year, appoint. in each election precinct or district, three capable and discreet electors to be judges of elections and who shall possess the qualifications required by this act for such judges. They shall hold their office for one year from their appointment and until their successors are duly appointed. The said county board may at any time fill vacancies in said offices. No more than two persons of the same political party shall be appointed judges of the same election district, or undivided precinct.

QUALIFICATIONS OF JUDGES.] [Section 31, original act.] Section 1. Every person elected or chosen judge of elections shall be of fair character, approved integrity, well informed, who can read, write and speak the English language, and has resided in the election precinct or district, in which he is to serve, for one year next preceding the election, and is entitled to vote therein at such election.

JUDGES IN COUNTIES UNDER TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.] [Section 33. original act.] Section 5. In counties under township organization, the county board shall at its regular (or at a special) meeting in the month of July of each year, except where such judges and clerks are appointed by election commissioners, appoint in each election district or precinct in the county three capable and discreet electors to be judges of elections. and who shall possess the qualifications required by this act for such judges. The town supervisor shall be appointed as one of such judges of election in the district or precinct in which he resides. No more than two persons of the same political party shall be appointed judges of the same election district or precinct. Such election judges shall hold their office one year from their appointment and until their successors are duly appointed. The said county board may fill vacancies in said office at any time. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.] [Section 34, original act.] Section 6. Immediately on the appointment of such judges, the county clerk shall make out and deliver to the sheriff of the county, a notice thereof, directed to each person so appointed, and the sheriff shall, within twenty days after the receipt of such notices, deliver the same to the several judges so appointed.

TERM OF OFFICE.] [Section 35, original act. Section 7. The judges so appointed shall be and continue judges of all general and special elections held within their respective precincts or districts until other judges shall be appointed in like manner.

VACANCIES FILLED.] [Section 36, original act.] Section 8. If. at the time for the opening of any election. any person appointed or constituted a judge of election shall not be present, or will not act or take the oath to act in such capacity, the judge or judges present may appoint some other qualified elector to act in his place. If there be no judge of election present, or he refuse to act, such electors of the precinct or district as may then be present at the place of election. may fill the places of such judges by election from their number. The judges so appointed shall have the same power and be subject to the same penalties as other judges of election.

CLERKS OF ELECTION.] [Section 37, original act.] Section 9. The judges of election shall choose three persons having similar qualifications with themselves to act as clerks of election, who may continue to act as such during the pleasure of the judges. But no more than two persons of the same political party shall be so chosen as such clerks of election for the same election district or precinct.

OATH. [Section 38, original act.] Section 10. Previous to any vote being taken, the judges and clerks of the election shall severally subscribe and take an oath or affirmation in the following form, to-wit:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Conttitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of judge of election (or clerk, as the case may be,) according to the best of my ability, and that I have resided in this election district for one year next preceding this election, and am entitled to vote at this election."

BY WHOM ADMINISTERED.] [Section 39, original act. | Section 11. In case there shall be no judge or justice of the peace present at the opening of the election, or in case such judge or justice shall be appointed a judge or clerk of election, it shall be lawful for the judges of the election to administer the oath or affirmation to each other, and to the clerks of the election; and the person administering such oath or affirmation, shall cause an entry thereof to be made and subscribed by him, and prefixed to each poll book.

CONSTABLES---COUNTY BOARD, OR JUDGES, MAY APPOINT.] [Section 43, original act.] Section 12. The county board may appoint one or more constables to attend each place of holding elections, and preserve order during the election; if no constable is appointed by the county board to attend any place of holding election, or if others shall be necessary to preserve order, the judges of election may appoint one or more constables for that purpose.

SPECIAL CONSTABLE.] [Section 44, original act.] Section 13. The judges of election may appoint any suitable person to act as a special constable during the election.

