servation as to the manner in which they do so; and the guard rail shall be so constructed and placed that only such persons as are inside said rail can approach within six feet of the ballot box and of such voting booths. The arrangement shall be such that the voting booths can only be reached by passing within said guard rail. They shall be within plain view of the election officers; and both they and the ballot boxes shall be within plain view of those outside of the guard rail. Each of said booths shall have three sides enclosed, one side, in front, to be closed with a curtain. Each side of each booth shall be six feet four inches high, and the curtain shall extend within two feet of the floor, which shall be closed while the voter is preparing his ballot. Each booth shall be at least thirty-two inches square. and shall contain a shelf at least one foot wide, at a convenient height for writing. No person, other than the election officers and the challengers allowed by law, and those admitted for the purpose of voting, as hereinafter provided, shall be permitted within the guard rail, except by authority of the election officers to keep order and enforce the law. The number of such voting booths shall not be less than one to every seventy-five voters or fraction thereof who voted at the last preceding election in the precinct or district. The expense of providing booths and guard rails and other things required in this act shall be paid in the same manner as other election expenses.

ARTICLE IX.

QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS.

WHO MAY VOTE.] [Section 65, original act.] Section 1. Every person having resided in this State one year, in the county ninety days, and in the election district thirty days next preceding any election therein, who was an elector in this State on the first day of April. in the year of our Lord 1848, or obtained a certificate of naturalization before any court of record in this State prior to the first day of January, in the year of our Lord 1870, or who shall be a male citizen of the United States, above the age of twenty-one years, shall be entitled to vote at such election.

RESIDENCE.] [Section 66, original act.] Section 2. A permanent abode is necessary to constitute a residence within the meaning of the preceding section.

WHEN INMATES OF POOR-HOUSES, ASYLUMS, ETC., MAY VOTE.] [Section 66, original act.] Section 3. No pauper or inmate of any county poor-house, insane asylum or hospital in this State, shall by virtue of his abode at such county poor-house, insane asylum or hospital be deemed a resident or legal voter in the town, city, village or election district or precinct in which such poor-house, insane asylum or hospital may be situated; but every such person shall be deemed a resident of the town, city, village, election district or precinct in which he resided next prior to becoming an inmate of such county poor-house, insane asylum or hospital.

INMATES OF SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOMES.] [Section 66b, original act.] Section 4. Every honorably discharged soldier or sailor who shall have been an inmate of any soldiers' and sailors' home within the State of Illinois for ninety days or longer, and who shall have been a citizen of the United States and resided in this State one year, in the county where any such home is located ninety days, and in the election district thirty days next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote in the election district in which any such soldiers' and sailors' home in which he is an inmate as aforesaid, is located, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elected by the people, and upon all questions that may be submitted to the vote of the people: Provided, that he shall declare upon oath, if required so to do by any officer of election in said district, that it was his bona fide intention at the time he entered said home to become a resident thereof.

AFFIDAVIT OF QUALIFICATION.] [Section 67, original act. Section 5. Whenever, at any general or special election, in any precinct, district. city, village, town or ward, any person offering to vote is not personally known to the judges of election to have the qualifications mentioned in sections one and two of this article, if his vote is challenged by a legal voter at such election, he shall make and subscribe an affidavit in the following form, which shall be retained by the judges of election and returned by them with the poll books: STATE OF ILLINOIS,) COUNTY OF COOK.

SS.

I, .... do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the United States (or "that I was an elector on the first day of April, A. D. 1848," or "that I obtained a certificate of naturalization before a court of record in this State prior to the first day of January, A. D. 1870." as the case may be); that I have resided in this State one year, in this county ninety days, and in this election district thirty days next preceding this election, that I now reside at (here give the particular house or place of residence, and, if in a town or city, the street and number.) in this election district; that I am twenty-one years of age and have not voted at this election. So help me God. (or, "this I do solemnly and sincerely affirm," as the case may be).

