The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-07
Notice of Meetings
OF THE
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 APP
proved May 70, 1880, with amendments there
on" approved March %, 1891.
Extract.
5. 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 a duly
qualified Officer, faithfully and impartially TO
discharge all their duties as such officers, under
this or any other law oIthiS State to the best of
their SKIN and abilty, which oaths or afiirma-
County Clerk. and by him filed in his offics.
a. That said boards os registry and election
shall meet Annually on they
TUESDAY -FOUR WEEKS NEXT PRECEDING
the annual election for menbe g of the Gene raj
Assembly, at ten oSelock in the forenoon. at
places within their respective election districts,
to be designated by the members Of such board
or q 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 snail be chairman there
of; when the chairman shall have been desig-
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. ana any member thereof ma
then administer the oath to the chairman; said
boards of registry aud election having taken and
subscribed the oath aforesaid. shall. on the same
day, proceed to ascertain and truly and accur-
ately enter in canvassing books, to be provided
for that purpose, the names and residences and
street numbers, If any, of all legal voters rcsid-
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
place of abode shall be in any family or habita-
ton or who may be casually or temporarily alb
sent therefrom when such enumeration is made,
shall be entered in said canvassing books; iE
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, desig-
mated by the chairman, together and in company
may make the enumeration in such subdivisions;
no name shall be entered on such canvassing
books without the concurrence OF both said
members, or il said enumeration be made by the
entire board, without the concurrence OF a ma
jority ~thereof.A*
5. sThat ON the
TUESDAY THREE WEEKS NEXT PRECEDING
the election for meRbers 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
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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 canvasSing books two lists or registers, al
alphabetically, of the ma mes, residences and
Street numbers, IL any, of all persons in their
respective election districts entitled to the right
of suffrage therein at the next election or who
shall personally appear before them for that
| purpose, or who shall be shown TO the satisfac-
lion Of SUCH board of registry and election to
| have legally voted in that election district at
the last preceding election therein for members
| of the General Assembly, or who shall be shown
by the affidavit in writing OF some voter IN that
election district to be u legal voter therein;
Provided, that no naturalized citizen shall be
registered if his right is challenged, unless he
shall. by affidavit or otherwise, prove to the
satisfaction of q majority of such board that
he is entitled to vote in that election district at
| the next election therein, or shall produce and
exhibit a legal certificate of naturalization en-
titling him to the right of suffrage, which GER
tifcate shall thereufo1 be endorsed with the
date of the exhibition thereof, or shall have
been duly registered at q previous election in
such election districts
&, That when on the day of their meeting, as
provided in the next preceding section, the
board of registry and election shall have COM
| pleted said two registers, they shall certify ON
each of them and announce publicly the number
of names entered thereon; that on the day sue
ceeding such meeting q correct list Of the names
| entered on said registers, with the residences and
| street numbers, il any, shall be posted by each
of said clerks, in handful form, in some con-
spicuous public place within such election
district: both of said lists shall be certified by the
board of registry and election, or a majority
thereof, to be correct copies OF the original
registers.
~ That tho board of registry and election
shall also meet on
TUESDAY NEXT PRECEDING
the day OF election for members OF the General
| Assembly at the place of their former meeting,
at the hour of one O'Clock in the afternoon, and
| remain in session until nine O'Clock in the even
ing, for the purpose of revising and correcting
| the original registers, of adding thereto the
names OF all persons entitled to the right OF suif-
| rage in that election district at the next election
| who shall appear in person before them or shall
| be shown by the written affidavit of some voter
in such election district to be a legal voter there
in, and OF erasing therefrom the name of any
! person who, after a fair opportunity TO be heard.
shall be shown not to be entitled to vote therein
by reason of non-residence or otherwise and
upon the final completion or SAID registers the
said board Of registry and election $ hail pub
liciy announce and certify on each re.
gister the number Of names entered
thereon, and on the next succeea-
certified copy of the full list of the names on said
regis ers, with residences and street numbers, II
any, to be posted in conspicuous places within
said election district; and one of said clerks, u
be designated by the chairman OF said board ri
registry and election, snail prepare an ad-
ditional copy of the names, residences and street
numbers, ii any, on such completed register,
which additional copy, after being. certified as
| aforesaid. shall be by said clerk within two days
after the last mentioned Tuesday, filed with
the clerk Of the city, township or other NUM-
cipality, within which such election precinct
may be situate; and pro0ided further, that no
name shall he entered on said registers or either
them from said canvassing books. or stricken
therefrom without the concurrence OF a
MAORI y Of all the MEMBERS of said boards of
registry and elections
s. That on the day succeeding the final com
nletion Of said registers, one thereof shall be
forwarded to and filed with the County Clerk.