cant, unless he be by law otherwise disqualified; provided, that in case Proviso. of failure to produce the certificate of naturalization, the Registry Agent shall propound to him the following questions: First-In what year did Questions. you come to the United States? Second-In what State, county, court and year did you declare your intention to become a citizen? Third -In what State, county, court and year were you finally admitted to citizenship? Fourth-Where did you last see your certificate of naturalization? The answer to the above questions shall be taken down in the form of an affidavit, which shall be subscribed and sworn to by the applicant and retained in possession by the Registry Agent, and by him handed over to his successor; provided, that no person shall be required to make the affidavit twice before the same Agent, or the successor of such Agent, having in his possession a former affidavit. names re receiving SEC. 8. On the day next succeeding that on which the registration Copies of of electors, prior to any election mentioned in this Act, shall have been gistered to closed, the Registry Agents shall, with all reasonable expedition, pre- and distri be posted pare, and cause to be written or printed, a full and complete list of all buted. the names registered by them and then remaining on the Official Register, for each election district, alphabetically arranged, commencing always with the surname of each; and they shall have printed or written such reasonable number of copies of each district list, as in their judgment may be necessary; at least five copies of which they shall cause to be posted up in as many public and conspicuous places within the district to which they apply, and the remainder of such lists shall be distributed among the electors of the respective districts. The Registry Agents shall give notice in said lists, that they will receive objec- Notice of tions to the right to vote, on the part of any person so registered, until time for six o'clock P. M. on the fourth day previous to the day of election; and objections. also, requesting all persons whose names may be erroneously entered in said lists, to appear at his office and have such error corrected. Such objections to the right to vote shall be made only by a qualified elector in writing, setting forth the ground of objection or disqualification, and sworn to or affirmed to, to the best of his knowledge and belief. A copy of such written objections, with the name of the objector, Objections together with a copy of notice, requiring the person objected to, to ap- anbe served pear before the Registry Agent at a time certain and specified therein, and answer under oath such questions as may be propounded to him by the Registry Agent touching his qualifications as an elector, shall be served on the person objected to, and such service shall be good when left at the place of residence of such person objected to, as the same shall appear in the Official Register, however general or indefinite may be the description of the same in said Register; provided, that personal Proviso. service shall be required when the objections are filed with the Registry Agent on the last day on which such objections are allowed; but such objections so filed on the last day may be heard and determined on the succeeding day. And no such objections shall be tried, unless it shall appear by the return of an officer, or the sworn statement of an elector within the county, appended to such notice, that such objections and notice were by him duly served by copy, as in this section of this Act required. At the time specified in the notice, or at such further time as the hearing may be adjourned to, the Registry Agent, upon be- tion. ing satisfied from the return or affidavit that proper service of notice has been had, as in this section provided, shall proceed to examine such person, (if present) under oath, touching all matters specified in such written objections, and respecting his general qualifications as an and notice Examina Proviso. Official be copied. Index books. Check lists. elector, and the testimony of the person making the objections, and any further evidence offered, (which the Registry Agent, before whom objections are made, may desire to hear in relation thereto). If the Registry Agent shall be satisfied from the answers under oath, of the person objected to, or other evidence, that he is not a qualified elector as required by law, for the next ensuing election; or if such person, so notified as herein before provided and required, shall fail to appear at the time set, or shall fail to show cause for his non-appearance, it shall be the duty of the Registry Agent to erase his name from the Official Register; provided, that any person, whose name may have been so erased, may apply to the District Court, or the Judge thereof, as is provided in section six of this Act. SEC. 9. During the time intervening between the closing of any Registers to registration of electors and the day of the next ensuing election, the Registry Agents shall carefully copy from the official register, into suitable books, one for each election district within their respective townships, the names of all electors registered for such election district, alphabetically arranged, (the surname first) entering opposite each name the number it bears on the official register, together with all other entries therein found opposite such name. The Registry Agents shall also not later than the day next preceding that on which the prepare, election is to be held, in "Index Books," one for each election district, and which shall be known as the "Check Lists," lists of the names of all electors found on the official register for such election districts, alphabetically arranged (the