or clerk of the circuit court of any of the counties in this state, and the unexpired term of such clerk shall exceed one year, it shall be the duty of the court, or if in vacation, of the judge or judges of the court in which such vacancy may occur, to appoint a clerk pro tempore; and such appointee shall qualify in the same manner, and give bond as required by law of the clerk of the court to which he is ap pointed, to be approved by the court, or if in vacation by the judge or judges making the appointment; and thereupon such appointee shall be authorized to perform all duties and receive all emoluments allowed by law to the duly elected clerk of such court, and shall hold such office until an election can be held to fill the same, as provided by the act to which this is an amendment, and until the person so elected shall have qualified according to law. Whenever an appointment shall be made, as provided by this act, it shall be the duty of the court, or the judge or judges making such appointment, to notify the governor forthwith of the vacancy filled by such appointment; aud upon receiving such notice, it shall be the duty of the governor, as soon thereafter as may be practicable, to issue a writ of election as in other cases of vacancies to be filled by election, in the same manner as if no appointment had been made; and when any such vacancy shall occur, and the unexpired term does not exceed one year, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the court to which such office appertains, or by the judge or judges thereof. [As amended by act approved February 9, 1874; in force July 1, 1874. See "Clerks of Courts," ch. 25, §11.

133. COUNTY OFFICERS, PRECINCT OFFICERS, ETC.] § 133. When a vacancy shall occur in the office of county commissioner, state's attorney, sheriff, coroner, county clerk, recorder of deeds, county treasurer, county surveyor, justice of the peace, constable, or other county or precinct officer not otherwise provided for by law, within one year before the expiration of the term of such vacant office, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment, by the county board of the county in which the vacancy exists; but if such unexpired term exceeds one year, the county clerk, or, in case of a vacancy in his office, the chairman of the county board, shall issue an order appointing a day for an election to fill such vacancy, and cause notice thereof to be given as in other cases of election.

134. TO WHAT ELECTIONS THIS ACT MAY APPLY.] § 134. The provisions of this act shall apply, as far as practicable, to all elections in the state, whether general, special, local or municipal, except so far as they are modified or contravened by other legal enactments.

[§ 135, repeal, omitted; see "Statutes," ch. 131, § 5.]

REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS.

AN ACT for the registry of electors and to prevent fraudulent voting. [Approved and in force February 15, 1865. L. 1865, p. 54.]

135. BOARD OF REGISTRATION-MEETING-REGISTER.] § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the persons authorized by law, or appointed pursuant to any town or city ordinance, to act as judges or inspectors of elections in any town, city or ward, or other election district or precinct in this state, shall constitute a "board of registry," for their respective towns, cities, wards, districts or precincts, and shall meet on Tuesday, three weeks preceding any state election, at nine o'clock, A. M., and proceed to make a list, as hereinafter prescribed, of all persons qualified and entitled to vote at the ensuing election in the election district of which they are judges or inspectors; which list, when completed, shall constitute and be known as the "register" of electors of said election district. [As amended by act ap proved March 27, 1874; in force July 1, 1874.

136. MANNER OF MAKING REGISTER, ETC.-FIRST MEETING.] § 2. Said registers shall each contain a list of the persons so qualified and entitled to vote in said election district, alphabetically arranged, according to their respective

surnames, so as to show, in one column, the name at full length, and in another column, in cities, the residence, by the number of the dwelling, if there be a number, and the name of the street or other location of the dwelling place of each person. It shall be the duty of said board to enter in said lists the names of all persons residing in their election district, whose name appears on the poll list kept in said district at the last preceding election-in cities the number of the dwelling and the name of the street or other location, if the same shall be known to or can be ascertained by such board—and for this purpose said board are authorized to take from the office in which they are filed the poll lists made and filed by the judges or inspectors of such district, at the election held next prior to the making of such register. In making said list, the board shall enter thereon, in addition to the names on the poll list, the names of all other persons who are well known to them to be electors in said district; and the names of all persons on the poll list who have died or removed from the district shall be omitted from the register. The said board shall complete, as far as practicable, the said register on the day of their meeting, aforesaid, and shall make two copies thereof, and certify the register and each of the copies to be a true list of the voters in their district, so far as the same are known. Within two days thereafter, the said original list, together with the list taken from the office, as aforesaid, shall be filed by said board in the office of the town clerk of the town in which said election district may be; but in counties not adopting township organization, said list shall be filed with the judges or inspectors of election of the proper district, or if such election district is in a city then it shall be filed in the office of the city clerk of said city. And one copy of said list shall be kept by one of said judges or inspectors, and carefully preserved by him for their use on the day or days hereinafter mentioned, for the revision and correction of the same. One copy of said list shall, immediately after its completion, be posted in some conspicuous place where the last preceding election in said district was held, and be accessible to any elector who may desire to examine the same or make copies thereof. Any person who shall take down, tear down or deface any list, so posted, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of $50, or by imprisonment in the county jail for the term of sixty days, or by both fine and imprisonment. [As amended by act approved March 27, 1874; in force July 1, 1874.

