The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-14
Notice of Meetings
OF H
Boards Of Registry and
Election
OF THE
COUNTY OF HUDSON. STATE OF
NEW JERSEY.
GENERAL ELECTION. NOV. 8, 1891

Pursuant to an act entitled Further Supple
ment to an Act to Regulate Elections" ap-
proved May %, 1850, with amendments there
on approved March %, 1891.
Extract.
8. The members of said boords of registry
and election and said registry or poll clerks
shall, before entering upon the performance of
their duties, each severally take and subscribe
an oath or affirmation. in writing. before q duly
qualified of1ic II, faithfully and impartially to
discharge all their duties as such officers, under
this or any oil her law of this State to the best Of
their skill and ability, which oaths or afflirma-
tons shall be forthwith forwarded to the
County Clerk, and by him filed in his Office.
a. That said boards of registry and election
shall meet annually on the
TUESDAY FOUR WEEKS NEXT PRECEDING
the annual election for membe 9 of the General
Assembly, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, at
places within their respective election districts,
TO be designated by the members of such board
or a majority thereof; said boards of registry
and election, when met as aforesaid, shall or
ganize by choosing one of their number to be
chairman; in case Of failure to choose said
chairman for three ballots, the oldest member
Gin years. of such board shall be chairman there
of; when the chairman shall have been desfg-
mated, each member of the board shall take and
subscribe the oath prescribed in the next pre-
ceding section hereof; such oath may be admin
istered by the chairman to the other three mem
bers of the board, and any member thereof ma
then administer the oath to the chairman; said
boards of registry and election having taken and
subscribed the oath aforesaid. shall, on the same
day. proceed to ascertain and truly and accur-
ately enter in canvassiug books, to be provided
for that purpose, the names and residences and
street numbers II any, of all legal voters resid-
ing within their respective election districts en-
titled to vote therein at the next election, by
making actual Inquiry at every dwelling house
or habitation, or of the head of every family re-
siding therein, and shall continue such enumer-
alton of voters from day to day thereafter, on
| successive days, until the same be completed;
| provided, that such enumeration shall terminate
on or before the friday next succeeding; the
name of every such voter, as aforesaid. whose
EIanao ~ nhNAo oh II Ia in anu nnitU nP hahita-
ton or who may be casually or temporarily alb
sent therefrom when such enumeration is made,
shall be entered in said canvassing. books; in
making such enumeration, the said boards of
registry and election may divide their election
districts into subdivisions, and any two of their
number. not of the same political party, deslg-
mated by the chairman, together and in company
may make the enumeration in such subdivisions;
| no name shall be entered on such canva ssing
books withont the concurrence OF both SAD
members or if said enumeration be made by the
entire board, without the concurrence OF a ma
jority thereof
5. #That on the
TUESDAY THREE WEEKS NEXT PRECEDING
| the election for members of the General Assem-
bly,, said boards of registration and election
shall meet at the places in their respective
election districts where the next election will be
held, at ten O'Clock in the morning. and con
tinue in session until nine O'Clock in the even
ing, but may take a recess from one to two
O'Clock during said time; said last mentioned
meeting shall be attended by the said registry
| or poll clerks appointed for such election dis
| trict. who shall take and subscribe the oath
| hereinbefore prescribed, to be administered by
the chairman or any member OF the board.
when met, as in this section provided, said
board of registry and election and said clerks
| shall proceed to transcribe and make up from
said anvassing books two lists or registers, al
| phabetically, of the names, residences ano
| street numbers, If any. of all persons in theiI
respective election districts entitled to the right
of suffrage therein at the next election or who
shall personaIyappear before them for that
purpose, or who shall be shown to the satisfac
| lion of such board of registry and election te
have legally voted in that election district al
the last preceding election therein for member
of the General Assembly, or who shall be shown
by the affidavit in writing of some voter in thai
election district to be a legal voter therein
Prouided. that no naturslized citizen shall be
registered if his right IL challenged, unless he
shall. by affidavit or otherwise, prove to the
satisfaction of a majority of such board thai
he is entitled to vote In that election district al
| the next election therein, or shall produce and
exhibit a legal certificate Of naturalization en-
fitting him to the right OF suffrage, which Ger
tincaIe shall thereuroa be endorsed with th'
date of the exhibition thereof, or shall have
been duly registered at a previous election il
such election district
.. That when on the day of their meeting, a
provided IN the next preceding section, tn
board Of registry and election shall have com