Wilmington journal., 1876-08-25
THE ELECTION LAW

ACT OF 1S71-72, (BATTLE's REvIsAL,
CHAP. 52,) AS AMENDED by ACT OF
1S7f-75.
3. There shall be an election held for
the following officers, Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventYSiX:
First, Governor; second, Lieutenant
Governor; third Secretary of State; fourth,
Auditor; fifth, Treasurer; sixth, Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction; seventh,
Attorney General; eighth, members of Con-
gress in the several districts; ninth, MEM
bers of the General Assembly for their res
pective counties and districts; tenth
county treasurer; eleventh, a regis
ter of deeds; twelfth, county surveyor; :;
thirteenth, five county commissioners !;
fourteenth, a coroner; fifteenth, sheriff,
for their respective counties.
4. The county commissioners shall have
power to establish, alter, discontinue or
create such separate places of election in
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 shall be at least one polling place in
every township, as nearly central as possi-
BILE, and there shall be a polling place open
in each ward of a city numbering over three
thousand Inhabitants.
s. The Secretary of State shall, on or
prior to the first Monday of September, year
-four Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-siX, provide for and forward to
the commissioners of counties, on their
reqllisition, suitable registration books,
when needed, for each election precinct as
to6l liCIn for
precincts which may be established under
the last section.
6. If the commissioners of counties do
not receive sufficient number of regis
tratiOn books, as provided in the last sec
ton, they are authorized and directed to
provide the same for their respective cOun-
ties at the expense of the State.
7. The commissioners of counties shall
select, on or before the first Monday of
October, year ofoIlr Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-siX, one Justice of
the peace for each election precinct, who
shall act as registrar of voters for such pre-
cinct; and when for any cause there are
not enough justices of the peace to have
one at each precinct, the commissioners
shall appoint some discreet person to act
as registrar of voters. Said commissioner
shall make publication of the names ofthe
persons so selected. at the court house
door, Immediately after sltch appointment,
and shall cause 4 notice to be served upon
said persons bv the Sheriff.
Prouided, That any person who is a
candidate for Office shall not act as registrar,
s. Registrars shall be furnished with
registration book, and it shall be their duty
to revise the existing registration books of
their precinct or tow 1ship in such manner
that said books shall show an accurate list
of electors previously registered in such
precinct or to OFnship, and still residing
therein, without requiring such electors to
be registered anew; and such registrars
shall also between the hours of sunrise
and sunset on each day Sundays excepted)
from the first Tuesday in October, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-siX,
I'D to and including the day preceding the
first Tuesday in November, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-siX, keep open
said book for the registration of any cleo
tors residing i1 such precinct or township
ami entitled to registration, whose names
have never before been registered i'll such
precinct or township, or DO not appear in
the revised list.
o. No elector shall be entitled to register
or vote in any other precinct or township
than the one in which he is an actual and
bona tide resident on the day of election,
and no certificates of registration shall be
given.
TO- 1t shall be the duty Of the registrar
and judges of election to altnni at the poll
ing place of their township or precinct
with the registration books on the Satur
day preceding the election from the honr
of nine o'clock, A. NJ, till the hour of five
o'clock. P. NJ, when and where the said
books shall be open to the inspection of
the electors of the precinct or township,
and any of said electors shall be allowed to
object to the name of any person appear
ing on said books. In case of any such OBJ
lection the registrar shall enter upon his
books, opposite to the name of the person
SO objected to, the word I" challenged" and
shall appoint a time and place on or before
the election day, when he, together with
said judges of election, shall hear and de-
eide said objection, giving due notice to
the voter SO objected to: Prooided, that
nothing i'm this section contained shall be
construed to prohibit the right of any cleo
tor to challenge or object to the name OF
any person registered, or offering to regis