SUPPRESSING RIOT, ETC.—ARREST.] [Section 45, original act.] SecAny constable attending such election may call to his aid a sufficient number of citizens to arrest any disorderly person or suppress any rio or disorder during the election. Whoever conducts himself in a riotous or disorderly manner at any election, and persists in such conduct after being warned to desist, may be arrested without warrant.

ARTICLE III.

REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS.

BOARD OF REGISTRATION-MEETING-REGISTER.] [Section 135, original act. Section 1. The persons authorized by law, or appointed pursuant to any town or city ordinance, to act as judges of elections in any town, city or ward, or other election district or precinct, shall constitute a "board of registry" for their respective towns,

cities, wards, districts or precincts, and shall meet on Tuesday, three weeks preceding any State election, at 9 o'clock a. m., and proceed to make a list, as hereinafter prescribed of all persons qualified and entitled to vote at the ensuing election in the election district of which they are judges which list when completed, shall constitute and be known as the "register" of electors of said election district. In election districts in towns which lie wholly within the limits of an incorporated city, a register of electors shall be made for all elections, whether general. special, local or municipal, in the same manner as herein providedin the case of State elections.

MANNER OF MAKING REGISTER, ETC.-FIRST MEETING.] [Section 136, original act. Section 2. Said registers shall each contain a list of the persons so qualified and entitled to vote in said election district. alphabetically arranged according to their respective surnames, so as to show, in one column, the name in full length, and in another column in cities, the residence, by the number of the dwelling, if there be a number, and the name of the street or other location of the dwelling place of each person. It shall be the duty of said board to enter in said list the names of all persons residing in their election district, whose names appear on the poll list kept in said district at the last preceding election-in cities the number of the dwelling and the name of the street or other location, if the same shall be known to or can be ascertained by such board-and for this purpose said board is authorized to take from the office in which they are filed the poll lists made and filed by the judges of such district, at the election held next prior to the making of such register. In making said list, the board shall enter thereon, in addition to the names on the poll list, the names of all other persons who are well known to them to be electors in said district; and the names of all persons on the poll list who have died or removed from the district shall be omitted from the register. The said board shall complete, as far as practicable, the said register on the day of its meeting, aforesaid, and shall make two copies thereof, and certify the register and each of the copies to be a true list of the voters in said district, so far as the same are known. Within two days thereafter, the said original list, together with the list taken from the office, as aforesaid, shall be filed by said board in the office of the town clerk of the town in which said election district may be; but in counties not adopting township organization, said list shall be filed with the judges of election in the proper district, or, if such election district is in a city, then it shall be filed in the office of the city clerk of said city. And one copy of

said list shall be kept by one of said judges, and carefully preserved by him for use on the day or days hereinafter mentioned. for the revision and correction of the same. One copy of said list shall, immediately after its completion, be posted in some conspicuous place where the last preceding election in said district was held, and be accessible to any elector who may desire to examine the same or make copies thereof.

NEW ELECTION DISTRICTS.] [Section 137, original act.] Section 3. In case a new election district shall be formed by the organization of a new town, or by the division of any town or ward, or the

incorporation of a city or town, the judges of election in the new district thus formed may make their registry of electors on the day prescribed by this act, in such a manner as a majority of them may direct, and for that purpose may make a list, or cause to be made a certified copy of the poll list or lists of the district in which such new district is situated, or they may dispense with such list or lists and proceed to make a register of electors, from the best means at their command. Said lists shall only embrace the names of such persons as are known to them to be electors in said new district, and shall be posted up and copies thereof made, as prescribed in the preceding section, and shall be corrected in the same manner that other lists are corrected.

REVISION REGISTER--SECOND MEETING.] [Section 138, original act.] Section 4. The said board shall again meet on Tuesday of the week preceding the said elections, in their respective election districts, at the place designated for holding the polls of the election, for the purpose of revising, correcting and completing said lists; and for this purpose, in cities, they shall meet at eight o'clock in the morning and remain in session until nine o'clock p. m., and in other districts they shall meet at nine o'clock in the morning and remain in session until four o'clock p. m.

