Year: 1865



 ly marked 'sJu tice of the Peace in which all ballots for justice of the peace shall be deposted and one plainly marked Town Officers, " in which all ballots for town officers shall be deposited and one ma ked City Oficers,'' in which all ballots for city officers shall be deposited any ballot found in any of said boxes,' other than the one designated for such ballot, shall not be counted

 SEC In case at any such election there sha iall to bel choice of representative, justice of tne peace or any town or city officer, by req on of an equailty of votes for any number of candidates for either of said respective offices then said meeting shall stand adjourned to the next fo low. ing Monday, at the same hour of the day when first held, and the election for such representa- tive, justice of the peace, or town or city officer shall be proceeded with in the same manner and determined by the same rule, as the election on said first day ,8s t, I

 Sec. g. The annual town meeting of said town for the choice of all town officers not herein re. quired to be voted for by ballot shall be held each year on the second Tuesday following said day by law fxed for the election of State officers, and shall be holden at some one place in said town indicated by the selectmen in their warning for such meeting ,.....' .,....

 SEC. 10 At all electors town and city meet ings provided for by section five of this act, the selectmen and town clerk of said town shall designate and appoint presiding officer of such meetings who shall preside at the place of voting in tue first district, and shall also designate and appoint for his assistance in the duties of said of

 

 other districts and such other assistant presiding officers as they may deem needful, which said as sistant presiding officers shall be resident in the district in which they are severally appointed to act and they shall preside at the place of voting in said district to which they are severally desig mated, and shall have all the powers and perform all the duties within said district of the presid- ing officers at electors meetings except as here in otherwise provided. -.,J a.0... t Ht

 SEC. Il. Immediately after the ballot-boxes pl0ep1 tho inr nfio ord a;afa anfa in the several districts shall with the aid of the civil authority then present, and such other per sons as said presiding officer may select, proceed in their respective districts to sort and count the and said assistant presiding officers in each dis trict shall make true certificate of all the bal lots given for officers voted for in their several districts, and shall forthwith transmit such cer- tifcates together with the ballots received and the ballot boxes containing the same, and the list of votes as .hecked to the presiding officer in the first district and thereupon the presiding officer in said first district, after having ascer tained the result of the ballots in the whole town and city as given in the several districts afore said, shall declare the same in open meeting at the place of voting in said first district, and said presiding officer in said town shall make out the list of voters given in said town and make return thereof in the manner now prescribed by law for presiding officers of electors meetings. .. SEC. l2. That each town meeting of said town held for choice of town offcefs as provided by section six of this act, the legal voters of said town shall choose by ballot, as provided by sec. ton six of this act two electors residing in each voting district of said town to be registrars oi voters for the year ensuing for their respective districts but no person shall vote for more than one of said registrars for each of said voting dis tricts, and the two persons having the highest number of votes for registrars of each district shall be declared elected; and said registrars shall at least three weeks before the day of hold ing any election for the choice of state, town and city odicers. as provided by section i've o{ thii act or for the choice of electors of President ant | Vice President of the United States, prepare list as nearly perfect as is practicable, of the names of all the electors who are entitled to vott at the ensuing election in the district for whicl said registrars are respectively elected, whicf names shall be alphabetically arranged, and op posite the same of each person in said list the name of the street in which he resides, and the number of his residence in said street. or it's loca tion therein as nearly as may be, shall be written and said lists shall be printed by said registrars in convenient form, and be circulated by them in their respective districts, and said registrars shall, in said printed lists, and by publishing ct least three days in all the daily papers publish cd in said town, give notice of the time when and the places where they will hold at least four meet ings within the twelve days next following the publication of said lists of voters, for the purpose of making any proper corrections by additions, ensures, or other alterations in said lists and one week before the day of holding either of said eIeCbiOuS Sdlu TeB1SLFdTb S0dll puUll9u COTTeCteu lists of all those who are already entisled to vote at said elections aud those who claim to said re- gistrars that they shall be legally entitled to be- come voters at the ensuing election, and that their legal qualifications will mature subsequent. ly to the completion of said corrected list, which last class of names shall be under the title "T To be made, :" and such registrars shall give copy of such corrected list to any elector asking for the same, and shall also deposite q certified copy of the same in the town clerks office one week before the day of such election.

 SEC l3. Whenever said registrars in the per- formance of their duties shall prior to the com. pletou of said corrected list, find any elecfor of this State residing in their respective districts, who may be entitled to vote in their respective districts and who claims to have been admitted an elector in sCme other town. and who shall pre- -ent to said registrars certificate from the town clerk of said town of that iact, said regis. trars shall, after having satisfied themselves Of the genuinenes of said certificate and the idefl- tity of the person claiming under the same, enter the name and residence of such elect0r on their respective lists. and add thereto the words By certificate from -,' (theren the town from which such electors certificate came J but the name of no elector shall be placed on such list u,less. in addition to proof that he is a legally qualified elector of this state, he shall also fur nish proof, if required, that he has, will ha ie, resided in said tOwn where said registrars reside, the period of four months immediately preceding the day of the ensuing election, which certificate Sudll ut Lhhcu uy sdlu IcSlStTdTe anu lVuSSu " them in the town clerks office. ssst- y-t

 SEC. IA Whenever said registrars shall, prior to the day for the completion of said COT rected list, refuse to place the name of any elector, or other person claiming, he will before the day of said election be qualified to become an elector entitled to vote at such electors town and city meetings, or whenever sail registrars shall, prior to the day for the completion of said list, erase the name of any person placed by them on said first list, then such person or elector may appeal <ho 4 aio nf aid sfp f1 of selectmen and town clerk and said registrars shall certify to said board the reasons of their making such erasure, or refusing to place such name on said list when said appeal is taken and said board shall, at some one or more of their meetings hereinafter provided for, proceed to ex- anime under oath such person or elector, and such other persons as may appear either in behalf or against his clai1s and if said e2ect0r or per son shall prove to the satisfaction of said board that his name was erased or omitted from said registry list by fraud clerical error, they may direct the registrars to add his name to said reg istry list i.....f,s ..sss74.gh. tuua aW

 SEC. Is. No person shall be entitled or allowed to vote for any officer or any electors meeting or at any election holden in said town as provid- ed by sectionlfve and six of this act, whose name is not the list in the district where he offers to vote, and said registrars shall not, on election day, add the name of any person to said corrected list upon proof that his name appeared upon the original list, and was omitted from said corrected list by fraud or clerical mistake.

 SEC. 16. It shall be the duty of each registrar immediately after his election, to appoint dep. uty registrar, whose name and appointment shall be deposited with the town clerk of said town of Bridgeport, and shall be by said town clerk recorded on the town records, at the end ot the record ot the town meeting at which said reg istrars were elected and in case said registrar shall from any cause be unable to perform the duties of his office, then the deputy registrar shall perform the duties of the office of registrar du- ring the time of the inability of the rssistrar t9