The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14


shaI not be the candidates to be voted lot a'
any election for which they may be appointed IN
spectors and not more than two OF s1ch lnspect-
ors shall belong to the same political party Sucn
clerks shall be electors in the ward for which
| they shall be appointed clerks shall be able 70
ieaq and write the English language understand
ngly shall not be candidates to be voted for al
any election for which they may be appointed
clerks and shall be of opposing political parties.
Suol common council or board of trustees, upon
Pr enntation OF such nominations for inspectors
anu clerks OF elections shall immediately proceed
" approve or disapprove of the same and in case
| trn.,TJ oilsy oI sald common council or board of
.lust9es snail disapprOve of any person nomi-
ti ule mayor or president shall then and
w , ioillae another person for such position,
oHu shaii so continue to do until the said board
OF three inspectors and two clerks for each cleo
uoh precinct IN said city or village shall have
etiS In ara confirmed and such nomi-
! concluded on the day aforesaid and Iyhen so
made and concluded, such board OF iuS1octors
and clerks shall possess the quail h afionS aud no
| composed OF persons known to belong to the diff
ferent political parties as hereinbefoTe nrnvided
| The persons so appointed inspectors and clerks
of election shall hold their positions during ono
year; they shall act as inspectors and Clerks
at every general, municipal or special election
held within their preclnct during such time they
shall receive such CONF enSatlon for their sery-
ices and be liable TO such penalties for any yio-
lation of their. duties, as is provided by law for
inspectors and clerks of elections in other cases
Such board of inspectors shall have power to
fill any vacancy in their number, or in the num-
Der of the clerks but the persons so appointed to
ill vacancy shall be of the same political party
and possess the same qualifications the person
| he succeeds. In all Incorporated Giles or vii
lagos in this state, which are joined to towns for
state ana county purposes, the inspectors of cleo
tons appointed by law in such towns, cities or
villages shall, in addition TO the general duties
imposed upon them as such inspectors, discharge
the further duties imposed upon the inspectors of
elections by this act.
! Section 2. The persons authorized by law to
act as Inspectors of elections in any ward cleo
uon precinct in any Incorporated city or village,
affal,
rated city or village in this state, shall constitute
| Il board of registry for their respective towns,
wards precincts or villages, and their duties as
such boards of registry shall be follows, viz:
| TO make at such times and in such manner as
| hereinafter prescribed, list of all the persons
qualified and entitled to vote at the then ensuing
election, i'll the election district of which they
| are inspectors. The said inspectors shall have
| their, first meeting on Tuesday, four weeks pre-
cedlng each general election, at the place where
said election is to be held, and shall then have
power to sit four days if necessary, for the pur
pose of making such list they shall meet at nine
o'clock in the forenoon and hold their meetings
open until nine O'Clock in the evening of each
day during which they shall sit, and the clerks
appointed by law to act clerks of election shall
| act clerks of the said board of registry.
Section 8. Said registers shall each contain a
list of the persons qualified and entitled to vote
in said election district alphabetically arranged
according to their respective surnames, so as to
show, in one column, the name at full length,
and in another column, in cities and incorpo-
rated vii ages the residence by the number of the
x,
the street or other location of the dwelling
place of each person. 1t shall be the duty of said
inspectors to enter in said lists the names of all
persons residing in their election districts, whose
names appear on the poll list kept i'll said dis
trict at the last preceding general election and
i'll cities Incorporated Villages, the num-
Der of the dwelling and name of street
other location if the same shall be known or can
be ascertained by such inspectors and for this
purpose said inspectors are authorized to take
from the office in which they are filed the poll
and INSPECTORS
district at the general election held next prior
to the making of such register. In making said
list, the board shall enter therein in addition to
the names on the pol! list the names of all other
persons who are well known to them to be elect
ors in said district; and the names of all persons
on said poll list who have died or removed from
the district shall be omitted from said register.
