HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 291
preceding any regular election for Councilmen, who have
never been convicted of any infamous crime, shall be
qualified voters of said town and as such shall be entitled
to register as hereinafter provided and after such regis-
tration to vote at any election held in said town under the
provisions of this Act, unless they shall be thereafter dis-
qualified by loss of citizenship, actual removal from said
town or conviction for an infamous crime, in which case
their name shall be stricken from the registration books
hereinafter provided for.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That on or before
the second Monday in May in each and every year, the
Mayor and Common Council shall appoint two qualified
voters of said town not holding any other office thereunder
as Supervisors of Election, who shall also act as Registra-
tion Officials and Judges of Election at any election held
during the year succeeding their appointment, and said
Supervisors of Election are authorized to administer oaths
in the performance of their duties hereinafter set forth.
In case of a vacancy occurring in said year in the office of
Supervisors of Election, the Mayor and Common Council
shall appoint a qualified person to fill said vacancy occur-
ring in said office. The Supervisors of Election shall re-
ceive five dollars each for each and every day they may be
required to serve as Judges of Election or as Registration
Officials.
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the said Super-
visors of Election shall appoint by at least one advertise-
ment in some county newspaper having general circula-
tion in the town and by posters prominently displayed in
each ward the first and second Mondays in June in each
and every year for registration, on which days the Super-
visors of Election shall sit as Registration Officials at
some easily accessible place in said town to be named in
said advertisement between the hours of 1 and 8 p. m.
Each of said Supervisors shall be furnished by the Mayor
and Common Council with a well-bound registration book
Which shall be kept by him and for which he shall be re-
sponsible. In such books there shall be a space for the
name of each person registering, his age, his color, his ac-
tual place of residence in said town, his ward, his occupa-
tion, and the date of registration, and a space where he
shall sign his name, or where the registration official shall
sign his name for him if he be unable to write, in which
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