Daily globe., 1883-10-30
THE REGISTRY LAW.
What Voters must Do to Secure Their
Ballots.

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. ..The said board shall again
meet on Tuesday of the week preceding
any general or special election held on
Tuesday, ana seven days next preceding
any general special election held son 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 9 O'Clock
lp. 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-
ceding the day before any special election
to be held on any other day in the week
(not counting Sunday in any case), in
their respective election districts, at the
place designated for holding the polls of
the election, for the purpose of further
revising and correcting seid 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 open, and all persons residing and
entitled to vote in said district, shall be En-
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 mplesing 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-residents 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 his name to be so enter
ed on said list, shall make the same state
| ment as to the street and number thereof
and where he resides, with the name of the
household, required by the provisions OF
this act, OF persons Offering their votes al
elections, and shall be subject to the same
penalties for refusing to give such 1nfor-
| 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 name appears On said
alphabetical list, and the same oath may be
| administered by the judges as now provid-
ed, in. case OF persons offering to vote at an
election; and in case if no 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 oath that would entitle him to vote
| in case of challenge at an election, then
| the name Of suchsperson shall be added to
the alphabetical poll list.
Sec. SO. After said lists shall have been
fully completed, the said board shall, by
| twelve (12) o'clock noon on the day before
| the election, cause two copies Of the same
to be made, each of which shall be certi-
| fled by them to be correct list of the
voters of their district; one of which shall
be filed in the Office of the city clerk and
one of which copies shall be delivered to
one of the said judges. It shall be the
duty Of said judges 80 receiving such list
carefully 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
a line with red ink across the name Of
every person on said register not voting al
such election. ''No vote shall be received
at 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 registIy above provided, unless the per
son Offering TO vote be personally known
to at least one Il } of the judges of election
and unless such person shall furnish to the
judges the same affidayits and evidence
that he is entitled to vote as is required by
this act OF person whose vote is chal-
lsnged."
Sec. "a. The clerks of each poll, in ad-
dition to the duties now prescribed by
law, shall enter on the poll list kept by
them. in columns prepared for that pur-
pose, opposite the name of each person
voting, The same statement or minute az
herein before required of the board in
| making the registry, hut 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 column opposite the name of
each person not registered the words 'not
registered" Every elector at the time of
Offering his vote,shall truly state the street
in which he resides. and if the house, lodg-
ing or tenement in which he resides
is numbered, the number
thereof, and the name of
the head of the household; and the clerks
of the polls in case the name of such cleo
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 ths house, lodging or tene-
ment is numbered, and the name of the
head of the household, and if the same is
not numbered then tbs clerk shall enter
mot numbered" in the column of the