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aforesaid for two days and shall per-
sonally supervise all registrations.

aforesaid for two days and shall per-
sonally supervise all registrations.
SEC. 5. Any person to be entitled
to vote under the first provision of Sec
ton one shall appear before the regis
ters of the proper election precinct
wherein he expects to vote at the time
and place designated for the registra-
tion of voters, and make and subscribe
a statement, in book to be provided
at the expense Of the proper town
ship city or village, for the purpose,
and kept by the register open at all
times to public inspection and examin-
alton, which statement shall contain
the name Of the last preceding place
of residence Of such person, the voting
precinct or ward in which he expects
to vote, and the place of his residence
therein, the date Of his removal tnere-
to, his age, and whether married or
unmarried, and shall be subscribed by
such person. Such statements shall
be dated and numbered consecutively,
beginning with No. Lat the beginning
of each year. And the register shall
make, over his own signature, and de-
liver to every person so registered be-
fore him, q corresponding statement
with a like number and date, which
such person shal. present to the judg-
es of election when he offers to vote.
No person shall register at any other
time or place than as above designated.
SEC. 6. That If any person or per-
sons shall willfnlly make, or author
ize to be made, any statement herein
required, false in any particular, or
shall violate any provision of this act,
every such person or persons shall
be deemed guilty OF a misdemeanor.
and on conviction thereof shall be fin
ed in any sum, not less than twenty,
nor more than three hundred dollars,
or be Imprisoned in the county Jail
not exceeding six months or both at
the discretion of the court.
SEC. z. Registers at least ten days
before any general election aforesaid
shall make an alphabetical list of
their voting precinct, of all persons
registered as residing therein and not
before listed, giving with each name
the date Of removal to such precinct
and the last preceding place Of resi-
dence, which he shall forthwith post,
Or caused to be posted up, conspicu-
ously at the usual place of holding
elections in such precinct and q body
thereof, with the proper number and
date of registry in each case added, he
shall deliver, or cause to be delivered,
to the judges of election of the proper
precinct, on every such election day
and before the opening Of the polls
and as persons SO listed shall present
the statement aforesaid, evidencing
their registry and vote their names
shall be checked off on said list. Pro-
vided any person having duly regis
tered in another precinct and remov-
ed, as provided in the second proviso
of section one, to the pl ccinct wherein
he offers to vote and being likewise
qualified, shall, on presenting such
statement of registry in such former
precinct aud stating under oath that
the same is true and correct, be entitl-
ed to vote. The judges of election
shall cause such dispotition to be made
of said lists as will render them con.
venient for reference at subsequent
elections.
SEC. 8. Ifany register shall fail to
perform any duty herein required he
shall be liable to penalty of one hun.
dred dollars, to be recovered on COM
plant of any person, before any court
Of competent jurisdiction ane il any
register or judge of election shall
wiIlfully neglect or disregard any du-
ty herein required, or make or permit
to be made, any registration. statement
or list, except at the time and place |
and in the manner prescribed in this
act, or shall knowingly make or per-
init any person to make false state.
ment, as aforsaid, every such register |
or judge of election shall be guilty of |
q misdemeanor and OF conviction
thereof, shall be fined or imprisoned,
or both, as provided in section six.
SEC. 8. Registers shall be allowed
by their respective townships. cities
and villages, for their services under
this act. such compensation a. is al
lowed by law for similar services.
SEC. 10. The word ward as used |
an the preceding sections for the pur-
poses Of this act means and shall be
held TO mean any municipal ward not
as hereinafter provided,
and any subdivision of a municipal
ward so subdivided.
SEC. IL. In every city of fifteen
thou sand or more Inhabitants at the
preceding census, having any ward in
which more than ak hundred ballots
are cast at any election. the council
thereof shall, Immediately after the
taking effect of this act, and whenever
occasion shall arise, divide
by ordinance every such ward into
for election purposes OF
territory, bounded by streets
Or alleys or both, SO that such subdi-
vision shall contain as nearly as prac-
ticabIe three hundred electors resident
therein, and shall designate in such
ordinance as wards, such subdivisions
by letters of the alphabet in their Or
Ter, with the number of such munich
pal ward added, as for illustration
ward A, L; ward Il, L; ward c, 1;
ward A, o; ward B, 2; ward c, 2; and
70 on, If the council Of any such city
,hsll fail for sixty days, TO divide any