Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-05-31
Registration Law.

% Registration Law.
AN ACT supplementary and amendatory OF
the act entitled San act to amend sections
two, four and twenty four of at entitled
An act to Preserve the Purity of Elec-
tions.'"
SECTION l.. Be Il enacted By tbs General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, That no person
shall be permitted TO vote at any election. un-
less be shall have been q resident of the coun-
ty three hundred and si1ty days, and resi-
dent of the township, village or ward in
which he resides and offers to vote, three
hundred and ffty-five days next preceding
the election; provided, first, no person shall
be prohibited from voting by reason of not
having been resident Of tie proper county,,
or township, village or ward, the time above
specified, If such person shall have been
bona 6de resident of the county thirty days,
and of the township, village or ward in which
he resides and offers to vote, twenty days
next preceding the election, and shall have
complied with the provisions, and registered
as required by section Eve of this act pro-
vided, second, that any person, being the
head of family, and having actually resided
in the State and in the county wherein he
may offer to vote, tie time required by this
act, who shall bona fide remove with bis fam
lily from one township, village or ward in
such county, to another township, village or
ward therein, shall not be required to reside
in such township, village or ward to which
he shall SO remove, the time specified in this
section, in order to vote therein at any cleo
tion, except for elections for municipal off,
GERS. AL judges Of election, in determining
the residence of person offering to vote,
shall be governed by the following rules, 50
far as the same may be applicable:
First-That place shall be considered the
residence of a person in which his habitation
is fixed, without any present intention of re-
msving therefron, and to which, whenever
he is absent, he has the intention Of returning.
Second-A person shall not be considered
to have lost bis residence, who shall leave bis
home and go into another State or county of
this State for temporary purposes merely,
with an intention OF returning.
Third-A person shall not be considered to
have gained residence in any county Of this
State into which-he shall come for temporary
purposes merely, without the intention of
making such county his home.
Fourth-f q person remove to another
State, with an. intention to make ii his per-
manent residence, he shall be considered to
have lost his residence in this STATE :,
Fifth-if Q person remove to another State,
with an intention of remaining there an in
definite, and as a place of present residence,
he shall be considered to have lost his resi-
dence in this State, notwithstanding be may
entertain an intention to return at some fu-
ture period.
Sixth-The place where q married mans
family resides, shall generally be considered
his place of residence; but, if it is place for
temporary establishment of his family, or for
transient objects, it shall be otherwise.
Seyenth-H married man has his family
fixed in one place, aad be does business in
another, the former shall be considered his
place of sesidence.
Eighth-The mere intention to acquire q
new residence, without the fact of removal,
shall avail nothing; neither shall the fact of
removal without the intention.
Ninth-H person shall go into another
State, and while there exercise the right of
8 citizen by voting, he shall be considered to
have lost his residence in this State.
Tenth-All questions of the right to vote
shall be heard and determined by The judges
of elections, who shall require at least the
sworn testimony of an elector OF the proper
township or ward, and known to one or uore
of the judges, as to the truth of the state
ments of such person whose right to vote has
been challenged.
SEC. 2. Trustees of townships, and the
council of cities and villages forming one or
more election precincts, shall, on the fourth
Monday next preceding the general elections
in October of each year, appoint two suitable
persons of opposite politics, for the registra-
tion of voters, in each electlen precinct in
such tow nship, city or village, who shall be
electors of the proper election precinct, and
shall hold their office for one year, and shall
take an oath or affirmation to discharge their
duties according to law. If, for any cause, q
register or registers shall not be appointed, or,
if appointed, shall be unable, fer any cause,
to discharge the duties herein enjoincd, or
sball fail or refuse to discharge the duties of
such office it shall be the duty of the clerk of
the proper township, or the mayor of the
proper city or village Gas the case may be), at
any time beginning of said registration to fill
all such vacancies, by appointment, and the
person or persons SO appointed shall be cleo
tors of the proper election precinct, and thsl
hold their Office during the continuance of
such cause, and shall take an oath or afirma-
ton to discharge the duties of such appoint
ment according to law.
SEC. 8. The place for the registration OF
voters in and for every township, city or
village, shall be the usual place of holding
elections therein.
SEC. 4. Registers shall be in attendance at
their respective places, to the registration of
voters, on the third Friday next preceding
every general election in April, October and
November, from eight o'clock a. m. until nine
o'clock p. M, for the purpose of registration,
and, II necessary, to give all making applica-
tion an opportunity to register; they shall
continue in attendance thereat, between the
hours aforesaid, for two days, and shall per-
sopally supervise all registrations.
SEC. 5. Any person to be entitled to vote
under the first proviso of section one, shall
appear before the registers Of the proper cleo
tion precinct wherein he expects to vote, at
the tirae and place designated for the registra-
ton OF voters, and make and subscribe q
statement, in book 10 be provided at the
expense of the proper township, city or vii
lage, for the purpose, and kept by the regis
ter open at all times to public inspection and