Wilmington journal., 1876-10-06
THE ELECTION LAW,

the following officers, Tuesday after t.
FIRST Monday in November, in the year
our Lord one thousand eight hundr
and seventy-six:
First, Governor; second, Lieutenal
Governor third Secretary of State fourt
Auditor; fifth, Treasurer; sixth, Superi
tendent of Public Instruction; sevent
Alto. ey-General; eighth. mem bers of Co
gress in the several districts; ninth, mel
bers of the General Assembly for their re
pective counties and districts; tent
a county treasurer; eleventh, a regi
ter of deeds; twelfth, county surveyor
thirteenth, five county commissioners
fourteenth, coroner; fifteenth, sheri
for their respective counties.
| 4. The county commissioners shall hay
power to establish, alter, discontinue {
create such separate places of election j
| their respective counties as they may deer
! expedient, giving thirty days notice theret
| by advertisement in some public journa
| if there be one published in the county, c
| in lieu thereof in three places in sue
county and at the court house thereof, bu
there shall be at least one polling place i
| every township, as nearly central as poss
BILE, and there shall be polling place ope
In each ward of a city mum bering over thre
housand Inhabitants.
5. The Secretary of State shall, on o
prior to the first Monday of September, yea
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred an,
seventy-six, provide for and forward t,
the commissioners of counties, On thei
requisition, suitable registration books
when needed, for each election precinct u
established heretofore, and for any new
precincts which may be established unde
the last section.
6. If the commissioners of counties dt
not receive sufficient number of regis
tratiOn books, as provided in the last sec
ton, thy are authorized and directed tc
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 ofour 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 of the
persons so selected. at the court house
door, Immediately after such appointment,
and shall cause notice to be served upon
said persons by the Sheriff.
PROVIDED, That any person who is a
candidate for Office shall not act as registrar,
g. Registrars shall be furnished with a
registration book, and it shall be their duty
to revise the existing registration books of
their precinct or toV 7ship in such m amer
that said books shah 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 such registrars
shall also between the hours of sunrise
and sunset on each day (Sundays excepted)
from the first Tuesday in October, one
eight hundred and seventy-six,
up 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 in such precinct or township
and entitled to registration, whose names
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precinct or township, or 90 not appear in
the revised list.
8. 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 fde resident on the day of election,
and no certificates of registration shall be
given.
10. It shall be the duty of the registrar
ing place of their township or precinct
with the registration books on the Satur-
day preceding the election, from the hour
of nine o'clock, A. M, till the hour of five
O'Clock, P. M, 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 &c challenged" and
shall appoint 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: Prorided, that
nothing in 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
ter, at any time other than that above
specified. If any person challenged or
to shall be found not duly quail
fed, as provided in this chapter, or as
provided i'll the Constitution, the registrar
shall erase his name from the books.
II. rhe County Commissioners, on or be-
fore the first Monday of October, 1876, shall
appoint four judges or inspectors of cleo
tion, two of whom shall be of a different
political party, where possible, from the
registrar, at each place of holding election
in their respective counties. The said
Judges of election shall attend at the places
for which they are severally appointed, on
the day of election, and they together with
the registrar for such precinct or township.
who shall attend with his registration books,
after being sworn by some justice of the
peace or other person authorized to ad-
minister oaths, to conduct the election fair
ly and impartially according to the Con-
stitution and 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 i'll any trial for
illegal or fraudulent voting be received as
evidence. The County Commissioners
shall Immediately after the appointment OF
the judges Of election, 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 such ap-
pointment upon the said judges; and if
for any cause, any person appointed judge
of election shall fail to attend, the regis
trar of such township shall appoint some
discreet person to act as such, who shall be
by him sworn before acting, and shall be
of the same p 'litical party as the absent
judge or judges.
Provided, That any person who is a
candidate for office shall not act as judge OF
iuspectOr of election
IL. Every male person born in the Uni
ted States, and any male person who has
been naturalized, twenty. .one years old Oh
upwards, who shall have resided in the
State twelve months next preceding the
election and thirty days in the county ir
which he offers to vote, shall be deemed
an elector in the township in which he re
sides, and shall be entitled to registration
upon application, upon taking the follow
ing oath 81, -, do solemnly swear (o
affirm) that l will support the Constitution
and laws of the United States, and th'
Constitution and laws of North Carolin'