Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-05-31


No. AZ the beginning of each year. And
the register shall make. over his own sigma
ture, and deliver to every person so registered
before him, corresponding statement with
Ike number asd date, which such person
shall present to the judges of election when
he offers to vote. No person shall register at
any other time or place than as above desig-
mated. %
| Sac. g. That if any person or persons shall
willfully make, or authorize to be made, any
statement herein required, false in any partic-
ular, or shall violate any provision of this act
every sach person or persons shall be deemed
guilty Of q misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum, not less
than twenty, nor more than three hundred
dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail
not exceeding six months, or both, at the dis
cretion of the court.
SEC z. Regisse s, at least ten days before
any general election aforesaid, shall make an
alphabetical hs, for their voting precinct; of
al persons registered as residing therein and
not before 80 listed, giving with each name
the date of removal to such precinct, and the
last preceding place Of residence, which list
he shall forthwith post, or cause to be posted
up, co1spicaously. at the usual place of hold
ing elections in such precinct; and copy
thereof with the proper number and date OF
registry in each case added, he shall deliver,
or cause to be delivered, to the judges of cleo
tion Of the pr,per precinct, on every such
election day, and before the opening of the
polls; md as persons so listed shall present
the statements aforesaid. evidencing their reg
istry and vote; their name shall be checked of
On said list Provided, any person, having
duly registered In another precinct, and re
moved, as provided in the second proviso of
section one, to the precinct wherein he
offers to vote, and being otherwise qualified,
SHALL on presenting such statement of registry
in such former precinct, and stating uader
oath that the same is true and correct,
be entitled to vote. The judges of election
shall cause such disposition to be made of said
lists as will render them convenient for refer
ence at subsequent elections.
SEC. 8. If any register shall fail to perform
any duty herein required, he shall be liable to
penalty of one hundred dollars, to be reeov-
cred on complaint of any person. before any
court of competent jurisdiction, and if any
register or judge of election shall willfully ne
glect or disregard any duty herein. required,
or make, or permit to be made, any registrar
tion, statement or list, except at the time and
place and in the manner prescribed in this
act, or shall knowingly make or permit any
person to make any false statement, as afore-
said, every such register or judge of election
shall be deemed guilty of q misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof, shall be fined or i'm
prisosed, or both, as provided in section six.
Sso. 9. Resistsss shsii be allowed by their
respective townships, cities and villages, for
their services under this act, such compensa-
ton as is allowed by law for similar services.
SEC. 10. The word ''ward" as used in the
preceding sections for the purposes of this
act, means and shall be held to mean, any
municipal ward not sabdivided as hereinafter
provided, and any subdivision of municipal
ward so subdivided.
SEC. II. In every city of fifteen thousand
or more Inhabitants at the preceding census,
having any ward in which more than six hun
dred ballots are cast at any election, the coun-
Gil thereof shall, Immediately after the taking
effect Of this act, and whenever, thereafter,
occasion may arise, divide by ordinance every
such ward into subdivisions for election pur
poses Of compact territory, bounded by streets
or alleys, or both, 30 that each subdivision
shall contain Is nearly as practicable three
hundred electors resident therein, and shall
designate in such ordinance, as wards, such
subdivisions by letters of the alphabet in their
order, with the number of such municipal
ward added, as, for illustration ward A, 1;
ward B, 1; ward {, 1; ward A, 2; ward b, 2,
and 30 on. If the council of any such city
shall fail, for sixty days, to divide any such
ward 80 divisible for election purposes under
this act, the mayor of such city shall there
upon divide the same in accordance herewith,
and give notice thereof by proclamation, con-
tanning the boundaries and designation of
every subdivision, and the places of holding
elections therein, which proclamation shall be
published forthwith in 81 m, newspaper pub
lished and of general circulation in such city,
and shall be recorded in the ordinance record
thereof.
SEQ. H. In every municipal ward so sub
divided, all elections shall be held by and in
the subdivisions thereof. And the judges of
election for such municipal ward as now pro-
vided BY law, shall be judges of election for
ward A thereof, and such judges shall meet
at the mayors Office on the first Monday of
September of each year, at ten o'clock Q. M,
and shah there select and appoint one judge
of election for each of the other subdivisions
or wards of such municipal ward. The per-
sons 20 appointed shall be freehold electors,
and residents for at least three hundred and
sixty days in the ward fer which appointed.
The mayor shall forthwith cause notice to be
given to each person so appointed, and shall
cause record to be made and kept in his of
fee of such appointments. -
The persons 50 appointed, shall act as
judges of election in their proper subdivisions
or wards during the period of one year. They
shall take the same oath of Office, be subject
to the same requirements, penalties, liabili-
ties, and disqualifcations, and entitled to the
same compensation as other judges of cleo
ton. They shall designate snd appoint two
clerks of election of opposite politics, who
shall take an oath of oiiice, and shall perform
all the duties and be subject to all the liabili-
ties az other clerks of elections If any of
such judges or clerks Of elections shall fail to
attend at the proper time and place, such
judges and clerks and all additional judges
and clerks, shall be chosen and qualified as
now provided by law