137. NEW ELECTION DISTRICTS.] § 3. In case a new election district shall be formed by the organization of a new town, or by the division of any town or ward, or the incorporation of a city or town, the judges or inspectors of the elec tion in the new district thus formed, may make their registry of electors on the day prescribed by this act, in such manner as a majority of them may direct, and for that purpose may make a list, or cause to be made a certified copy of the poll list or lists of the district in which such new district is situated, or they may dispense with such list or lists and proceed to make a register of electors, from the best means at their command. Said lists shall only embrace the names of such persons as are known to them to be electors in their district, and shall be posted up and copies thereof made, as prescribed in the preceding section, and shall be corrected in the same manner that other lists are corrected.

138. REVISION REGISTER-SECOND MEETING.] § 4. The said board shall again meet on Tuesday of the week preceding the said elections, in their respective election districts, at the place designated for holding the polls of the election, for the purpose of revising, correcting and completing said lists; and for this purpose, in cities, they shall meet at eight o'clock in the morning, and remain in session until nine o'clock P. M., and in other districts they shall meet at nine o'clock in the morning and remain in session until four o'clock P. M. [As amended by act approved March 27, 1874; in force July 1, 1874.

139. PROCEEDINGS OPEN-CORRECTIONS, ETC.] § 5. The proceedings of said board shall be open, and all persons residing and entitled to vote in said district shall be entitled to be heard by said board, in relation to corrections or additions to said register. One of the lists so kept by the judges or inspectors, as aforesaid, shall be used by them, on the day or days of making corrections or additions, for the purpose of completing the registry for such district.

140. REVISING REGISTER-ADDITION OF NEW NAMES.] § 6. It shall be the duty of said board, at their meeting for revising and correcting said lists, to erase therefrom the name of any person inserted therein, who shall be proved by the oath of two legal voters of said district, to the satisfaction of said board, to be non-resident of said district, or otherwise not entitled to vote, in said district, at the election then next to be held. Any elector residing in said district, and enti tled to vote therein, may appear before said board and require his name to be recorded on said alphabetical list. Any person so requiring his name to be so entered on said lists, shall make the same statement as to the street and number thereof, and where he resides, required by the provisions of this act of persons offering their votes at elections, and shall be subject to the same penalties for refusing to give such information, or for falsely giving the same, and shall also be subject to challenge, either by the judges or inspectors, or either of them, or by any other elector whose name appears on said alphabetical list; and the same oaths may be administered by the judges or inspectors as now provided in case of persons offering to vote at an election; and in case no challenge is made of any person requiring his name to be entered on said alphabetical list, or in case of challenge, if such person shall make oath that would entitle him to vote in case of challenge at an election, then the name of any such person shall be added to the alphabetical poll list of the last preceding year.

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141. COPIES OF REGISTER-FILING-DELIVER TO JUDGESSWEARING IN VOTE, ETC.] § 7. After said lists shall have been fully completed, the said board shall, within three days thereafter, cause two copies of the same to be made, each of which shall be certified by them to be a correct list of the voters of their district; one of which shall be filed in the office of the town clerk of towns, and in the office of city clerks of cities; and one of which copies shall be delivered to said judges or inspectors. It shall be the duty of the said judges or inspectors so receiving such list, carefully to preserve the said list for their use on election day, and to designate two of their number, at the opening of the polls, to check the name of every voter voting in such district whose name is on the register. No vote shall be received at any state election in this state, if the name of the person offering to vote be not on the said register made on the Tuesday preceding the election, unless the person offering to vote shall furnish to the judges of the election his affidavit, in writing, stating therein that he is an inhabitant of said district and entitled to vote therein at such election, and prove by the oath of a householder and registered voter of the district in which he offers to vote, that he knows such person to be an inhabitant of the district, and if in any city, giving the residence of such person within said district. The oath may be administered by one of the judges or inspectors of the election, at the poll where the vote shall be offered, or by any other person authorized to administer oaths, but no person shall be authorized to receive compensation for administering the oath. Said oath shall be preserved and filed in the office of the town or city clerk, or in case there be no clerk, then said oath shall be filed with and preserved by the judges or inspectors of the proper district. Any person may be challenged, and the same oaths shall be put as now are or hereafter may be prescribed by law. [As amended by act approved March 27, 1874; in force July 1, 1874.

