seventy-two. incon-
sistent with this prOviso Is hereby re-
! III &c, 1a1
! lel ged at the polls, upon demand of
duty of the inspectors of the election
to require said voter, before being al
| lowed to vote, to prove by the oath of
some other person, known to these
! Judges, the fact of his residence for
thirty days previous thereto in the
county in which be purposes to vote.
The following are the sections of
chapter 1S5, Laws of 1S71-'72, relating
! to the registration of voters, re-enact-
| ed in section II, of the act of assembly
! above recited
! (Cha1oter 185, Acts of assembly
rS7I-'72.)
SECTION 6. Registrars shall be fur
nished with registration books, and it
shall be their duty to revise the ex-
listing registration books of their pre-
cinct or township in such manner that
said books shall show an accurate list
of electors previously registered in
such precinct or township, and still
residing therein, without requiring
such electors to be registered anew;
and registrars shall also between the
hours of sunrise and sunset on
each day Sundays excepted) from
| the first Thursday in July, 1872, up
to and including the day preceding
the irst Thursday in August, 1872,
! keep open said books for the registra-
! tion of any electors residing in such
| precinct or township and entitled to
registration whose names have never
before been registered in such pre-
cinct or township or do not appear in
the revised list.
Sec. Z. No electo7' shall be entitled
| to register or cote in any other pre-
ci2sct or tOeOnShip than the one IN
1Chich he as an actual bona tide resi-
dent on the day Of election and no GER
| titcates Of registration shall be giUe,a.
Sec. 8. 1t shall be the duty of the
registrars and judges of election to
attend at the polling place of the town
ship or precinct with the registration
| books on the Saturday preceding the
| election from the hour of 8 o'clock
A. NJ. until the hour. of 5o'clock P. NJ,
when and where the said books shall
be open for the inspection of the cleo
tors of the precinct or township, and
any said electors shall be allowed to
| object to the name of any person ap-
pearing in said books. In case of any
such objection, the Register shall en-
ter upon his books, opposite the name
of the person objected to, the word
"cnallenged. and shall appoint time
and place on or before the election
day where he, together with said
Judges of Election, shall hear and de-
eide said objection, giving due notice
that nothing in this section contained
shall be construed to prohibit the
right of any elector to challenge or
object to the name of any persons
registered or offering to register at
any time other than that above speci-
fed. If any person challenged or OBJ
| jected to shall be found not duly quail
flied, as provided in this act, or as
provided in the Constitution, the Reg
istrar shall erase his name from the
books.
Sec. II. No registration shall be al
lowed on the day OF election. but if
any person shall give satisfactory evil
dence to the judges of the election
that he has come of the age of twenty
one years on the day of e ection, or
has for any other reason become on
that day entitled to register, he shall
be allowed to regs'e er and vote.
Sec. Is. Immediately after any elcc-
ton the Judges of Election shall de-
posit the registration books with the
Register of Deeds for their respective
| counties.
Sec 18. When the election shall be
fnisned the registrar and Judges of
election, in presence of such of the
electors as may choose to attend shall
open the boxes and count the ballots,
reading aloud the names of the per-
sons who shall appear on each ticket ;
and if there shall be two or more tick
cts rolled up together or any ticket
shall contain the names of more per-
sons than such elector has a right to
vote for, or shall have a device upon
it, in either of these cases such ticket