Proviso. Date of application. Inspectors OF ELECTIONS. said polls on the day of the next ensuing election as aforesaid, be entitled to vote, and under the column "why disqualified" briefly the ground or reason of such disqualifi cation. Provided that any applicant marked upon any day of registration or revision of registration as "disqualified" shall, upon any succeeding day of registration, or upon the day of election next succeeding such day of registration or revision of registration, be entitled to be heard; and if he shall produce evidence satisfactory to the board of inspectors that he was, on the day of his first application, improperly adjudged disqualified, they shall enter his name as one of an original applicant, writing his name in the column "qualified," or "may become qualified," as the case may be; and shall strike out the previous entry of his name from the registers by drawing a heavy black line in ink through the same, and opposite thereto, in the column headed "remarks," enter the word "reconsidered," together with the date thereof and initials of the name of the inspector making the same. Ninth-Under the column "date of application" the month, day and year when the applicant presented himself. SECTION 5. On the days and at the times in this act their respec-designated for any revision of any general registration, the districts to duly qualified inspectors of election shall meet in their reperform cer-spective election districts, at the places which, in accordance to meet tive election with the requirements of this act, shall have been provided for such meetings, and shall openly and publicly do and perform the following acts, namely: each and every of the duties and requirements set forth in sub-divisions one and Applications three of Section 4 of this act. They shall in each election district receive the applications for registration of all such male persons whose names are not then borne upon the registers thereof as qualified voters therein as shall personally present themselves, and who, on the day of election next ensuing, would be entitled to vote therein; and as to all applications made to them shall proceed in the manner provided in sub-division 4 of Section 4 of this act; provided, that if, upon examination, as in this act provided for, of any applicant for registration it shall appear that he has, since the last day of any general registration of voters or revision thereof in the said city of Wilmington, moved into or become a resident of said election district, the said inspectors shall inquire from whence such applicant removed or came; and if it shall appear that such removal was from a place Proviso OF ELECTIONS. within the said city or State, they shall inquire if, in the election district in which he resided at the time of the last preceding general registration (naming such time), or in which he has resided at any time subsequent thereto, he has been registered, or has applied for registration; and if he state that he has not, then the said inspectors shall proceed with said application as with that of any other person who may apply to them, but if he shall state that he has been so registered, the said inspectors shall, before further proceeding, require him to present to them a certificate of removal, as provided for in this act, so that his name shall not be upon the registers of two election districts, and upon the presentation to any board of inspectors of any certificate of removal, the said board shall treat the person presenting the same in the manner provided in sub-division 4 of Section 4 of this act for applicants for registration. voter from district. SECTION 6. Any person who shall at any time, as pro- Removal of vided in this act, have applied to the inspectors of election registration in any election district of said city of Wilmington for registration, and shall have, in the registers thereof, been entered as a qualified voter, and who shall, at any time prior to the close of any revision of registration, have removed from the dwelling place under which he shall as a resident be borne upon the registers, may, upon any day provided in this act for meetings of the inspectors of election, other than the day of any election, personally appear before the said inspectors in the election district in which he resided at the time his name was entered upon the said registers, during the hours in this act provided for their sessions for such revision, and, if challenged, shall publicly take and subscribe before one of said inspectors the following oath or affirmation, which shall be known as an oath of removal: residing in the election Oath of voter removing "I, district of the city of Wilmington, do solemnly swear (o affirm) that I, duly entered in the registers of said election district from said residence as a qualified voter, have removed my place of residence to number in the Upon such oath or affirmation being made and subscribed as herein provided, it shall be the duty of the said inspec Duty of inspector in case of removal. OF ELECTIONS. tors to carefully preserve the same. And upon such appli-. cation, (or in case of challenge) upon any such person so taking and subscribing said oath of removal, the said inspectors of election, if satisfied of the identity of the person making the same with the person he claims to be as the description of said last mentioned person shall appear on the register, and if not satisfied therewith, shall at once, by any one whom said board shall specially authorize, make an examination and inquiry at the place of residence of such person, as the same shall be entered upon the registers, as to the fact of the removal of such person from said dwelling place, when, if his removal therefrom shall be found by the report of such person to be a fact, shall immediately proceed to strike from said registers the name of such person by entering in each of the registers, opposite to and against the