cause a vacancy under the provisions of section four, chapter six of the Compiled Laws of Arizona, or under the provisions of any other acts or parts of acts.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 9th, 1875.

AN ACT

Supplemental to chapter Twenty-four of the Compiled Laws of the Territory of Arizona, concerning the registration of voters.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona:

QUALIFICATIONS AND DISABILITIES OF ELECTORS.

SECTION 1. Every male citizen of the United States, and every male citizen of Mexico who shall have elected to become a citizen of the United States under the treaty of peace exchanged and ratified at Queratero on the thirtieth day of May, 1848, and the Gadsden treaty of 1854, of the age of twentyone years, who shall have been a resident of the Territory six months next preceding the election and the county or precinct in which he claims his vote ten days, and has paid his poll tax within one year next preceding the election, and whose name is enrolled on the Great Register of such county, is qualified thereof.

REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS.

SEC. 2. There must be kept in the office of the County Recorder of each county a great register.

SEC. In the great register, the Recorder must, as hereinafter provided, enter the names of the qualified electors of the county.

SEC. 4. Such entry must show:

First. The name at length.

Second. The age, omitting fractions of years.

Third. The country of the nativity.

Fourth. The place of residence, giving the precinct.

Fifth. If naturalized, the time and place of naturalization. Sixth. The date of entry of each person. Each name must be numbered in the order of its entry.

SEC. 5. No person's name must be entered by the Recorder unless :

1. Upon a certificate of registration in another county showing that such registration has been canceled and upon proof by the affidavit of the party that he is an elector of the county in which he seeks to be registered.

2. Upon the return of the Assessor of the county.

3. If a naturalized citizen, upon the production of his certificate of naturalization, or upon his own affidavit of its loss, together with the affidavit of a registered citizen to the effect that the appellant has resided in the United States for five years and in this Territory for six months next preceding the time of application, and is reported to be a citizen of the United States, and that deponent believes him to be, and proof by the affidavit of the party that he is, an elector of the county.

4. If born in a foreign country, but by his affidavit he states he became a citizen of the United States by virtue of the naturalization of his father while he was residing in the United States, and under the age of twenty-one years. upon the production of a certified copy of his father's certificate of naturalization, or upon such proof of residence and reputed citizenship as is required by the preceding subdivision, and upon proof by the affidavit of the party that he is an elector of the county.

5. Upon the production and filing of a certified copy of the judgment of a district court, or the decision of a Probate Judge, directing such entry to be made.

6. In other cases, upon the affidavit of the party that he is an elector of the county.

7. In every case the affidavit of the party shall show all the facts required to be stated in the entry on the register except the date and number of the entry.

SEC. 6. The Assessor of each county must keep a roll of electors, on which and upon like proof as is required for entry

upon the great register, he must enroll the names of electors of the county making application to him for that purpose.

SEC. 7. Such enrollment must show the same facts as are required to be shown by the entry upon the great register.

SEC. 8. The Recorder or Assessor must, upon every certificate of naturalization presented to him as evidence of citizenship, indorse and subscribe a statement of the time of presentation and of his action thereon.

SEC. 9. At the end of every month, the Assessor must return to the County Recorder a certified copy of all entries made upon his roll of electors during such month and all affidavits made for the purpose of procuring such enrollment.

SEC. 10. Upon the receipt of such returns, the Recorder must at once enter upon the great register the names contained and the statement made in such returns.

SEC. 11. The Recorder must file and preserve all affidavits returned to him by the Assessor or used before him for the purpose of registration.

SEC. 12. No person must cause himself to be registered or enrolled in one county when his registration in another remains uncanceled.

SEC. 13. There must be left opposite each name in the great register a blank for cancellation. Cancellation is made by writing in such blank the word "canceled," and a statement of the reasons therefor.

SEC. 14. The Recorder must cancel the entry in the following cases:

1. At the request of the party registered.

2. When he knows of the death or of the removal of the person registered.

3. When the insanity of the person registered is legally established.

4. Upon the production of a certified copy of a judgment of felony in full force against the person registered.

5. Upon the production of a certified copy of a judgment directing the cancellation to be made.

6. Upon the certificate of the Board of Election of any precinct sent up with the election returns, stating the death or removal, within their knowledge, of the person registered.

SEC. 15. Upon the application of the party in person, or in writing, the Recorder must give him or his agent a certified copy of the entries upon the great register relating to such party.

SEC. 16. If the Recorder refuses to enter the name of any qualified elector of the county upon the great register, such elector may proceed by action in the district court, or before the Probate Judge of the proper county, to compel such entry.

SEO. 17. Any person may proceed by action in the district court or before the Probate Judge of the proper county to compel the Recorder to cancel any entry made on the great register illegally, or that ought to be canceled by reason of facts that have occurred subsequent to the time of such entry.

SEC. 18. In an action under the authority of section fifteen, as many persons may join as plaintiffs as have causes of action.

SEC. 19. In an action under the authority of section sixteen, the Recorder and as many persons as there are causes of action against, may be joined as defendants.

SEC. 20. Costs cannot be recovered against the Recorder in any action under the authority of this chapter, unless it is alleged in the complaint and established in the trial, that the Recorder knowingly and willfully violated a plain duty.

SEC. 21. Before the first Monday of October in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and in every second year thereafter, each County Recorder must make out a copy of the entries existing on the great register on the preceding Monday.

SEC. 22. In such copy, the names must be arranged alphabetically according to surnames, and must be numbered consecutively from the first to the last name, inclusive.

SEC. 23. Within fifteen days after making such list, the Recorder must have printed a sufficient number of copies thereof to supply each election precinct in the county with not less than ten copies thereof and fifty additional for every one thousand votes cast in the county at the next preceding election.

SEC. 24. The Recorder must, as soon as such copies are printed :

1. Post one copy in some public place in the court-house.

2. Transmit and cause to be delivered not less than five copies to each Election Board in the county.

3. Preserve five copies in his office for the inspection of the public.

4. Deliver one copy to each elector of the county applying therefor, until the remainder of the editions printed is exhausted.

SEC. 25. A certified copy of an uncanceled entry upon the great register is prima facie evidence that the person named in the entry is an elector of the county.

SEC. 26. The County Recorder for each name placed upon the great register, and the County Assessor for each name placed upon his roll of electors, shall receive the sum of fifteen cents to be paid out of the county treasury.

VOTING AND CHALLENGES.

SEC. 27. At all elections, the polls shall be opened at eight o'clock in the morning, and shall continue open until sunset, at which time the judges shall close the polls. Provided, that the judges of the election may take a recess of one hour at any time they may think proper during the day, before three o'clock in the afternoon.

SEC. 28. The person offering to vote must hand his ballot to the Inspector or to one of the Judges acting as Inspector, and announce his name and the number affixed to it on the printed copy of the register, if his name is thereon.

SEC. 29. The Inspector, or Judge acting as such, must receive the ballot, and before depositing it in the ballot-box, must, in an audible tone of voice, announce the name and registered number, if there be one, of the person voting.

SEC. 30. If the name is found on the copy of the great register, or if the party produces and files with the board an uncanceled certificate of registration on the great register of the county, and the vote is not rejected upon a challenge taken, the Inspector, or Judge acting as such, must, in the presence of the Board of Election, place the ballot, without being opened or examined, in the ballot-box.