Chap. 106.—An ACT to Amend the Ist Section of an Act entitled an Act to
Provide for Dividing the Townships of the State into Voting Districts,
Approved July 11, 1870.

Approved March 6, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first sec-
tion of the act entitled an act to provide for dividing the town-
ships of the state into voting districts, approved July eleventh,
eighteen hundred and sev enty, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

“$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That in each
township of the state in which more than one voting place
shall have been established by law, it shall be the duty of the
township board to designate, by proper and well defined bounda-
ries, the election district of each voting place within their town-
ship; and they shall, at the earliest practicable day thereafter,
make a written report, describing, as accurately as they can,
the boundaries of every such voting district, and make return
thereof to the clerk’s office of their county court; and the
township board may, in its discretion, upon the petition of
twenty qualified voters of their township, rearrange, increase,
or diminish the number of election districts in such township:
provided, no such change or rearrangemert shall be made
within thirty days previous to any general registration of vo-
ters, or revision of such registration thereafter. The report of
the boundaries of every such new voting district shall be made
and returned as above directed, and shall, in addition thereto,
be posted, without delay, at the courthouse of the county and
at the voting places of the said township.”

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