name of any such person, and in the column headed "Why Disqualified," the word "Removed;" in the column headed "Date of Erasing Name," the month, day and year of such striking from said registers such name; and in the column headed "Remarks," the words "Transferred to," together with the number of the election district to which such person shall, in his oath of removal, state he has removed, and the initial letters of the name of the inspector who shall in each of said registers make such entries; and shall, through the name of any such person, as the same shall appear on said registers, and there only, draw a line as indicative that such name is erased from the registers of that election district, and the name of any such person so found stricken and erased from said registers shall, as to his name and residence at the place in said registers entered under the column of "Residence," be thereafter considered by the Department of Elections, all inspectors of election, and all other election officers, to be stricken from the registers of that election district, and shall be treated as if never entered thereon. If the dwelling place to which any such person shall have removed be within the boundaries of the same election district as was his former residence, as stated in the registers of said election district, the said inspector shall, in said registers, under the number or other description of the dwelling place to which such person has removed; enter his name, and in the several columns opposite and against the same, such words and figures as prior to the striking from or erasing the name of such person in the manner in this section above provided, where in the OF ELECTIONS. columns similarly headed and opposite to and against the name of each person as upon said registers it appeared under the dwelling place from which he shall have declared he has removed; and if the dwelling place to which any such person shall have removed shall be within the boundaries of any other election district than was the residence under which he was previously entered on said registers, the said inspectors of election shall fill up, sign and deliver to such person a certificate, which shall be known as a certificate of removal, and shall be in the words and figures following, to wit: "CERTIFICATE OF REMOVAL "Polling place of the city of Wilmington, elec "To the board of inspectors of election tion district: This is to certify that the name of heretofore residing at in this election district, has been by us, the inspectors of election in this district, stricken from the registers of this district and the proper erasures made upon the oath of removal, and at the request of said above-mentioned person, and that upon the registers of this election district were entered as to him the following statement: tax receipt. SECTION 7. The said inspectors shall immediately upon Stamping entering the name of an applicant upon the register require him to present his proper tax receipt, and shall stamp said receipt presented by him with the word "registered," the number of the district, and also the day and year of registering in letters and figures. of inspectors. SECTION 8. The said inspectors shall, in each election Certificate district, at the close of each day of registration or revision of registration, in a place to be provided therefor in each of Form of certificate. Duty of OF ELECTIONS. the Registers required in this act, fill up, date, and each sign a certificate, which shall be either printed or written, and shall be in the words and figures following, to wit: "We, the undersigned, inspectors of election in the district of the ward of the city of Wilmington, do jointly and severally certify that at the registration of voters held in the said election district on the in the year day of there were registered by us as qualified voters in the said election district the names which are entered in this book as of said day, and that the number of such registered and qualified voters was and is -and that there were also registered by us as persons who may become qualified to vote before the time of the close of the polls in the said election district, on the day of the next ensuing election, the names which are entered in this book. as of said day, and that the number of such was and is SECTION 9. The said inspectors shall, in each election inspectors. district on each day of registration and revision of registration, before adjourning, enter in a book prepared for that purpose, which shall be known as a public copy of the regis ters, all such names and residences, and all such data, information and statements as during the day have been entered by the inspectors of election in the registers provided in this Comparing act. And the whole four books shall, on each of said days of registers. after the completion of such copy of the registers, be carefully compared throughout, so that each of the registers and the copy thereof shall in every respect agree with each other, and contain the name and residence of each person who shall have applied for registration and the facts respecting him,' as the same shall have been stated by him and entered in Certification the registers, as provided in this act. The said inspectors registration. shall, on the last days of any registration and revision of of copy of registration, certify the said copy in the same manner as if it were an original, and within forty-eight hours after their adjournment on said last day of such registration or revision of registration shall leave it suspended in the place where such registration was conducted, where it shall be and remain until the day of the next ensuing election, to the end that the same may be inspected and copied by any Custody of elector; but on the day of such election the said inspectors shall take possession of said public copy, and the chairman shall closely retain the same throughout the said day, re copy. |