McCuaig and she is hereby declared the heir-at-law of Alexander Heir-at-law. McCuaig, of the township of North Shade, Gratiot county, Michigan. Ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 9, 1885. [No. 320.] AN ACT to amend sections one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven of chapter two and sections one, two, and four of chapter three of act number three hundred twenty-six, being "An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved June seventh, eighteen hundred eighty-three. amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sec- Sections tions one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven of chapter two of an act entitled "An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: missioners of registration and SEC. 1. There shall be a "board of commissioners of registration Board of comand election" in and for the city of Detroit, which shall consist of four resident electors to be appointed by the board of councilmen election. on the nomination of the mayor, and whose term of office shall be four years, and with the powers and duties hereinafter stated. The members of said board first appointed shall hold their offices for the term of one, two, three, and four years from July first, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred eighty-five respectively, as designated by the mayor in nominating them, and thereafter one member shall be appointed annually for the full term of four years. Said board. shall be strictly non-partisan in character, two members thereof to be from each of the two leading political parties in the said city, and the members thereof shall receive no compensation for their services; any one of said commissioners shall be considered as vacating his office in the event of his accepting or holding any political office, and any commissioner who shall during the term of his office, be publicly nominated for any office elective by the people and who shall not decline the said nomination within ten days succeeding notice or knowledge of the same, shall be deemed to have vacated his office. of registration. SEC. 2. The board of commissioners of registration and election President and shall elect from their number a president. The city clerk shall act secretary. as secretary of said board. Three members of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. It shall be District boards the duty of said board of commissioners of registration and election at least two weeks before the time fixed by law for the meeting of boards for the registration of electors, to appoint two qualified electors of each of the several districts into which the wards of the city of Detroit are divided, to act as district boards of registration in and for each district respectively. One of said registrars to be City board of registration. Notice to be published. from each of two leading political parties in said city, and all registrars so appointed shall be able to read and write the English language. All the district boards of registration of the city shall together constitute the city board of registration. Vacancies occurring in said district boards may be filled at any time by said board of commissioners of registration and election. In the year eighteen Re-registration. hundred and eighty-five and every year thereafter in which an election for president of the United States occurs, there shall be an entire new re-registration of the qualified electors of the city. In the years mentioned the district boards of registration shall begin their sessions for the purpose of making such registration of the qualified electors of each ward and election district of the city, on the second Wednesday preceding the November election, so that the days of registration on such years of re-registration shall be four, of which the second Saturday preceding election shall be the last. The board of commissioners of registration and election shall, at least two weeks before the said meeting of the said district boards of registration, cause a notice to be published in two or more daily newspapers, printed and published in said city representing the two leading political parties in said city that said district boards of registration will meet on the days designated and at the hours mentioned, to make a perfect list as near as may be of all persons residing in such ward and district qualified as electors under the constitution; such notice shall also designate the place in the district of each ward, to be fixed by the said board of commissioners of registration and election, where said district board of registration will Hand bills to be meet for that purpose. At least ten days before said meeting the city clerk shall cause handbills to be posted in at least five conspicuous places in each district of each ward containing a similar notice of the time and place of such meeting for that district, which published notice and said handbills shall also contain a true copy section one of article seven of the constitution relative to the qualifications of electors. All sessions of boards of registration shall be from ten o'clock A. M. to eight o'clock P. M. continuously each day. It shall be the duty of the board of commissioners of registration and election to cause to be prepared for the district boards of registration, books to be known by the general name of registers and to be so arranged as to admit of the entering alphabetically all the names of all male resident electors in each district who shall apply for registration. Said register shall be ruled in parallel columns, in which opposite to, and against the name of every appli cant shall be entered by said district board the words and figures as near as may be, indicated by the following form, viz.: posted. Registers. of In no case shall any name be entered in said register excepting upon the personal application to said district board of the person desiring to be registered. Said district boards shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as are conferred upon and required of boards of registration under the laws of this State, and the same rules and requirements shall be observed in such registration in all respects as are required by said laws excepting as amended or modified by this act. When such registration shall be completed the former registration of electors in such wards or districts shall be deemed invalid and shall not be used at the ensuing election; and no person shall vote at any public election in said wards or districts after such re-registration whose name shall not be registered anew, under the provisions of law, except such persons as were absent from the city or sick during the hours of the sessions of said district boards and who shall then qualify according to law. of registration, SEC. 3. On the second Thursday, Friday, and Saturday next pre- District board ceding the general elections, and on the second Friday and Satur- session of. day next preceding the annual city elections of the city of Detroit, in every year other than that for which a re-registration of voters is provided for and not afterwards, and on the second Friday and Saturday next preceding the spring elections the district boards of registration of said city shall be in session in their respective districts at such places as shall be fixed and designated by the board of commissioners of registration and election, from ten o'clock in the forenoon to eight o'clock in the afternoon of each of said days, without intermission. The