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SECTION 1. Each county treasurer shall, in December annually, make and deliver to the court of common pleas, at the next stated term thereafter, a particular and certified statement of the condition of the treasury, and said court shall determine how much money, in their opinion, is necessary to be raised in and for the county, for the year ensuing, stating in general the purposes for which the same may be needed, and the amount for each object, and lodge such determination and statement with the clerk of said court, who shall transmit the same to the secretary of state, prior to the second Wednesday of June next following.

SEC. 2. The representatives of the several towns comprising each county, on the second Wednesday of the session in June, or on some subsequent day of the same week, shall meet and form themselves into a convention, of the time and place of which notice shall be given by the speaker. The convention may choose a chairman, a clerk who shall be sworn by the chairman or some justice, and who shall record all the proceedings thereof, and shall deliver such record, or cause the same to be delivered, to the clerk of the court of common pleas for said county, within sixty days thereafter, and said convention may grant and appropriate such taxes for the use of the county as may be necessary, and all taxes so voted by the majority of the representatives present shall be valid.

SEC. 3. The clerk of the court of common pleas for each county shall record in the record book of conventions for the county, (which shall be kept in his office,) the doings of such convention, and he shall certify to the treasurer of the county all taxes granted by the same.

SEC. 4. The treasurer shall issue his warrant to the selectmen of the several towns in his county liable to pay state taxes, requiring them to assess, collect and pay in to the treasurer of said county, within such time as shall be therein directed, their just proportion of all taxes granted and certified as aforesaid, which shall be according to their proportion of public taxes for the time being, and may enforce the collection and payment thereof, in the same manner as the treasurer of the state may enforce the collection and payment of outstanding state taxes.

SEC. 5. If any execution shall issue against any county, the treasurer, upon demand made, shall pay the same out of any money in the treasury; and if this is insufficient, he may issue his warrant to the selectmen of the several towns in the county, in the manner prescribed in the preceding section, requiring them to collect and pay into the treasury, within forty days, a sum sufficient to satisfy said execution, and may enforce payment thereof in manner therein provided.

SEC. 6. Whenever the money in the treasury of any county shall be insufficient to meet the demands upon the same, the treasurer, upon an order of the court of common pleas, may borrow such sum as they shall deem necessary for the purpose, and may bind the county for the re-payment of the same. (Laws of 1843, chap. 34, sec. 1.)

TITLE VI

OF ELECTIONS OTHER THAN OF COUNTY AND TOWN OFFICERS.

CHAPTER 25.

CHAPTER 26.
CHAPTER 27.

CHAPTER 28.
CHAPTER 29.

CHAPTER 30.

CHAPTER 31.

Of the rights and qualifications of voters.
Of the manner of conducting elections.

Of the election of governor, councillors and sena

tors.

Of the election of representatives in congress.
Of the election of electors of president and vice-
president.

Of the election of representatives to the general

court.

General provisions concerning elections.

CHAPTER 25.

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SECTION 1. Every male inhabitant of each town, being a native or naturalized citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, excepting paupers and persons excused from paying taxes at their own request, shall have a right at any meeting to vote in the town in which he dwells and has his home.

SEC. 2. No person shall be considered a pauper within the meaning of the preceding section, unless he has been assisted as such within ninety days prior to the meeting in which he claims the right to vote.

SEC. 3. No legal voter in any town or place shall be deprived of his right to vote at any town meeting by reason of requesting or having requested that his taxes might be abated or remitted, or by reason of the abatement or remission of his taxes, provided he shall, before he offers to vote, tender the payment of all taxes assessed against him during the year prior to his offer to vote, to the moderator, collector of taxes, or one of the selectmen, and at the time he offers to vote, present the evidence of such tender. (Laws of 1847, chap. 492, sec. 2.)

SEC. 4. No person shall be deprived of the right to vote at any town meeting by reason of having received assistance from the town for himself or his family, provided he shall tender payment as aforesaid of all reasonable expenses which such town has incurred, within ninety days, by reason of such assistance; but such person upon making such tender shall have his name placed upon the check list, and his vote shall be received. (Laws of 1847, chap. 492, sec. 3.)

SEC. 5. No alien shall be entitled to vote at any town meeting. (Sec. 3, chap. 24, R. S.)

