American citizen., 1876-04-29


dent, and Il is his duty to make the
registration and voters may Ge
challenged " hen they present them
s-,YvS, His! either the voter or chai
iengcr siIdl! nave the night OF appeal
TO the full board, any two members
having authority 10 transact all
business, when the matter iii dis
pute shall be deter mined at the
meeting at the Court house, and the
applicant may be registered if reg
istratiOn has been improperly re-
fused, or, on the contrary, his name
may be erased if wrongfully regis
tered. The board can and must
register ut the county seat, but on
the book Of the applicants special
precinct, all persons that are en-
titled to register and that have
been missed 10y tie Registrar when
going round, and correct all errors
i'll the registration books, erase all
names improperly registered, and
hear all causes OF challenge and Oh
jection>, whether made at the time
of registration OF not.
When the county registration has
been completed the Registrars
shall certify: awe, County Board
of Registration for - county, do
hereby certify that the foregoing
(s'ating the number) pages contain
the names of (stating number)
voters, numbered from one to
lstating number), cOnsecutively
aud inclusively, registered in -
Election District of Supervisors
District No. -, county OF -,
Mississippi. Given under our hands
this the - day of -, A. ID.
-" which certificate shall be at
tested by the Chancery Clerk Of
the county, and shall be written i'm
mediately under the name of the
voter last registered in the election
district. Copies of these registra-
tion books shall be made by the
| Registrars, assisted by the Chancery
Clerk, ana the voters names ar>
ranged alphabetically. The regis
tratlOn made under this law in 1876
is to be revised and corrected just
prior to each general election. under
the same forms as the general reg
istratiOn, except that the Registrar
making his rounds is not compelled,
unless the Board so orders, to re-
main more than one day at a
precinct; and either four or five
days may be consumed at the
count V site.
Revision and correction are to be
made before each special election,
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members shall not be candidates
for Office. The requirements of
s264,of the code of 1871, are shifted
from the Supervisors to the Regis
trars, and that section amended so
AS to compel the Registrars to fur
nish ballot boxes. s371 of the code
is amended aud made to read,
"When such inspectors are quail
:. fled they shall proceed to open the
polls by proclamation thereof by
one of their number, or by some
uflicer or other person deputed by
the inspectors or Registrars, and to
inquire of each voter presenting
himself his name, and shall, after
announcing the namP, examine the
duplicate register and poll book for
the name OF the voter as given and
announced, and if they find the
name as given and announced in
such duplicate register and poll
book they shall check said dupli,
cate register as svoted,' and the
date thereof, and shall receive and
fold the ballot, it not already folded,
aud then deposit the ballot folded
in the ballot box, and SO on until all
qualified voters have voted"
The usual pains and penalties for
false swearing on the part of appli.
cLmts are provided for. and in ad.
ditiOn there is provision that if,
Oh the day of any election, or with
in four days OF any election, any
two or more of the County Board of
Registration shall resign, or refuse,
or fail to act, then the Sheriff of the
county, or in the event OF his resig-
nation, refusal or failure to act,
then the Chancery Clerk shall dis
charge the duties and exercise the
powers imposed and conferred by
law on the County Board of Regis
tratlon and if such resignation,
refusal or failure shall be willful,
and with the intent to defeat any
election or postpone the same, then
such Registrars, or Sheriff, or
Chancery Clerk. shall be deemed
guilty of a felony, and on conviction
shall he punished by fne not ex
ceeding five thousand dollars, or
by imprisonment in the peniten~
tiary not exceeding five years, at
the discretion of the court.
No certificates of registration, to
be cal ried in the voters pocket, are
provided for, but the books them
selves are considered to be suffi
cient. A voter, upon removal, can
not be re-registered in new pre-
cinct until his name has been erased
from the books of the old.
Registrars are to receive such
compensation as may be fixed by
the Board of Supervisors, and pay
,able out of the county treasury,
said compensation not to exceed in
the aggregr ate the sum of six hun
dred dollars in any county, nor
three dollars per day for each Reg
istrar for each day that he may be
actually engaged discharging the
duties of his Office.
1t is provided that registration
shall be prima facie evidence of the