Section 6. Any person claiming the right to register Challenges. may be challenged by a registrar or by any elector of the precinct or ward. Any person so challenged shall answer the questions of the challenge affidavit, as herein specified; and after his answers have been re corded, he shall sign and swear, or affirm, to their truth. He shall also make affidavit, at the same time, of the truth of his answers as recorded in the registers, and which he shall be deemed to have examined or had read to him. The affidavits of all persons so registered shall, at the close of each day of registration, be numbered and filed. The challenge affidavit shall be in the following form:

What is your full name?

Are you married or single?

If married, where does your family reside?

If single, where do your parents reside?

Where did you actually reside immediately prior to
taking up your present residence? ...

Give your residences for the last four months,
What is the name of your present employer?

Where is his place of business?

What is the name of your last employer?

Where is, or was, his place of business?

Have you read, or had read to you, the information
given by you as recorded in the register?. . . . . . . . .
I, the undersigned, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I have read, or had read to me, the information re-
corded opposite my name in the register of the ...
precinct of the ...... ward, on page ..... and that
said information, as well as that recorded in this affi-
davit, is the truth.

this

and subscribed,
.. day of

Registrar.

190...

(Signature of applicant).

Registrars' Description of Applicant.

Distinguishing marks,

Other peculiarities,

Color of hair,

Registrars.

Further proof.

Naturalization

papers.

Striking of names from list.

Transfer of names.

Watchers.

The challenged applicant shall produce such further proof as the law requires challenged persons to produce on election day, and it shall be the duty of the registrars to require it before permitting him to be registered. All persons claiming the right to vote by reason of naturalization shall be required to produce the proper naturalization papers, or a certified copy thereof, before they shall be registered; but no such person shall be required to produce his papers a second time in the same precinct or ward, unless he is challenged. Whenever the applicant is rejected, after a portion of the record has been filled in, a line shall be drawn through the record already made, and the registrars shall note on said line the reason for the rejection, and shall add their initials thereto.

Section 7. On the registration day preceding the February election, the registrars shall, in addition to the registration of electors, strike from the list the names of such persons as shall be proven, to their satisfaction, by the affidavits of at least two qualified electors of the precinct or ward, to have died, or removed from the district, since the last registration. If, between the November and February elections, the applicant has moved from one precinct or ward into another, it shall be his right to be registered in the precinct or ward to which he has thus removed; but in such case the registrars shall certify the fact of his new registration back to the registrars of the precinct or ward in which he was formerly registered, and the registrars of the district shall thereupon cancel his name upon the registers.

Section 8. 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 precinct or 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 Duties and powers allowed in the registry place at any one time. Each watcher shall be provided with a certificate from the County Commissioners, 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.

of watchers.

Challenges.

Presence of electors.

Comparison and correction of registers.

Section 9. 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 10. At the end of each day's registration the registrars shall 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. The registrars shall then sign their initials,
on the line immediately under the last names regis-
tered, under each letter, in both books, together with
the date. At the close of both Fall and Winter regis-
trations, the registrars shall sign a certificate, the Certificate.
form of which shall be printed on the last page of the
registers, setting forth the number of persons regis-
tered on each day, and the number of names which
have been stricken out, if any.

Section 11. 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
County Commissioners, setting forth the ground of his
complaint, within ten days. If the complaint is to the complaints.
acceptance of a claim, notice to the claimant shall be
given by leaving a written or printed notice at his
place of residence, as given by him to the registrars
and recorded on the registers. When such petitions
are filed the County Commissioners shall fix a time
and place for hearing them, sufficiently in advance of Hearing.
the election to enable the same to be heard and dis-
posed of prior thereto, and to have a review thereof
by the courts. Such hearing shall be public, before
the County Commissioners, and the registers of voters
may be amended, either by the insertion of a new name
or the cancellation of a name already on the registers,
or otherwise, as the County Commissioners may order.
The County Commissioners may enforce their orders
as herein provided, or may make the amendments
themselves or by their clerks. All such applications
for correcting the registers must be made not later
that ten days prior to an election.

Amendment of register.

The applicant, or any elector who is not satisfied with the decision of the County Commissioners, may petition the court of common pleas, setting forth the Petition. 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 deci- Appeal. sion of the County Commissioners. And the said court, after a public hearing, may reverse, affirm, or alter the decision of the County Commissioners. Said appeals must be made not later than five days pre ceding an election.

Hearing.

supplies.

Section 12. The registrars shall obtain, at the office of County Commissioners, the blank books, forms and Books, forms and other supplies prepared for their use, before the first registration day, and shall have the same at the polling-place on the said day. On registration days, and during the time from one such day to another, until the close of the registration period, the said registrars shall have the custody and control, and shall be charged with the safe-keeping, of the registers in

custody and control of registers,

etc.

Delivery to commissioners.

Duty of registrars.

trars.

Printing and delivery of registers, blanks, etc.

which they have made entries, together with all affidavits, forms, &c., which have been taken in duplicate, as herein before provided. At the close of the registration, and before twelve o'clock noon of the following day, the registrars shall deliver the registers, together with all affidavits, vouchers, unused forms, &c., to the office of the County Commissioners; and the said papers shall remain there on file, open 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 February election, the said registrars shall obtain from 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-place, for use on the registration day; and, as before, shall be charged with the safe-keeping, and return of said records before noon of the day following the registration day.

The County Commissioners of each county, upon Payment of regis- proper vouchers, shall provide for the payment of the registrars provided by this act. They shall furnish proper rooms for the accommodation of themselves and their records. They shall also prepare and have printed, at the expense of the county, all the registers, affidavits, blanks. blank books, and stationery required by the provisions of this act, or which are reasonably necessary to carry out its provisions, and shall provide for their proper distribution to the 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 registers 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.

Polling-places.

Right of franchise.

Proviso.

Duty of voters.

Use of registers at elections.

Section 13. Any person whose name is on the registers shall be entitled to vote at any general, special or 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.

The two registers shall be used at elections by the

election officers, in the place of the ballot check list and the voting check list. One of the said registers

shall be marked "ballot check list," and the other Ballot check list. shall be marked "voting check list." After the polls Voting check list. are closed the names checked as having voted, in the

etc.

said two registers, shall be immediately counted, and Counting of vote, the 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 County Commissioners when the ballotbox and other election returns are delivered to the proper officers.

ment.

Section 14. Any wilful false statement made, un- Wilful false stateder oath, by any person, in relation to any matter or thing concerning which he shall be lawfully interrogated by the registrars, shall be perjury, and any Perjury. 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 Penalty. both, in the discretion of the court.

A registrar who intentionally registers, or permits Registrars. 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, 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, in Penalty. the discretion of the court.

False representation or persona

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 tion. who knowingly offers false naturalization papers or a fraudulent tax receipt to establish his claim to be registered, and any person who aids or abets another in any such application or personations, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced for every such offense 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.

tration.

A registrar who inserts, or intentionally permits Unlawful registo 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 wilfully and maliciously alters any registry list after the entry has been duly made, except upon an order of the court or of the County Commissioners; or who makes an entry or alteration therein at any time other than during the hours of