The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-05-19

entitled to vote at such election, but whose
name has been omitted from said list or
register, then the name of such person shall
be added to the lists or registers, and he
shall be allowed to vote, but not in any
other event; and said person shall
not no .n unless = the judges require 1t, It,
aSss tRis aef but If
quired by the judges he shall do so.
Nor shall the vote Of any person be re-
Jected whose name is upon said lists at the
time of opening the polls; provided that if
evidence satisfying majority of the judges
registered by mistake, and that the person
SO offering to vote has not the qualifica-
tons Of an elector in said district, and is
not entitled to vote at said election, then the
name of such person shall be stricken from
said list and he shall not be allowed to
vote.
But in all such cases an entry shall be
made opposite to each name added to or
stricken from said lists or registers after
the se opening 1f the Polls Is
election districts throughout the state, in
determining the residence Of any person
qualified electors, shall be governed by by the
following rules so far as they are apple
able:
/. The place shall be considered and
his habitation is fixed without any present
intention of removing therefrom, and to
which whenever he is absent he has the in
2 A person shall not be considered to
have lost his residence who leaves his home
to go into another state, or county in this
state, for temporary purposes merely, and
with the intention of returning.
3. person shall not be considered to
Wien he er a
merely, without the intention Of making
such county his home.
!. 4. If a person go into another state, with
loses his residence in this state.
o. 1t any person remove to another state
an indefinite time as place of residence, he
loses, his residence in this state, .notwith-
standing he entertains the idea of return
ing at some future time.
e. The place where mans family re-
sides shall be held to be his place of resi-
dence; but if it be place of temporary
establishment for his family, or for tran
{. Ii a man have family fixed in one
place and he do business in another, the
former shall be considered his place of resi-
dence; but any man having family, who
has taken up his abode with the intention
of remaining, and whose family refuses to
reside with him, shall be regarded as a citi-
zen and voter where he has taken up his
abode.
s. The residence of a single man shall be
where he usually sleeps.
residence, without the fact Of removal, shall
avail nothing; neither shall the fact Of res
mogal without the intention.
10. No person employed temporarily in
the pineries for the purpose of cutting tim
Der for saw logs or railroad ties, or even in
the construction or repair of any railroad,
canal, municipal or other work of public
nature, shall acquire a residence In any
election district into which he came for that
purpose, so as to entitle him to vote therein
tend to station agents and section men, who
permanently reside in such election district.
In any. question that may arise as to the
right Of any person in the employment of
any railroad corporation employed upon
public work. as aforesaid, to be registered
or to vote in any election district, it must
first satisfactorily appear to all the judges
of such election that the said party is an
actual bona tide resident Of said election
district, and not there for temporary pur-
such person shall not be received as con-
elusive as to any fact necessary to entitle
him to vote.
Any person being permanent inmate Of
any soldiers home in this state, shall for
the purpose of this act, have a. legal resi-
dence thereat
twelve thousand Inhabitants, the persons
authorized by OF appointed pursuant to law,
to act as judges and clerks of election in
any such city, or in any ward or other cleo
ton district in such city ia this state, shall
constitute board of registration for cir
respective cities, wards Or election dis
tricts, and shall meet on Tuesday three
weeks preceding any general, state or city
election and fourteen days before any spe-
cial election. Said board shall meet at
nine o'clock in the morning at place
where the last election was held, or such
oss:ez. place mag be aWf1l1x- designated
for the polling place in the election district
in which said board are judges and clerAA
and shall continue in session until nine
coed to make a registration as hereinafter
prescribed, of all persons entitled to vote
at the ensuing election in such election dis
tricts. Such registration when completed
lister of electors Of such election district.
Two such registers shall be made by said
board, unless ballot judges are required or
provided for in which event three registers
Shall be so made. Such board shall have
and exercise the same right to preserve
order at their meetings as is given to judges
OF election to preserve order on election
day., and vacancies in said board shall be
filled in the same manner as such vacancies
are filled at election.
Sec 63. In cities having over twelve thou
ants, the registers the form of which shall
be prepared by the secretary. of state, shall
contain columns under the following head
Hgs and sabeeaainss D5 ssst
Length Of Residence limited States
years" ''state-years. months, " 'Disqict--
{sass "0n5 pse az st of ssc0p o
Last Registered ward, district and Ere
marks" The board Of registration in each
district therein shall enter all names in
They shall enter therein the names Of all per-
sons residing in their election district whose
names appear in the poll-list and register in
said district at the last preceding election
as having voted thereat, except such as are
known to the board to have since died, re-
moved from the district or become disqual-
board, the proper entries shall be made OPP
pOSite each name in the different columns
of said registry. In case the boundaries of
the district have been changed since the
preceding election, at which such pOll-list was
made, then the board shall place On the reg
listers only the names of the persons ap-
pearing by such poil-list to be residents
within the new district in which they are
sitting.
In addition to the names on said poll-list
and register, the board shall enter on said
registers the names Of all proper persons
who shall personally appear for registration,
as well as the name OF any person who shall
make and have presented to the board at
any time while sitting to correct the registry
list an affidavit in form substantially as fol
lows:
Il, .........., being first duly sworn, on
oath say that I am a legally qualified voter
in the State Of Minnesota; and that / now
asenue)' in the .......... election district
in said state; that have not ti been en-
and will not be able to be present at said
election district for the purpose Of registra
ton for the reason that ..........; that
make this affidavit because of such inability
so to attend for registration and for the
purpose of being registered in said election
district; that my full name is ..........;
WitS Dorn at .........; am
Estate COLOR; have resided in the United
States for years and amman.
months, and in the State of Minnesota fol
........:.. years and .......... months
and in said election district for .........
years .......... months and ..........
a Enns;st tna1 e. an am cc,nst;o able to reao
that at the last general election / resided
at No. .......... street Tor avenue) in SAID
city and was registered and voted at the
.......... election district of the .........
ward Tor that at the last general election
was not resident of said city but voted al
\:....... }; that at my present residence as
boarder iodger emnove or ofber nrona
term; THE following to be omitted if native
born that have taken axe a., out my lfirs
ralization, the same being issued by the