Year: 1861

SEU. 1L. lue TeSlsIfdTS dI4u lnSpeStoIs shall have the right to administer oaths or afiirmations, whenever, in the dis charge of any of the duties of their office, they or either of them shall deem 1t ne- cessary or proper to take the testimony of any person whatsoever regarding the right of any person to vote to be admin istered by the registrars and inspectors shall be as follows: You solemnly swear that concerning the matter now in ques- tlon, you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God" And the said registars and inspectors shall keep Q record of the names and residence and testimony of all persons to whom said oath or affirmation was administered; and any person who shall swear falsely before said registrars or inspectors shall be deemed to be guilty of the crime of perjury, and punished with the penalty thereof.

 SEC. 13. The registrars shall be at the voting place in the first district, and the inspectors shall be at their respective voting places in the second and third dis tricts, in each of the elections for state officers, presidential electors, and town officers, held during the year for which they were elected or appointed, to hear and decide any questions which may arise as to the rights of any person to vote in their respective voting districts prouided, that any elector whose claim to the right of voting is rejected by either of said in spectors, may apply to the registrars for review, and said registrars shall, on such review, if they find the applicant en- titled to vote, certify the same under their hands to the inspectors, who shall thereupon receive said vote. And on each of said elections each of said regis trars and inspectors shall appoint some suitable person or persons to check on the official registry list the names of all persons voting in their respective dis triots which list so checked shall have the whole number of names checked there on certified to by the registrars and in- spectors of the respective districts, and shall immediately after the closing of the polls, be deposited in the office of he town clerk, by whom they shall be safely kept, and be opened for the inspection of any elector; and if any person whose name is not on the registry list shall vote, or attempt to vote, at either of the elec- tions named in this act, on the name of any other person whose name is on said list, he shall pay Q fine of one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned one year in the county jail.

 SEC. l4. If any per son other than the registrars, except the inspectors on the days of election as aforesaid, shall make any alterations, by additions, ensures or otherwise, in the lists prepared by said registrars, or if the presiding of1icel of any town meeting in said town, or any person having charge of any ballot box i'll any voting district, at any election in said town, shall allow any person to de- posit his vote therein, whose name is not on the registry list, or shall refuse to al- low any person to vote whose name is on said list, without the assent of both of the registrars or inspectors of said d1s- trict, he shall be punished by fine not exceeding ono hundred dollars, or by inn prisonment in the county jail not exceed ing three months, or by such fine and i'm prisonment both; and it shall be the duty of either of the grand jurors of said town, and also the right of the person aggriev- ed, or of either of the registrars of said town, to forthwith prosecute any violation of this section.

 SEC. l5. Lewis B. Hart and William F. McGinley shall be registrars for the town ot Hartford, and shall continue in office until the next annual town election and until others are chosen and sworn in their places; and each of said registrars shall, on or before the 18th day of July, 1861, appoint deputy registrar, in accordance with the provisions of this act

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 gistrars, deputy registrars, and inspect ors, shall be fixed by the sclectmen of said town of Hartford; and all expenses incurred by the registrars for printing lists of voters, and all other necessary cx- penses incurred by them in tho discharge of their duties, shall be paid by the trea- surer of said town.

 SEC. 17. Tho selectmen and town clerk of said town of Hartford shall meot in said town, at such convenient place as they may appoint, on the Monday of tho third week preceding the week on which the annual state election, or the election for tho choice of electors of president and vice president of the United States shall be held. for the purpose of deciding upon all applications to be admitted to the pri- vileges of an elector, and shall continue in session for that purpose from ninc o. clock in the forenoon till five o'clock in the afternoon of said day, if so long a time be necessary, and may adjourn said meeting from time to time and place to place, as may be necessary, until the Thursday of the following week at nine o'clock in the forenoon, when they shall, at five o'clock in the afternoon of said Thursday, adjourn to Tuesday of the week preceding the day of election, for the pur- pose only of hearing and deciding upon all appeals that may then be made from the registrars; but any appeal that can be made at that time shall not be allowed to be made after that day, and no appeal shall be heard by the selectmen on the day of election, that might have been made prior to said last preceding meeting of the selectmen; and said selectmen shall, on said Tuesday, adjonrn to the hour of seven o'clock on the morning of election day, and shall then continue in session for the admission of electors, for two hours and no longer; prouided, that at said last session they shall not admit any person to the privileges of an elector ex- cept those whose names are on the cor rccted registry lists, as made out by the registrars under the title, "to be made" certified copies of which list shall be fur nished by said registrars to said select men.

 SEC. IS. It shall be the duty of the town clerk of said town to give to each of the persons who may be admitted to the privileges of an elector at said last men- tioned meeting of the selectmen and town clerk, certificate of his admission, which shall contain the name, residence, and number of the voting district wherein such person resides, and shall be deliver ed to the registrars of said district and the name and residence of such person shall be entered upon the registry list, before such person shall cast his ballot therein. All which said certificates shall be kept said registrars, record of the same be made by them, which said re- cords, together with the certificates, shall be lodged in the town clerks office, i'm medlately after said election, and be open to the inspection of any elector of said

 SEC. 19. When any person exhibits to the board of selectmen and town clerk, papers of naturalization, issued to him in due form by court having jurisdiction Ii said board is satifed of the genuineness of such papers, and that they were lssqea to the persons presenting them, they