Subscribed and sworn to before me this ...... day of A. D. 18....

AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESS.] [Section 68, original act.] Section 6. In addition to such affidavit. the person so challenged shall produce a witness personally known to the judges of election, and resident in the precinct or district, or who shall be proved by some legal voter of such precinct or district, known to the judges to be such, who shall take the oath following, viz.:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a resident of this election precinct or district and entitled to vote at this election, and that I have been a resident of this State for one year last passed and am

well acquainted with the person whose vote is now offered; that he is an actual and bona fide resident of this election precinct or district, and has resided herein thirty days, and, as I verily believe, in this county ninety days, and in this State one year next preceding the election.

WHO MAY ADMINISTER OATH.] [Section 69, original act.] Section 7. The oath, in each case, may be administered by either of the judges of election, or by any officer, resident in the precinct or district, authorized by law to administer oaths.

CONVICTS-DISQUALIFICATIONS.] [Section 70, original act.] Section 8. No person who has been legally convicted of any crime, the punishment of which is confinement in the penitentiary, or who shall be convicted and sentenced under section seven of article XIII of this act, shall be permitted to vote at any election unless he shall be restored to the right to vote by pardon, or by the expiration of the term of his disfranchisement under section seven of article XIII of this act.

WOMEN MAY VOTE FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS.] [Section 332, original act.] Section 9. Any woman of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, belonging to either of the classes mentioned in article. seven of the Constitution of the State of Illinois, who shall have resided in this State one year, in the county ninety days, and in the election district thirty days preceding any election held for the purpose of choosing any officer of schools under the general or special school laws of this State, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the school district of which she shall at the time have been for thirty days a resident: Provided, any woman so desirous of voting at such election shall have been registered in the same manner as is provided for the registration of male voters.

BALLOT WHAT TO CONTAIN—HOW DEPOSITED.] [Section 333, original act.] Section 10. Whenever the election of public school officers shall occur at the same election at which other public officers are elected, the ballot offered by any woman entitled to vote under this act shall not contain the name of any person to be voted for at such election except such officers of public schools, and such ballots shall all be deposited in a separate ballot-box, but canvassed with other ballots cast for school officers at such election.

ABSENCE FOR VOTING PURPOSES-EMPLOYER PREVENTING-PENALTY.] [Section 312, original act.] Section 11. Any person entitled to vote at a general election in this State shall, on the day of such electson, be entitled to absent himself from any services or employment in which he is then engaged or employed for a period of two hours between the time of opening and closing the polls; and such voter shall not, because of so absenting himself, be liable to any penalty; nor shall any deduction be made on account of such absence from his usual salary or wages: Provided, however, that application for such leave of absence shall be made prior to the day of election. The employer may specify the hours during which said employé may absent himself as aforesaid. (The above provision is preserved in section eleven of article XIII.)`

ARTICLE X.

MANNER OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS.

TIME POLLS TO BE KEPT OPEN.] [Sections 48 and 321, original act.] Section 1. At all elections to which this act applies, except at elections held in cities, villages and incorporated towns which have heretofore adopted or may hereafter adopt the provisions of an act entititled "An act regulating the holding of elections and declaring the results thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns," approved June 19, 1885, the polls shall be opened at seven o'clock in the morning and shall be closed at five in the evening; but if the judges shall not attend at the hour of seven o'clock in the morning, or if it shall be necessary for the electors present to appoint judges to conduct the election, as herein before prescribed. the polls may, in that case, be opened at any hour before the time for closing the same shall arrive, as the case may require.

PROCLAMATION. [Section 19, original act.] Section 2. Upon opening the polls, one of the clerks or judges of election shall make proclamation of the same, and at least thirty minutes before the closing of the polls proclamation shall be made in like manner that the polls will be closed in half an hour.

