Chap. 395.—An ACT to Provide for the Registration of the Members and
Officers of the General Assembly.

Approved November 2, 1870.

Whereas, the members and officers of the general assembly
are precluded from applying to be registered in the manner
provided by law in their respective counties, by their public
duties at the capitol, prior to the election to be holden on the
eighth of November, eighteen hundred and seventy: there-

fore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That any member
or officer of the general assembly may take and subscribe the
oath prescribed in section four of an act to provide for a gene-
ral registration of voters, approved April tweltth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy, before any person authorized by law t» ad-
minister oaths, and may apply in writing, or otherwise, to the
registrar of his township, ward, or voting place, to be regis-
tered; and it shall be the duty of such registrar, on the certi-
ficate of the officer administering such oath that the same was
taken and subscribed before him, to enter the name of the per-
son so applying in the registration books in its appropriate
column, and such registration shall be as valid for all purposes
as if made in conformity to the law in force the day before this
act takes effect.

2. ‘This act shall be in force from its passage.