The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-24

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| corporated city with a population Of
| over 5000 two or more registry agents
| are to be appointed, without any limit
| on the number so 20 be appointed by
the county commissioners. and section
1924 says in such casesthe commissioners
shah not appoint TO exceed four regis
| try agents. Section 1909, 1908 and 1904
contain practically the same provisions
as are found In section 1225. with the
exception that the registration certih-
| uafe to be issued by the registry agent
| OF district, as provided In section
1904. contempsates q person being en-
titled TO vote who had only declared
his intention to become a citizen prior
TO the adoption of the constitution.
which provision is not now applicable
TO voters, the five year limit provided
by the constitution having expired. and
which certificate has been corrected a.
to its form in section 1925. Section 1926
contains the same provision as section
1905, with the additional provisions re-
lating TO the duties of registry agents
to designate at what places and at
what time he will receive applications
for registration within each election
district, tender the original provisions
OF the first registration laws passed In
thds state. and which were retained by
the code commissioners. 1t was intend
ed that the registry agents should have
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precincts within their election district,
and that persons entitled TO be regis
tered should all apply for registration
at the one place. The third legislative
assembly. In amending the registration
law. as 1t was originally adopted, made
provision for each registry agent TO sit
not less than two nor more than three
days within each voting precinct en-
braced within his election district. Both
or these provisions are retained in the
code. Sections 1906, 1907 and 1908 are
contained. so far as their general pro-
visions are contained in section 1927.
Section 1906 provides that registry
agents shah keep their respective Of
fices open between the hours of p. IN.
and p. m. on all legal days. between
the 18th day of September and the 5th
day of October, inclusive, and between
the hours of 10 a. I'M. and 10 p. m, from
the 5th day of October to and including
the 18th day of October.
Section 1927 provides that registry
agents shall be at their respective off,
ces between the hours of 10 a. m. and
10 p. m. on all legal days from and after
10 a. m. of the second Tuesday of Octo-
Der to and including the Tuesday next
preceding the general election. Section
1907 provides that the voter may ex-
hiblt his declaration of his intention to
become a citizen, or a certified copy
thereof, which provision has been elm
mated in Section 1927. Section 1,z09
which Is an act of the last legislative
assembly, provides for an oath to be
taken by persons applying for registra-
ton, which is also provided for in diff
ferent form by Section LIPS. Section
1910 provides the list of questions to be
answered by the applicant for registra-
ton and the definition as to what the
word resident shall mean, which is al
so provided for in somewhat different
md dfffaranf ions In Section
1929. Section LII is the amendment of
March 10, 1895, prescribing the rules
to govern the place of any person for
the purpose of registration or voting.
Section 1,212 contains the same provi-
sions as Section 1890. Section 1918
provides that on the day succeeding
the day on which registration is closed,
registry agents must within seven days
prepare lists of the persons registered,
and in Section 1921 it is provided that
the agents must prepare the lists with
in three days after the close of the reg
istration. Section 1874 provides that
registry agents must give notice that
they will receive objections to the right
of persons registered to vote until 8
o'clock on the seventh day previous
to the election. Section 1881 provides
that agents shall give notice that they
will receive objections to the right to
vote until the third day previous to
the election.
The provisions of Sections 1,215 and
1915 are also contained in Section 1,232.
Other and minor details in the registra-
tion law will be found conflicting or du-
plicated.
Sections 1872 to 1883 inclusive, are
duplicate provisions or conflict in some
minor details with the provisions of
Sections 1910 to 1.521 inclusive. These
sections relate to the duties of the state
board of education, the former being
the original provisions OF the code and
the latter having been passed at the
last legislative assembly.
Sections 1.540. 1.541, 1870, 1871, 1920.
1921, 1850. 1851. should all be repealed.
ed by the code commission and relate
to the various state institutions in re-
lat.ol to which the third legislative as
sembly passed laws locating such insti-
buttons and defining their powers and
authority.
the distribution OF school funds to the
various counties, passed in 1895, and
refers to Section 1873 of the act of March
6, 1891, which act has been repealed by
the adoption of the codes. This sec-
ton should be amended to refer to Sec
lions $500 and 1891 of the political
code, which contain the provisions of
Section 1s3, which has been repealed.
Section 1880 provides for district
clerks of school districts to annually
make a census of all school children
between the LIST and goth day of August
of each year, and also provides that the
clerk shall make a report thereof IN or
before the Goth day of August to the
school superintendent and to the school
trustees. This section should be amend
ed so as not torequire the clerk TO report
to the trustees and superintendent
detailed report of the census on or be-
fore he is required to complete the CEN
sus.
Section 1904 should be amended so as
to provide for eight classes Of coun-
ties rather than three classes. Sec
ton 1920 provides for counties 10 be
divided into eight classes. and Section
1904 provides for the proportion of ex-
penss to be borne by the counties in
rela ton to the class they are IN. but
only provides for three classes OF coun-
ties.
Section 1.940 Is the sec-i N which rs
already been called 20 the attention az