ART. 33.] ELECTIONS—REGISTRATION. 627

1882, ch. 22, sec. 10. 1888, ch. 155, sec. 3.

10. Each of the said officers of registration appointed for an
election district in any county of this State shall endorse upon
the back and write at the head of each registry of voters and of
each poll-book delivered to him as aforesaid, the name of the
county and the number or name of the election district, or the
name of the county and the number or name of the election dis-
trict and of the election precinct in such election district of such
county of which he is an officer of registration, of which such
books may be respectively the registry of voters and poll-books,
and shall sit for the purpose of ascertaining and registering in
the proper registry of voters and poll- books the persons qualified
to vote in the election district or in each of the election precincts
of such election district, if such election district be so divided, of
which he is an officer of registration, daily for two successive
days in the month of May, for three successive days in Septem-
ber, and for five successive days in October in every year in
which an election shall be held in said counties; said sittings in
May and September to commence on the second Monday of said
months respectively, and the October sitting to commence on the
first Monday in October. Said sittings shall in like manner be
called the May, September and October sittings. The said re-
spective officers of registration shall sit at said several sittings in
the several counties with open doors, from eight o'clock A. M.
until six o'clock P. M., on each day of their sessions, and their
proceedings shall be public and open to free inspection, without
any obstruction whatever If the election district of which he is
appointed an officer of registration is not divided into election
precincts, he shall, at his sittings in the year eighteen hundred
and eighty-eight, and at his sittings in each year thereafter, sit
for the purposes aforesaid in one or more places, not exceeding
in all three in number, in his election district, convenient respec-
tively to the residents of the different sections of said election
district, and shall sit at each of said places on so many of the
days designated by this section for his said respective sittings as
will suffice to afford an opportunity for ascertaining and regis-
tering the qualified voters of said different sections of his said
election district, and of his whole election district. If the said
election district for which he is appointed an officer of regis-