ART. — .] REGISTRATION.

offence, and be imprisoned until such fine and costs
of prosecution are paid.

247

26. The judges of election shall not receive or de-
posit the ballot of any person offering to vote until
they shall have found his name on the list or register
of qualified voters and have checked it thereon, and
they shall receive and deposit the ballot of every per-
son offering to vote whose name appears on said list
or register of qualified voters ; and if any judge of
election shall refuse to receive and deposit the ballot
of any such person, he shall on conviction thereof

Ibid, c 14.
What votes to
be taken and
how.

forfeit and pay a fine of not less than five hundred
dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, for each
offence, and be imprisoned until such fine and costs
of prosecution are paid ; and shall also be liable in
damages at the suit of the party aggrieved.

Penalty and
action against
judge of elec-
tion

27. The provisions of this act shall extend to all
special elections, whether municipal or otherwise,
and to the voters upon amendments to the constitu-
tion, and for or against a convention to frame a new
constitution, whenever such question has been or
may be submitted to the people by the legislature ;
and if it shall be found, before any such election,
that the ten days' notice of the sittings of the regis-
ters cannot be given as required in the previous
sections of this act, they shall nevertheless proceed

Ibid. 9 13.
This act to
apply to all
elections, and
voting for con-
vention, &c.

to the discharge of their duties, giving such notice
thereof as the time will admit or as in their judg-
ment they may deem proper, and the registration so
made, and the lists of qualified voters handed by
them to the judges of election shall be taken by said
judges as the lists of persons entitled to vote at such
election.

Notice.

28. The governor shall appoint three persons as
officers of registration, whose duty it shall be to reg-
ister the soldiers of this state in the military service
of the United States, and such persons in the naval
service of the United States as may be stationed at
convenient and accessible points who are absent from
their regular places of voting on account of such ser-

Ibid. s. 16.
Registry of
voters in army
and navy.