surname first), with the number such name bears in the official register placed at the left of the name of the elector, and with a blank column at the right of the column of names, formed by two parallel perpendicular lines, in which the inspectors of election shall check the names of those voting, by some particular character, as for instance, thus, "V" for voted. Said blank columns last mentioned shall have written "headings" made by the Registry Agents, showing what particular election the said check lists apply to, as for instance, "Voted at general election, 1868," or "Voted at city election, 1869.” The copy of the official register, together with the "check list," for register and each election district, as herein provided, shall be carefully prepared be delivered and duly certified to by the Registry Agent, and delivered to some one of the inspectors of election in each election district, at a time not later than the day next preceding that on which such election is to be held, and such "check lists" shall be carefully preserved and transmitted by the inspectors of election to the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, in connection with and as a part of the "election returns,” as provided by law. Copies of check list to etc. Elector moving SEC. 10. Any registered elector, moving from one election district may change to another, prior to the day of the ensuing election, may apply to the registration Registry Agent before whom he has already been registered for that electoral year, at any time prior to the delivery of the certified copies of Register to the inspectors of election, and have his name taken off the official register, and receive from the Registry Agent a certificate showing substantially that he was on a certain date duly registered in the official register of township No. in the county of and that his name has been erased at his own request; which certificate shall entitle him to have his name registered in the same manner as other names are registered, in any other election district, either within the Proviso. same county or in any other county, for said election; provided, that it shall satisfactorily appear to the Registry Agent receiving the certifi cate, and to whom application is made for the second registration, that the applicant will have resided such length of time within such county and election district, prior to the next ensuing election, as is or may be provided by law to entitle him to vote. and take oath. SEC. 11. Before entering upon the duties prescribed in this Act, Registry the Registry Agents shall severally take and subscribe before an officer Agents to duly authorized to administer oaths, the following oath or affirmation, which shall be filed in the office of the County Clerk of their respective counties, to wit: "I Registry Agent for Election Dis- Oath. tricts Numbers in the county of and State of Nevada, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will perform all the duties of Registry Agent in and for said Election Districts according to law and the best of my ability, and that in the discharge of my duties as such Registry Agent, I will honestly endeavor to prevent fraud, deceit, or any other manner of abuse of the elective franchise. So help me God ("or under the pain and penalties of perjury.") tion. etc. SEC. 12. The several Registry Agents shall be entitled to receive Compensaas full compensation for all services rendered by them, under the provisions of this Act, (except for the collection of poll taxes) the sum of twenty-five cents for each name by them legally registered in each electoral year, which shall be a valid claim against their respective counties; and their accounts shall be made out so as to clearly show Accounts to the number of names by them severally registered during that electo- be made out ral year, and sworn to and filed with the Board of County Commissioners of their respective counties; and said claims, together with all other just and reasonable demands of other persons for books, advertising and printing, necessarily incurred in carrying out the requirements of this Act, shall be audited and paid out of the county funds of the several counties as other county charges; provided, that the ex- Proviso. penses incurred in publishing the notices and printing the lists of electors prior to any municipal election, shall be a charge against, and shall be paid by the corporate authorities of the municipality holding such election. SEC. 13. The name of no person under the age of sixty (60) years Poll tax shall be registered by any Registry Agent until such person shall show receipts. a proper receipt for the poll tax required by law for the then current year; provided, that if the applicant for registration has not paid such Proviso. poll tax, it shall be lawful for him to pay said tax to the Registry Agent to whom he applies for registration, and receive the proper poll tax receipt therefor. The County Auditor shall deliver to the several Auditor Registry Agents of their respective counties such number of blank required to deliver poll poll tax receipts as may from time to time be found necessary, which tax receipts. shall be receipted for, and accounted for by said Registry Agents in the same manner as County Assessors are by law required to do. The Registry Agents shall on the first judicial day of each month, during Poll taxes the time of registration, pay over to the County Auditor of their re- be paid to spective counties the aggregate amount of all poll taxes by them Auditor. collected during the preceding month, after deducting ten per centum thereof; which ten per centum is hereby allowed to said Registry Agents, the same as to County Assessors, as full remuneration for the collection thereof. It shall not be