Chap. 158.—An ACT to Provide for Purging the Registration Books
of Illegal Voters.

Approved April 9, 1874.

1. Boe it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful for any five qualified voters of any election district,
fifteen days previous to either of the regular days of regis-
tration, to post written or printed notices at not less than
three public places in said district, including the voting pre-
ewinct, of the names of all persons who they may allege are
improperly on the registration books of that precinct. The
notice shall be signed by the parties posting the same. On
the regular day of registration, it shall be the duty of the
registrar to hear testimony produced for or against the right |
of persons named in said notice to be retained on the regis-
tration books; and if he shall be satisfied that any person
mentioned in said notice has removed from the election dis-
trict, county or corporation, has died, or has been convicted
of felony, or for any other reason is not a qualified voter, he
shall strike the said name from the registration books. From
such decision of the registrar any party may appeal in thesame
manner as is provided for in section fourteen, chapter seven
of the Code, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. And the
register shall immediately after the regular day of registra-
tion, post written or printed notices at the precinct, and at
two other public places in his election district, of all the
names stricken from the registration books. Ifthe registrar
should be unable to hear the evidence in reference to the
names posted on the regular days of registration, the books
may be kept open as to such names only, for four other days.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.