the Great Register, in the same manner as is herein Same. above provided respecting Ward Registers in the City and County of San Francisco. When so ordered, the provisions of law applicable to the City and County of San Francisco, in respect to the preparation, correction, issue, distribution, posting, use, and return of Ward Registers, shall apply to such county, the word "township" being substituted for "ward" for that purpose, wherever it occurs; except that the number of additional copies to be printed of such registers, shall not exceed fifty for each one thousand votes cast in the respective townships at the next preceding election. The Board of Supervisors shall fix the compensation of the County Clerk for his services in preparing the Township Registers, which shall be paid out of the County Treasury. Such order may be repealed and reenacted as often as the Board of Supervisors may deem it expedient to do so.

SEC. 32. Section one thousand one hundred and fourteen of said Code is amended to read as follows:

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Section One Thousand One Hundred and Fourteen. ArrangeIn such copy and registers the names must be arranged names. alphabetically, according to surnames, and must be numbered consecutively, from the first to the last name, inclusive.

SEC. 33. Section one thousand one hundred and fifteen of said Code is amended to read as follows:

Section One Thousand One Hundred and Fifteen. Printing Registers. Within fifteen days after making such lists, the Clerk 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 general election; except that in the City and County of San Francisco the County Clerk must have printed a sufficient number of copies of

Distribution of

copies.

Register prima facie evidence.

each Ward Register to supply two hundred and fifty copies thereof for the first one thousand votes or fraction thereof, cast in the ward at the next preceding general election, and fifty additional copies for each additional one thousand votes or fraction thereof above five hundred.

SEC. 34. Section one thousand one hundred and sixteen of said Code is amended to read as follows:

Section One Thousand One Hundred and Sixteen. The Clerk must, as soon as such copies of the Great Register, or Ward, or Township Registers are printed: First-Post one copy in some public place in the Court House.

Second-Deliver, upon demand, one copy to each county and township officer in the county.

Third-Transmit and cause to be delivered not less than ten copies to each Board of Election in the county; but in cases where Ward Registers are printed, ten copies shall be delivered to each Board of Election in the respective wards, and one copy of all the registers to each Board of Election in the county.

Fourth-Preserve five copies in the office for the inspection of the public.

Fifth-Transmit to the State Library, Mercantile Library, Mechanics' Institute, and Odd Fellows' Library, of San Francisco, one copy each.

Sixth-Deliver one copy to each elector of the county, or respective ward, applying therefor, until the remainder of the edition printed is exhausted.

SEC. 35. Section one thousand one hundred and seventeen of said Code is amended to read as follows:

Section One Thousand One Hundred and Seventeen. 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. 36. Section one thousand one hundred and thirty-one of said Code is amended to read as follows:

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Boards and

Section One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty-one. AppointThe Board must, at least fifteen days prior to an elec- Election tion, issue its order appointing Boards of Election, precincts. designating the house or place within the precinct where the election must be held, and the offices to be filled, naming and numbering, in numerical order, commencing with number one, the offices to be filled, unexpired terms being lastly designated.

SEC. 37. Section one thousand one hundred and thirty-two of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty- Same. two. If the Board fail to designate the house or place for holding the election, or if it cannot be held. at the house or place designated, the Justices of the Peace residing in the precinct must meet two days before the election, and by an order, under their hand (copies of which they must at once post in three public places in the precinct), designate the house or place. In the City and County of San Francisco, any three of the Justices of the Peace may discharge the duties imposed by this section, at least eighteen hours prior to the opening of the polls.

SEC. 38. Section one thousand one hundred and forty-two of said Code is amended to read as follows:

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Election.

Section One Thousand One Hundred and Forty- Appointtwo. When an election is ordered, the Board of Boards of Supervisors must appoint, for each precinct, from the electors thereof, one Inspector and two Judges, who constitute a Board of Election for such precinct; and in the City and County of San Francisco the Board of Supervisors must also, prior to the election day, appoint for each precinct, from the electors thereof, an additional Inspector and two additional Judges, who,

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Time of opening

and closing polls.

with the original Inspector and Judges, shall canvass the votes for such precinct, and who must be present at the closing of the polls, otherwise the Board of Election must appoint the additional Inspector and Judges, or supply the place of an absent member thereof. The original and additional Inspectors and Judges shall thenceforth constitute the Board of Election, the members relieving each other in the duties of canvassing the ballots, which may be conducted by at least half of the whole number; but the final certificates shall be signed by a majority of the whole.

SEC. 39. Section one thousand one hundred and forty-four of said Code is amended to read as follows:

Section Eleven Hundred and Forty-four. If the Board of Supervisors fail to appoint the Board of Election, or the members appointed do not attend at the opening of the polls on the morning of the election, the electors of the precinct present at that hour may appoint the Board, or supply the place of an absent member thereof.

SEC. 40. Section eleven hundred and forty-nine of said Code is amended to read as follows:

Section Eleven Hundred and Forty-nine. Before opening the polls the Board must post, in some separate convenient places, easy of access, not less than four printed copies of the Great Register of the county, as last printed, except in the City and County of San Francisco, wherein not less than four printed copies of the Register of the Ward shall be so posted.

SEC. 41. Section eleven hundred and sixty of said Code is amended to read as follows:

Section Eleven Hundred and Sixty. The polls must be opened at one hour after sunrise on the

morning of the election, and must be kept open until sunset, when the same must be closed.

SEC. 42. Section eleven hundred and sixty-one of Repealed. said Code is repealed.

SEC. 43. Section one thousand one hundred and seventy-four of said Code is amended to read as follows:

poll lists.

Section Eleven Hundred and Seventy-four. The Form of following is the form of poll lists and tally lists to be kept by Boards and Clerks of Election:

POLL LISTS.

Of the election held in the Precinct of — in the County of

on the day of

in the year

A. B.,

A. D. one thousand eight hundred and
C. D., and E. F., Judges, and G. H. and J. K., Clerks
of said election, were respectively sworn (or affirmed),
as the law directs, previous to their entering on the
duties of their respective offices.

We hereby certify that the numbers of electors voting at this election amounts to