Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-25

with the residence of any person whose name ap-
pears thereon. and ofthe lists of names SO printed
one half be delivered not later than Wednes-
day preceding each election to the respective
chairmen of the town, village, or ward commit
tees of the principal opposing political parties.
1t shall be the duty of said inspectors so receiving
such com pIetGi lists as aforesaid carefully to pre-
serve the said lists for their use on election day
aud to designate two of their number at the open
ing OF tue polls to check the name of every voter
voting in such district whose name is on the reg
lister, NO vote shall be received at any general
election in this state unless the of the per
son offering to vote be the said register as
completed on Tuesday, two weeks preceding the
elecuon ana Wednesday, the day following, as
provided in section five (5) of this act except as
herein provided In case any one shall. after
the last day for completing said register and be-
fore such election become qualified voter of the
election district, he shall have the same right to
vote therein st such election as he would have
had if his name bad been duly registered in said
register prOUGed he shall before or at the time
he offers to vote deliver to the inspectors
his 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 com
pleted and he shall also deliver to such inspect
ors, with his own affidavit, the afdavits of two
of two freeholders of such election district, cor
roborating in detail the material statements in
his own affidavit. No one freebooter shall be
competent TO make st any one election corrobO-
rating attidavits for more than three voters. All
OF said atdavits s. all be to before some Of
fcer. authorized Ly the laws of Wisconsin to take
dispositions. Tie inspectors shall keep list Of
the names AID residence of the electors voting
whose namea are not on said completed register,
and attach such list to the register, and return it.
together with all the at1ldavts 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 me
oaths shall be put as now or hereafter may be pre-
scribed 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 prepared for
that purpose, opposite the name of each person
voting, the same statement or minute as hereinbe-
fore required of inspectors in making the registry
Every eiector at the time of Offering bis vote shall
truly state the street in which he resides, and if
the house, lodging or tenement in which he resides
is numbered the number thereof, and the clerks of
the polls shall truly enter in the appropriate column
OF the poll list opposite the of the elector, the
street in which the elecor resides, and the number,
in case the house lodging tenement is numbered,
and if the same is not numbered, then the clerk
shall enter not mum bered" in the column of the
poll list for entering the number. In case of re-
fusal to make the sta ement as aforesaid the vote
of such elecor slI6li not be received. Any person
wins shall wilfully make any false statement in re-
lation thereto, shall be deemed guilty of misde
meanor. and shall upon conviction be punished
With fine of fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in
the county Jail OF the county 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 80 kept and
checked as aforesaid shall be attached together,
andshal on The following day be filed in the town
village city clerks office las the case may beg
in hch eaid district may be, to be used by the in
spectors in making the list of voters at the next
general election The other of said poll lists and
registers, kept and checked, shall be returned to
the Office OF the county clerk of the county in which
such district may be, at the time the returns
of the election made.
Section H. The registers shall at all times be
open to public inspection at the office of the
authorities in which they shall be deposited with
ont charge.
Section II. The members of the board of regis
tration and their clerks sral each receive the
same compensation as is now allowed by Jaw for
inspectors of election for each day actually
ployed in the making and pletion of the regis
try TO be paid to them at the tine and in the man
her in which they paid their other fees.
Section IS. The said board shall have and exer-
else the same power tor preserving order at their
meetings under this act is given to inspectors of
election for preserving order on election days.
Section "a. Any person who shall cause his name
to be registered in more than election district,
or who shall cause his name to be registered,
knowing that he is not qualified voter in the dis
trict where such registry is made, or who shall
falsely personate any registe red voter, and any
person causing, aiding or abetting any
person in any manner in either of said
acts, shall be punished for each and
every offense by imprisonment in the state prison
for not less than year. Ali false swearing before
such board Of registration, or in making attdavits
required by this act, shall be deemed wilful and
corrupt perjury, and, On conviction pun
such board shall wfully violate any of the provis-
ions of this act, be guilty OF any fraud in the
cution of the duties of his Office he shall be
punished for each and every otfense by impris-
onment 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 suit
able forms and instructions for carrying it into eff
fec together with the general election law of this
state, and sufficient number of copies thereof
sent to each CLERK Of the board of supervisors in
every county in this state, to supply each of the Of
fcers named in this act with copy; and it shall
be the duty of each Of said clerks immediately to
transmit copy of the same to each of the inspect
ors of election in his county.
Section t. The necessary blanks for making
the registers required by this law shall be prepared
persons entitled to receive them i'll the same
manner that blank returns of elections are now
transmitted
Section IT, Chapter AS of the laws of 1864
chapter 1885, of the laws of 1865 chapter 1885, of the
laws of 1865 chapter 1884, of the laws OF 1871 chap
ter 1872 of the laws of 1875 and chapter 1902 of the
laws of 1876 are hereby repealed, and section one
a., of this act, shall be taken and held to be an
| amendment in respect to the matter con-
tanned therein, of every city and village charter in
this state.
Section 49, This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 8. 1877.
Published March %. 18TH
CHAPTER 293.
| AN ACT relating to the invention and successful
of steam other mechanical agents on
highways, and amendatory o. chapter 1874 of the
| laws Of 1876, as amended by chapter 1872 of the
laws of 1876.
The people Of the state of Wisconsin, represented
In senate and assembly, do enact as follows
Section l. Chapter one hundred and thirty-four
| N34), of the laws of 1878, as amended by chapter
one hundred and eighty-two (182), of the laws of
| 1876, is hereby amended so to read as follows
There is hereby appropriated the sum of ten
thousand dollars $50 C00), out any money in the
treasury Tot otherwise appropriated to be used as
bounty, aud to be paid to any citizen of Wiscon-
| SIN who has invented shall invent a machine
propelled by steam or other motive agent which
shall be cheap and practical substitute for the
use of horses and other animals on the highway
and farm prouided, that said appropriation shall
not be paid until successful trial of said ma.
chine has been had, and award made as hereinafter
provided.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of the Governor
on or before the LIST day of June, 1873 to appoint
three commissioners, two Of whom shall be prac-
ical and experienced farmers, and the 9th er
practical and sktful M chinist, to each of whom
the Governor shall execute and deliver certificate
of his appointment. It shall be the duty of said
commissioners to examine and test as hereinafter
provided all machines which shall compete for or
claim said bounty IrOUided, the inventors shall
have made at the time Of trial, the statement and
comphed with the conditions hereinafter pre-
| scribed. 4.
| Section 3. Every inventor who shall heretofore
or at any time hereafter, prior to the lst day Of
June 1878, have filed with the Secretary of State
statement Of his invention, to compete for the said
bounty, and that he has made progress in the con-
| struction of machine for the purpose aforesaid
shall have the right to exhibit his machine to such
commissioners, to be by them examined and tried
as hereinafter provided