Deputies. Settlements, when withheld. Inspection of records. SEC. 25. The following is added as a new section to said Code, and must be inserted in said Code after section eight hundred and forty-two, and designated section eight hundred and forty-three: Section Eight Hundred and Forty-three. No county officer must be appointed or act as the deputy of another officer of the same county. SEC. 26. Section nine hundred and twenty-six of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section Nine Hundred and Twenty-six. Every officer charged with the disbursement of public moneys, who is informed by affidavit that any officer whose account is about to be settled, audited, or paid by him, has violated any of the provisions of this Article, must suspend such settlement or payment, and cause such officer to be prosecuted for such violation, by the District Attorney of the county. In case there be judgment for the defendant upon such prosecution, the respective officer may proceed to settle, audit, or pay such account as if no such affidavit had been filed. SEC. 27. Section one thousand and thirty-two of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section One Thousand and Thirty-two. The public records and other matters in the office of any officer, are at all times, during office hours, open to the inspection of any citizen of this State. In all actions. for divorce, the pleadings, and the testimony taken and filed in said actions, shall not be by the Clerk with whom the same is filed, or the referee before whom the testimony is taken, made public, nor shall the same be allowed to be inspected by any person except the parties that may be interested, or the attorneys to the action, or by an order of the Court in which the action is pending; a copy of said order must be filed with the Clerk. In cases of attachment, the Clerk of the Court with whom the complaint is filed shall not make public the fact of the filing of such complaint, or of the issuing of such attachment, until after the filing of return of service of attach ment. SEC. 28. Section one thousand and ninety-seven of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section One Thousand and Ninety-seven. No per- Rules for son's name must be entered by the Clerk, unless: One-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. Two-Upon the returns of the Assessor of the county. Three-If a naturalized citizen, upon the production of his certificate of naturalization, or upon his own affidavit that it is lost or out of his possession; which affidavit must state the place of his nativity, and the time and place of his naturalization, together with his affidavit that he has resided in the United States for five years, and in this State for six months next preceding the time of application, and that he is an elector of the county. Four-If born in a foreign country, upon his affidavit that he became a citizen of the United States by virtue of the naturalization of his father, whilst he was residing in the United States, and under the age of twenty-one years, and that he is an elector of the county. Five-Upon the production and filing of a certified copy of the judgment of a District Court directing such entry to be made. registration Rules for cancellation. Six-In other cases, upon the affidavit of the party that he is an elector of the county. Seven-In every case, the affidavit of the party must show all the facts required to be stated in the entry on the register, except the date and number of the entry. SEC. 29. Section eleven hundred and six of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section Eleven Hundred and Six. The Clerk must cancel the entry in the following cases: One-At the request of the party registered. Two-When he knows of the death or of the removal of the person registered. Three-When the insanity of the person registered is legally established. Four-Upon the production of a certified copy of a judgment of felony, in full force against the person registered, or upon information of such conviction, obtained as hereinafter provided. Five-Upon the production of a certified copy of a judgment directing the cancellation to be made. Six-Upon the certificate of the Board of Election of any precinct sent up with the election returns, stating the death or removal, within their own knowledge, of the person registered. Seven-When it appears, by the returns made by the Board and Clerks of Election, that the respective party did not vote during the next preceding three years at any general or judicial election. Eight-The Clerk shall cancel upon the Great Register every name found thereon which is also found upon the Register of Deaths, provided for in section three thousand and seventy-nine of this Code. Nine-Every Judge before whom proceedings are had, which result in any male person being declared incapable of taking care of himself and managing his property, and for whom a guardian of his person and Same. estate is accordingly appointed, or which result in such person being committed to a State Insane Asylum, as an insane person, shall file with the County Clerk a certificate of that fact, and thereupon the Clerk shall cancel the name of such person upon the Great Register, if found thereon. Ten-The County Clerk shall, also, in the first week of July in each year, examine the records of the Courts having jurisdiction in cases of felony, within his county, and cancel upon the Great Register the names of all persons appearing thereon who shall have been convicted of felony in any of such Courts, and which conviction shall have been carried into effect. SEC. 30. Section one thousand one hundred and nine of said Code is amended to read as follows: tion by Section One Thousand One Hundred and Nine. CancellaAny person may proceed, by action in the District action. Court, to compel the Clerk 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; but if the person whose name is sought to be canceled be not a party to the action, the Court may order him to be made a party defendant. SEC. 31. Section one thousand one hundred and thirteen of said Code is amended to read as follows: Great Section One Thousand One Hundred and Thirteen. Copies of Before the fifth day of August, in each year in which Register. there shall be a general or Presidential election, each County Clerk must make out a copy of the uncanceled entries existing on the Great Register on the preceding first day of August. In lieu of such copy, for the City and County of San Francisco, the County Clerk Ward Township kegisters. must, from the poll lists of the general and judicial elections held in September and October, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and from similar poll lists of the general and judicial elections held in every second year thereafter, make out Ward Registers, one for each ward in said city and county, and upon each such Ward Register he must enter the names of the qualified electors of the ward appearing on the last general and judicial poll lists of the ward, alphabetically arranged, together with the entries respectively appearing on the Great Register opposite such names. He shall not enter the name of the same person on more than one Ward Register. He must, however, enter upon the proper Ward Register the name of any person who, being duly sworn, shall make satisfactory proof that he is an elector of such ward, and that his name is uncanceled on the Great Register of said city and county. He must, upon satisfactory proof, obtained in like manner, transfer any name from one Ward Register to another, at the same time canceling the name on the Ward Register from which the transfer is made, noting such transfer on each such Ward Register, opposite the name. For the purposes of registration and preparation of Ward Registers, and copies thereof, required by law, the County Clerk must employ such assistants, and for such times and. at such compensation, as shall from time to time be authorized by the Board of Supervisors. All fees received for registration and transfers must be paid into the Treasury of the city and county, and out of such Treasury must be paid the compensation of such assistants, and all necessary expenses of registration, preparation of Registers, and of transfers, upon the proper orders of the Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors of any county may, by order, provide for the preparation, printing, and distribution of Township Registers for each township, instead of copies of |