19-1614.   Register.Said registers shall each contain a list of the persons so qualified andentitled to vote in said voting precinct at the coming election for thepermanent location or relocation of the county seat; alphabeticallyarranged according to their respective surnames, so as to show in onecolumn the name at full length, and in another column, in cities, theresidence, by the number of the dwelling, if there be a number, and thename of the street, or other location of the dwelling place of eachelector. It shall be the duty of said board to enter in said lists thename of every person residing in their voting precinct whose nameappears on the poll book kept in said precinct at the last precedingelection; in cities, the numbers of the dwellings and name of thestreet, or other location, if the same shall be known to or can beascertained by such board; and for this purpose said board is authorizedto take from the office in which they are filed the duplicate poll bookmade and filed by the judges of such voting precinct at the electionheld next prior to the making of such register.

      In making said list the board shall enter thereon, in addition to thenames on the duplicate poll book, the names of all other persons who arewell known to them to be qualified electors in said voting precinct; andthe names of all persons on the duplicate poll book who have died orremoved from the voting precinct shall be omitted from said register.The said boards shall complete, as far as practicable, the said registeron the day of their meeting aforesaid, and shall make four copiesthereof, and certify the register and each of said copies to be a truelist of the legal voters in their voting precinct, so far as the sameare known to them, within two days thereafter, and file said originallist, together with the list taken from the office as aforesaid, in theoffice of the township clerk of the township in which said electionprecinct may be, within three days of said meeting.

      One copy of said list shall be kept by each of said judges, andcarefully preserved by him for their use, on the day or days hereinaftermentioned for the revision of the same. One copy of said list shall,immediately after its completion, be posted in some conspicuous placewhere said election is to be held, in the voting precinct, and beaccessible to any elector who may desire to examine the same. And anyperson who shall take down, tear down, or deface any list so posted,shall on conviction thereof be punished by a fine of fifty dollars, orby imprisonment in the county jail for a term of sixty days, or by bothfine and imprisonment.

      History:   L. 1881, ch. 89, § 2; March 4; R.S. 1923, 19-1614.