Year: 1865

sage, Is now ilIntcu III ltS operation 10 elcctioh
districts rhich are not included, and no part Of
rhich are included mihn the boundaries Of any city
or incorporated rilage. 1t applies to election
districts which are purely rural and there it is
in full force.


1t is in those districts, and in those only, where
the elector who has been out Of town on the
days when the Registers held their meetings
or who was i'll on those days, or
whose wife was sick on those days, or whose
family was i'll, and who was unknown to the
Registers, and whose name did not therefore
become inserted in the list, can make affidavit
to the existing state of facts on The day the eec-
ton is held and rote In all other districts in the
State, (uness the electors name is added to the
list on the first day, when it is made as COM
plete as practicable), the person who desires to
vote must appear in person before the Board.


Boards of Registry throughout the State in all
election districts hold their first meeting on
Tuesday, three weeks before the election this
year on Tuesday, the Eth day Of October.


The poll-list used at the preceding general
election is to be procured from the town clerk :
office, and is to be made as complete as practl-
cable by adding to it the names Of all persons
who are known to the Board to be legal voters
in the election district; the names OF known
qualified voters who have moved into the DIS
trct since the last preceding general election;
Young men who have arrived at the age OF
twenty-one years since the last election; known
qualified electors who voted at the last preced-
ing town meeting, but who did not vote at the
general election preceding; the names OF per-
sons represented in either Of these classes, and
the names of all persons who are known to be
legal voters should be added and the list COM
pleted as far as practicable. The Board remain
in session two days, if at the preceding general
election there were four hundred voters in the
election district.


Within two days after the adjournment of
the first meeting, the original preliminary list
and the poll-list of the preceding election, are
to be filed in the town clerks Office One
copy is TO be conspicuously posted in the room
where the meeting was held, and one copy is to
be kept by each inspector for use on the subse-
quent days of meeting.


The second meeting (and there are but two
meetings provided for under the old law which
is now in force only in election districts no
part of which is included within the boundaries
of city or incorporated village) is to be held
on Tuesday, one week before the day OF the
general election. The meeting IL to be open,
and all persons residing and entitled TO vote in
the district are entitled to be heard in relation
to corrections Of or additions TO the register.
One of the lists made at the first meeting,
copy of which was filed with the town clerk
and another copy posted in the room where the
first meeting was held, is to be used at the
second meeting for making corrections thereto
or additions thereon. At the second meeting,
the name of any person on the register, proved
by the oath of two legal voters of the district,
to the satisfaction of the inspectors to be nom
resident or otherwise not entitled TO vote
therein, at the then next election, must be
erased. ANY elector of the district who may
appear before the Board at the second meeting,
may if he require land be unchallenged, have
his name added TO the list If he be challenged
by member Of the Board, or by any eector of
the district whose name is on the preliminary
register, then he must unless the challenge be
withdrawn also take the oaths required by the
former election laws in cases Of challenge at the
polls.


Within three days after the adjournment of
the second meeting, the Board are to make four
copies of the completed register, certify 10 each,
file one with the town clerk, and each inspector
retain one copy for use on election day.


Election day, at the polls, all persons whose
names are on the register of electors are liable
to be challenged, and must, thereupon, take
the oaths required by the general election laws.
GENERAL PROVISIONS STATE CONSTITUTION


AND UNITED STATES LAWS.


The State Constitution Cart. 2, sec. y pro-
vides that Every male citizen of the age Of
twenty-one years, who shall have been citi.
zen for ten days, and an inhabitant of the State
one year next preceding an election, and Tor
the last four months resident OF the county
where he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to
vote at such election, in the election district of
which he shall at the time be a resident, and
not elsewhere, for all officers that now are, or
may hereafter be, elective by the people; but
such citizen shall have been for thirty days
next preceding the election resident of the
district from which the officer is to be chosen
for whom he offers his vote"


ALIENS ADMITTED TO CITIZENSHIP.


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