ART. 33.] ELECTIONS—REGISTRATION. 651

1882, ch. 22, sec. 34.

37. If any officer of registration shall fraudulently register, or
fraudulently permit to be registered, in any registry of voters, or
in any list of qualified and registered voters, in his charge as
officer of registration, any person who is not entitled to be
registered therein as a qualified voter, or if any other person not
authorized by the proper judges or judge shall inscribe the name
of any person as a qualified and registered voter in any registry
of voters, or in any list of qualified and registered voters; or if
any officer of registration shall fraudulently refuse or omit to
register, or shall fraudulently misspell in any registry of voters,
or in any list of qualified and registered voters in his charge as
an officer of registration, the name of any person entitled under
the provisions of this article to have his name inscribed in such
registry of voters or list of qualified and registered voters; or if
any officer of registration shall fraudulently strike from any
registry of voters or from any list of qualified and registered
voters in his charge as an officer of registration, the name of
any qualified and registered voter entitled to remain inscribed
upon such registry of voters or list of qualified and registered
voters; or if any person not authorized by the proper order of
the judges or judge shall fraudulently strike from any registry of
voters or list of qualified and registered voters, the name of any
person therein inscribed as a qualified and registered voter; or if
any officer of registration shall enter the name of any person as a
qualified voter in any registry of voters.in his charge as an officer
of registration, at any time except on a day appointed by this
article for one of his public sittings as an officer of registration,
and except between the hours appointed for such public sitting;
or if any officer of registration shall do any act which is by this
article forbidden to be by him done, or shall omit to do any act
which is by this article required to be by him done, such officer
of registration, whether he be a principal or assistant officer, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by a
competent court, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding three years,
or by both fine and imprisonment as aforesaid.