Chap. 71.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Eleventh Section of the
act approved April 12, 1870, entitled an act to Provide for a General
Registration of Voters.

Approved April 80, 1870.

1. Be it enacted, That the eleventh section of the act ap-
proved April twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled
an act to provide for a general registration of voters, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, viz:

Ҥ 11. If any person shall offer to register, and shall be re-
jected by the registrar, he may take an appeal to the judge of
the county or hustings court of his county, city, or town, in
term time or vacation; and any elector may challenge the
right of any person offering to register, and if the registrar
shall allow such challenged person to register, the said elector
may appeal, in like manner, to said judge; and it shall be the
duty of the registrar, on application of any person so desiring
an appeal, to transmit to the judge of the said court, having
jurisdiction over the said voting place, a written statement of
the ground relied on by the appellant, and the reasons relied
on by the registrar for his action.

“Tt shall be the duty of said judge to hear evidence offered
by the said appellant and appellee; but in case the appeal is
by an elector, contesting the right of any person so register-
ing, such person shall have reasonable notice of the time and
place of hearing said appeal; and the said judge shall, at least
tive days previous to any election, transmit to the registrar
from whose action such appeal was taken, his decision, which
shall be entered by the registrar on his registration books. In
any case of appeal under this section, the court may give or
refuse costs, as to it may seem right.

“The registrar, at each place of voting, shall deliver to the
commissioner of election his registration book previous to any
election to be held at said voting place; and after each elec-
tion, the commissioners of election shall deposit the registra-
tion books with the clerk of the respective townships, or in
the cities or towns, with the clerk of the corporation court
thereof for safekeeping; and the said registration books shal?
at all times be open to inspection.”

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