Litchfield enquirer., 1877-07-12
WHOLE NO. 2667.


 the other districts shall be assistant pro- siding officers, and shall make returns of their polls as required by law. 2iselt SEQ. 27. Each registrar may appoint one or more challengers in his town or district, who may be present at the offer ing of any vote; and any such challenger, or any elector, may challenge the right of any person offering to vote, on the ground of want of identity with the person on whose name the vote is offered, or dis franchisement, or dlscontinuance of his residence since registration, and the mod orator shall decide upon the right of the person so challenged to vote.
 SEC. 28 The ballot-boxes at the cleo tors meetings shall be open for the recep- tion of votes at the place and from the hour at which said meeting is warned, un- til five o'clock in the afternoon, when they shall be closed: fOroVided, hotOeVer, that | the ballot boxes may be closed in any vot- ing district, at an earlier hour than i've, when so authorized by special enactment of the General Assembly. The modertors shall place the ballot-boxes before said
 box tenders, in situation convenient of access by the electors, and publicly call upon She electors to bring in their ballots for such officers as are to be voted for. The voters shall, under the direction of the moderators in their respective towns or districts, lay their ballots successively, and only one at time, on the lids, of the respective boxes, when the box tenders shall, after the voters name is found and checked on the registry list, and when any challenge of the vote has been decided in his favor, and not before and being satis- fled that the ballot so offered is single
 without opening the same if folded, put it into the box. r... Sec. 29. At any electors meeting, and at any town or city meeting for the elec- tion of officers by ballot, those only shall
 vote who were registered on the revised
 registry list then last completed accord ing to law, and each shall vote in the dis.
 trict m which he was so registered: pro. Vided, also, that those persons may vote whose names are restored to the list un- der the provisions of section thirteen of this act, And those whose names are ad- ded on the day before electors meeting under the provision of section fifteen of this act. Every person so registered shall be permitted to vote unless he shall have lost his right by removal from town, after such registration. or by conviction of some crime which disfranchises: and every per
 son offering so to vote, and being challen. ged as to his identity or residence. shall
 before he votes prove hls identity with
 the person on whose name he offers to vote, or his continued residence in such town, since the completion of such list, as the case may be, by the testimony, under oath, of at least one other elector.
 At any town meeting held in any town, in addition to the registered electors then residing in such town, all those male in, habitants may vote who are of the age of twenty-One years, and who have resided Tn the State the one year and in the town the six months next preceding, and who have freehold estate not subject to c mortgage rated in the common list of as- sesSment at three hundred dollars, or per. sonal estate rated in said list at one hun. dred and fifty dollars, exclusive of their polls. If any sheriff, deputy sheriff, iail. CT, or deputy iailor, who has the charge of any person confined in fail by any pro- cess growing out of criminal proceeding shall permit such person to leave the jail sch sR shf pSEs6S aaB 9f Is pHX SsksSfts0gd J
 the operation of legal discharge from custody, he shall upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding one hundred dol lars.
 Sec. 30. Every person, who, between the hours of five o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening of the day of an electors meeting, shall keep open any room, place or inclosuTe, or any build. ing, or any structure of any kind or de- scription, in which it is reputed that .in- toxicating liquors are exposed for sale, and to be drank on the premises. shall be fined forty dollars, or imprisoned thirty days, or both. If any person, licensed to sell spirituous or Intoxicating liquors, ale. Rhine wine or lager beer, shall violate the prohibition or provisions of this section, such violation shall work a forfeiture of his license, and of all moneys that may have been paid for such license, and such person shall not thereafter, for the space of one year, be eligible to receive license to sell spirituous or intoxicating liqnors, ale Rhine wine or lager beer. All prose- cutions for violation of thls section shall be determined by justice of the peace,. or city or police court.
 Sec. 3l. Votes cast for presidential electors, representatives in Congress, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secreta- ", Treasurer, Comptroller, Senator, Judge of Probate, and for Sheriff, shall be on one ballot, and votes for represen. tatives shall be on one ballot, and shall be deposited respectively in the boxes marked general ticket" and ''represen- tative." All ballots shall be on plain white paper, with the name and office written or printed thereon, and no other ballots shall be received. .5 .. 70. -.
 Sec. g. Each registrar shall be pres- ent during the taking of any vote at any electors meeting, or annual town meeting or city election in his town or district In Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport. Water. bury, Norwich, Meriden, New Britain, and Middletown, the assistants in their respective districts, shall when requested by either registrar. be present at the talk ing of any such vote, and discharge the duties of registrars. The several regis trars shall appoint some proper person to check the list in each distr1ct, who shall check the name of each voter thereon. when he offers hls vote, and no box tend. CT shall suffer any vote to be deposited ia the box until the name is so checked. I'm. mediately after the close of the polls She said registrars. acting at the respective polls, shall write and sign with ink, on the list so used and checked, a certificate of the whole number of names registered thereon, the number of names checked as having voted, and the number not town clerks office of their town, on or be. fore the following day, and such town clerk shall carefully preserve the same on file, with the marks on it without altera. ton. for public inspection, and shall im- mediately enter certified copy of such certificates on the town records. r... ..t
 Sec. B. At every election specified in the proceeding sections, each registrar shall appoint from one to five persona co may be necessary for each ballOi-box ID i. hls district or town, who shall make the official count of the ballot in said box, and said counters shall be sworn before enter ing on their duties. ao qo hao aaishs
 Immediately after the ballot-boxes ara. closed at such meeting, and not before. the counters shall. in public meeting. sort and count the ballots found therein. In case of doubt. or dispute as to the reading of ballot, or whether ballot should Do rejected as double, or for any other cause, the moderator shall decide. All ballots rejected for being in the wrong box, for