Year: 1867

Der or members present. All persons apPoin'eu
to fill vacancies shall before entering upon their
duties take the proper oath of office. Act OF
March 81, 1866, s2.]


49, In order to provide more fully for filing
vacancies which may occur either in the Board
of Registration or the Board of Judges OF Elec-
tions by temporary disability or absence OF the
Clerk or either of the Judges of Elections, the
Board of Supervisors of each county, by an Or
der to be duly entered on the records, snail ap-
point for each precinct therein, from among the
qualified electors of the election district, and 10
hold office for two years, unless sooner removed
or superseded by said Board not less than three
nor more than five alternates, to be designated
in such appointment as first, second, third,
fourth, and fifth alternate, according to the
number appointed each to have and take pre-
cedence accordingly in filling any such vacancy
as aforesaid. At any stated meeting required
by law to be held by the Board of Registration,
and at the polls on election days, the place OF
any member of the Board of Registration or
Board of Judges of Elections who shall be alb
sent may be filled by one of the said alternates,
each taking precedence, if more than one be
present and offer to serve in any vacancy, ac-
cording to the aforesaid number and precedence
designated in their appointment. The mode of
filling vacancies prescribed in the preceding Sec
tion two, and that prescribed in the thirty-ninth
section of the Registry Act, shall apply only to
such vacancies as may exist when there IS no
alternate present and consenting to supply it.
Every alternate before officiating in place of
member of the Board shall take the same oath of
Office as is required of such member. The pro-
visions of this section shall not be deemed to
modify or interfere with those of the fourteenth
section of the Registry Act about permanently
filling vacancies in the cases therein mentioned
Act of March 81, 1866, g..


Sec. 20. No person shall be allowed to vote
except at the polls held in the election district
where he resides nor unless his name is en-
rolled on the poll list where he offers his vote in
such district, for local or representative Of
fcers, unless he shall have had his residence for
thirty days next preceding within the terrific
rial limits prescribed for the election of such Of
fcers. If any person enrolled on the poll list
whose vote shall be objected to on the day of
election by any qualified eector, shall be proved
to the satisfaction of the Board of Judges, either
by his own oath or by the oath of any other
qualified elector and householder of the district
or by other clear and competent evidence, not to
be legally qualified and entitled to be enrolled
on said poll list, or if it be proved as aforesaid
that he is enrolled on more than one poll list
when he offers his vote, or otherwise not legally
qualified to vote at such election, his vote shall
be rejected. The Board of Judges and Board of
Registration and each member and officer there
Of shall cause to be carefully taken down and





all the affidavits and brief statement or record
of the substance of the oral testimony taken be-
fore them or either of them, either in relation
to the right and qualification of any person to
vote, or to have his name enrolled on the poll
list.


l49. At all elections the polls shall be opened
at eight o'clock in the morning, and shall con-
tinue open until sunset, at which time the Judges
shall close the polls provided, that the Judges
of the Election may take recess of one hour
at any time they may think proper during the
day before three o'clock in the afternoon.
amendment, April 26, 1851. 90, p. 1901


14O. The Board of Judges, before they COM
receiving ballots, shall cause it to be pro-
claimed aloud at the place of voting that the
polls are opened. Act March %, 1850, S23,
p. 101.


Isl. The voting shall be by ballot The bal
lot shall be a paper ticket containing the names
of the persons Tor whom the elector intends to
vote, and designating the Office to which each
person named is intended by him to be chosen
[Act March %, 1850, S24.


l52. Whenever any person presents himself at
the polls and offers to vote at any Election au-
thorized by law, the Clerk of Elections or one
of the Judges shall pronounce his name in an
audible voice, so that it may be distinctly heard
by the other Judges and the Clerks present, and
if his name be found enrolled on the poll list,
and his vote be not rejected on objection made
and proofs taken for one or more OF the causes
prescribed in section twenty-nne OF the Registry
Act, shall receive his ballot, and in the presence
of the other Judges put the same, without being
opened or examined, into the ballot box. Act
March 81, 1866, a..


l53 The Board of Judges of Elections, and
each officer and member thereof, shall have
power in the discharge of their or his functions,
to administer oaths and take and certify aifida-
Wits, and to examine on oath any person touch
ing such right or qualifications of any other per-
son and the vote of every person shall be re-
jected who shall refuse to be sworn or to answer
any pertinent questions touching his own right
and qualifications to vote as aforesaid and any
person refusing to be sworn or to answer any
pertinent questions affecting the right and quail
fications of any other person to vote, when law
fully required by said Board of Judges, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor. Act March
81, 1866, S5.]


l54. At every election, and at each precinct,
the Board of Judges of Elections shall cause to
be kept, separately and distinct from the poll list,
list of all persons who shall have actually
voted at such election, on which list shall be set
down the name of all voters successfully as soon
as they shall have been admitted to vote and
their ballots have been received, the names be-
ing numbered with successive numbers placed
at the left hand, and placing in column direct
lv opposite and to the right of each name the
proper number prehxed to such name as 1t stands
enrolled on the poll list. This list shall be
known as the 20 List of Voters" and shall be at
tached to the duplicate poll list with the talies
and other papers constituting and known in law
as the Election Returns to be returned to the
County Clerk of the county in which the election
is held as now provided by law; provided, that
the State Board of Registry shall have power to
dispense with this list, if in the judgment of
said Board it should be found unnecessary and
inconvenient in practice. Act March 81, 1866,
&c.


l55. Ii the vote of any person be challenged
on the ground that he has been convicted of an
infamous crime, or disfranchised by any Court
of competent jurisdiction, he shall not be requir-
ed to answer any questions respecting such al
legged conviction and in the absence Of any au-
thenticated record of such facts, it may be COM
petent for two disnterested witnesses upon oath
to prove the same. Act March %, 1850, S3l,
p. 1O1.


156. When the polls are closed, proclamation
thereof shall be made at the place Of voting, and
no votes shall be afterwards received. fSame
Act, S32.1


OF COUNTING, cAyvAssryG, RESULT MAKING
lxruRNs AsD GIVING CERTIFICATES OF xIxc11oN
l57. As soon ss the polls are closed on the af-