ART. 13.] ELECTION DISTRICTS. 1325

1884, ch. 20.

84. The first election district is divided into two election pre-
cincts, and Abingdon and Magnolia shall respectively be the
places where the elections shall be held in said precincts.

1876, ch. 154.

85. The county commissioners are authorized to make such
divisions of any election district or districts in said county, into
election precincts, as in their judgment the public interest may
require, and to designate the places of holding elections therein,
and the number by which each of said precincts shall be known.

Ibid.

86. It shall be the duty of the officer of registration in each
election district, so changed or so divided into precincts, when
notified by the county commissioners of such change or such di-
vision into precincts of any such district prior to the next elec-
tion, to register all the voters in such district, in the same mode
and manner as the voters in other districts are required to be
registered by article 33 of the code of public general laws, title
"Elections," sub-title "Registration;" and he shall prepare sepa-
rate lists of voters according to the sub-divisions of such districts
into precincts, designating the election precincts of the districts,
in which the voters are or shall be respectively entitled to vote,
and shall deliver one copy of the lists of voters for each of said
precincts to the judges of election thereof.

Ibid.

87. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners to ap-
point three persons for each of said precincts, residents thereof,
to act as judges of elections for said precincts, and who shall per-
form the duties of their office in the manner required by said
article 33 of the Code of public general laws, title "Elections;"
and such judges shall make their returns in the same manner as
if the said precincts were districts, and in accordance with the
laws applicable to judges of elections for districts; and they shall
receive the same compensation as other judges of election in said
county.