termination of such claim, upon the notice prescribed in the preceding sections of this chapter, in which he shall give notice to parties interested of the time and place of the hearing of such claims. Sec. 2. Repeal.-That Sections 1382, 1384 and 1386 of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913 as the same heretofore existed be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved, April 20, 1917. CHAPTER 28. (Senate File No. 41.) [Introduced by Mr. Neal.] AN ACT to amend Section 1577, Revised Statutes of 1913, relating to custody of children in suits for divorce, and to repeal said original section. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Amendment. That Section 1577, Revised Statutes of 1913, is hereby amended to read as follows: 1577 Sec. 38. Divorce custody of children.-Upon pronouncing a sentence or decree of nullity of a marriage and also upon decreeing a divorce, whether from the bonds of matrimony or from bed and board, the court may make such further decree as it shall deem just and proper concerning the care, custody, and maintenance of the minor children of the parties, and may determine with which of the parents the children or any of them shall remain. In case no decree of divorce or nullity is granted, the court may award the custody, care and maintenance of minor children in such manner as shall seem advisable. Sec. 2. Repeal. That said original Section 1577, Revised Statutes of 1913, is hereby repealed. Approved, April 20, 1917. AN ACT to amend Section 1690, Revised Statutes of 1913, and to repeal said original section. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Amendment. That Section 1690, Revised Statutes of 1913, is hereby amended to read as follows: 1690 Sec. 151. Sale of real estate by guardian-bond.Every guardian licensed to sell real estate, as aforesaid, shall, before the sale, give bond to the judge of the district court with sufficient surety or sureties, to be approved by such judge or the clerk of said district court, with condition to sell the same in the manner prescribed by law for sale of real estate by executors and administrators, and to account for and dispose of the proceeds of the sale in the manner provided by law. Sec. 2. Repeal.-That Section 1690, Revised Statutes of 1913, is hereby repealed. Approved, April 11, 1917. CHAPTER 30. (House Roll No. 222.) [Introduced by Messrs. Norton and Senator Sandall.] AN ACT relating to elections: To amend section 1940, Revised Statutes of 1913, relating to qualifications of voters, and to repeal said original section; and to provide for separate ballots and ballot boxes for female voters. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Repeal.-That Section 1940, Revised Statutes of 1913, is hereby amended to read as follows: 1940 Sec. 2. Elections-qualification of electors-woman suffrage. Every person of the age of twenty-one years or upwards shall be an elector, and shall have the right to vote for all officers to be elected to public office, and upon all questions and propositions submitted to the voters, at any and all elections, authorized or provided for by the constitution or laws of Nebraska Provided, however, that no female person shall be permitted to vote for United States Senator, United States Representative, or for any officers specified and designated in the constitution of Nebraska, or upon any question or proposition submitted to the voters, the manner of the submission of which is specified and designated in the constitution of Nebraska. No person shall be qualified to vote at any election unless such person shall have resided in the state six months, in the county forty days and in the precinct, township, or ward ten days, and shall be a citizen of the United States, or shall be a person of foreign birth who shall have declared his or her intention to become a citizen, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, at least thirty days prior to such election. Sec. 2. Repeal. That separate ballots and ballot boxes shall be provided for female electors. Such ballots shall contain the names of the candidates, and the questions and propositions submitted, as female electors may vote for and upon. The ballots cast by female electors shall be counted and canvassed with and in the same manner as the ballots of male electors. Sec. 3. That said original Section 1940, Revised Statutes of 1913, is hereby repealed. Approved, April 21, 1917. CHAPTER 31. (House Roll No. 198.) [Introduced by Messrs. Dafoe and Taylor.] AN ACT to amend Sections 1954 and 1966, Revised Statutes of 1913, relating to terms of county officers, and to repeal said original sections. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Amendment. That Sections 1954 and 1966 Revised Statutes of 1913 be amended to read as follows: Ch. 31) County Officers-Election 97 1954 Sec. 115. County officers when elected. In each county there shall be elected in the year nineteen hundred eighteen and every second year thereafter one county judge, for the term of two years, and in every county there shall be elected in the year nineteen hundred eighteen and every fourth year thereafter, one sheriff, one county treasurer, one county clerk, one county surveyor, one county attorney, and one county superintendent of public instruction, for the term of four years. And at the general election in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen and every four years thereafter a register of deeds shall be elected in and for each county having a population of sixteen thousand inhabitants or more, to be ascertained by the census of 1910, and each state and national census thereafter, who shall give bond, with sufficient sureties thereon, to be approved by the county board, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties; and such register of deeds shall have all the powers and perform all the duties relative to all papers, writings and instruments pertaining to real estate heretofore enjoined by law upon county clerks and shall receive the compensation allowed by law therefor. 1966 Treasurer ineligible for third term.-A county treasurer shall be ineligible to office for more than two consecutive terms. Sec. 2. Repeal.-That Sections 1954 and 1966, Revised Statutes of 1913 are hereby repealed. Approved, April 11, 1917. CHAPTER 32. (House Roll No. 107.) [Introduced by Messrs. Axtell, Bates, Behrens, Conley, Good, Jacobson, Lampert, Leidigh, Lemar, Mears, Neff, Parkinson Taylor, Hostetler, Harris, Scudder, Fults, Doty, and McMullen.] AN ACT to amend sections 1971, 1972, 2008, 2010, 2039, 2063, 2064, 2065 and 2075, Revised Statutes for 1913, to provide for a double election board in certain precincts, to regulate elections therein, and repeal said original sections. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. Amendment. That Sections 1971, 1972, 2008, 2010, 2039, 2063, 2064, 2065 and 2075, Revised Statutes for 1913, are hereby amended to read as follows: 1971 Elections election boards number term. The clerk of the district court, except in counties having an election commissioner, of each county shall, at least fifteen days prior to the primary election of each general election, appoint three judges and two clerks of election in each election precinct in the county. In precincts where more than one hundred votes were polled at the last general election, the said clerk of the district court shall, in the same manner, appoint three additional judges and two clerks to be known as the election counting board. Each of such appointees shall be of good character, approved integrity, well informed, able to read, write and speak the English language, and shall have resided in the election precinct in which he is to serve for one year next preceding his appointment, be entitled to vote therein, and shall hold office for a term of two years. 1972 Same-how selected. The judges and clerks provided for in the next preceding section shall be selected from a list of names to be furnished by the chairman of the county central committees of the various political parties within the county, which lists shall be submitted to the clerk of the district court at least twenty days prior to the primary election of each general election and shall contain the names of ten persons for each voting precinct in the county who are duly qualified to serve as judges and clerks of election. The clerk of the district court shall select from the above mentioned lists, for each voting precinct, two judges and two clerks from the political party polling the highest number of votes at the last general |