The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-10
THE SUNDAY MORNING NEWS. AUGUST 10 1880

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their several municipalities. who shall pc
and constitute the boards of registry and
election within and for such respect
4 i've election districts or precincts; 10
making said appointments of such boards,
the members of the political party IN the
majority in such government bodies shall
appoint two of the members thereof. and
/ the member or members of the political
party IN the minority IN such governing
! bodies shall appoint the other two MEM
bers of such boards of registry and cleo
ton; and in any case any ofsaid governing
bodies shall be composed unanimously
of members of one political party. sucn
governing body shall appoint said four
members, Dut not more than two mem
bers of any such board of registry and
election shall belong to the same political
party, nor shall any OF them hold any
public Office except as herein provided;
provided, that If more than two political
parties shall be represented in any such
governing body as aforesaid, the political
party which shall be next in numbe of
members to the political party in the
majority shall appoint the two members
of sucn board OF registery and election
which under this section are to be ap-
pointed by the members of the political
party In the minority; if any vacancy
shall occur in any Of the said boards OF
registery and election by death. resigna
ton, Inability or otherwise, such vacancy
shall be filled. in manner aforesaid, by
the members or the governing body who
made the original appointment.
IL And be it enacted That it shall be
the duty OF said boards of reglstery aud
election provided for in the next proceed
ing section hereof to make, alter or revise,
as the case may require, the registry of
voters within and for their respective
election districts or precincts, and also to
hold and conduct all elections, other than
said town meetings and said annual cleo
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senbly, as are or may be required by law
to be held therein during their term of
office; each of said boards shall appoint
two registry or poll clerks not of the same
political party, neither of whom shall
hold public Office except as herein pro-
similar to those which are or may be re-
quired by law of other registery or poll
clerks
a. And be IT enacted, That in all cases
where the territorial limits and bounder-
les of the election districts or precincts
within any such municipality as is mem
toned and referred to in sections twenty
aud twenty-one hereof, shall be the same
in all elections held therein, whether for
members of the general assembly or other
officers the registrationof voters for all
elections whatsoever held within ouch
municipalities shall be the same re2istra-
ton provided for in the first nineteen
shall and may be revised, corrected or
altered by said boards of registry and
election provided for in section twenty
hereof, at such times and in such manner
as the governing bodies of such munich
palities may respectively order and direct;
provided. that no name shall be stricken
from or added to said registry by any of
said boaids of registry and election with
out the concurrence of a majority of all
members of said board.
%. And be it enacted. That when in any
election for public officers TO be held with
in any of the municipalities of this state,
the territorial limits aad boundaries of
the election districts shall NOT be the
same as at the annual election for mem
bers of the general assembly, then aud in
such cases it shall be the duty of the said
boards of registry and election provided
for in section twenty hereof to make a
complete registration of all the legal
yOLers within their respective election
districts; and in making such registration
SAID boards of registry and election shall
conform as nearly as may be to the direc
tions and requirements contained in sec
ton four hereof; provided, that the gov
erning body of such municipality shall
and may designate the time when such
boards of registry and election shall be-
gin canvassing for such registry and the
day or days on which said boards shalI
meet for transferring the names from the
cauvassing books to the register and for
altering, revising and correcting such
registry.
"a And be it enacted, That all elections
held within any of said municipalities by
the boards of registry and election pro-
vided for in section twenty hereof shall,
except as herein otherwise provided, be
held and conducted and the votes cast
thereat canvassed and retired as now is
or hereafter may be required by law
25. And be it enacted, That all ballots
cast at any election for any public officer
or officers hereafter held with any muni-
cipality of this state shall Except as here
in otherwise provided be printed and dis
tributed at public expense, and no ballots
shall be cast or counted at any such cleo
ton except such as are by this act pro-
vtded for.
%. And be it enacted, That any conven-
ton of delegates or nominating body of a
political party as hereinafter defined, and
also individual voters by petition, to the
number and in the manner hereinafter
specified, may nominate candidates for
public office, whose names shall be
printed, written or placed upon the bal
lots as hereinafter provided and directed;
"a convention of delegates" or "nomi-
mating body of political party" within
the meaning of this act is an organized
assemblage of delegates or voters, repre-
sentiug a political party which, at the
election for members of the general as
seInbiy next preceding the holding of such
convention or nominating body polled at
least five per centum OF the total vote
cast In the state, county or other division
or district III and for which the nomina-
ton is made.
~. And be it enacted, That all nomina-
tions made by any such convention OF
delegates or nominating body shah be
certified in a written or printed or partly
written and partly printed, certificate of
nomination" as follows: Such certificate
of nomination shall contain the name of
each person nominated, his residence aud
post-office address. the office for which he
is named and shall designate, in not more
than three words, the title or name Of the
party or principles which such conven-
ton or nominating body represented:
said certificate shall be signed by
the presiding officer and secretary
OF such convention or nominating
body. vino shall add to their signatures
their respective places of residence and
posu-of1ioe address, anu seyerallY make
oath before an officer qualified to adj
minister the same, that the atlantis were
respectively such officers of such conven-
ton or nominating body, and that said
certificate and the statements therein
contained are true as they verify believe;
and certificate that such oath has been
taken shall be made and signed by the
officer administering the same aud en-
dor5ed upon or attached to such certific-
ate of nomination.: in case of division
in any party aud claim by two or more
factions to the same party name or title,