St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-22
THE REGISTRY.
Meeting of the Judges of Election Yes
terday to Correct the Poll Lists.

Yesterday was the day required by law fol
the judges of election to meet in their re-
spective precints to prepare the poll lists fol
the coming election. The meetings yester-
day were held under the following provisions
of the law
| Sec. 20. Whoever shall willfully take OF
carry away from the place where it has been
deposited for safekeeping, or deface, multi
ate or change any poll-book, ballot, tally-list,
or any name or figure thereona shall, on
conviction, be fined in sum noBexceeding
one thousand dollars, or Imprisonment in
state prison not exceeding one year, or both,
IN the discretion of the court.
Sec. %. That the person authorized by
law, or appointed pursuant to any law of in
corporated cities, by ordinance or otherwise,
to act as judges or inspectors of election in
any city, ward, or other election precinct or
district in this state, shall constitute board
OF registry for their respective cities, wards,
precincts or districts, and shall meet on
Tuesday, two weeks preceding any general
city or state election, and at the same time
for all special elections, if said special cleo
ton is held on Tuesday; but if any special
election is called on any other day of the
week, said board Of registry shall meet two
weeks preceding said special election, and
perform the same duty for general election; ;
said board shall meet at O'Clock a. IN =,
and proceed to make list as hereinafter
| prescribed, of all persons qualified and en-
titled to vote at the ensuing election, in the
election district of which they are judges or
clerks; which list when completed shall con-
stitute snd be known as the register of
electors of said election district.
See. 2S. Said registers shall each contain
a list of the persons so qualified and entitled
to vote in said election district, alphabetic-
ally arranged according to their respective
| surnames. so as to show in one column the
name at full length, and in the other col
umn the residence, by the number of the
dwelling, if there be number, and the name
OF the street or other location of the dwelling
OF each person, and the name of the head of
the household where there is no number 1t
shall be the duty of said board to enter into
| its lists the names of all persons residing in
| their election district whose names appear
as having voted, on the poll list kept in said
district at the last preceding election, the
number of the dwelling and the name of the
! street or other location, if the same shall be
known to or can be ascertained by such
board. And for this purpose, said board are
authorized to take from the Office in which
they are filed, the poll lists made and fled by
| the judges of ch district, of the persons
voting at the election held next prior to the
making OF such register. In making said
! list the board shall enter thereon
in addition to the names on the poll lists,
the names of all persons who shall
| personally appear before said judges, and
satisfy them that they are well known to be
electors in said district, and the names of
persons on the poll-list who have died or re-
moved from the district shall be omitted
from the register. The said board shall COM
! plete, as far as practicable, the said register
on the day of their meeting aforesaid, and
shall make two copies thereof, and certify the
register and each of the copies to be a true
| list OF the voters in their district so far as
| the same are known. Within two DAYS
thereafter, the said original list, together
with the list taken from the office, as afore
said, shall be filed by the said board in the
office of the city clerk, and one copy of said
list shall be kept by one of the said Judges,
and carefully preserved by him for their use
on the day or days hereinafter mentioned
for the revision and correction of the same
| One copy of said list shall Immediately after
its completion, be posted in some conspicu-
GUS place where the last preceding election
in said district was held, with notice of the
time when the judges will meet for final cor
rection of the pool-books, and be accessible
| to any elector who may desire to
examine the same or make copies
thereof. Any person who shall take down,
tear down or deface any list so posted, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be punished by fine of fifty dollars,
or by imprisonment in the county Jail for the
term of sixty days, or both fine an d impris-
onment. ..4t.
Sec. %. In case of new election pre-
cinet or district shall be formed, the judges
of the election in the new district thus
formed, may make their registry of electors
on the day prescribed by this act, in such a
manner as the majority of them may direct,
and for that purpose may make a list OF
csuse to be made certified copy of the poll
list or lists in which such new district is sit
uated; or they may dispense with such list
or lists aud proceed TO make a register OF
electors from the best means at their COM
Jnand. Such lists shall only embrace the
names OF such persons as are known to them
TO be electors in their districts, and shall be
posted up and copies thereof made as pre-.
scribed in the preceding section, and shall be
corrected in the same manner that other
lists are corrected.
The additional meetings will be next Tues
day and Friday and Saturday. The meetings
will be held under the following provision o.
the law:
SEC. 80. The said board shall again NEE
on Tuesday of the week preceding any gen
eral or special election held on Tuesday, anC
seven days next preceding any genera
special election held on any other day of thu
week in their respective election districts
at the place design ated for holding the poll
of the election, for the purpose of revising
correcting and completing said lists; and 70
this purpose they shall meet at eight o'clocl
in the morning and remain in session unit
nine O'Clock D. N. ''The said board shall
again meet on the Friday and on the Satur
day next preceding any general or specia
election TO be held on any other day in tn
week mot counting Sunday in any case), il
their respective election districts, at the plac
designated for holding the polls of the elec
ton, for the purpose Of further revising ant
correcting said lists, and of finally eomplet
ing the same, and for this purpose they shal
meet at twelve (12) O'Clock noon and remain
in session until ten (1O) O'Clock in the even
ing of each of said days.
THE COURTS.
Supreme Court
At yesterdays session of the suprem
| eoIrt all the iustieaz were praseut and IN