The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-09-04
RALEIGH, N. G.. SEPTEMBER f. 1894.


books on the second Saturday preced
ing the election, from the hour of nine
o'clock a. m. till the hour of five o'clock
p. M, when and where the said books
shall be open to the inspection of the
electors of the precinct or township,
and any of said electors shall be allowed
to object to the name of any person ap
pear1ng on said books. In case of any
such objection the registrar shall enter
upon his books, opposite to the name
OF the person so objected to, the word
challenged, and shall appoint time
and place, on or before the election day,
when he, together with said Judges of
election, shall hear and decide said OBJ
lection, giving due notice to the voter
80 objected to- PROVIDED, that nothing
in this section shall prohibit the right
OF any electOr to challenge or object to
the name Of any person registered or
offering to register at any time other
than that above specified. If any per.
son challenged or objected to shall be
found not duly qualified, as provided
in this chapter, the registrar shall erase
his name from the books.
Sec. 267S. The board of commission
ers for each county, on or before the
first Monday of the month next preced-
ing the month in which each election
is held, shall appoint four judges or in
spectors of election, two of whom shall
be of a different political party, where
possible, from the registrars, at each
place of holding election in their re-
spective counties. The said Judges of
election shall attend at the places for
which they are severally appointed on
the day of election, and they, together
with the registrars for such precinct or
township, who shall attend with the
registration books, after being sworn
by some justice of the peace, or other
person authorized to administer oaths,
to duct the election fairly and impair
TALLY according to the Constitution and
laws of the State, shall open the polls
and superintend the same until the
close of the election. They shall keep
poll books, in which shall be entered
the name OF every person who shall
vote, and at the close of the election
the judges of election shall certify the
same over their proper signatures, and
deposit them with the register of deeds
for safe keeping. And said poll books
shall, in any trial for illegal or fraudu-
lent voting be received as evidence.
The board of commissioners shall, i'm
mediately after the appointment of the
Judges of election as herein provided,
furnish list of names of such Judges
to the sheriff of their county, who shall,
within ten days, serve notice of such
appointment upon the said judges; and
if any person appointed judge of elec
tion shall fail to attend, the registrar
of such townships shall appoint some
discreet person to act as such, who shall
be by him sworn before acting.
SEC 2679, The following classes OF
persons shall not be allowed to register
or vote in this State, to wit: First, per
sons under twenty one years of age;
second, idiots and lunatics; third, per
sons who, upon conviction or confes
sion in open court, shall have been
adjudged guilty offelony or other crime
infamous by the laws of this State,
committed after first day Of January
| in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy seven, un,
less they shall have been legally re
stored to the rights of citizenship.
Sec $3.50. Subject to the foregoing
exceptions, every male person born in
the United States, and every male per
son who has been naturalized, twenty
one years of age, who shall have re
sided in the State twelve months next
preceding the election, and ninety days
in the county in which he offers to
vote, shall be qualified elector in the
| precinct or township In which he re
sides; and all electors shall register and
vote in the election precinct of their
residence. The residence of a married
man shall be where his family resides,
and that of single man where he
boards and sleeps; and should any
single man board in one ward or pre-
cinct and sleep in another, then his
residence shall be in the ward or pre-
cinct in which he SLEEPS, and he shall
not register or vote In any other ward
or precinct. But no elector shall be
allowed to regis er in any ward or pre-
cinct to which he shall have removed
for the mere purpose of being a vOtel
therein, nor unless his residence there
in is actual and bona fde And it shal
be the duty of the registrar or judge o.
election, when requested by any by
stander, to swear any person Offering
to register or vote, as to his residence
and to have placed in writing opposite
person knowingly and fraudulently
registering or voting at any other place
than that of his bona tfde residence
shall be guilty of crime infamous by
the laws of this State, and punished by
q fine not exceeding one thousand dol
lars, or imprisoned at hard labor no
exceeding two years, or both in tht
discretion of the Court.
SEC 1851. Every person who shall
present himself for registration shall
state under oath how long he has con
tiuuously resided in this State and il
the county in which he offers TO vote
whether he is an alien or native born
when he becomes twenty one years O
age; whether married or single, ant
where or with whom heresides. Upo1
the request Of any elector, the registrar
shall require the annlicant to prOVe hi