The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-18


United States referring TO- the dutses OF
Supervisors of Federal Elections.
Section POLL. Whenever In any city or
town having upward OF twenty thousand
inhabitants there are two citizens thereof,
or whenever In any county or parish, in
any congressional district, there are ten citi-
zens thereof, OF good standing, who, prior
to any registration OF voters for an election
for representative or delegate ia The Con-
gress Of the United States, or prior to any
election at which representative or dele.
gate in Congress Is to be voted for, may
make known in writing to the judge Of the
Circuit Court OF the United States for the
circuit wherein such city or town, county
or parish, is situated, their desire to have
such registration, or such election, or both,
guarded and scrutinized, the Judge, within
not less than ten days prior to the registra-
ton, il one there be, or, If no registration
be required, within not less than ten days
prior to the election, shall open the Circuit
Court at the most convenient point in the
circuit.
Section 2o1e. 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 regis
tered, would be entitled to vote for repre-
sentative or delegate In Congress, and to
challenge any person Offering to register ;
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 2O26, and verify the same and upor
any occasion, and at any time when in at
tendance 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 tn
original list, and Of each copy OF any suci
list OF registered voters, at such times upoI
each day when any name may be received
entered, or registered, and in such mannel
as will, in their Judgment, detect and e ex
pose the improper or wrongful remova
therefrom or addition thereto OF any name
Section 201S. To the end that each candi
date for the Office of representative or dele
gate in Congress may obtain the benefit O
every vote for him cast, the supervisors
elections are, and each Of them Is, required
to personally scrutinize, count, and canvas!
each ballot in their election district or Fo
ting precinct cast, whatever may be the en-
dorsement on the ballot, or In whatever boz
IL may nave eDe6Ill piaCcu "a NC iouhos "
make and forward to the officer who, in ac
cordance with the provisions OF sec
tion two thousand and twenty-five
has been designated as the chic
supervisor OF the judicial district II
which the city or. town wherein they mny
serve, acts, such certificates and returns Of
all such ballots as such officer may direc1
and require, and to attach to the registry
list, and any and all copies thereof, and tc
any certificate, statement, or return, whe-
ther the same, or OF any State, territorial,
or municipal law, any statement touching
the truth or accuracy OF the registry, or the
truth or fairness OF the election and can.
vass, which the supervisors OF the election,
or either OF them, may desire to make OF
attach, or which should properly and hon.
estly be made or attached, in order that the
facts NAV become known.
Section 2029. The supervisors OF election
appointed for any county or parish In any
congressional district, at the instance Of ten
citizens, as provided in section 2011, shall
have no authority to make arrests, or tl
perform other duties than to be in the im.
mediate presence OF the officers holding the
election, and to witness all their proceed.
ings, including the counting OF the votes
and the making OF q return thereof.
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