The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-10-15

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The location of said polling booths
when not fixed by law. shall be select
ed by the various parish committees
throughout the State.
The respective committees in tn,
several parishes, throughout TIE
State, shall cause to be published tn,
location of said polling booths in the
official journal of the parish, at leas'
three times for three weeks preceding
the day of the election. and in the city
of New Orleans, in any of the daily
papers.
Section -. Be it further enacted.
ETC., That no voter shall be allowed
to take part in any primary who shall
not have registered at least ten days
prior to the date of the primary cleo.
ton held under this Act. That sever
days prior to every primary election
the registrar of voters throughout the
entire State shall make a complete
list of all register ed voters in every
voting precinct in the parish, certify
to the same and within three days
before the primary election, deliver
the same to the respective parish COM
mittees of the party holding the said
primary election, without any cost OF
charge whatsoever.
That the sheriffs of the several par
ishes throughout the State, and the
city of New Orleans, shall, three days
before the date of any primary election
held under this Act, deliver to the
several parish committees throughout
the State, lists of all persons who
have paid their poll taxes for the two
years preceding the year in which the
primary is held. That the number of
lists of poll taxes SO to be delivered
shall be one for each voting precinct
as fixed by law in said parish. That
these lists shall be delivered and fur
nished free of all charge and expense.
That the said respective parish COM
mittees shall transmit by the special
deputy selected by them to deliver
ballot boxes, ETC., to each polling
precinct the list of the registered vot-
ers of his parish as hereinbefOre pro-
vided for, and also the list OF the per-
sons who have paid their poll taxes
SO furnished to them by the sheriff or
city treasurer. as the Ease may be.
The sherifs throughout the State,
and the civil sheriff in the parish of
Orleans shall deliver to the respective
parish committee, of parties holding
primaries under this Act, a sufficient
number of ballot boxes for each and
every polling precint.
Section 3. Be it further enacted
ETC., That each poll shall be provided
over by three commissioners of cleo
ton, and at each poll there shall be
tive clerks.
The said commissioners shall be
selected as hereinafter provided, and
shall be commissioned in each parish
by the chairman of the respective par
ish committee for such parish. In
case of the absence, inability or re
fusal of such chairman to act, they
shall be commissioned by the vice
chairman. These election officers
shall possess the same qualifications
Is are required Of the voters at the
polls at which they shall preside, and
said commissioners, clerks and special
deputy sheriffs shall receive the same
compensation as is paid to commits
sioners of elections held under the
general election laws Of the State.
The commissioners of election shall
be rejected as follows; to-wit:
That in any election held under
this Act, that each and every local
in each parish in this State,
shall submit to the respective parish
of said parish at least ff-
teen days prior to the date on which
any primary election is to to held,
under CHS Act, the name of one duly |
qualified voter, to act as a commits.
sioner of election, for each and every
precinct in said parish
fourteen days prior to the date in
which the primary election is to be
at twelve O'Clock noon, the re-
parish committees in each
throughout the State shall be
regularly convened and they shall
proceed to select, from the various
names submitted to them by the can
1idates, as aforesaid, three commits
'ioners of election to preside over the
at each and every voting pre-
'inct in the said parish, and the two
in the following manner, to-
Wit: r,
The said parish commit tee shall
axe the names submitted to them for I
ash particular precinct by the candi-
lates aforesaid, write each name so I
on a separate piece of !