TITLE THIRD. Of the Public Arms and Defenses. CHAPTER 34. OF THE PUBLIC ARMS AND DEFENSES. AN ACT to repeal Sections 29 and 30 of Chapter 15 Revised Code, as printed in Chapter 429, Volume 17, and as amended in Chapter 18, Volume 18, Laws of Delaware. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: the Sections 29 Chapter 15, as and 30, of Chapter 429, Chapter 18, SECTION 1. That Sections 29 and 30 of Chapter 15 of Revised Code, as printed in Chapter 429, Volume 17, and amended in Chapter 18, Volume 18, Laws of Delaware, be and the same are hereby repealed and amended*. Passed at Dover, April 23, 1891. CHAPTER 35 OF THE PUBLIC ARMS AND DEFENSES. AN ACT providing maintenance for the Adjutant General's office and making further provision for certain Militia Companies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Vol. 17, and Vol. 18, repealed. num appro SECTION I. That in addition to the salary now received $500 per an by the Adjutant General of Delaware there shall be appro- priated for priated annually the sum of five hundred dollars for the the use of use of his department, which shall be used for clerk hire, tant Genfreight, insurance and other incidental expenses. the Adju eral's Department. to cer and $100 to SECTION 2. That in addition to any sums now appro-tain militia priated the sum of two hundred dollars shall be, and is companies hereby, appropriated to each of the following militia com- Troop B, of panies, namely: Company "A," Company "C," Company "F," and Troop "B," all of the city of Wilmington; and $100 to Troop "A," of Laurel. SECTION 3. Laurel. State Treasurer author The State Treasurer is hereby authorized to ized to pay pay the appropriations herein made to the Adjutant General, priations. above appro *So enrolled. Public act. OF THE PUBLIC ARMS AND DEFENSES. who shall pay the sums accruing to the companies named in Section 2d, to the captains thereof. SECTION 4. This act shall be and be taken to be a public act. Passed at Dover, May 15, 1891. State to loan trustees sociation, of order of upon first 3 per cent. interest. CHAPTER 36. OF THE PUBLIC ARMS AND DEFENSES. AN ACT for the relief of "The Trustees of Troop B Association," of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. That upon the 2d Monday in May, 1891, or Troop B As- as soon thereafter as can be done, the Treasurer of the State Wilmington, of Delaware, upon the order of the Governor of Delaware, $10,000 upon shall loan the trustees of Troop B Association, of WilmingGovernor, ton, Del., the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) for a mortgage at term of years, and he shall take as security a first mortgage and bond to the State of Delaware upon the real property of the said association, together with a paid up policy of fire insurance to cover amount of loan. The money so loaned shall draw 3 per cent. interest yearly, and shall be paid semi-annually to the State Treasurer by the said association. In default of the payment of interest by the said association for six months or more on any one installment thereof, the treasurer may cause the loan and all debts due Foreclosure. to be called in and canceled, and the mortgage and bond foreclosed and collected. Troop B Association to store all SECTION 2. That for and in consideration of the loan being made by the State of Delaware to the trustees of State Militia Troop B Association they, the said association, shall rethat the Ad-ceive and store in their building any and all State militia eral may de- property that the Adjutant General of the State may desire property jutant Gen sire. Public act. to have stored, and the said property shall remain in storage free of all manner and kinds of charges against the State so long as the said loan of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) be and is in force. SECTION 3. This shall be taken and deemed to be a public act. Passed at Dover, May 14, 1891. TITLE FOURTH. Of Elections*. CHAPTER 37. OF ELECTIONS. AN ACT to provide for the Secrecy and Purity of the Ballot. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Inspector to room for tions. tions. change of SECTION I. That hereafter it shall be the duty of each Duty of inspector of elections in this State, outside of the city of provide a Wilmington, to provide a room for the holding of any gen- holding eleceral or special election in his hundred or election district which shall be adapted to the requirements of this act. Said room shall be at the place now or which may here- Place of after be established by law in each hundred or election holding elecdistrict for the holding of elections, or in as close proximity thereto as practicable, having due regard to the convenience of the voters. Provided, however, that if any Notice of inspector shall select a place for the holding of any general place of or special election in his hundred or election district, other holding elec than the one established by law, he shall do it in time to give the notice of holding such election required by law. Said room shall have a door or entrance of easy or con- Plan of venient access, and if practicable, a separate means of exit. room and It shall be provided on the outside with a passage at least four feet wide and with a railing, rope or wire on each side commencing at least thirty feet away from and leading to the entrance to such place of election and passing the place assigned for the challengers and thence to the entrance of the room in which the election is held. *See Chapters 26, 27 and 28 of this volume, for provisions concerning the election of