The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-08

an action on the case, with costs, and such
allowance Tor counsel fees as the court may
deem Just.
I IN CITIES AND TOWNS or OVER 1900 IvHtE.
AsANts, uruN WRITTEN arr. ICArIoN OF TWO
NItI@ENS, OR IN COUNTIES AND PAEIsHEs
tFoa LIKE APPLICATION OF TEN CITIZENS.
TIM CIRCUIT IUpGE To OPEN COURT.
Sec. &ll. Whenever in any city or town
having upward OF twenty thousand
inhabitants, there are two citizens
ldereoi, orwheneyer, in any county or par
I lsh, ~ any congressional district. there are
ten citizens thereof of good standing, who,
PRIOR 10 any registration OF voters for an
SiecloA ol representatives or delegates in
the tue congress OF the United States, or
4 prior 10 any election at which q representa-
tive or delegate In congress is 10 be voted
| Tor; may make known, in writing, to the
/ Judge OF the circuit court of the United
states Tor the circuit wherein such city or
/ town county or parish, is situated, they de-
sire To have such registration, or such cleo
ton, or both, guarded and scrutinized, the
Judge, within not less than ten days prior
TO the registration, if one there be, OF ifno
| registration be required, within not less
| than ten days prior to the election, shall
/ open the circuit coart at the most conyen.
lent point in the circui,,
AND TO APPOINT SUPERVISORS OF ELEc rIoN.
Sec. 2Ol2. The court, when SO opened
| y the Judge, shall proceed to appoint and
commission from day to day and from time
to time, and under the hand OF the iudg G
and under the seal of the court for each
election district or voting precinct, in such
/ city or town, or for such election district or
voting precinct in the congressional dis,
| trict, as may have applied in the manner
| hereinbetOre prescribed, and TO revoke,
change, or renew such appointment from
llme TO time, two citizens, residents of the
/ city or town, or Of the election district or
| voting precinct in the county orparish, who
shall be of different political parties, and
able to read and write the English Ian
guage, and who shall be known aud desig.
mated as supervisors of election.
! SUPERVISORS OF ELECTION AND SPECIAL DEF.
UTY MAEsHALs NEGLECrING TO DISCHARGE
! DUTIES.
| Sec. 5j2l.--lf any person be appointed n
supervisor of election or a special deputy
marshal under the provisions OF Title THE
Elective Franchise and has taken the
oath of Office as such supervisor OF election
or such deputy marshall and thereafter
negleCts or refuses, without good
and lawful excuse, to perform
and discharge fully the duties, obliga-
tons, and requirements Of such Office until
the expiration of the term for which he was
removal from office with loss Of all paw or
emolunents, but shall be punished by i'm
/ prisonment for not less than six months or
more than one year, or ny fine of not less
than TWO hundred dollars and not more
than five handred dollars, or by both fine
and imprisonment, and shah pay the costs
OF prosecution.
DUTIES OF SUPERVISORS or ELECTIONS.
Sec. 20l6. The supervisors OCrlectiun. so
Lao cod
attend at all times aud places fixed for the
registration OF voters, who, beingregistered,
would be entitled to vote for representa-
tive or delegate in congress, and to chal-
lcnge any person offering to register; to at.
tend at all times and places when the names
of registered voters may be mark
ed for challenge and to cause
such names registered as Ia
they may deem proper to be so marked to
make, when required, the lists, or either OF
them, provided for in section 2O2G, and YER
fly the same; and upon any occasion, and
at any time when in attendance upon the
duty herein prescribed. to personally in
Spect and scrutini2e such registry, and for
the purpose of Identification to aifN their
signature to each page OF the original list,
and of each copy OF any such list of regis
tered voters, at such times, upon each day
when any name may be received, entered
or registered, and in such manner as will.
in their Judgment, detect or expose the i'm
proper or wrongful removal thereirom, or
addition thereto, of any name,
ATTENDANCE AT ELECTIONS.
Sec. 2Oli. The supervisors of elections
= are authorized and required to attend at
all times and places for holding elections OF
representatives or delegates in congress,
and for counting the votes cast at such
elections to challenge any vote offered by
, any person whose legal qualifications the
supervisors or either of them may doubt,
J TO be and remain where the ballot boxes
are kept at all times after the poles
are opened until every vote
cast at such time and place
5 has been counted, the canvass of all votes
, polled wholly completed, and the proper
and requisite certificates or returns made,
whether the certificates or returns be re.
Quired under any law ofthe United States
or any state, territorial or municipal law
, and personally inspect and scrutini2e, from
time to time, and all times, on the day Of
election, the manner in which the voting is
done, and the way and method in which the
poll books, registry lists and tallies or eli eek
books, whether the same are required by
any law Of the United States, or any state
; territorial or municipal law, are kept.
, TO PERSONALLY sCRUrINlZE AND COUNT EACH
Section 2OlS. To the end that each can
didate for the office OF representative OF
delegate in congress may obtain the benefit
of every vote for him cast, the supervisor,
of e.eCtiOn are and each of them is required
to personally scrutni2e, count and canvass
each ballotlntheir election district orvotn&
precinct cast, whatever may be the endorse
ment on tn e ballot, or in whatever box il
may haYe been placed or found; to make
a Sos .tsl
anCe with the provision OF section POPS, has
q been designated as the chief supervisor OF
the judicial district in which th5 city OF
, town wherein they may serve, acts, such
: certificates aud returns of all such ballots
~ such officers may direct aud require, and
!, to attach to the registry list, and any and
all copies thereof, and to any certificate
statement, or return, whether the same OI
any part or portion thereof hC
required by any law Of the United
Stytes, or OF any state, terri
torial or municipal law, any Statements
touching the truth or accuracy of the reg.
, istry, or the truth or fairness of the elcG
. ton and canvass, which the supervisors o
y, heelection, oreither OF them may desire tt
: make or attach, or which should properly
, or honestly be made or attached, in ordcI
:, that the facts may become known.
THEIR POSITIONS,
- Sec. 9Ul0, The better to enable the
!, supervisors Of election to discharge thei
! duties, they are authorized anC
= directed, in their respective cleo
! ton districts or voting precincts
; on the day ofregstrAtiou when registered
vole.s may be marked to be challenged
and ON tie 'nb,f election TO take, occupy
{, lrecr Win Gsisknch position from time L
man" eS, before or behind the ballot
iarged Is bean,er Il their judgment, bes, ona
edinr the XXI cteach person Offering himsel
ihgy eqBjsoHS {. or Offering to vote, and a
TO ton leg 'oce to their Scrutnizing tn
The pur5nms reich the registration ofyotipi
trtr ny ibnSe oiotec and at the closing o
!. 90 perio,,,, palte reception votes, they ar
lth VaNS prn,tt1ece themselves in such posi-
as m'in b,,.yden TO the hallot.boXes, for tn
% GanraSs ~ e,aging In the work OF canvass
nds been ver, az will enable them to full.
Y '"te "hutioS IA rcspeC, to such can
" Ihprpin and shall there ri,