board of commissioners of registration Notice. and election shall cause like notice of such session to be given as is provided in the preceding section. At the sessions of said district boards of registration provided for in this section, they shall review and complete the list of qualified voters, as provided by law; and in case of new names being registered the information provided for in the preceding section shall be entered. In order to Names to be prevent, so far as possible, the blotting, mutilation, or disfigurement members of of said registration of electors, it is enacted that no name shall be board. registered by Proviso. register must be personal. entered in such registers excepting in the handwriting of one of the district board of registration, and then only by direction of the proper board during its session; and no member of said board shall write or make any entry in said register excepting the same be permitted by law, and no other person shall make any entry or mark whatever therein excepting inspectors of election, as provided by this act: Provided, That any elector desiring to enter his name in his own handwriting may do so, if the board shall have decided that such elector is entitled to be registered; but when any person shall have ceased to be an elector of any ward or election district, the district board of registration for such ward or district, at its session, may note the fact in red ink across the name of such elector, in addition to the marks provided to be set opposite Application to his name by law. No name shall be entered in said registers excepting upon the personal application of an elector desiring his name to be registered; and upon due examination made, as required by law, the said district board of registration being expressly prohibited from entering any names except upon such personal application at the place of registration. The district board of registration in each ward and district shall require each applicant for registration to state whether he has previously been registered in or resided in any other ward or district. Each board shall make a separate list of the new registrations made at their then session, particularly specifying in such lists those who have previously resided or been registered in any other ward or district, noting the previous place of residence of such person, and shall deliver such separate lists to the city board of registration, at its session hereafter provided to be held. At the close of the session of the distict board of registraupon each page tion of each day during which sessions of said board are required by law to be held, it shall be the duty of said board to sign their names upon each page of the registers used by them immediately under the last name registered on each page on that day and in such manner as to prevent additional names being entered preceding the names of the board. Board to sign of register. City board of registration. SEC. 4. The city board of registration shall assemble at the common council chamber in the said city of Detroit, on the Monday preceding any election to be held in said city, excepting special elections held for election of ward officers, at nine o'clock in the forenoon. On the organization of said city board, by the appointment of a chairman and clerk, said city board shall proceed to examine the register of electors of the several wards and districts of said city; said board may correct any errors appearing therein, but no new name shall be added thereto, or marked so as to indicate that any person has ceased to be an elector in any ward or district excepting as provided in this section. Whenever said board shall find that any person is registered in two or more wards or districts of said city, the board shall ascertain the ward or district in which such person is entitled to be registered, and shall indicate in the register of any other ward or district the fact that such person is not entitled to vote in such other ward or district, retaining the name of such person in the ward or district in which such person is entitled to vote. inspectors of SEC. 5. When any person shall apply to the inspectors of any Application to election, excepting special elections for ward officers, in said city of election to regis Detroit, who has not been registered, to be registered by said ter. inspectors, alleging that he was absent during the then last session of the board of registration of the ward or district, said inspectors shall require such applicant to state, on oath, in addition to the statements required by section fourteen of this act, that he was absent from the city of Detroit during all the hours of said session, or sick and unable to attend throughout the entire time of said session. tions. SEC. 6. Whenever the common council shall order a special elec- Special elec. tion to be held in any of the wards of said city for election of ward officers, said council, by resolution, shall direct the district boards of registration that last held their sessions in such ward to review and complete the list of qualified electors of such ward, on a day and at a place to be named in such resolution. Notice of the time and Notice. place of the session of said boards shall be published in at least two of the daily newspapers published in said city representing the two leading political parties in said city for at least four successive days prior to such session. It shall not be necessary to insert in such notice the names of registered electors, or post handbills containing the same, as in case of general or charter elections. The provisions of this act, or so much thereof as may be applicable, shall govern and regulate the action of said board, each member thereof, and all other persons, in reviewing and completing the register of electors at such session; all persons are hereby made liable to the penalties prescribed therein for any violation of the same at such session as if the same were here again enacted. In case there may be any vacancy in the then board for such district or ward, the board of commissioners of registration and election shall fill the same: Provided, That said board shall fill said vacancy from the same political party to which the said absentee or absentees may belong. duties, SEC. 7. All the provisions of the general laws of the State relative Powers and to the powers and duties of the boards of registration and election, and all requirements and provisions of said laws relative to the conduct of registration and election shall apply and be in full force in the city of Detroit, excepting as the same shall be altered or amended by this act. amended. SEC. 2. That section one (1), two (2), and four (4) of chapter sections three (3) of said act be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: election. SEC. 1. The annual city election shall be held on the first Tues- Annual city day after the first Monday of November in each year at such places in the several wards as shall be designated by the board of commissioners of registration and election at least twenty days previous thereto, notice of which specifying also the officers to be elected and the time for opening and closing the polls shall immediately, or within three days after the date of such designation, be given by the city clerk by publication in two or more daily newspapers published in said city, representing the two leading political parties in said city. The time and place for holding a special election shall |