Transfer of names.

Duty of commissioners.

Watchers.

Duties and powers of watchers.

Challenges.

Presence of electors.

Comparison and correction of the registers.

Certificate.

Street lists

trict in the same city, to strike said name from the register of said district of prior residence, and to note thereon the reason for so removing the name. At any time between the November election and the next registration day any registered elector who has removed from one election district to another in the same city, sixty days prior to the February election, may apply at the office of the commissioners and have the registry of his name transferred from the district from which he has removed to the one in which he has taken up his new residence. It shall be the duty of the commissioners, upon satisfactory proof of the elector's identity, to strike his name from the register in the district from which he has removed, to examine him in the regular way as to his qualifications, and, if his answers are satisfactory, to register him in the district to which he has removed.

Section 11. Parties or bodies of electors, who now are, or hereafter may be, entitled to have watchers at the general election, shall be allowed to appoint not more than three electors of the ward to act as watchers in each place of registry, without expense to the county, on each registration day. No more than one watcher from such party shall be allowed in the regis try place at any one time. Each watcher shall be provided with a certificate from the county commission ers, stating his name and the party or policy he represents. Watchers shall be entitled to be present during all of the public sessions herein provided for, and shall be required to show their certificates when requested to do so. They shall have the power to challenge.

Section 12. No more than six electors, other than the registrars and the watchers herein provided for. shall be allowed in the registry-room at any one time. Section 13. At the end of each day's registration the registrars sball compare the two registers, so kept. and cause any errors in either of them to be corrected by aid of the entries in the other, so as to make the same agree, where there is any difference between them. All of the registrars shall then sign their initials on the line immediately under the last names registered, under each letter, in both books, together with the date. At the close of both Fall and Winter registrations, the registrars shall sign a certificate. the form of which shall be printed on the last page of the register, setting forth the number of persons registered on each day, and the number of names which have been stricken out, if any.

Section 14. The two registrars who have not charge of the registers shall, at both registrations, prepare two "street lists" of all names which are registered. These lists shall contain the names of the electors and

their addresses, in the order in which their residences appear upon the streets of the district.

Display and

One of said street lists shall be hung outside of the polling-place, and shall remain in that position printing of lists. until the next election. The other shall be returned to the office of the commissioners, and at least one hundred exact copies of it shall be printed in pamphlet form, and shall be ready for distribution at least three weeks before election day.

Section 15. If any citizen shall object to the action of the registrars in accepting or rejecting any claim for registration, he may file his petition with the commissioners, setting forth the ground of his complaint. If the complaint is to the acceptance of a claim, notice complaints. to the claimant shall be given by leaving a written or printed notice at his place of residence, as given by him to the registrar and recorded in the register. When such petitions are filed the commissioners shall Hearing. fix a time and place for hearing them, sufficiently in advance of the election to enable the same to be heard and disposed of prior thereto, and to have a review thereof by the courts. Such hearing shall be public, before the commissioners, and the register of voters

may be amended, either by the insertion of a new Amendment of name or the cancellation of a name already on the register. register, or otherwise, as the commissioners may order. The commissioners may enforce their orders as herein provided, or may make the amendments themselves or by their clerks. All such applications for correcting the register must be made not later than ten days prior to an election.

The applicant, or any elector who is not satisfied with the decision of the commissioners, may petition Petition. the court of common pleas, setting forth the reasons why he feels that injustice has been done, and thereupon the said court of common pleas may, in its discretion, allow an appeal to it from the decision of the commissioners. And the said court, after a public hearing, may reverse, affirm, or alter the decision of Hearing. the commissioners. Said appeals must be made not later than five days preceding an election.

Appeals.

Any qualified elector who was too ill to appear at Illness or absence the polling place on any of the registration days, who of elector. was unavoidably absent from the county on said days, may present his petition to the commissioners any time, up to two weeks before the general election, setting forth the facts of his illness or unavoidable absence, and setting forth in detail the information required to be recorded in the register, and praying that his name may be added to the register in the proper division. After this petition shall have re- Petition. mained in the office of the commissioners, open to public inspection, for at least five days, a hearing shall Hearing.

Order.

Challenge.

Appeals.

supplies.

Custody and control of registers. etc.

Custody of street lists.

be granted; the petitioner shall personally appear, and if the facts are proven, to the satisfaction of the com missioners, to be as reported, they shall order the name of the petitioner to be inserted on the register. in the proper place. This hearing shall be public; and any qualified elector shall have the right to challeng and to require proper proof of identity or the signing of the challenge affidavit, and in the case of registry before the registrars. If any person is not satisfied with the decision of the commissioners, he may appeal to the court of common pleas, as in other cases.

