Chap. 47.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Seven of the act
approved April 12th, 1870, entitled an act to Provide for a General
Registration of Voters.

Approved April 13, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the seventh
section of the act entitled an act to provide for a general
Tegistration of voters, approved April twelfth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Ҥ 7. Each registrar shall, annually, on the fourth Tuesday
in April, at his voting place, proceed to register the names of
all the qualified voters within his voting district, not previously
registered in his said district, in accordance with the pro-
visions of this act, who shall apply to be registered, com-
mencing at sunrise and closing at sunset of each day, and shall
complete such registration within five days thereafter: pro-
vided, that the annual registration, for the year eighteen hun- |
dred and seventy, shall commence on the first Tuesday in
May, and be completed within seven days. Fifteen days pre-
vious to any state, county, or township election, the registrar
shall sit two days, for the purpose of amending and correcting
the list, at which time any qualified voter, applying and not
previously registered, may be added: provided, that the regis-
trar shall sit for this purpose the two days next preceding the
election which is to be held on the fourth Thursday in May,
eighteen hundred and seventy. The registrars shall give
notice of the time and place of all registrations, for at least ten
days before each sitting, by posting written or printed notices
thereof at five or more public places in their townships, wards,
and election districts. tt shall be the duty of the registrars,
within ten days after the completion of any general registra-
tion of voters under this act, to have posted, at three or more
public places in their townships, wards, and election districts,
written or printed lists of all persons admitted by them to
registration.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.