ALBERT C. RITCHIE,, GOVERNOR. 21

law. No persons shall be allowed to vote in any election
in said town except those persons whose names shall ap-
pear upon the register of voters in the ward where such
persons shall offer to vote and who shall be actual resi-
dents as hereinbefore, defined of said town upon the day
of the election. The Mayor and Common Council shall
annually appoint four Judges and two Clerks, who shall
themselves be registered voters, to conduct the election in
each Oi said wards. The polls shall be open from the hour
of nine o'clock A. M. to the hour of seven o'clock P. M.,
when they shall be closed and no ballots shall be deposited
in the ballot box after that time. The said judges and
clerks shall conduct such elections, canvass the ballots
and certify the results in the manner prescribed by the
General Election Laws of this State for State and County
Elections, except that said Judges and Clerks shall within
twenty-four hours after the closing of the polls in each
Election deliver into the hands of the Mayor one certifi-
cate or return of the result of the canvass of the ballots
cast in the election together with one tally sheet and shall
deliver another certificate or return of the result of said
canvass together with the other tally sheet into the hands
of the chairman of the Council but shall deliver the ballot
box containing the ballots, properly sealed, to the Clerk
of the Council in person.

Section 2E. That the registration officers and Judges
of election herein provided for and each of them shall
have and exercise all the power and authority now vested
in registration officers and Judges of Election, under the
General Election and Registration Laws of this State, to
administer oaths, keep the peace, to cause any person
to be arrested for any breach of the peace or for any
breach oi. the election laws or any interference with the
progress of any registration, election or canvass of the
ballots; and it shall be the duty of all officers of the law
to obey the order of any registration officer or Judge of
Election, and an officer making an arrest by direction of
any registration officer or Judge of Election shall be pro-
tected in so doing as fully as if a warrant had been issued
to him to make such arrest, and such registration officers,
Judges and Clerks of Election shall be liable to all the
penalties now imposed upon registration officers and