Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-04-25

trict or dis riots in which such new di strict is
situated or they may dispense with such list or
/ lists, and proceed TO make register of electors
4 from the best means at their command. Said
/ list shall orly embrace the names Of such per
sons as are known to them to be electors in their
4 district and shall be posted mp and copies there
! of made prescribed in the preceding section
/ and shall be corrected in 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 sIectiye election districts, at the place
designated for holding the polls of election, for
the purpose Of revising correcting and com r1l.ting
said lists; and for tins purpose they shall meet
at nine o'clock in the morning, and remain in
session until nine o'clock p. n. OF that day and
the day following.
| Section 6. The proceedings of said board
shall be open, and all persons residing and en-
titled to vote in said district shall be entitled to
be heard by said inspectors in relation to cor
rections additions to said register. One or
the lists kept by inspectors as aforesaid shall
be used by them, on the days Of making cor
rections or ADDITIONS, for the purpose of COM
plotting the registry for said district.
Section 7. 1t shall be the duty of said inspec-
tors at their meeting for revising and correcting
said lists To erase thereirom the naine of any
person inserted therein who shall be proved by.
the oath OF two legal voters of said district. to
the satisfaction of said inspectors, to be a nom
resident Of said district or otherwise not entitled
10 vote in said district at the election then next
to be held Any elector residing in said district
and entitled to vote therein may appear before
said boird Of inspectors and require his name TO
be recorded on said alphabetical list. Any per-
requiring his name to be entered on said
list shall make the same statement to the
street and number thereof and where he resides,
requi ed by the provisions Of this act of persons
offering their votes at the elect ION and shall be
subject 10 the same penalties for refusing to give
such information, or for falsely giving the same,
and shall also lie subject 10 challenge either by
the inspectors either Of them, or hy any other
elector whose name appears on said Alphabetical
list and the same oaths may be administered by
the inspectors now provided against persons
offering to vote at an election; and IN case
challenge is made of any person requiring his
name to be entered on said Alphabetical list
in case Of challenge, if such person shall make
AN oath that would entitle him to vote in case of
challenge at an ele, ton, then the name OF any
such person shall DC added 10 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 it he should live until the day of cleo
ton, may have his uame put said register
provided lie is otherwise qualified to he cleo
tar.
! Section g. After said lists shall have been
| fully completed, upon the days before men
! toned, names shall be added thereto by any
person or upon any preteSt, and the said in
specton shall within three days thereafter cause
| four copies of the same to he made, each of
| which shall be certified by them TO be a correct
/ list of the votes of their district one of which
! shall be filed III the office of the town
| clerk of towns in the office of village
! clerk in villages, and in the Office OF city
| clerk in cities, and one Of which copies shall be
delivered to each of said inspectors. Said in
| spectors shall in addition to the foregoing cause
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| ton of said register such number rs they may
| determine but not less than Fifty nor more than
one hundred copies of such register together with
the residence Of any person whose name appears
| thereon, and of the list Of names 80 printed one
half shall be delivered not later than Wednesday
| preceding each election to the respective chair
men of the town, village ward committees of
the principal opposing political parties. Ii
! shall be the duty of said inspectors receiving
such completed lists rs aforesaid carefully TO
preserve the said lists tor their election
| day anal 10 designate two of their number at the
! opening of the polls TO cheek the name of every
voter voting in such district whose name is on
the register. No vote shall be received at any
general election IN the state unless the name of
the person offering 20 vote be the said regis
! ter as completed on Tuesday. two weeks pre-
ceding the election and Wednesday, the day
following, ag provided u section five co. of this
act except ,ls hotc.n provided In case anyone
| shall after the last day for completing said reg
! lister and before such election become qualified
voter of the election district he shall have the
/ same right TO vote therein at such election us he
would have had If his name had been duly reg
is,ered IN said sister Drori2cd he shall before
or nj the time he offers to vote deliver To the
inspectors his own affidavit, in which he shall
state the facts showing that he has since the
completion of said register become qualified
eloctor of such district, and the facts showing
that he WAS not such elcctor the day said
register was completed, and he shall also deliver
to such inspectors with his affidavit the
atiidavts of two tre,holders of such election dis
trlct, corroportting in detail the material state
ments iii his own affidavit. No one freebooter
shall be competent TO make at any one election
corruborating athdavts for more than three vot-
era All OF said atidyits shall be sworn To before
some officer authorized by the laws of Wiscon-
sin 10 take dispositions The inspectors shall
keep list OF the names and residence of the
electors voting whose names are not ON said COM
pleted register and attach such list to the regis
ter and return il together with al the ailidayits
atorcsa d 10 the town, village city clerks
office IN which such election district may he.
I Any person whose name is ON the register may be
challenged, and the same oath shall I've put as
now are or hereafter may be prescribed 10y law.
Section q The clerks ut each poll, in addition
/ 10 the duties now prescribed by law. shall enter
1 On the poll list kept by them, in columns pre-
pared for shat purpose, opposite the name of
each person voting the same statemeutur minute
rs hUlclubetorc required of inspectors IN making
the registry. Every eleetor ut the time of offer
ing his vote shall truly state the street IN which
he resides, and If the house hedging or tene-
neut IN which he resides Is numbered the upu-
beI thereof, and the clerks OF the polls stall
truly cutcr in the appmp late column of tho poll
list, opposite the name at the elector tire street
ln which tho eicctar e,i e., and the number. in
vase the house. lodging or tenement Is mum
hCrcd, and n the same Is not mum, cred. then