requisite for any person having paid poll tax in any county within this State for the current year to pay said tax again or the second time; and in case any applicant for Proof of registration shall have lost his poll tax receipt, it shall be lawful for loss of reany Registry Agent to receive satisfactory proof by written certificate collected to ceipt. Who not vote. of any County Assessor, or his deputy, or of any Superintendent or Secretary of any incorporated mining company within the State, showing that said applicant has paid said poll tax for that current year. SEC. 14. No person shall be entitled to vote at any election menentitled to tioned in this Act, unless his name shall, on the day of election, appear in the "Check List" furnished by the Registry Agents to the Inspector of Election of the election district at which he offers to vote; and the fact that his name so appear in the "Check List" and in the copy of the Official Register in the possession of the Inspectors of Election, shall be prima facie evidence of his right to vote; provided, that when the Inspectors of Election shall have good reason to believe, or when they shall be informed by a qualified elector, that the person offering to vote is not the person who was registered in that name, the vote of such person shall not be received, until he shall have proved his identity, as the person who was registered in that name. Proviso. Punishment for certain offences. SEC. 15. Any person who shall vote, or offer to vote, at any election mentioned in this Act, but who shall not be a qualified elector; or any person who, being a qualified elector, shall vote or offer to vote in the name of any other registered elector, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof before any Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison for not less than one nor more than three years; and any person who shall willfully cause, or endeavor to cause, his name to be registered in any other election district than that in which he resides or will reside prior to the day of the next ensuing election; and any person who shall cause or endeavor to cause his name to be registered, knowing that he is not a qualified elector, or will not be a qualified elector on or before the day of the next ensuing election, in the election district in which he causes, or endeavors to cause such registry to be made; and any other person who shall induce, aid or abet any such person in the commission of either of such acts in this section enumerated and described, Punishment shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by confinement in the County Jail for not less than one month nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court. Perjury. SEC. 16. All willful corrupt and false swearing or affirming before any Registry Agent shall be deemed perjury, and on conviction shall Punishment be punished as such. If any Registry Agent, or any other person in alty is not any manner concerned, shall willfully and corruptly violate any of the prescribed. provisions of this Act, the penalty for which is not herein specifically where pen Repeal. prescribed, he shall be punished for each and every offense whereof he shall be duly convicted, by imprisonment in the State Prison for a term not less than one year nor more than five years, or by fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court. SEC. 17. The Act entitled "An Act to provide for the registration of the names of electors, and for the ascertainment by proper proofs of the persons who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage," approved February 24, 1866, is hereby repealed. CHAP. XCI.-An Act for the relief of James D. Minor. [Approved March 5, 1869.] WHEREAS, during the years A.D. 1863 and 1864, James D. Minor, the Preamble. then acting Recorder of Humboldt County, Nevada, advanced to the said County the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars gold coin, for the purchase of fuel, books and stationery, which sum has never been paid the said James D. Minor by said Humboldt County The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: draw war SECTION 1. The Auditor of the County of Humboldt is hereby Auditor auauthorized and directed to draw his warrant on the County Treasurer thorized to of said County in favor of James D. Minor for the sum of one thous- rant. and five hundred dollars. pay. SEC. 2. The Treasurer of the County of Humboldt is hereby Treasurer authorized and directed to pay said warrant described in section one of directed to this Act, in its regular order of registry, as other indebtedness against said County is paid. CHAP. XCII.-An Act to provide for the payment of the claim of [Approved March 5, 1869.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tion. SECTION 1. The sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated Appropria out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise specially appropriated, for the purpose of paying the claim of A. W. Nightingile, for drawing the design of the Great Seal of the State of Nevada, design of the Seal of the Supreme Court, design of the Seal of the State Controller, design of the State Stamps, and the design and vignette of the State Bonds. presented SEC. 2. The claims of the said Nightingile for the services men- Claims to be tioned in section one, shall be presented to the Board of Examiners, Examinwho shall allow thereon such sum as the services above mentioned are ers. found to have been reasonably worth, after deducting all payments thereon, and not exceeding the said sum of one thousand dollars; and the examination and allowances of the claim shall be subject to all the provisions of law in force in reference to unliquidated claims for the payment of which an appropriation has been made. |