Section 16. The two registrars designated to keep the two registers shall obtain, at the office of the Books, forms and county commissioners, the blank books, forms and other supplies prepared for their use, before the first registration day, and shall have the same at the poll ing-place on said day. On registration days, and dur ing the time from one such day to another, until th close of the registration period, the two said regis trars shall have the custody and control, and shall be charged with the safe-keeping, of the registers in which they have made entries, together with all affi davits, forms, et cetera, which have been taken in duplicate, as hereinbefore provided. During the same periods, the other two registrars shall be charged with the safe-keeping of the street lists which are in course of preparation by them. At the close of the registration, and before twelve o'clock noon of the fol lowing day, the two registrars who have been charged with the keeping of the registers shall deliver the same, together with one street list, all affidavits vouchers, unused forms, et cetera, to the registratier commissioners, at such place as may be designate by them. The said papers and books shall remain or file at a place designated by the commissioners, oper to public inspection, under proper regulations for their safe-keeping; subject, however, to the further provisions of this act. On the Saturday or Monday prior to the fourth Tuesday preceding the Februar election, the said two registrars shall obtain fro said office, each, the register kept by him, together with a sufficient number of blank forms and other supplies, and shall have the same at the polling plac for use on the registration day; and, as before, sha be charged with the safe-keeping and return of se records and of one street list, before noon of the da following the registration day.

Delivery of registers, etc., to commissioners.

Shall remain on file.

Duty of registrars,

Payment of commissioners. registrars, clerks, etc.

Clerical assistance and rooms.

The county commissioners of each county, up proper vouchers, shall provide for the payment of th commissioners, registrars and other officers or clers provided by this act. They shall provide such cleric assistance for the commissioners as may be reason ably necessary, and shall furnish proper rooms f the accommodation of themselves and their records

They shall also, at the direction of the commissioners, prepare and have printed, at the expense of the county, all the registers, street lists, affidavits, blanks, blank books, and stationery required by the provi sions of this act, or which are reasonably necessary to carry out its provisions, and shall provide for their proper distribution to the commissioners and their registrars. It shall also be their duty to see that the polling-places are open and in proper order for the use of the registrars. They shall also deliver the two reg. isters to the election officers, in the manner in which they are or may be required to deliver other election materials for use on election day.

Right of fran

Proviso.

Section 17. Any person whose name is on the regis ter shall be entitled to vote at any general, special or chise. municipal election, unless it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the election officers that he is no longer a resident of the election district in which he is registered: Provided, That if a special election shall intervene between registration day and the next general or municipal election, the presence of the name of an elector on the list shall only be prima facie evidence of his right to vote. If his name is not registered he shall not be entitled to vote at any election. Before receiving his ballot every voter shall satisfy the election officers of his identity, and, if challenged, by signing his name in the place provided for that purpose, if able to do so, and by the production of such other evidence as is or may be required by law.

Duty of voters.

Ballet check list.

Voting check list

The two registers shall be used at elections by the election officers, in the place of the ballot check list Use of registers. and the voting check list. One of the said registers shall be marked "ballot check list," and the other shall be marked "voting check list." After the polls are closed the names checked as having voted, in the said two registers, shall be immediately counted, and the Counting of vote, result announced before the ballot-box is opened. The two registers shall then be immediately sealed up in an envelope, and shall be returned to the custody of the commissioners when the ballot-box and the other election returns are delivered to the proper officers.

etc.

Disobedience.

Misdemeanor.

Penalty.

Section 18. Any person who wilfully disobeys a lawful order of the commissioners shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. Any wilful false statement made under oath, by any person, in relation to any matter or thing concerning which he shall be lawfully interrogated by wilful the registrars or by the commissioners, shall be perjury; and any person, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

false

statement. Perjury.

Penalty.

Registrars.

Misdemeanor.

Penalty.

False representation or personation.

Misdemeanor.

Penalty.

Illegal registration.

Misdemeanor.

Penalty.

Election officers.

Misdemeanor.

Penalty.

Refusal to perform duty.

Misdemeanor.

Penalty.

A registrar who intentionally registers, or permits to be registered, a person not lawfully entitled to be registered, or who intentionally refuses to register a person lawfully entitled to be registered, or who intentionally assists in preventing such person from being registered, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both, at the discretion of the court.

A person who applies for registration knowing that he is not entitled to be registered, or who falsely personates another in an application for registration, or who knowingly offers false naturalization papers or a fraudulent tax recepit to establish his claim to be registered, or who personates another, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced for every such offence to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding three years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

A registrar who inserts, or intentionally permits to be inserted, a name on the registry list without a proper application in person, during the hours of registration, on a registration day, on the part of the person registered, or without requiring the proper evidence of the right of the applicant to be registered; or who alters any registry list after the entry has been duly made, except upon an order of the court or of the commissioners; or who makes any entry therein at any time other than during the hours of registration, and in the presence of the other registrars; shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

Any election officer who refuses the vote of a registered elector, except on satisfactory evidence that he has since registration become disqualified under the laws of this Commonwealth, or who knowingly accepts the vote of a person not registered in accordance with the provisions of this act, or who knowingly receives a vote from a person falsely claiming to be a registered voter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

Any commissioner, registrar or other officer, upon whom a duty is laid by this act, who shall wilfully refuse to perform his said duty shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand