Chap. 295.—An ACT toamend and re-enact section 16, chapter 8, Code
of 1873, in relation to general and special elections.

Approved April 2, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
sixteen, chapter eight, of Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 16. The judge to whom any ballot is delivered shall,
upon receipt thereof, pronounce with an audible voice the
name of the person from whom the ballot is received; and if
the name of the person is found on the registration bouk, and
he produce a receipt of the proper officer for the payment to
the state, at any time prior to the day of election, of the
capitation tax required by law for the preceding year, or on
failure to produce such receipt, he shall show by satisfactory
evidence that the same has been paid prior to the day of
election, or that he has attained the age of twenty-one years
since the expiration of said preceding year, and there being
no objection made, the said judge shall, without opening said
ballot, or permitting the same to be examined, (except to
ascertain whether it is a single ballot,) deposit the same in
the ballot-box; whereupon the name of the elector shall be
checked on the registration book by one of the judges, and
entered by the clerk of election on the poll books, and cor-
rectly numbered in accordance with the namber of electors
theretofore recorded, and a note made opposite thereto by
writing the word “age,” if he shall be admitted to vote on
account of age as aforesaid, and the said judge of election
shall cancel said capitation tax receipt before returning it to
the voter: provided when a registered voter has changed his
piace of residence from one voting district to another, if be

as a certificate showing that he was duly registered in his
former voting district, and that his name has, since his re-
moval, been erased from the registration books of said voting
district, it shall be sufficient evidence to entitle him, on pro-
ducing a receipt for the payment of the capitation tax, or
accounting for his failure to produce such receipt as afore-
said, to vote in the district in which he resides, and his name
shall be registered on the registration book by the registrar,
if he be present, or by one of the judges of election: pro-
vided further, that in cities and towns containing over two
thousand inhabitants, the name of such person shall only be
entered by the registrar the days named in the ninth section
of the preceding chapter.

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