Chap. 84.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Twenty-sixth Section of
an act entitled an Act to Provide for a General Election.

. Approved May 12, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the twenty-
sixth section of the act entitled an aet to provide for a gene-
ral election, approved May eleventh, one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Ҥ 26. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the several
county and corporation courts, on the first day of April and
October in each year, to make out and transmit to the secre-
tary of the commonwealth a list of the number of voting dis-
tricts in their respective counties and corporations, together
with the number of voters in each voting district; upon the
reception of which, the secretary of ‘the commonwealth shall
transmit to the said clerks respectively duplicate poll books
or poll lists for each voting district in their respective coun-
ties or corporations, of sufficient size to contain the names of
all the voters therein: provided, that for the election to be
held on the fourth Thursday in May, one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy, the secretary of the commonwealth shal}
transmit the necessary poll books to the said clerks respect-
ven without such lif@ts having been furnished him as afore-
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_ 2. This act shall be in force from.its passage.