Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-04-26

street and number thereof and where he resides.
required by the provisions of this act of persons
offering 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 inspectors or either of them, or by any other
clector whose name appears said alphabetical
list, and the same oaths may be administered by
the inspectors as now provided against persons
offering to vote at an election; and in case no
challenge is made of any person requiring his
name to be entered said alphabetical list or
in case of challenge, if such person shall make
an oath that would entitle him to vote in case of
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 until the day of cleo
ton, may have his name put on said register
provided he is otherwise qualified to be an cleo
tor.
Section 8. After said lists shall have been
fully completed, upon the days before men,
toned, no names shall be added thereto by any
person or upon any pretext, and the said in
spectoIs shall within three days thereafter cause
four copies of the same to be made, each of
which shall be certified by them to be correct
list of the votes of their district, one of which
shall be filed in 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 III addition to the foregoing cause
to be printed within one week from the compile
ton of said register such number as 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 so printed one
half shall be delivered not later than Wednesday
preceding each election to the respective chair
N of no xTlllaoa arA of
the principal opposing political parties. 1t
shall be the duty of said inspectors receiving
such completed lists as aforesaid carefully to
preserve the said lists for their use election
day and to designate two of their number at the
opening of the polls to check 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 to vote be the said regis
ter as completed on Tuesday, two weeks pre-
ceding the election, and Wednesday, the day
following as provided in section five % of this
act except as herein 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 as he
would have had If his name had been duly reg
istered in said register; roUided he shall before
or at 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
elector of such district, and the facts showing
that he was not such elector on the day said
register was completed and he shall also deliver
to such inspectors with his own affidavit the
afdavits of two freeholders of such election dis
trct, corropOrating in detail the material state
ments in his own affidavit. No one freebooter
shall be competent to make at anv one election
corroborating affidavits for more than three vot-
All of said affidvits shall be sworn to before
nff khf1ry aHh 1y
sin to 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 1t together with all the affdavits
aforesaid to the town, village or CITY clerks
office in which such election district may be.
Any person whose name is on the register may be
challenged, and the same oath shall be put as
now are or hereafter may be prescribed by law
Section 9. The clerks at each poll, in addition
to the duties now prescribed by law, shall enter
on the poll list kept by them, in columns pre-
pared TOR that purpose, opposite the name of
each person voting the same statemento or minute
as herelnbefore required of inspectors in making
the registry. Every electOr at the time of offer
ing his vote shall truly state the street in which
he resides, and If the house, lodging or tene-
ment in which he resides is numbered the num-
Der thereof, and the clerks of the polls shall
truly enter in the appropriate column of the poll
list, opposite the name of the elector the street
IN which the electOr resides, and the number in
case the house, lodging or tenement is num-
bered, and it the same is not numbered, then
the clerk shall enter 81 not numbered" in the col
umn of the poll list for entering the number. In
case of refusal to make the statement aforesaid
the vote of such eiector shall not be received
Any person who shall willfully make any false
statement In relation thereto, shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, ard shall upon convic-
ton be punished with a fire of fifty dollars or
nv n m MT in the mil Of +ba
ty, for period of ten days, or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
Section 10. After the canvass of the votes
one of said poll lists and said registers so kept
and checked as aforesaid, shall be attached to-
gether and shall on the following day be filed in
the town, village or city clerks office (as the
case may be-, in which said district may be- to
be used by the inspectors In making the list of
voters at the next general election. The other
of said poll lists and registers, so kept and
checked, shall be returned to the Office of the
county clerk of the county In which such dis
trict may be, at the same time the returns of the
election are made.
Section IL. The registers shall at all times be
open to public inspection at the Office of the
authorities in which they shall be deposited
without charge.
Section r. The members of the board of
registration and their clerks shall each receive
the same compensation is allowed by
law Tor inspectors of election for each day actu-
ally employed in the making and completion of
the registry, to be paid to them at the time and
IN the manner in which they are paid their other
fees.
Section 13 The said board shall have and ex-
erclse the same power for preserving order at
their meetings under this act as is given to in
spectors OF election for preserving order cleo
ton day.
Section ii. Any person VINO shall cause his
name to be registered in more than one election
district or who shall cause his name to be regis
tered, knowing that he is nC5 qualified voter in
the district where such registry is made, or who
shall falsely personate any II istered voter, and
any person causing aiding or abethng any per-
son IN any manner in either of said acts, shall be
punished for each and every offense by impris- i
onment In the state prison for not less than one
year. All false swearing before such board of
registration, in making affidavits required by
this act, shall be deemed willful and corrupt
perjury, and on conviction punished as such. If
any member or officer of said board shall will
FULLY violate any of the provisions of this act or
be guilty of any fraud IN the execution of the
duties of his Office, he shall be punished for each
and every offense by imprisonment In the state
prison for not less than one year.
Section Is. The secretary of state shall cause
this law to be printed in pamphlet form with
suitable forms and instructions for carving it
into effect, together with the general election
law OF the state, and a sufficient number of
copies thereof sent to each clerk of the board of
supervisors in every county in this state to sup
ply each of the officers named in this act with a
copy; and 1t shall be the duty of each of said
clerks Immediately to transmit copy of the
same to each of the inspectors of election in his
county.
Section t. The necessary blanks for making
the registers required by this law shall be pre-
pared by the secretary of state andtransmitted to
the persons entitled to receive them in the same
manner that blank returns of elections are now
transmitted.
Section II. Chapter AS, of the laws of 1864
chapter 296, of the laws of 1865, chapter l26, OF
the laws of 1866 chapter 1884, of the laws of 1871,
chapter 232, of the laws of 1875, and chapter 302
of the laws of 1875 ara Inv ro,,a,Ia9 ..l