HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1169

endorsed by at least three qualified voters in each of the town
wards, and petitions of candidacy for councilman must be
endorsed by five qualified voters in the ward from which suet
candidate seeks election. Upon the filing of such petitions,
and not otherwise, the candidates' names shall be printed on
the official ballots, as candidates for the respective offices
which they seek.

SEC. 9. All adult citizens of the United States who shall
have been actually domiciled within the corporate limits of
the town for at least one year prior to registration or who
have been resident owners of real property in the corporate
limits of the town for at least six months prior to registra-
tion, shall be entitled to register as hereinafter provided, and
after such registration to vote at any election or referendum
held in said town under the provisions of this Act, or under
the provisions of any other act authorizing an election or
referendum to be held in said town for any town purposes what-
soever, so long as their names remain on the registration books
of the town, or until disqualified by loss of citizenship or actual
removal of domicile from said town.

SEC. 10. The Mayor and Town Council shall provide a regis-
tration book or books of a form to be prescribed by the Mayor
and Town Council, in which all voters shall be registered by
wards. The Mayor and Town Council shall designate a person
who shall sit between the hours of 7. 30 P. M. and 8. 00 P. M.
or longer, preceding each regular meeting for the registration
of voters, except that no person shall be registered as a voter
during the period of 21 days immediately preceding any elec-
tion. In the period of not less than 14 days nor more than 21
days before election, the Mayor and Town Council shall sit
for the purpose of reviewing the registration book or books
and removing the names of persons who are no longer actually
domiciled within the corporate limits of the town, those who
are deceased, or persons who have lost their citizenship or
otherwise improperly registered. The Mayor and Town Coun-
cil shall, when it has full knowledge of the disqualification
of a voter, strike his name from the registration book. If any
person has been reported in writing to the Mayor and Town
Council as being disqualified, and the Mayor and Town Coun-
cil are not certain as to the disqualification of such voter,
they shall send a notice by mail with sufficient postage prepaid
to such suspected person at the address shown on the registra-
tion books, notifying him or her as to the nature of the
suspected disqualification and that they will sit at a specified
time and place not less than ten days before election, and that
if they do not answer the charges in writing or appear in
person or by representative at such time and place, their name