Wilmington journal., 1876-08-11
THE ELECTION LAW
CHAP. 52,) AS AMENDED BY ACT OF

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1S74-75.
;. 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 seventy-siX:
First, Governor; second, Lieutenant
Governor; third Secretary of State; fourth,
| Auditor; fifth, Treasurer; sixth, Superin-
tendent of Public instruction seventh,
Attorney-General;e 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, coroner; fifteenth, a sheriff,
for their respective counties.
4. The county commissioners shall have
power to establish, alter, discontinue or
create such separate places Of election i'll
their respective counties as they may deem
expedient, slsing 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 posi-
BILE, and there shall be polling place open
in each ward of a city numbering over three
thousand inhabitants.
5. The Secretary of State shall, on or
prior to the first Monday of September, year
OfOur Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six, provide for and forward to
the commissioners of counties, on their
requisition, suitable registration books,
when needed, for each election precinct as
established heretofore, and for any new
precincts which NAV be established under
the last section.
6. If the commissioners OF counties do
not receive a 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, OH 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,
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said persons by the Sheriff.
8 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 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
thousand 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 elec-
tors residing in such precinct or township
and entitled to registration, whose names
have never before been registered in such
precinct or township, or DO not appear in
the revised list.
g. No elector shall be entitled to registei'
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. 1t shall be the duty of the registrar
and Judges of election to attend at the poll
ING place of their township or precinct
with the registration books on the Satui-
dav preceding the election, from the hour
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
hooks. opposite to the name of the person
so Objected to- tho word " challenged" and
shall appoint time and place on or before
the election day, wheu he, together with
said Judges of election, shall hear and de-
eide said objection, giving due notice to
the voter so objected to: PrOUided, that
nothing in this section contained shall be
construed to prohibit the right of any cleo
tor to challenge or object to the nameof
any person registered, or offering to regis
ter, at any time other than that above
specified If any person challenged or
objected to shall be found not duly quail
fed, as provided in this chapter, or as
provided in the Constitution, the registrar
shall erase his name from the books.
II. The County Commissioners, Oh or be-
fore the first Monday of October, 1876, shall
appoint four judges or inspectors OF cleo
ton, two Of whom shall be Of 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 shah 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