Litchfield enquirer., 1877-07-12

son, and the numDer votes counteu 1oi each candidate and office respectively.
 The moderator shall, before adjourn ment, publicly declare the result of the
 The moderator shall forthwith endorse on said certificates, in writing signed by him, that said certificates show the result of the official count for each box respec- lively, in his town or district. ~
 One of said certificates he shall place in the ballot box and seal up the votes cast, and returned to that box, the other, in towns not divided into voting districts, shall by the moderator. Un or before the following day, be deposited in the office of the town clerk, and in towns divided intoGvoting districts, shall by the assist ant presiding officers, forthwith be re- turned to the presiding officer, who shall. on or before the following day, deposit the same, with his own duplicate certif- cate, for his district, with the town clerk, who shall carefully preserve the same on file in his office, ,.s.--.e "a
 Theprssiding officer. after having as- certained the result of the ballots of the whole town, as given in several districts, shall declare the same in open meeting, at the voting place where he presides; and such meeting shall not be adjourned until such vote is declared.
 The presiding officer shall, with the cer- tifcate upon the result of electors meet ing which he is required by law to send by mail to the Secretary of State, his cer- tifeate of the whole number of names on the registry lists, the whole number check ed as having voted at such elections, the whole number of names not checked, the number of ballots found In each box, viz, general and representative" and the number of ballots in each box not count ed as in the wrong box, and the number not counted for being double, and the number rejected for other causes, which other causes shall be stated specifically in the certificate. 1aG3f s1s1
 The Secretary of State shall enter said returns in tabular form, in books kept by him for that purpose, and annually report the same to the General Assembly.
 Sec. 34. No double ballot for the same office, nor any ballot found in any other box than the one designated therefor, shall be counted. No ballot shall be deemed double ballot unless it shall consist of two or more pieces of paper up- on which are duplicated or repeated the names of one or more candidates for the same office. If any ballot shall contain greater number of names for any office than is provided by law, it shall not be counted for any person for such office.
 Sec. 35. All the ballots cast at any electors meeting. or at any town or city election by ballot, shall by the moderator immediately after they are counted, be re- turned to the box, which shall be locked and sealed up by him, so that the same cannot be opened without his knoWledge, and deposited in the Town Clerks office, and shall be by such clerk. carefully pre-. served with the seal unbroken for six months after such meeting, to be opened and the ballot examined only by those au- thorized to make an official examination ofthem. s- -, ><E# -
 If such boxes are opened under author. ity of Judge of Superior Court, charged with inquiring into an election, the said judge shall see that all the ballots and the accompanying certificates are returned to the box. and the same effectually sealed up again.
 Sec. 36. Any person claiming to have been elected Selectman, or, Clerk, or Treasurer. of any town, or Mayor, Clerk, Treasurer, Auditor, Collector of Taxes, but not so declared, may, within sixty days after the time of holding the cleo. tions, bring his petition to any Judge of the Superior Court, alleging the facts on which such claim is founded, which shall be served upon the party against whom the claim is made. at least"two days be- fore the return day, and returnable not more than sixty-three days after the day of such election, aud . such judge shall thereupon hear and determine said petl. tiop, and his decision thereon shall be conclusive, and if in favor of the petition or, his certificate to that effect, under the seai Uf the court shall entitle the petition CT to hold and exercise the duties and powers of such office. And said judge may, if necessary, issue his writ of manda- mus requiring the adverse party and those under him to deliver to the petitioner the appurtenances of such office, and shall cause his finding and decree to be entered in the records of said court in the proper county.
 Sec. 37. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to transmit to the Town Clerk of each town before each annual electors meeting, blank forms for the re- turns required by this act, and said re- turns shall be made out, certified and di- rooted according to such form. The Sec. retary shall cause to be printed in the sev- eral blanks for the use of moderators and counters the names of such candidates for the seveaal offices to be voted for, as shall be certified to him, by the chairman of the State committees of the several political organizations in the State.
 Sec. 3S. The several moderatOrs, box tenders, and official checkers, provided for in this act, shall, before they enter on the discharge of their respective offices, be sworn to faithful discharge of the du- ties of the same, and the several modera- tors and registrars shall have power to administer such oath. g FM
 Sec. 39. Thedecision of the board of selectmen and town clerk or other regis trars, or of a moderator, as to persons right to be admitted to the electors oath, to registration, or to cast his ballot shall Tn no case be bar to criminal prosecu- tlon for procuring himself to be made an elector. or to be registered, or for voting without the qualifications required by law. In the absence of either registrar. his deputy or any one of his assistants, shall have all the powers conferred, and may perform any of the duties imposed upon such registrar by any of the provis ions of this act.
 Sec. 40. Any Superior Court, Court of Common Pleas. sitting at the county seat, or District Court, and the City Courts of Waterbury, Meriden, and New Britain, may, and no other court of this State shall admit an alien to become citizen of the United States, but no alien shall be ad. mitted to become @ citizen of the United States, except by either of the courts aforesaid while in session, within and for the county in which he resides; and an alien may declare his intention to become Q citizen of the United States before ei- ther ofssaid courts while in session in the county in which he resides; provided, hOsCever, that the City Courts of Water bury. Meriden and New Britain, shall on. ly have power to admit to citizenship such aliens as may reside in those towns over which said courts respectively exercise iu- Tisdiction. The Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court, or the Judges of Superior Court, shall provide that in the counties of Windham, Middlesex. and- Holland, a Superior Court shall be in session on the Frlday of the second week, and on the day before the electors meeting to be held on the Tuesday after the first Mon day of November, 1878, and biennially theEeafter. for the purnosa nf admittina.