SEC. 6. No person shall be considered as dwelling or having his home in any town for the purpose of voting, or being voted for at any meeting therein, unless he shall have resided within this State six months, and within such town three months, next preceding the day of said meeting. (Sec. 4, chap. 24, R. S.)

SEC. 7. When such a residence is acquired by any person in any town, it shall not be interrupted or lost by a temporary absence therefrom with the intention of returning thereto as his home. (Sec. 5, chap. 24, R. S.)

SEC. 8. Any person who shall exercise the privilege of voting at any election in any town or place within this or any other State, shall be deemed by that act to have elected such town or place to be his legal residence for the purpose of voting, and shall thereafter be disqualified to vote in any other town or place in this State, until he shall have gained a new residence as is herein before provided. (Laws of 1849, chap. 850.)

SEC. 9. No person attending at any college, academy or other literary institution in any town for the purpose of obtaining an education, shall be entitled to vote therein, nor lose his right at his former residence. This shall not apply to any person who had a previous legal residence in any such town, or who has removed and taken up his permanent residence therein. (R. S., chap. 24, sec. 6.)

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SECTION 1. The selectmen shall lodge with the town clerk, and shall also cause to be posted up in one or more public places in the town, an alphabetical list of all the legal voters therein, fifteen days at least prior to any meeting for the choice of state or county officers, representatives in congress or electors of president and vice president.

SEC. 2. The selectmen shall be in session at some convenient place for so long a time as shall be necessary, within three days next preceding any such meeting, for the purpose of correcting said list, and one session shall be for two hours at least on the day and before the opening of said meeting. Notice of the time and places of holding said sessions shall be given upon said lists at the time of posting up the same.

SEC. 3. The selectmen shall hear all applications for the insertion of the name of any person upon said list, or the erasure of any name therefrom, and may examine the party or any witnesses thereto upon oath, which may be administered by any member of the board. They shall insert the name of every legal voter omitted, and erase the name of every person not a legal voter.

SEC. 4. The list, as corrected by the selectmen, shall at all

times, before the opening of any meeting, be open for the examination of every citizen of the town.

SEC. 5. No person shall be allowed to vote at any meeting aforesaid, unless his name is inserted upon said list before the opening of such meeting, and the vote of no person whose name is then upon said list, shall be rejected; provided, however, that this section shall not be so construed as to prevent any person from voting at any election, whose residence has with the knowledge of the selectmen, been, for and during the year next preceding the said election, in such town, but whose name has been accidentally omitted from said list.

SEC. 6. The selectmen shall be present at the opening of such meeting, and shall have then and there present the list of legal voters corrected as aforesaid.

SEC. 7. A suitable box or boxes shall be provided by the selectmen at the expense of the town, in which to receive the ballots of the voters.

SEC. 8. Each ballot shail contain the name of every person voted for, and may be either written or printed. Blank pieces of paper shall not be counted as ballots, votes or tickets.

SEC. 9. Each voter shall deliver his ballot to the moderator in open meeting, and the moderator, on receiving the ballot, shall direct the town clerk to check the name of the voter on said list, and shall, without inspecting the name of any person voted for, examine said ballot so far only as to determine whether the same contains more than one ticket; if it do not, he shall place the ballot in the balloting box; but if it do, he shall make it manifest to the meeting, and reject the same.

SEC. 10. In balloting for state and county officers, representatives to congress, or electors of president and vice-president, the moderator shall call for the ballots for so many of said officers as it may be necessary to vote for at such meeting, to be given in on the same ticket, as a majority of the voters present may request or designate, with the respective offices designated against the name of each person voted for.

SEC. 11. If several officers are to be voted for upon one ticket, no person shall be obliged to vote for each of said officers. And when more than one description of officers are voted for on the same ticket, any ticket which does not contain at least one vote for each description of officers, shall be regarded as a blank as to the description of officers omitted.

SEC. 12. The selectmen and town clerk shall assist in sorting and counting said votes, but no other person shall in any manner interfere therewith.

SEC. 13. In determining the result of any election, the whole number of persons voting for any officer shall first be ascertained by counting the whole number of separate tickets given in, and no person shall be declared to be elected to any office who shall not have received a majority of the whole number of tickets given

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