The said inspectors shall complete as far as prac
ricable the said register at their first meeting as
aforesaid, and shall make four copies thereof,
and shall certify the register and each of the
copies TO be true list of the voters in The district
so far IS the same are known to them Within
two days thereafter, the said original list, to-
gether with the poll list taken from the Office
aforesaid shall be filed by said inspectors, in
| the Office OF the town clerk in the
town in which such election district may be-
or if such election district is village then they
shall be filed in the office of the village clerk or
! if such election district is in city, then they
shall be filed in the office of the city clerk of said
| city and one copy of said list shall be kept by
| each of said inspectors, and carefully preserved
| by him for their use on the day or days
hereinafter mentioned, for the revision and cor
rection of the same. One copy of said list shall,
Immediately after its completion, be posted in
ONE conspicuous place in the room in which
such meeting shall be held, and be accessible to
any elector who may desire to examine the same
or make copies thereof. The inSpe ctors shall
in addition ten printed copies of the list to
be posted up in ten of the different and most pub
lie places within such election district.
Section 4. In case new election district shall
be formed by the division of any ward, or the in
corporation of city village, the inspectors of
elt ction in the new district tbus formed may
IN "a tIGIr nQIGt ~ al npfn no 1uN
Scribed by this, in such manner a majority of
the inspectors may direct and for that purpose
may make list or cause to be made certified
copy of the poll lists or lists of the district dis
tricts in which such new district is situated
or they may dispense with such list or lists, land
proceed to make register of electors from. the
best means at their command. Said list shall
only embrace the names of such persons as are
known to them to be electors iii their district and
shall be posted up, and copies thereof made as
prescribed in the preceding section, and shall be
corrected III the same manner that other lists are
corrected.
Section S. The said board shall meet on Tues
day, two weeks preceding the general election,
in their respective election districts at the place
designated for holding the polls of election, for
the purpose of revising, correcting and com
plotting said lists and for this purpose they shall
meet at nine O'Clock in the morning, and remain
in session until nine O'Clock p. NJ of that day and
the day following
Section 6. The proceedings of said boaJd shall
be open, and all persons residing and entitled to
vote in said district shall be entitled to be heard
by said Inspectors in relation to corrections or
additions to said register. One of the lists kept
by inspectors aforesaid shall be used by them
the days of making corrections or additions, for
the purpose of completing the registry for said
district
Section T. 1t shall be the duty of said inspect
ors at their meeting for revising and correcting
said lists to erase therefrom the of any per-
son inserted therein who shall be proved by the
oath of two legal voters of said district, to the
satisfaction of said inspectors, TO be non-resi-
dent of said district or otherwise not entitled to
vote in said district, at the election then next to
be held. Any eector residing in said district and
entitled to vote therein, may appear before said
board of inspectors, and require his name to be
recorded on said alphabetical list Any person
SO requiring his name to be entered on said list
shall make the same statement as to the street
and number thereof and where he resides, re-
qured by the provisions of this act of persons of
fering their votes at the election, and shall be
subject to the same penalties for refusing to give
such information, or for falsely giving the same,
and shall also be subject to challenge either by
the inspectSrs either of them, or by any other
elector whose name appears on said alphabetical
list, and the same oaths may be administered by
the inspectors provided against persons
offering to vote at election and in case no
challenge is made of any person requiring his
name to be entered on said alphabetical list or in
case of challenge, if such person shall make
oath that would entite him to vote i'll case of
a challenge at an election, then the name of any
such person shall be added TO the alphabetical
poll list of the last preceding year. Any person
who is not twenty-one years of age on either of
these days when the register is completed, but
will be if he should live 10 the day of election
may have his name put on the said register pro-
vided he is otherwise qualified TO be an elector.
Section s. After said lists shall have been duly
completed, upon the days before mentioned, no
names shall be added thereto by any person or
upon any pretext and the said inspectors shall
within three days thereafter cause four copies OF
the same to be made, each OF which shal! De Ger.
titled by them to be correct list OF the votes OF
their district, one of which shall be flied IN the
Office of the town cleyk of towns, in the office of
the village clerk in villages and in the Office of
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