Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-04-26
Published March %, 1877.
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ter 445 OF the laws of 1864, chapter 296 of the
laws of 1865, chapter 126 of the laws of 1866,
chapter ia of the laws of 1871, chapter 232 of
the laws of 1875, and chapter 80 OF the laws of
1870, and amendatory of certain city and vii
lage charters therein referred to.
The people of thestate of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. The mayor of every incorporated
city and the president of every in .orporated viii
age IN this state except in the cases hereinafter
mentioned, shall present to the common council
of such city, or to the board of trustees of such
village, at their first regular meeting in Septem-
Der OF each year, and In case such common c0un-
GIL or board of trustees, hold no regular meet
Ing during September, then at a special meeting
of such common council or board of trustees,
which shall be held the last Tuesday in Septem-
Der of each year, the names of three persons for
inspectors of elections, and the names of two
persons for clerks of elections for each election
precinct In said city or village. Such inspectors
shall be electors In the ward for which they shall
be appointed inspectors; shall be able to read
and write the English language understanding
ly; shall not be candidates to be voted for at
any election for which they may be appointed
Inspectors; and not more than two of such III
spectors shall belong to the political party.
Such clerks shall be electors In the
ward for which they shall be appointed
clerks; shall be able to read and write
the English language Understandings; shall
not be candidates TO be voted for at any election
for which they may be appointed clerks, and
shall be of opposing political parties. Such
common council or board of trustees, upon pre-
sentation of such nominations for inspectors and
clerks ef elections, shall Immediately proceed
to approve or disapprove of the same, and in
case a majority of said common council or
board of trustees shall disapprove of any per
son SO nominated the mayor or president shall
then and there nominate another person for
such position, and shall so continue to do until
said board of three inspectors and two clerks for
each election precinct IN said city village shall
have been nominated and confirmed; and such
nominations and combinations shall be made
and concluded on the day aforesaid, and when
SO made and concluded, such board of inspect
ors and clerks shall possess the qualifications,
and composed OF persons known to belong to
the different political parties as hereinbefore
provided. The persons so appointed inspectors
and clerks of election shall hold their positions
during one year; they shall act as inspectors and
clerks at every general, municipal or special
election held within their precinct during such
time; they shall receive such compensation for
their services and be liable to such penalties for
any violation oftheir duties as Is provided by law
for inspectors and clerks of elections in other
cases Such board of inspectors shall have
power to fill any vacancy in their number, OF in
the number of the clerks, but the persons so
appointed to I'LL a vacancy, shall be OF the same
political party, and possess the same qualifca-
tons as the person he succeeds. In all incorpo-
rated cities or villages in this state, which are
joined to towns for state and county purposes,
the inspectors of elections appointed by law in
such town, cities or villages shall in addition to
the general duties imposed upon them as such
inspectors, discharge the further duties imposed
upon the inspectors of elections by this act.
Section 2. The persons authorized by law to
act inspectors of elections in any ward or cleo
ton precinct, In any incorporated city orvillage,
or in any town In which is situated any incorpo-
fa1 ritv ,boJl
a board of registry for their respective towns
wards, precincts villages, and their duties as
such boards of registry shall be as follows, viz:
to make at such times and in such manner as
hereinafter prescribed a list of all the persons
qualified ard entitled to vote at the then ensuing
election, in the election district Of which they
inspectors. The said inspectors shall have
their first meeting on Tuesday, four weeks pre-
ceding each general election, at the place where
said election is to be held, and shall then have
power to sit four days, if necessary for the pur-
pose of making such list; they shall meet at
nine o'clock in the forenoon and hold their
meetings open until nine o'clock in the evening
OF each day during which they shall so sit, and
the CLERKS appointed by law to act as clerks of
ee ton shalla clerks of the board of registry
Section 3. Said registers shall each contain
list of the persons qualified ard entitled to
vote in said election district all habetically ar
ranged aceo ding to their respective surnames,
so as to show in column the name at full
length, and In another column, in cities and
Incorporated villages the residence by the num-
Der of the dwelling, if there be a number, and
the name of the street other location of the
dwelling place of each person. 1t shall be the
duty of said inspectors to enter in said
lists the, names of all persons residing
In their election districts, whose names
appear on the poll list kept in said district at the
last preceding general election and in cities in
corporated villages the number of the dwelling
and name of street or other location if the same
shall be known to or can be ascertaned by such
inspectors; and for this purpose said inspectors
are authorized to take from the office in which
they are filed, the poll lists made and fled blythe
inspectors of such district at the general election
held next prior to the making of such register.
In making said list the board shall enter thereon
IN addition to the names on the poll list the
names of all other persons who are well known to
them to be electors in said district and the names
of all persons on said poll list who have died or
removed from the district, shall be omitted from
said register. The said inspectors shalt complete
as far practicable the said register their first
meeting as aforesaid, and shall make four copies
thereof, and shall certify the register and each of
the copies to be true list of the voters in their
district SO far as the same are known to them.
Within two days thereafter the said original
list, together with the poll list taken from the
office asaforesaid, shall be filed by said inspec-
tors in the office of the town clerk of the town
IN which such election district may be- or if such
election district Is village, then they shall be
filed in the office of the village clerk or if such
election district is in a 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 each
of said inspectors and carefully preserved by
him for their on the day or DAYS hereinafter
mentioned, for the revision and correction of the
same One copy of said list shall immediately
after its completion, be posted in some conspicu-
Gus place In the room in which such meeting
shall be held, and be accessible to any elector
to no he 10
copies thereof. The inspectors shall cause in adj
dllon ten printed copies of said list to be posted
up in ten of the different and most public places
within such election district.
Section 4. In casea new election district shall
be formed by the division of any ward or the
incorporation of city village, the inspectors
OF election IN the new district thus formed NAV
make their registry of electors on the DAYS pre-
sc1bed by this act, in such manner as a major
lty of the inspectors may direct; and for that
purpose may make a list or cause to be made a
certified copy of the poll lists or lists of the dis
trlct or districts in which such new district is
situated or they may dispense with such list or
lists, and proceed to make register of electors
from thesoest means at their command. Said
list shall only embrace the names of such per
sons as are known to them to be electors in their
district, and shall be posted up 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 respective election districts, at the place
designated for holding the polls of election, for
the purpose of revising correcting and completing
SAID lists; and for this purpose they shall meet
at nlne.o clock in the morning, and remain in
session until nine o'clock p. NJ. cf that day and
the day following.
Section s. The proceedings CT said board
shall be open, and all persons residing and en-
TITLED to vote IN said district shall be entitled to
De nearo py said inspectors in relation to cor
rections or additions to said register. One of
the lists 50 kept By inspectors as aforesaid shall