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OF THE

STATE OF MICHIGAN.

WITH

A DIGEST OF THE DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT,

AND

PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION AND STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES,

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Published under the supervision of the Secretary of State and Attorney General,
pursuant to Act 108 of the Session Laws of 1875.

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W. S. GEORGE & CO., STATE PRINTERS AND BINDERS.

1875.

PREFATORY.

This compilation of the election laws of Michigan is made in pursuance of act number one hundred and eight, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved on the twenty-third day of April of that year, as follows:

AN ACT to provide for the compilation and distribution of the election laws to certain county, township, and city officers.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the secretary of state and attorney general are hereby directed, previous to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to compile and procure to be printed in pamphlet form, all the laws of this state now in force relative to elections, together with a brief digest of the decisions and rulings of the supreme court thereon, and that the secretary of state forward to each of the county clerks in this state a sufficient number of copies to furnish one to each election board of every city, ward, and organized township in this State, and it shall be the duty of each county clerk in the several counties to make the distribution at least one month previous to the next general election.

It has been deemed within the spirit of the act to include as well constitutional provisions, as all provisions of law bearing upon elections and the exercise of the elective franchise, not excepting the cases in which action is required or permitted to be had viva voce by the electors of municipalities and of school districts.

For convenience of reference, the sections are numbered consecutively by figures enclosed in parentheses, these being followed by the section-numbers of the act or statute. The section-numbers of the Compiled Laws, so far as the matter is found in the compilation of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, are indicated by figures in parentheses at the end of each section respectively. The side-note references are reproduced without alteration from the Compiled Laws, although many of them refer to rules of practice applicable only in judicial proceedings. All decisions bearing upon the manner of conducting elections are set forth in substance in the notes under the proper head.

There is added in an appendix, provisions of the constitution and statutes. of the United States applicable to elections in the States. Those of the more practical importance relate to the powers of supervisors of election appointed by federal authority in certain cases, and the penalties and liabilities to which local inspectors and registrars of election are subjected.

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