The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-04-12

with the poll list taken from the office as aforesaid
snau be hled by said inspectors in the office Of the
Town Clerk of the town III which such election dis
trict may be; or if election district is village
then they shall be fled in the office of the Village
Clerk; or, II such election district is in city, then
they shall be filed in the Office of the City Clerk of
said city, and one copy of said list shall be kept by
eacn OF said inspectors, and carefully preserved by
him for their use the day days hereinafter
mentioned, for the revision and correction OF the
same. one copy OF said list SHALL immediately after
its completion be posted in conspicuous place
III the room IN which such meeting shall be held,
and be accessible to any elector who may desire to
examine the same, make copies thereof The in
spectors shall cause in addition ten printed copies
OF SAID list to be posted up in ten of the different
and most public places within such election district
SEC 4. In case new election district shall be
formed by the division of any ward. the ncorpo-
ration OF city or village the inspectors of election
III the new district thus formed may make their reg
lsry OF electors on the days prescribed by this act
IN such manner as majority of the inspectors may
direct; and for that purpose may make list, or
cause 10 De made certified copy of the poll lists,
lss OF the district or districts in which such
district is situated; they may dispense with such
list or lists and proceed to make register of elect
ofs from the best means at their command. Said
list shall only embrace the names of such persons
are known to them to be electors in their district
and shall be posted up and copies thereof made as
prescribed In the preceding section, and shall be
corrected IN the same manner that other lists
corrected.
| Sec. 5. The said board shall meet on Tuesday,
two weeks preceding the general election. in their
Respective election districts at the place designated
Tor holding the polls of election for the purpose of
! revising, correcting and completing said lists and
for this purpose they shall meet at nine o'clock in
the morning, and remain in session until nine
O'CLOCK p. m. OF that day and the day following.
SEC. =. The proceedings of said board shall be
open and all persons residing and entitled to vote
IN said district shall be entitled to be heard by said
inspectors IN relation to corrections additions to
said register One of the lists kept by inspectors
as aforesaid shall be used by them on the days of
making corrections or additions, for the purpose Of
completing the registry for said district.
SEC. Z. 1t shall be the duty of said inspectors at
their meeting for revising and correcting said lists
to erase therefrom the 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 nonresident of said district
or otherwise not entitled to vote in said district at
the election then next to be held. Any eector re-
| siding in said district and entitled to vote therein
may appear before said board of inspectors and
require his name to be recorded said alphabet
cal list Any person SO requiring his name to be
entered ON said list, shall make the same statement
as to the street and number thereof, and where he
resides required by the provisions of this act of per-
sons 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 either of them, or by any other
elector whose name appears said alphabetical list,
and the same oaths may be administered by the in
spectors as now provided against persons Offering to
vote at an election; and in challenge is
made OF any person requiring his name to be en-
tered on said alphabetical list in of challenge
II such person shall make an oath that would entite
him to vote in of challenge at 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 twentyone years of age on either
of these days when the register is completed, but
will be if he should live until the day of election may
have his name put said register, provided he is
otherwise qualified to be an elector
SEC. 8. After said lists shall have been fully COM
pleted, upon the days before mentioned, no names
shall be added thereto by any person upon any
pretext, and the said inspectors shall within three
days thereafter four copies of the to be
made, each of which shall be certified by them to be
correct list of the 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 inspectors shall, III addition to the foregoing
cause to be printed within one week from the CON-
plet1on OF said register such number as they may
determine, but not less than fifty more than
one hundred copies of such register, together with
the residence of any person whose name appears
thereon, and of the lists of printed one
half shall be delivered. not alter than Wednesday
preceding each election, to the respective chairmen
OF the town, village or ward committees of
the principal opposing political parties. 1t shall be
the duty of said inspectors receiving such
completed lists aforesaid carefully to preserve the
said lists for their election day and to desig-
nate 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 this State
unless the name Of the person Offering to vote be on
the said register as completed on Tuesday, two
weeks preceding the election, and Wednesday the
day following, provided in section five (5) of this
act except as herein provided. In any shall
after the last day for completing said register and
before such election become qualified voter of the
election district he shall have the right to vote
therein at such election as he would have had if his
name had been duly registered in said register pro-
vded, he shall before 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 quail
fed electOr of such district and the facts showing
that he not such eector the day said register
was completed, and he shall also deliver to such in
spectors with his affidavit the afidavits of two
freehOlders Of such election district, corrObOratng
in detail the material statements in his own affidavit
No one freeholder shall be competent to make at
any one election corrOborating afhdavits for more
than three voters. All of said afidavits shall be
sworn to before officer authorized by the laws
OF Wisconsin to take depositons The inspectors
shall keep a list of the names and residence of the
electors voting whose pames are not on said
peted register and attach such list to the register
and return it together with all the afdavits afore-
said to the Town, Village, City Clerks office in
which such election district may be. Any person
whose name is on the register may be challenged,
and the same oaths shall be put as are here
| after may be prescribed by law.
SEC. 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 for that purpose, opposite the name of each
person voting the same statement or minute as
hereinbefore required OF inspectors in making the
registry. Every elector at the time of Offering his
vote shall truly state the street in which he resides
and if the house, lodging tenement in which he
| resides is numbered, the number thereof, and the
clerks of the polls shall truly enter in the appropri-
ate column of the poll-ist opposite the of the
eector, the street in which the elector resides and
the number, in the house, lodging or tenement
is numbered and if the is not numbered, then
the clerk shall enter not numbered in the column
of the poll list for entering the number. In of
refusal to make the statement aforesaid the vote
of such elector shall not be received. Any person
who shall willfully make any false statement in
lation thereto, shall be deemed guilty of misdemean-
or, and shall, upon conviction, be punished with
fine of fifty dollars, by imprisonment in the
ty jail of the county, for period of ten days, by
both such fine and imprisonment.
SEC. 10. After the OF the votes, of said
poll lists and said registers kept and checked
aforesaid, shall be attached together and shall on
the following day be filed in the Town, Village
City Clerks office (as the case may beg, in which said
district may be, to be used by the inspectors in max
ing 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 district