Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-04
PREPARING FOR HE ELECTION.
Department of Elections Gives Instruction
of Interest To Voters.

DtpArNneut OF ELECTIONS GlFcs iuhtruchou-
of Interest To Voters.
A hand book containing practical
directions for the use of the inspectors
of elections and poll clerks, who are to
serve at the registration on Nav 9Th
and election on June Sd, have been
issued by the Department Of Elections.
The regulations .or the registration
specify that the iDspector5 shall
organize at each rolling place and to
all applications made to them. shall
proceed in the manner provided by
law. Provided that il upon exami-
nation ii shall appear that the ap-
plicsnt has since the day Of the general
election moved into or become resi-
dent of said election district, the in
spectors shall inquire whence such
applicant removed or came, and If it
shall appear that such removal was
from q place within this city, they
shall inquire il in the election district
in which he resided at the last pre-
ceding registration, he had been regis
tered and voted, and il he states that
he has not, then the said inspectors
shall proceed with such application as
with that OF any other person who may
apply to them, but if he shall state
that he has been so registered and had
voted at the last general election, the
said inspectors shall before further
proceeding, require him to present to
them certificate of removal, so that
his name shall not be upon the regis
tiers of two election districts. An
elector who was duly registered as
qualified on the registration books for
the general election held November,
1898, and it appears from said books
that he did not yots at the said general
election, such elector must register
anew May eth, 1899, or he cannot
vote at the following city election, on
June Sd. Persons that registered quail
fed ard did not vote cannot be ians.
ferred. In case an elector appears
registered as qualified" on the regis
tration books for the general election
held November 9Th. 1893, and it also
appears that he voted at that election,
such elector if he continues to reside
in the same house, need not register
anew, in order to vote at the munich
ral election to be held on the third
dag of June and if he is otherW ise
qualified according to law, may vote
thereat. In case an elector appears
registered as QUALIFIED" on the regis
tration books for the general election
appears that he voted at that election,
and in case such elector has removed
| from the district in which he appears
| by the said registration books, to have
been resident, he may upon the 9th
| day Of May, 1899. personally appear
before the said inspectors in the
election district in which he resided
| at the time his name was entered upon
| the registration books, and obtain a
certificate of removal" II the state
rnents OF the elector, applying for a
certificate of removal, be chal-
lenged, he shall take and subscribe to
/ the Hoath of removal y The in
spectors are the sole judges of the
truth and correctness Of the statement
of an elector so applying,
On May 9Th the day fixed for the
revision Of registration, the registra-
| tion officers shall, upon the personal
application of any one to be regis
tered, demand and receive from the
applicant the registration fee of one
dollar, which shall BIZ returned to the
said applicant il his name shall not be
entered on the book of registered
voters as a registered voter; shall
record in the registers in the column
head ..name' the name of every male
person who shall personally appear
before them, and apply TO be regis
tered, writing his surname and frs
christian name in full, and also any
other name by which he is general,
known, with the, initial or initials o.
any other name. or names which hi
may have in addition thereto, the sur
name being written first, and shal
examine all persons, who personally ap
ply, TO their qualifications as electors
and shall Immediately enter in tn,
register statements and facts showing
the qualification of the person registeres
The members of the Department o
Elections ara revising the list of regis
tration and election officers. 1t is in
tended that the same persons VIII,
served at the last general election shal
serve at the city registration ant
election, SO far as is possible, and il
order to determine what changes ar,
necessary the department has requeste,
the officers to report at the Office
, as convenient. The Office is open fron
from to O'Clock in the evening
Many Of the old officers have alread
, reported for duty. 1t will be neces
1 sary to make some changes, AS some O
! the officers have moved from the cit
, and three inspectors have died. Thos
who have died arc Calvin Il. Allen q
tho Third district, in the Secon,
ward Frank P Roney of the 'fhir
teenth district, in the Eight ward, an,
Thomas T. Cusick of the Fifty y-sixti
district, in the Seventh ward.
, Nearly 500 names have been trans
ferred on the books of the department
being those of qualified voters VIII
. have moved into new districts.