Litchfield enquirer., 1877-07-12

until five o'clock in the afternoon, at
 some suitable place in their respective
 districts or town, of which notice shall be gwen by publication in a newspaper, if any is published in said town, or by posting upon the sign-posts therein, at least five days before said session. Said
 lists shall be alphabetically arranged.
 completed, certified to be the respective
 registrars, and deposited in the town clerks office, at least eighteen days before | said electors meeting, for public inspec-
 tion; and certified copy of the list for each district where there are voting dis
 tricts, shall on the same day be posted
 by them at the place in such district l where the registrars meet; and in towns in
 which there are no voting districts, a
 copy of said list shall be posted in such
 places as may have been designated in I town meeting. Each registrar shall keep copy of said list for his use in re-
 vision. and they shall give notice in said
 lists of the times and places at which they l will hold one or morass sessions within the
 next eight days for the revision and cor
 rection of said list, and shall also give no.
 tlce of such times and places, by publica-
 tion in newspaper in said town, or by
 posting the same on the sign posts. there in. at least five days before the first of said sessions. The number of such ses-
 sions shall be fixed by the selectmen of each town. . Sec. 9. The Registrars in every town
 having city within it's limits, shall cir culate printed copies of such lists in their respective voting districts.
 Sec. 10. Said Registrars shall meet pur- suant to such notice for the correction of the lists, and any elector of such town may apply to them to add any name to said list, or to erase any name thereon, and if he shall have, at least twenty-four hours before the time of any such meet ing, signed and filed with each Registrar written claim for such addition or eras- ure, stating the reasons therefor, they shall at such meeting take such testimony under oath. as may be offered regarding such claim; but the name of no person shall be erased from said list unless writ ten notice of claim for such erasure shall have been left at his registered place of residence, or personal notice given him, at least twenty four hours before one of said sessions: and the name of no person whose right is contested as aforesaid shall be entered or retained on the corrected list, without the consent of both Regis trars
 OCCs 11s H dHy 1NcRISUEdTs d1G0E SUCH hearing, shall refuse to enter on the list the name of any person claiming to be en- titled to registration thereon, or to allow name entered on the first list to remain thereon, any elector of such town, or the person whose right is brought into ques- tion, may appeal from the decision of any registrar, upon giving notice to him, to the Selectmen and Town Clerk of said town, who shall give reasonable notice to the Registrars of the time and place of hearing such appeals, when they may be present, and shall require the testimony under oath of at least one other elector to the qualifications of the person in dis pute, and shall receive the testimony un- der oath of such persons as the Registrars may offer touching such qualifications; and if, after such hearing by them, said board shall declare that the person in dis pute is entitled to such registration, he shall be registered, otherwise not: but said board shall not hear any application not passed upon by the Registrars, nor nny annaal nf whinh notice has not been given as aforesaid.
 Sec 12 Said registrars shall, on or be- fore the Wednesday proceeding said elec- tors meeting, deposit in the town clerks office the corrected is4 arranged alpha bet1cally and certified by them to be cor rect, and shall retain a sufficient number of copies to be used by them at said meet ing, for the purpose of checking the names of those who vote. They. shall place on said corrected list, in alphabeti- cal order, those electors who have been admitted by the board for the admission of electors; and under the title 'to be made, /" those only on the first list whose G1abS of for admission or naturalization, appear not to have matured at the last session of said board. Said list shall be deposited in the clerks office, for public. inspec- tion and any elector may take copies thereof.
 Sec. 13. It it appears at any electors' meeting in any town that the name of an elector, who has been formerly admitted or registered as an elector iD such town, and who has resided in this state the one year, and in the town the six months next preceding such netting, has been omitted from the corrected list by clerical error, such name may be added to the list, and the registrars may upon the application of any elector, add such name to said list, 1orOVided, that they shall not restore any name to the list on election day, which has been passed upon by the registrars at any one of the meetings previously held for the correction of the list; and pr0vid- ed, that no name shall be added to the list on election day, under the authority con- ferred by this section without the consent of both registrars
 SEC. IA. The compensation of the re- gistrars, deputy registrars, and assistants, shall be fixed, and all expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties, audited by the selectmen, and paid by the town; but in no case shall such compensation be regulated by the number of names regis tered.
 SEC. 15 The selectmen and town clerk of every town in this state shall hold session to examine the qualifications of electors, and admit to the electors oath those who shall be found qualified, on Wednesday of the second week before any electors meeting, from nine o'clock in the forenoon until five o'clock in the after noon, and may publicly adjourn said meeting from time to time, if necessary, until Monday of the following week, and shall unless all entered on the first list as ''to be made, whose rights shall appear to have natured, shall have been admitted or rejected by them, be in session on said Monday, for said purpose, from nine o'clock in the forenoon until seven o'clock in the afternoon, and not at.any time af- ter the hour of seven o'clock in the afternoon on said Monday, expect that if it appears that the rights of any per son on the first list under the title Ito be made," will mature after said Monday, and on or before the day of said electors meeting, they shall meet on the day be- fore said electors meeting, viz: from nine o'clock in the forenoon until five o'clock | in the afternoon, if necessary, and not af. rewards, for the purpose of admitting l such persons, and for no other purpose. They shall not have power to admit to the | electors oath, on said day before the cleo. tors meeting, any applicant whose quali- fications of age or residence matured on or before the previous Monday, or who | might have been naturalized more than ten days before said day. The registrars shall write the names of those electors ad. mitted on said day, on the proper lists, with their residence by street and number,