The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-06-01

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when he offers tovo;e. No person shall
register at any other time or place than
as above designated.
SEC 6. That if any person or persons
shall willfully make, or authorize to be
made. any statement herein required,
false in any particular, or shall violate
any provision Of this act, every suchper-
son or persons shall be deemed guilty Of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction here
of shall be fined in any sum, not less
than twenty, nor more than three hun
dred 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 be-
fore any general election aforesaid shall
make an alphabetical lists for their vot-
ing precinct, of all persons registered as
residing therein and not before listed,
giving with each name the date of re,
moyal TO such precinct and the last pre-
ceding place of residence. which he shall
forthwith post, or cause 10 be posted up,
conspicuously at the usual place ofhold-
ing elections in such precinct, and a
copy thereof, with the proper number
and date ofregistry in each cause added,
he shall deliver or cause to be delivered,
to the Judges of election of the proper
precinct, on every such election day and
opening of the polls and as persons so
listed shall present the statements afore-
said, eyidencing their registry vote, their
names shall be checked off on said list.
Provided any person having duly regis
tered in another precinct and removed,
as provided in the second provision of
section one, TO the precinct wherein he
offers 10 vote and being likewise quail
fed, shall, on presenting such statement
of registry in such former precinct and
stating under oath that the same is true
and correct, be entitled TO vote. The
Judges of the election shall cause such
to be made Of said lists rs
will render them convenient for refer
nnce at subsequent elections.
SEC S. If any 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
plaint of any person, before any court Of
jurisdiction, and if any register or judge
Of election shall wilfully neglect, or dis
regard any duty herein required, or
make, or permit TO be made, any regis
ration, statement or list, except at the !
lime and place and in the manner pre-
'cribed in this act, or shall knowingly |
make or permit any person to make a
false statement, as aforesaid, every such
register or Judge of election shall be
guilty of misdemeanor and on convic
ton thereof shall be fined or imprisoned
Or both, as provided in section six.
Seq. Registers shall be allowed by
heir respective townships, cities and
villages, for their services under this act
such compensation as is allowed by law
for similar services.
SEC 10. The word ward as used in
the preceding sections for the purposes
of this act means and shall be held to
mean any municipal ward not subdivi-
ded as hereinafter provided, and any
of a municipal ward so sub
divided. n
SEC IL. In every city of fifteen thou
sand or more inhabitants at the preced-
ing census, having any ward in which
more than six hundred ballots are cast
at any election, the council thereof shall
after taking effect Of this
act and whenever thereafter occasion
may arise, divide by ordinance every
such ward into subdivisions for election
purposes of compact territory, bounded
by streets or alleys or both, so that such
shall contain as nearly as
practicable three hundred electors.
and shall designate in such ordinance as
wards, such subdivisions by letters of the
alphabet in their order, with the number
of such municipal ward added, of for
Ward A, l; Ward B, l;
Ward C, I; Ward A, =; Ward b, =;
Ward c., and so on. If the council of
any such city shall fail for sixty days to
divide any such ward so divisable for
election purposes under this act, the
Mayor of such city shall thereupon di-
vide the same in accordance Herewith
and give notice thereof by proclamation,
containing the boundaries and designa-
ton of every subdivision and the place of
holding elections therein, which prOcla-
ton shall be published forthwith in some
newspaper published and of general cir
culation in such city and shall he record
ed in the ordinance record thereof,
SEC J.. In every municipal ward so
subdivided. all elections shall be held bv
and in the subdivisions thereof And
the Judges of election for such municipal
ward as nov provided by law, shall be
judges of election for Ward 4 thereof
and such judges shall meet at the Mayors
office on the first Monday of September
ofeach year at ten o'clock A Land shall
there select and appoint one Judge of
election for each of the other subdivisions
or wards of such municipal ward. The
persons so elected shall be freehold cleo
tors and residents for ut least three hun
dred and sixty days in the ward for
which appointed. The Mayor shall
forthwith cause notice 10 be given.
record to be made and kept in his Office
Of such appointments.
The persons so appointed shall act as
judges Of election in their proper sub-di-
visions or wards during the period of
one year. They shall take the same oath
Of office, be subject to the same requir-
ments, penalties, liabilities and disquai-
ications, and entitled to the same COM
pensation as other judges of election:
They shall designate and appoint two
clerks Of election of opposite politics, who |
shall take an oath of office, and shall per-
form all the duties and be subject to all |
The liabilities as other clerks felection..
If any of such judges or clerks shall fail |
to attend at the proper time and place
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