Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-09-29
NO. SO
The Law Regarding the Duties OF u. 6.
Supervisors OF Registration and
Election.

ElCctIOn.
q For the Information of our readers al
3 of the public generally as we'll as rhe S.
l pervisors of Registration and Election,
: be appointed at the Special Term of ii
q U. S. Circuit Court, to be held in Raleie
on the goth inst, we publish the followin
sections Of the Revised Statutes of th
United States relating to their powers an
1 duties, &C.:
8 Sec. POLL. Whenever in any CITY or tow
having upwards of 10000 inhabitant,
L there are two citizens thereof, or wheneye
in any county or parish, in any congres
sional district, there are ten citizens there
r of, of good standing, who, prior to any reg
! isti alton of voters for any election for Rer
resentAtives or Delegates in the Congress
of the United States, or prior to any cleo
, tion at which q Representative or Dele
gate in Congress is TO be voted for, ma,
make known, in writing, to the judge O
the circuit court of the United States fo
the circuit wherein such city or town
county or parish is situated, their desire t.
have such registration, or such election, O
both, guarded and scrutiniZed, the judge
within not less than ten days prior 10Th,
registration, if one there be, or, if nofegis
tratiOn be required. within not less thai
tel days prior to the election, sh II OpeI
the circuit court at the most cohvenien
point in the district.
SEC. 2O12. The court, when 10 opened
by the Judge, shall proceed to appoint and
commission, from day to day aud from
judge, and under the seal of the court, fol
each election district or vo'ing precinct in
the congressional district, as may have
applied in the manner hereinbefore pre-
scribed, and to revoke, change, or renew
such appointment from time to time, TWO
citizens, residents of the city or town, or
! election district or voting precinct in the
| county or parish, who shall be of different
political parties and able to read and write
the English language, and who shall be
known and designated as supervisors OF
| election.
| SEC. 2O16. The supervisors of election, so
| appointed, are authorized and required to
| attend at all times and places fixed for the
registration of voters, who, being register
ed would be entitled to vote for Repre-
sentative or Delegate in Congress, and to
challenge any person offering to register J;
to attend at all times and places when the
| names of registered voters may be marked
for challenge, and to cause such names
| registered as they may deem proper TO be
| SO marked; to make, when required, the
lists, or either of them, provided for in
section two thousand and tWenty-six, and
verify the same and upon any occasion,
and at any time when in attendance upon
the duty herein prescribed, to personally
inspect and scrutiniZe such registry, and
for purposes of Identification to affiX their
signature to each page of the original list,
and of each copy Of any such list of regis
tered voters, at such times, upon each day
when any name may be received, entered
or registered, and in such manner as will,
i'll their judgment, detect and expose the
improper or wrongful removal therefrom,
or addition thereto Of any name.
SEC. 2017. The supervisors of election are
authorized and required TO attend at all
times and places for holding elections of
Representatives or Delegates in Congress,
and for counting the votes cast at such
elections; to challenge any vote offered by
any person whose legal qualifications the
supervisors, or either of them, may doubt;
to be and remain where the ballot-bOxes
are kept at all times after the polls are open
polled wholly completed, and the proper
and requisite certificates or returns made,
whether the certificates or returns be re-
quired under any law of the United States,
or any State, territorial, Or municipal lazy,
and to personally inspect and scrutiniZA,
from lime to time, and at all times on theA
day of election, the manner in which the
voting is done, and the way and method
in which the poll-books, registry-lists, and
tallies or check-books, whether the same
are required by any law Of the United
States, or any State, territorial or muli-
cipal law, are kept.
SEC. 2O1S. To the end that each candi-
date for the office of Representative or
Delegate in Congress may obtain the bene-
fit of every vote for him cast, the supervi-
sors of election are, and each Of them is
required to personally scrutiniZe, count,
and canvass each ballot in their election
district or voting precinct cast, whatever
may be the endorsement on the ballot, or
in whatever box it may have been placed
or be found to make and forward to the
officer who, in accordance with the pro-
visions of section two thousand and twen-
ty-five, has beer designated as the chief
supervisor of the judicial district in which
the city or town wherein they may ser,e,
acts, such certificates aud returns of all
such ballots as such officer may direct and
require, and to attach to the registry-list,
and any all copies thereof and to any GER
tficate, statement, or return, whether the
same, Or any part or portion thereof, ybe re-
quirsd by any law of the United States. or
Of>anY State, territorial or mHnicipAI law,
any statement touching the truth or. acell-
racy of the registry, or the truth or fair
ness of the election and Canvass, which the |
supervisors of the election, or either of
them, may desire to- make or attach, or |
which should properly. and honestly be |
made aud attached, in order that the facts |
may become known.
SEC. 2O19. The better to enable the su-
peryisors of election tosiischarge their du- |
ties, they are authorized and directed i'm |
their respective election districts or voting |
precincts, on the day CT registration, on |
the day when registered voters may be |
marked to be challenged, and on the day
of election, to take, occupy, and remainin
such position, from time to time, whether |
before or behind the ballOt-hOxes, as will,
in their Judgment, best enable them to see
each person offering himself for registration
or Offering to vote, and as will best conduce
to their scrutiniZing the manner i'm which
the registration or voting is being cOnfllc-
ted; and at the closing of polls for the re-
ception Of votes, they are required to ltace
themselves in such position, in relation to
the ballot-boxes, for the purpose Of engag-
ing in the work of canv Assing the ballots,
as will enable them to fully perform the
duties i'm respect to such canvass provided
herein, and shall there remain until every
duty i'm respect to such canvass, certih-
Gates, returns ard statements has been
wholly completed.
SEC. 202O. When in any election district
or voting precinct in any city or town, for
which there have been appointed superb
sors of election for any election at which a
Representative or Delegate in Congress is
voted for, the supervisors of election are
not allowed to exercise and discharge,
fully and freely, and without bribery. So
licitation, interference, hinderance, moles-
tation, violence, or threats thereof, on the
part of any person, all the duties, Obliga-
lions, and powers conferred upon them by
law, the supervisors of election shall make
prompt report. under oath, within ten days
after the day of election to the officer who,
in accordance with the provisions Of section
two thousand twenty-five, has been .desig7
mated as the chief supervisor or The Judicial
district in which the city or tewn wherein