Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-08-04

cants Tor registrat1onI
!: R Mafd.
!. Precinct.
I. Name.
6. Exact location. fiat No. -"
upper ttat," room No, -" hall
.oom', room on second floor" "base-
ment." rear house" or other equally
definite designation of location.
/ AA aH
8, Nationality.
10. Whether citizen or not.
X. Term Of residence In state.
~ Term OF residence in precinct.
IL. Autograph.
, such cards shall also be furnished by
the city clerk to any person applying
Tor them either in person or by mail.
SECTION II. Two consecutive weeks
snail be allowed for the distribution
ana col!ectlon of registration cards by
tne ponce department, and the cards
snail be collected in the same general
order as distributed, SO that each voter
VIII have approximately one week in
winch to fill in the blanks for the pur-
pose OF registration under this act:
such cards to be returned to the sec
SionerS.
Section IL. Under the direction of
the board of election commissioners an
official registry for each precinct shall
50 received which indicate that the
Slgners thereof are legal voters. Such
ofhclal registry shall contain in book
form IN suitable columns a copy of the
information given on the regiStrati ton
cards, excepting the date and auto
graph. The names of voters shall be
arranged in numerical order of houses
located on each street separately. COM
menclng with the lowest and ending
with the highest number within the
precinct. The streets shall be arranged
in geographical order from east to west
and north to south.
Section Is. AS soon as the cards re-
celyed have been Transcribed into said
books, the board of election commits
SlonerS shall cause a sufficient number
OF registry lists to be printed from such
otnclaI registry, not exceeding one
cause to be conspicuously posted in
can precinct within such city twenty
five copies thereof through the agency
or the police department.
Section IA. The board OF election
commissioners shall cause to De OBJ
tanned from at least three persons
Wlthln the county, sealed proposals for
the printing of said lists, and shall
award the contract therefor to the low
est competent and responsible bidder.
Section IS. The boards of registry,
as provided in section 7, shall hold
meetings at the places designated for
holding elections, on the Tuesday next
preceding the election and primary
election. They shall meet at eight
meetings open until eight o'clock in the
evening. They shall revise and correct
the preliminary registry as prepared by
the board of election commissioners:
FIRST, by striking therefrom the name
OF any person known by them to have
died or removed from the district or
who shall be proved TO their satiSfao-
ton, by the oath of two electors of the
district, to be not entitled to vote there
in at the next ensuing election or pri-
mary election, unless such person shall
affidavit stating the name and period
OF the continuous residence in the cleo
ton district and place of residence
therein, giving the number and street
Of the aftiant, and in case he is of for
eign birth, stating when he came to
the United States and to this state, and
the time and place when he became a
citizen Of the United States, and that
he is entitled to vote at the election.
Second, by entering thereon, the name
OF every elector entitled to vote in the
district at the next election who shall
appear IN person and file a registration
card, as hereinbefore provided, proper
ly filled in and sworn to before the
chairman of the board Of registry. In
every case Of q name stricken from the
registry, the reason therefor shall be
stated in writing opposite the name SO
stricken.
Section 10. Each board of registry
shall be furnished by the board of cleo
ton commissioners with two sets OF
three blank registry books, one set for
each meeting, suitably arranged to per-
nit of entries corresponding with the
preliminary registry, for the registra-
ton of additional names. and also ar
ranged to permit of any corrections Of
the preliminary registry which may be
found necessary at such meetings.
Section IT. Each member of said
boards of registry shall make the en-
tries in one Of these books, setting
voter accepted at such meetings with
the full information required in each
case, and showing therein any cOrrec-
lions of the preliminary registry found
70 he npnaSCdrV at SnCh meetings. AT
the close of each meeting said men,
bers, acting in concert, shall compare
each register so kept with the other
two, correcting any differences found,
and making the same agree in all re-
spects and each said member shall then
sign a certificate to be attached at the
end of each register, in substantially
the following form:
We, the undersigned inspectors of
e :.. ward Of the city : Of: .. 49, IN
severaIly certify that at the rogfstra-
ton Of electors in said election pre-
cinct, held on the. day of.....p
H.. there were registered by US in
said election precinct the names which
in this book are entered, and that the
total number of registered and quail
fed voters in said precinct was and Is
the number of............
Dated. .........s's..'
Section IS. 1. Any person who is not
twenty one years Of age before the date
when the registry is required to be cor
rected, but who will be if he lives until
the day of election, shall have his nanfe
put on such registry If he be otherwise
qualified to be an electOr.
2. All registration cards shall be pre-
served by the several boards Of regis
try and filed in the office of the board
of election commissioners.
8. Every person registered under this
act shall be subject to the same pun
ishment for any false statement or
other offense in respect thereto, as is
provided in case of false statement or
other offense by an elector Offering to
vote at an election.
Section 10. After such registry shall
have been fully completed on the days
above mentioned, no names shall be
added thereto, and no votes shall be re-
ceived at any election II the name OF
the person offering to vote be not on
the registry as completed, except as
provided in section 81 of the statutes.
Section 20. L. Within tWenty-four
hours after each meeting of the sew
eral boards of registry the three regis
try books, together with all registry
cards and affidavits shall be delivered
by the several chairmen Of the boards
Of registry to the secretary OF the
board of election commissioners. The
board Of election commissioners shall
forthwith cause to be printed there
from, for use at the primary election
and at the final election respectively,
not to exceed one hundred copies OF
such complete and corrected regestries