certain County officers. tion. entrance. Interior ap pliances of room. Booths. rangement of booths. OF ELECTIONS. The inspector shall provide for the room a railing therein separating the part of the room to be occupied by the election officers from the remainder of the room. He shall also provide a suitable table and chairs for the use of the election officers. The table shall occupy such a position in said room as to enable the election officers and the challengers hereinafter provided for to easily communicate with each other. He shall cause to be constructed in the room at least one booth for every one hundred and fifty voters or fractional part thereof in each hundred or election district; provided that there shall not be less than three booths at any one hunSize and ar- dred or election district. The booths shall be at least three feet square and six feet high if the ceiling will admit it. They shall each contain a shelf properly constructed and provided with pen and ink and they shall be so constructed and arranged that all the election officers in the room can see whether more than one voter enters any one of them at any Duty of the one time. In the city of Wilmington it shall be the duty of department the Department of Elections to select the voting place in each in the city of election district within the city and to provide the room in in providing which the election is to be held and to protect the same with the required railing or rope and to construct therein the necessary number of booths and to do all other things required to be done by the inspectors of election outside of the city of Wilmington in and about the furnishing and fitting up of said room. of elections Wilmington, conveni. ences for elections. Challengers. What shall constitute a political party under this act. SECTION 2. Each of the political parties may select and accredit some suitable person as a challenger to stand without the door or entrance of the room in which the election is to be held, and by the side of the passage hereinbefore provided for; and in case of failure of any or all of the political parties to select such person or persons as challenger or challengers it shall be the duty of the inspector and judges to make such selection or selections, provided that the challengers may be changed and their places filled in like manner during the day. SECTION 3. A political party within the meaning of this act shall be an organization of bonafide citizens and voters of any county in this State, which shall by means of a convention, primary election or otherwise, nominate candidates for public offices to be filled by the people at any general or special election within the State. No organization shall be regarded as a political party that does not represent at least OF ELECTIONS. the Peace one hundred bonafide citizens and voters of the county in which it exists. If the Clerk of the Peace should have any Clerk of doubt as to the sufficiency of the number of bonafide voters may demand represented by any organization in any county, he may de- certificate of mand a certificate of twenty-five voters belonging to such an organization as to that fact. organization Peace to to be certi SECTION 4. The Clerks of the Peace for the several Clerks of counties shall cause to be printed on the ballots, herein pro- print ballots. vided for, the names of the candidates nominated by the parties recognized by them as political parties within the meaning of this act. The nomination of the candidates for Nomination the office of Governor, Representatives in Congress and fied to Clerk Presidential Electors shall be certified to the several Clerks of the Peace. of the Peace by the presiding officer and secretary of the several State party conventions or committees, and the nominations of the candidates for the county, hundred and district offices shall be certified to the respective Clerks of the Peace of the county in and for which such nominations have been made by the presiding officer and secretary of the proper party convention or committee. be in writing and shall contain the name of each person nominated, his residence and the office for which he is nominated. The persons making such certificate shall add to their signatures their respective places of residence and shall acknowledge said certificate before an officer duly authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, and a certificate of such acknowledgment shall be affixed to the instrument. The certificate shall Form of cer tificate. to designate vice of party The certificate shall also designate a title for the party Certificate which such convention or committee represents together with figure or deany simple figure or device by which its list of candidates may be designated on the ballot. Provided that the figure or title or device selected and designated by the State convention or committee of any party shall be used by that party throughout the State; only one figure or device shall be used by a party at any election. The same title, figure or device shall Figures or not be used by more than one party, and the party first cer- parties. tifying a name, title, figure or device to the Clerks of the Peace shall have the prior right to use the same. figure or device may be the figure of a star, an eagle, a plow, or some such appropriate symbol, but the coat of arms or used. seal of the State, or of the United States, or the flag of the what shall United States, shall not be used as such figure or device. not be used. Such devices of What fig ures or devices may be |