The daily sentinel., 1913-08-14
ORDINANCE No.


AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR
\ ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAIN
ING PERMANENT REGISTRA-
TION LISTS OF ALL QUALIFIED
ELECTORS IN ELECTION PRE-
/ CINCTS WITHIN THE CITY OF
/ GRAND JUNCTION. FOR USE IN
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS; TO
| PROVIDE FOR PUNISHING ALL
VIOLATIONS THEREOF. AND
FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF
JUDGES FOR SPECIAL ELEC-
TIoNS WHERE NO CANDIDATES
ARE TO BE VOTED ON.
Be 1t ordained by the City Council
OF the City of Grand Junction, Colo
rado:
Section /. No person shall here
after be permitted to vote at any mu-
n!cipal election, whether general or
| special, in the City of Grand juno
tion, without first having been reg
| istered within the time and in the
manner and form required by the
provisions OF this ordinance.
Sec. 2. 1t shall be the duty of the
clerk of the City of Grand Junction,
within ten days after the going into
effect of this ordinance, to make a
copy in the registration books pro-
| vided for in Section 8, of all the
names and all the data connected
herewith, shown on the registration
books used in the regular city cleo
/ ton, held in November. 1911, omit
| ting therefrom, however, the names
| of all persons not shown by the poll
/ books of the various precincts to have
voted in the said 1911 election. The
clerk shall also copy in the said reg
i iut fsa ion hnnEe tho and the
data connected Herewith shown on
the latest registration lists in the Of
/ flee of the county clerk of Mesa
| County. Colorado, from the various
precincts of the City of Grand juno
tion, emitting therefrom, however,
/ first, the names already copied as
hereinbefore provided except where
registered in different precinct or
from different address, in which
case the latest registration in point
of time shall be copied, and the one
first made omitted; second, the names
of all persons not shown by the poll
books of the various precincts to have
voted at the said 1912 election. All
persons whose names are thus placed
in the registration books shall be
deemed fully registered subject to
change or cancellation as hereinafter
provided.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the
City Council of the City of Grand
Junction, as soon as the clerk shall
have secured the names and data as
required in Section 2, to give public
notice, by advertisement, for four
consecutive insertions, in two daily
newspapers having the largest circu-
\ Ilation within the City of Grand juno
| tion. that the registration lists pro-
vided for in Section 2 are at the Of
| flee of the city clerk, open for IN
| spection at all times during office
hours, and that qualified electors may
register or make changes in their
registration in the manner and form
as in this ordinance hereinafter pro-
vided.
Sec. 4. No qualified elector, whose
name does not appear in the regis
tration lists as provided in Section 2,
shall be registered, nor shall the reg
istration of any qualified elector be
corrected or changed, except he make
application to the city clerk as in this
ordinance provided. Such applicant
must be vouched for by the oath or
affirmation of two qualified electors
already registered in the city clerk
office, as possessing all the qualifica-
tions emitting such applicant either
to be lawfully registered, or TO the
desired correction or change therein,
as the case may be. No registered
qualified elector shall be accepted as
voucher for more than twelve such
applicants during any one calendar
year. nor shall any registered quail
fled elector, who is, for any reason,
unable to write his signature, be re-
ceived or accepted as voucher. The
city clerk shall, in the presence OF
beth the applicant and his said vouch-
ers. take the answers of such appll-
can't concerning all the matters re-
uuired by Section of this ordinance,
and then and there record the same
excepting the name of the applicant
and youchers) in the registration
book of the election precinct in which
such elector then resides; such rec
ords shall then and there be signed
by the said applicant, under the
heading Name in Full, and by said
vouchers under the heading Names
of Vouchers" If said applicant be
for any reason, unable to write his
name. then the same may be written
for him by the city clerk with mis-
(X) mark
In all cases of correction of errors,
or change in registration, such cor
rection and change, ana the date
when made, shall be noted on the
line after the name affected, under
the heading Remarks. The form
OF the oath, or affirmation, TO DC
administered to the said applicant
and his vouchers. shall be as follows;
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giving name of applicant), and we
tsNlhe
names of vouchers). each being sew
orally duly sworn (or being affirmed
as the case may be), depose and say
that the said --------------------
giving name of applicanD possesses
all the qualifications of lawful elec,
tor. and is entitled to be registered
as duly qualified elector or to cor
J rect his registration as to the
. state the matter corrected) or te
: have his registration changed to toi