BALLOT-BOX PUBLICLY EXHIBITED, ETC.-LOCKED-KEYS.] [Section 50, original act.] Section 3. Before any ballot shall be deposited in the ballot-box, the ballot-box shall be publicly opened and exhibited, and the judges and clerks shall see that no ballot is in such box; after which the box shall be locked and the key delivered to one of the judges, and shall not again be opened until the close of the polls.

POLL LISTS-HOW KEPT.] [Section 51, original act.] Section 4. Each clerk of the election shall keep a poll list, which shall contain a column headed "number" and another headed "names of voters." The name of each elector voting shall be entered upon each of the poll books by the clerks, in regular succession, under the proper headings, and the number of such voter placed opposite his name in the column headed "number."

NO ADJOURNMENT OR RECESS.] [Section 56, original act.] Section 5. After the opening of the polls, no adjournment shall be had, nor shall any recess be taken, until all the votes cast at such election shall have been counted and the result publicly announced,

MANNER OF VOTING-CHECKING ON REGISTER LIST.] [Section 309, original act.] Section 6. Any person desiring to vote shall give his name, and, if required to do so, his residence, to the judges of elec tion, one of whom shall thereupon announce the same in a loud and distinct tone of voice, clear and audible, and if such name is found on the register of voters by the officer having charge thereof, he shall likewise repeat said name and the voter shall be allowed to enter the space enclosed by the guard rail. One of the judges shall give the voter one, and only one, ballot on the back of which such judge shall indorse his initials in such manner that they may be seen

when the ballot is properly folded, and the voters' name shall be immediately checked on the register list. At all elections when a registry may be required, if the name of any person so desiring to vote at such election is not found on the register of voters, he shall not receive a ballot until he shall have complied with the law prescribing the manner and conditions of voting by unregistered voters. If any person desiring to vote at any election shall be challenged, he shall not receive a ballot until he shall have established his right to vote in the manner provided by law. Besides the election officers, not more than two voters in excess of the whole number of voting booths provided shall be allowed in said inclosed space at one time.

MANNER OF PREPARING BALLOT.] [Section 310, original act.] Section 7. On receipt of his ballot the voter shall forthwith, and without leaving the inclosed space, retire alone to one of the voting booths so provided and shall prepare his ballot by making in the appropriate margin or place a cross (X) opposite the name of the candidate of his choice for each office to be filled, or by writing in the name of the candidate of his choice in a blank space on said ticket, making a cross (X) opposite thereto; and in case of a question submitted to the vote of the people, by making in the appropriate margin or place a cross (X) against the answer he desires to give: Provided, however, if he shall desire to vote for all of the candidates of one political party or group of petitioners, he may place such mark at the appropriate place preceding the appellation or title under which the names of the candidates of such party or group of petitioners are printed, and the ballot so marked shall be counted as cast for all of the candidates named under that title: Provided, further, that the voter may place such mark at the appropriate place preceding the appellation or title of one party or group of petitioners and may also mark, at the appropriate place preceding the name or names of one or more candidates printed under the appellation or title of some other party or group of petitioners, and a ballot so marked shall be counted as cast for all the candidates named under the appellation or title which has been so marked, except as to the officers as to which he has placed such mark preceding the name or names of some other candidate or candidates printed under the title of some other party or group of petitioners, and as to such it shall be counted as cast for the candidate or candidates preceding whose name or names such mark may have been placed. Before leaving the voting booth, the voter shall fold his ballot in such manner as to conceal the marks thereon. He shall then vote forthwith in the manner now provided by law, except that the number corresponding to the number of the voter on the poll books shall not be indorsed on the back of his ballot. He shall mark and deposit his ballot without undue delay, and shall quit said enclosed space as soon as he has voted. No voter shall be allowed to occupy a voting booth already occupied by another, nor remain within said inclosed space more than ten minutes, nor to occupy a voting booth more than five minutes, in case all of said voting booths are in use and other voters waiting to occupy the same. No voter, not an election officer, shall, after having voted, be allowed