PROCEEDINGS OPEN-CORRECTIONS, ETC.] [Section 139, original act. Section 5. The proceedings of said board shall be open, and all persons residing and entitled to vote in said district shall be entitled to be heard by said board in relation to corrections or additions to said register. One of the lists so kept by the judges, as aforesaid. shall be used by them on the day or days of making corrections or additions, for the purpose of completing the registry for such dis

trict.

REVISING REGISTER-ADDITION OF NEW NAMES.] [Section 140. original act. Section 6. It shall be the duty of said board, at their meeting for revising and correcting said lists, to erase therefrom the name of any person inserted therein who shall be proved by the oath of two legal voters of said district, to the satisfaction of said board. to be non-resident of said district, or otherwise not entitled to vote in said district, at the election then next to be held. Any elector residing in said district, and entitled to vote therein, may appear before said board and require his name to be recorded on said alphabetical list. Any person so requiring his name to be so entered on said list shall make the same statement as to the street and number thereof, and where he resides, required by the provisions of this act of persons offering their votes at elections, and shall also be subject to the same penalties for refusing to give such information or for falsely giving the same and shall abso be subject to challenge, either by the judges, or either of them, or by any other elector whose name appears on said alphabetical list; and the same oaths may be administered by the judges as now provided in case of persons offering to vote at an election; and in case no challenge is made of any person requiring his name to be entered on said alphabetical list, or in case of challenge, if such person shall make oath that would entitle him

to vote in case of challenge at an election, then the name of any such person shall be added to the alphabetical poll list of the last preceding year.

COPIES OF REGISTER-FILING-DELIVERY TO JUDGES VOTINGSWEARING IN VOTE, ETC.] [Section 141, original act.] Section 7. After said lists shall have been fully completed, the said board shall, within three days thereafter, cause two copies of the same to be made, each of which shall be certified by them to be a correct list of the voters of said district, one of which shall be filed in the office of the town clerk of towns, and in the office of city clerks of cities, and one of which copies shall be delivered to said judges. It shall be the duty of the said judges so receiving such list, carefully to preserve the said list for their use on election day, and to designate two of their number, at the opening of the polls, to check the name of every voter voting in such district whose name is on the register. No vote shall be received at any State election if the name of the person offering to vote be not on the said register made on the Tuesday preceding the election, unless the person offering to vote shall furnish to the judges of the election his affidavit, in writing, stating therein that he is an inhabitant of said district and entitled to vote therein at such election, and prove by the oath of a householder and registered voter of the district in which he offers to vote that he knows such person to be an inhabitant of the district, and, if in any city, giving the residence of such person within said district. The oath may be administered by one of the judges of the election, at the poll where the vote shall be offered, or by any other person authorized to administer oaths, but no person shall be authorized to receive compensation for administering the oath. Said oath shall be preserved and filed in the office of the town or city clerk, or in case there be no clerk, then said oath shall be filed with and preserved by the judges of the proper district. Any person may be challenged, and the same oaths shall be put as are now or hereafter may be prescribed by law.

POLL LIST AND REGISTER TO BE FILED.] [Section 143, original act.] Section 8. After the canvass of the votes, one of said poll lists and said registers so kept and checked, as aforesaid, shall be attached together and shall be, on the following day, filed in the town or city clerk's office (as the case may be) in which said district may be, or in case there be no such clerk, then such poll lists and register shall be filed with and preserved by the judges, to be used by the board of registry in making the list of voters at the next State election; the other of the said poll lists and registers, so kept and checked, shall be returned to the office of the county clerk of the county in which said district may be, at the same time the returns of the election are made.

REGISTERS OPEN TO INSPECTION. ] [Section 144, original act. ] Section 9. The registers shall at all times be open to public inspection, at the office of the authorities in which they shall be deposited, without charge.