Daily globe., 1883-10-29
TEE REGISTRY LAW.
What Voters Must Do to Secure Their
| Ballots.

The GLOBE republishes the sections of
the election law relative to registration
and invites careful perusal. The registra-
tion boards meet in every election pre-
cinct on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday of
this week at the hours named in the law
below.
Sec. 80. asThe said board shall again
meet On Tuesday of the week preceding
| any general Or special election held on
Tuesday, and seven days next preceding
any general special election held on any
other day of the week in their respective
election districts, at the place designated
for holding the polls of the election for the
purpose of revising, correcting and com
pleting said lists; and for this purpose
they shall meet at o'clock in the morn
| ing, and remain in session until 8 O'Clock
p. m. ''The said board shall
| again meet on the Friday and on
the Saturday next preceding
any general or special election to be held
on Tuesday, and on the two days next pre-
! to be held on any other day in the week
their respective election districts, at the
place designated for holding the polls of
the election, for the purpose of further
revising and correcting said lists and of
finally completing the same, and for this
purpose they shall meet at twelve (12)
O'Clock noon and remain in session until
ten (10) O'Clock in the evening of each of
said days.
Sec. 81. The proceedings of said board
shall be opsn, and all persons residing and
entitled to vote in said district, shall be er-
titled to be heard by said board in relation
to corrections Or additions to said register.
One of the lists so kept by the judges afore-
said, shall be used on the day or days of
making corrections or additions, for the
purpose OF completing the register for such
district
Sec. %. 1t shall be the duty of said
board at their meeting for revision and
correcting said list, to erase therefrom the
name of any person inserted therein, who
shall be proved by the oath of two legal
voters of said district to the satisfaction of
said board, to be non-resi1ents of said dis
trict, or otherwise not entitled to vote in
said district at the election next to be
held. Any elector residing in said district
and entitled to vote therein, may appear
before said board, and require his name to
be recorded on said alphabetical list Any
person requiring mis- name to be SO enter
ed on said list, shall make the same state
mens as to the street and number thereof,
ana Wher9 he resides, with the name of the
household, required by the provisions of
this act, Of persons Offering their votes at
elections, and shall be subject to the same
penalties for refusing TO give suoh irfor-
nation, or for falsely giving the same, and
shall also be subject TO challenge on cleo
ton day either by the judges or by any
other elector whOse nGLne appears On said
alphabetical list, aud the same oath may be
administered by ths judges IS now provid-
ed, in case Of persons Offering TO voJe at an
election; and II case il 10 challenge is
| made Of any person requiring his name to
be entered on said alphabetical list, or in
case Of challenge, if such person shall
make oash that would entitie him to vote
IN case CT challenge at an election, then
the uame Of such person shall be added to
the alphabetical poll list.
See. 30. After said lists shall have been
fully completed, the said board shall, by
twelye az o'clock noon on the day before
the election, cause two copies ef the same
TO be made, each Of which shall be certi-
voters OF their district; one of which shall
be fled in the Office of the city clerk and
one Of which copies shall be delivered to
| one CT the said judges It shall be the
duty of said judges so receiving such list
caref llly to preserve said list for their use
On election day, and to designate two of
their number at the opening of the polls,
| to check the name of every voter voting in
such district whose name is on the regis
| ter, and it shall be the duty Of said JUDGES,
after the final result of the canvass, TO draw
| line with red ink across The name Of
| every person on said register not voting at
such election. 'No vote shall be received
| ct any general or special election, If the
name Of the person Offering to vote, and
| his place Of residence clearly and definite
| ly stated, be not on said register as finally
| completed and certified to by the board
| of registry above provided, unless the per-
| son Offering to vote be personally known
to at least one Il of the judges Of election,
a0d unless such person shall furnish to the
Judges the same afiidavits and evidence
that be is entitled to vote as is required by
this act of & person whose vote is chal-
isaged."
Sec. "a. The clerks of each poll, in ad-
Gition to the duties nov prescribed by
law, shall enter On the poll list kept by
them, ia columns prepared FOR that pur-
pose, opposite the name of each person
voting, the same statement or minute as
herein before required of the board in
making the registry, but such entry is not
To be mode By them if the registry con-
tains correctly the name and residence of
such voter; and in all cases clerks shall
enter in a column opposite the name of
each person not registered the words ''not
| registered" Every eleotor at the time of
Offering his vote,ehall truly state the street
| in which he resides, and if ths house, lodg-
ing or tenement in which he resides
is numbered, the number
thereof, and the name os
| the head of the household; and the clerks
of the polls in case the name of such elec-
| tor is not registered, shall truly enter in
the appropriate column of the poll list,
opposite the name of the elector, the street
in which the elector resides, and the nam
Der, in case the house, lodging or tene-
| ment is numbered, and the name of the
| head of the household, and if the same is
not numbered then the clerk shall enter
| ''not numbered" in the column of the
poll list for entering the number. In case
| of refusal to make the statement as afore-
| said, the vote of such elector shall not be
received. Any person who shall wilfully
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