СНАР. 5 Selectmen authorized to furnish additional ballot boxes and registrars additional officials. Registrars to des ignate boxes to be used. Women's lists "to be made" may be separate. [House Bill No. 5.] CHAPTER 5. An Act concerning Additional Ballot Boxes and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in eneral Assembly convened: SECTION 1. The selectmen of each town may provide for the electors' meeting to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1920, such additional ballot boxes and stub boxes as in the opinion of the registrars of voters of such town may be necessary to accommodate the voters of such town at said meeting; and said registrars may appoint such additional booth tenders, challengers, ballot clerks, checkers and box tenders as may be necessary. SEC. 2. The registrars of voters of each town in which additional boxes are provided shall designate which voters shall cast their ballots in each box, provided such designation shall not be based upon the sex of the voter. SEC. 3. The registrars of voters may print separate voting lists of men and women electors, provided there shall be no discrimination in the designation of ballot boxes or voting machines based upon the sex of the voter. SEC. 4. Women's "to be made" lists may be printed sepa rately. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from its passage. Validating the admission of certain electors. [House Bill No. 6.] CHAPTER 6. An Act validating Certain Acts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The admission of all electors in any town. during the month of September, 1920, which was valid in all respects except that such admission was on a day other than that provided by law is hereby validated and confirmed and the action of the selectmen and town clerk in any town in holding a session for the admission of electors on September 25, 1920, is hereby validated and confirmed in all respects as though said meeting had been warned and held according to law. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. CHAP. 7 [House Bill No. 7.] CHAPTER 7. An Act amending an Act concerning Nominations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: of election. List of nominations the secretary of state before election. to be delivered to eighteen days SECTION 1. Section 582 Section 582 of the general statutes as Party nominations amended by chapter 5 of the public acts of 1919 is amended to weeks prior to date read as follows: All parties or organizations of electors nominating candidates for any office who are to be voted for by such ballots shall make such nominations at least three weeks prior to the date of the election at which such candidates are to be .voted for, and whenever any party or political organization shall hold any convention for the nomination of candidates for offices whose names are to appear upon the ballots authorized by chapter 35 of the general statutes, except such conventions as are held for the nomination of town, city or borough officers, or justices of the peace, the secretary of such convention or organization shall prepare an accurate list of the candidates nominated by such body, which list shall be certified by the chairman or presiding officer of such convention or organization, and the same shall be delivered to the secretary of the state by the chairman or secretary of such body not less than eighteen days prior to the time fixed by law for holding the election at which the candidates nominated at such convention are to be voted for. Whenever any caucus, convention or meeting is held by the electors of any party or political organization for the nomination of town, city or borough officers, or justices of the peace, the secretary of such caucus, convention or meeting shall prepare an accurate list, printed or typewrit- Printed or typeten, of the nominations made at such caucus, convention or transmitted to secmeeting, which list shall be certified to by the presiding officer of such caucus, convention or meeting, and delivered to the clerk of the town, city or borough, as the case may be, for which such nominations are made, who shall verify and correct the names of candidates appearing in such list in accordance with the voting list of such town, city or borough, indorse the same as having been so verified and corrected, and shall, at least eighteeen days before the time for holding the election at which the nominees named at such convention are to be voted for, transmit the same to the secretary of the state; provided, in any town, city or borough having a charter any provision of which fixes the time for holding such convention or meeting for the nomination of town, city or borough officers at less than eighteen days, such convention or meeting shall be held and the names of the nominees transmitted as herein provided not less than ten days before the time for holding such election. written lists to be retary of state by borough clerks before election. town, city or eighteen days CHAP. 8 Order for ballots to accompany list of nominations. Hours in which polls shall remain open. At the time that such certified list of nominees is transmitted SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [House Bill No. 1.] CHAPTER 8. An Act concerning the Time During Which the Polls Shall Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. At any electors' meeting at which candidates for national or state offices are to be balloted for the polls shall remain open from five-thirty o'clock in the forenoon until six o'clock in the afternoon, for the reception of ballots; provided in the town of Windham the selectmen may designate an hour for opening not earlier than five-thirty o'clock in the forenoon and an hour not later than eight o'clock in the afternoon for closing said polls. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Who may be admitted as electors. [House Bill No. 2.] CHAPTER 9. An Act amending an Act Concerning Who May Be Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Section 535 of the general statutes is amended to read as follows: Every citizen of the United States who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided in the United States for a term of five years next preceding, in this state for a term of one year next preceding, and in the town in which he may offer himself to be admitted to the SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. CHAP. 10 [House Bill No. 3.] CHAPTER 10. An Act amending an Act Concerning Corrected List in Town Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Corrected lists to town clerks. be filled with SECTION 1. Section 555 of the general statutes as amended by chapter 66 of the public acts of 1919 is amended to read as follows: Said registrars shall, on or before the second Monday preceding said electors' meeting, deposit in the town clerk's office the corrected list arranged as provided by chapter 34 of the general statutes, and certified by them to be correct, and shall retain a sufficient number of copies to be used by them at said meeting, for the purpose of checking the names of those who vote. They shall place on said corrected list, in the order List of admitted and provided in section 548 of the general statutes, those electors to be filed with who have been admitted by the board for the admission of town clerks. electors and, under the title "to be made" those only on the first list whose qualifications of age or residence, either for admission or naturalization, appear not to have matured at the last session of said board. Said list deposited in the town clerk's office shall be carefully preserved in said office, for public inspection, and any elector may make copies thereof. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. "to be made" CHAP. 11 Who entitled to be registered. [House Bill No. 4.] CHAPTER 11. An Act amending an Act Concerning Who May Be Registered. SECTION 1. Section 543 of the general statutes is amended to read as follows: Every person who will have resided in this state one year and in the town six months next preceding an electors' meeting, and who has been admitted or previously registered as an elector in such town, including those admitted under the provisions of sections 573, 574 and 575 of the general statutes, shall, unless he has forfeited the privileges of an elector by conviction of crime, be entitled to be registered, and after such registration to vote therein. But no person shall be deemed to have lost his residence in any town by reason of his absence therefrom in the service of this state or of the United States; provided this section shall not be construed to exclude from registration any person on the ground that he cannot read who was duly admitted an elector of this state before October, 1855. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Lists to be prepared biennially. [House Bill No. 5.] CHAPTER 12. An Act concerning Electors. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Section 545 of the general statutes as amended by chapter 22 of the public acts of 1919 is amended to read as follows: The registrars of every town, unless otherwise specially provided by law, shall, at least twenty-six days before the electors' meetings to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1920, and biennially thereafter, complete a correct list of all electors in their town, or the voting districts therein, who shall be entitled to vote in such town or voting districts, at such meetings, and shall place on such list under the title "to be made" the names of those persons by whom, or in whose behalf the claim is made to either registrar, in the manner hereinafter provided, that they will be entitled to be made electors in such town on or before the day of such meeting. The residence of such person shall be written on said list opposite his name and sufficiently described for identifica |