Daily Republican., 1880-01-02
THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
Sections OF the Law GOverning the
appointment Of SUPERVISORS Of
Elections for COngressmon.

Elections for COngressmon.
II has already bssn noted that move
ment is being made to have super
visors ofTegistration appointed to guard
and scrutinize the assessment which Is
generally recognized as the registration
of voters in Delaware, but as a question
has arisen as to whether the
assessment is really a registration
of voters as contemplated by the
law, we publish the following sections
bearing upon that question as found in
vol. XXVI OF the Revised Statutes of
the United States, that our readers may
form their own opinions In the matter.
Our own ideas are found Of the editorial
columns:
Sec. 201l. Whenever, in any city
or town having upwards OF twenty
Thousand inhabitants, there are two
citizens thereof, or wherever in any
county or parish, in any congressional
district, there are ten citizens thereof,
of good standing, who prior to any reg
istration Of voters, for an election Of
Representative or Delegate In the Con
gress Of the United States, or prior to
any election at which Representative
or Delegate in Congress is to be voted
for, may make known lin writing, to
the Judge of the Circuit Court of the
United States, for the circuit wherein
such city or town, county or parish, is
situated, their desire to have such reg
istration or such election, or both,
guarded and scrutinized, the judge
within not less than ten days prior to
the registration If one there be, or if no
registration be required within not less
than ten days prior to the election,
shall open the Circuit Court within the
most convenient place within the cir
cult.
SECTION, 2012.-The Court when 80
opened by the judge, shall appoint and
commission from day to day and from
time to time, and under the hand of
the judge, and under the seal of the
Court, for each election district or vot-
ing precinct, 10 the congressional dis
trict, as may have applied in the man
ner hereinbefore prescribed, and to re-
woke, change, or renew such appoint
meut from time to time, two citizens,
residents Of the city Or town, or of the
election district or voting precinct in
1.-THE county or parish, who shall be of
different political parties, and able to
read and write the English language,
and who shall be known and design
ated as supervisors of election.
SEC. 20l6. The Supervisors of cleo
ton, SO appointed, are authorised and
required to attend at all times aud places
fixed for the registration of voters, who,
being registered, would be entitled to
vote for REPRESENTATIVE or Delegate in
Congress, and to challenge any person
Offering TO register; TO attend at all
times and places when the names of
registered voters may be marked for
challenge, and to cause such names reg
istered as they may deem proper to be
SO marked; to make. when required, the
lists, or either of them, provided for in
section two thousand and twenty six,
and verify the same; and upon any oc-
easion, and at any time when in attend
ance upon the duty herein prescribed,
to personally inspect and scrutinize
such registry, and for purposes Of iden-
tification to afix their signature to each
page OF the original list, and of each
copy of any such list of registered vo-
ters, at such times, upon each day when
any name may be rereived, entere /, or