A full copy of proposed amendment to be printed in the warrant. Publication by the secretary of the Common. wealth. 1889, 413, § 14. CHAPTER 124. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION AND POSTING OF Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Whenever a constitutional amendment is to be submitted to the people, the warrants for all meetings of voters at which a vote on the amendment is to be taken shall contain a copy of the proposed amendment, printed in full. SECT. 2. The secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause such proposed amendment to be published, in the manner provided for the publication of lists of nominations by section fourteen of chapter four hundred and thirty-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, or by any amendment heretofore or hereafter made thereto. He shall also cause the amendment to be printed in full with the heading, Proposed Constitutional Amendment, in large type, and copies thereof shall be sent to the registrars of voters and posted by them in the manner provided in the case of lists of candidates by said section fourteen, or by any amendment heretofore or hereafter made thereto. Copies thereof shall also be sent to the several City and town clerks and to the election officers of each voting place, and shall be posted at each voting shelf and about the 1889, 413, §§ 16, polling room, in the manner provided in the case of cards of instruction by sections sixteen, seventeen and eighteen of said act, or by any amendment heretofore or hereafter made thereto. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Copies to be sent to town clerks, etc., and to be posted at each voting shelf. 17, 18. Approved April 4, 1892. Examination of returns of elections in towns divided into voting pre cincts; correction of errors. CHAPTER 190. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE EXAMINATION AND CORRECTION Be it enacted, etc., as follows : SECTION 1. 1 The selectmen and clerk of each town divided into voting precincts shall forthwith after an election examine the returns made by the election officers of each precinct in such town, and if any error appears therein they shall forthwith notify said election officers thereof, who shall forthwith make 1 See 1890, 423, §§ 95, 108. a new and additional return, under oath, in conformity to truth, SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Returns. CHAPTER 224. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR RECOUNTING BALLOTS CAST IN Be it enacted, etc., as follows: ballots in towns of granting licenses for sale liquors. of intoxicating If within two days next following the day on which declara- Recount of tion is made of the result of the count of ballots cast in a town upon question upon the question of granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors, ten or more qualified voters in such town shall file with the town clerk a written statement that they have reason to believe that an error was made in ascertaining or declaring the result of the count of the ballots cast upon said question, the clerk shall forthwith transmit such statement to the moderator. The moderator shall thereupon, and within three days following the day on which such declaration was made, publicly recount said ballots and declare the result. If the recount does Certificate and not agree with the original count, the moderator shall forthwith count. file a certificate, signed by him, of the result of such recount, with the town clerk, who shall record the same in his book of records of town meetings, directly following his record of the meeting at which said ballots were cast; and the record of the. recount shall stand as the true result of the vote cast in such town upon said question. Approved April 29, 1892. record of re Grouping of names of presi dential electors on ballots, etc. 1889, 413, § 10. Marking for the purpose of voting, for an entire group; counting of marks. for part of a group. CHAPTER 279. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR VOTING FOR ELECTORS OF PRESI- Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The names of candidates for the offices of electors of president and vice president of the United States shall be arranged in groups, and shall be printed upon the ballots in two adjacent columns of equal width, with the name and place of residence of one of the candidates at large at the head of each column, and the names and places of residence, including the numbers of the congressional districts, of the other candidates following in the numerical order of said districts. The initial letters of the names of such candidates shall be in capitals not less than one eighth nor more than one quarter of an inch in height. The surnames of the candidates of each political party for the offices of president and vice president of the United States, with the party or political designation at the right of the names, shall be printed in one line at right angles with the length of the ballot, in capital letters not less than three sixteenths of an inch in height, above the respective groups of candidates for electors. There shall be left at the right of the party or political designation a sufficient clear margin or square in which each voter may designate by a cross mark [X] his choice for electors; and no other clear margin or space shall be left in any such group of candidates. Such groups of candidates shall be arranged in the alphabetical order of the surnames of the candidates nominated for president. There shall be left at the end of such groups of candidates as many blank spaces as there are persons to be elected to the offices of electors. 1 SECT. 2. 1A voter who desires to vote for an entire group of candidates for electors shall place a cross mark [×] in the square at the right of the party or political designation immediately above such group, and such cross mark [X] shall count as a vote for all the candidates in such group. If a voter does not desire to vote for a candidate in a group for which he marks, he may erase the name of such candidate, and the cross mark [X] shall count as a vote for all of the other candidates in such group. 1 See 1889, 413, § 26. names; marking of voting for whose names When a voter desires to vote for another person, in place of a Inserting candidate whose name he has erased, he may insert in one of for the purpose the blank spaces at the end of the groups of candidates for candidates electors the name of the person of his choice, and place a cross are inserted. mark [X] in the square at the right of such name; if the name erased is that of a candidate at large the other name must be inserted in one of the unnumbered blank spaces, otherwise in the blank space having the same number as the name erased. A voter who does not mark for any group of candidates may vote for one or for several candidates for electors by inserting a name or names in one or more of the blank spaces at the end of the groups of electors, and placing a cross mark [X] in the square at the right of each name. 1The marks against names Counting of inserted in the blank spaces shall be counted as now provided by law, Approved May 9, 1892. CHAPTER 316. AN ACT RELATING TO CARDS OF INSTRUCTIONS AND SPECIMEN Be it enacted, etc., as follows: marks against names inserted. 2 The cards of instructions and specimen ballots for state and Sending of cards and specicity elections shall be sent in separate packages, with the sealed men ballots. packages of ballots furnished for the use of voters. The pre- Posting. siding or senior election officer present shall cause such cards and specimen ballots to be posted before the opening of the polls on the day of election. Approved May 19, 1892. CHAPTER 332. AN ACT TO SECURE GREATER SECRECY OF THE BALLOT WHEN Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. No election officer, or officer whose duty it may be to recount the votes cast at any election, shall make any statement or give any information in regard to a ballot deposited by a challenged voter at any election, except as required by law. No person other than said officers shall make any statement or give any information in regard to any ballot cast by a challenged voter at any election. 1 See 1889, 413, § 26. 2 See 1889, 413, §§ 16, 17, 18. Penalties. SECT. 2. Whoever violates any provision of this act shall be punished by fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the jail for not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Approved May 31, 1892. Certain words defined. Qualifications of male voters. Amend. Const., arts. 3, 20, 23, 26, 28, 30, 31, 32. Proviso. CHAPTER 351. AN ACT RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Unless otherwise clearly apparent from the context of this act, the following words shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them: - First. The words "state election" shall mean any election held for the choice of a national, state, district or county officer, whether for a full term or for the filling of a vacancy. Second. The words "city election" shall mean any election held in a city for the choice of mayor, aldermen or other officers of the city, whether for a full term or for the filling of a vacancy, or for the transaction of city affairs. Third. The words "town election" shall mean any meeting held in a town for the election of any selectman or other officer of a town, whether for a full term or for the filling of a vacancy, or for the transaction of town affairs. Fourth. The word "registrars" shall mean the board of registrars of voters of a city or town. Fifth. The word " assessors shall mean the assessors of taxes of a city or town. Sixth. When the words "registrars" and "assessors", or any two of them, are used in the same section, they shall mean of the same town or city. SECT. 2. Every male citizen who had the right to vote on the first day of May of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and every other male citizen, not a pauper or person under guardianship, who, not being prevented by physical disability from so doing, is able to read the constitution in the English language and write his name, and who is twenty-one years of age or upward, and who shall have resided within the state one year and within the city or town in which he may claim a right to vote six months next preceding any state, city or town election, shall have the right to vote in every such election in such city or town: provided, however, that no person whose name is |