142. ENTRY ON REGISTER BY CLERKS-NON-REGISTERED VOTER-PENALTY.] §8. The clerks at each poll, in addition to the duties now prescribed by law, shall enter on the poll list kept by them, in columns prepared for that purpose, opposite the name of each person voting, the same statement or minute as hereinbefore required of the board in making the registry; but such entry is not to be made by them if the registry contains correctly the name and residence of such voter; and in all cases said clerk shall enter in a column opposite the name of each person not registered, the words "not registered." In cities, every elector, at the time of offering his vote, shall truly state the street in which he resides, and if the house, lodging or tenement in which he resides is numbered, the number thereof. And the clerks of the polls, in case the name of such elector is not registered, shall truly enter in the appropriate column of the poll list, opposite

the name of the elector, the street in which the elector resides, and the number, in case the house, lodging or tenement is numbered; and if the same is not numbered, then the clerk shall enter "not numbered" in the column of the poll list for entering the number. In case of refusal to make the statement as aforesaid, the vote of such an elector shall not be received. Any person who shall willfully make any false statement in relation thereto, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished with a fine of $50, or by impris onment in the county jail in the county for a period of ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

143. POLL LIST AND REGISTER TO BE FILED.] § 9. After the canvass of the votes, one of said poll lists and said register so kept and checked, as afore said, shall be attached together, and shall, on the following day, be filed in the town or city clerk's office (as the case may be) in which said district may be, or in case there be no such clerk, then such poll lists and register shall be filed with and preserved by the judges or inspectors, to be used by the board of registry in making the list of voters at the next state election; the other of said poll lists and registers, so kept and checked, shall be returned to the office of the county clerk in the county in which said district may be, at the same time the returns of the election are made. [As amended by act approved March 27, 1874; in force July 1, 1874.

[§ 10 is repealed by act approved March 27, 1874.]

144. REGISTERS OPEN TO INSPECTION.] § 11. The registers shall at all times be open to public inspection, at the office of the authorities in which they shall be deposited, without charge.

145. COMPENSATION.] § 12. That the members of the board of registration shall each receive $2 per day for each day actually employed in the making and completion of the registry, not exceeding two days, to be paid to them at the time and in the manner in which they are paid their other fees. [As amended by act approved March 27, 1874; in force July 1, 1874.

146. PRESERVING ORDER. § 13. The said board shall have and exercise the same power in preserving order at their meetings, under this act, as are given to judges or inspectors of elections for preserving order on election days; and vacancies in said board shall be filled in the same manner that vacancies are now filled at elections.

147. FRAUDULENT REGISTRATION, FALSE SWEARING, ETC.] § 14. Any person who shall cause his name to be registered in more than one election district, or who shall cause his name to be registered, knowing that he is not a qualified voter in the district where said registry is made, or who shall falsely personate any registered voter, and any person causing, aiding or abetting any person, in any manner, in either of said acts, shall be punished, for each and every of fense, by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one year. All intentional false swearing before said board of registration shall be deemed willful and corrupt perjury, and, on conviction, punished as such. If any member or officer of said board shall willfully violate any of the provisions of this act, or be guilty of any fraud in the execution of the duties of his office, he shall be punished, for each and every offense, by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one year.

[§ 15 and 16 are repealed by implication, the acts to which they refer being repealed. § 17 was only of temporary effect.]

148. BLANKS TO BE FURNISHED.] § 18. The necessary blanks for making the registers required by law, shall be prepared by the secretary of state, and transmitted to the persons entitled to receive them, in the same manner that blank returns of elections are now transmitted.

[§ 19 is repealed by implication, the act to which it refers being repealed.]

149. TIME ACT TAKES EFFECT.] § 20. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT.

AN ACT to apportion the state into nineteen congressional districts and establish the same, and provide for the election of representatives therein. [Approved March 28, 1872. In force July 1, 1872. L. 1871-2, p. 119.]

150. DISTRICTS.] § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the state of Illinois is hereby apportioned into nineteen congressional districts, and the same are hereby established and shall be respectively composed as herein set forth, to-wit:

The first district shall be composed of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh wards of the city of Chicago, the towns of Hyde Park, Lake, Lyons, Riverside, Lemont, Palos, Worth, Calumet, Orland, Bremen, Thornton, Rich and Bloom, in Cook county, and the county of DuPage.

The second district, of the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth wards of the city of Chicago.

The third district, of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth wards of the city of Chicago, the towns of Cicero, Proviso, Jefferson, Leyden, Lake View, Evanston, Niles, Maine, Elk Grove, Schaumberg, Hanover, Barrington, Palatine, Wheeling, Northfield and New Trier, in the county of Cook, and the county of Lake.

The fourth district, of the counties of Kane, DeKalb, McHenry, Boone and Winnebago.

The fifth district, of the counties of Stephenson, Jo Daviess, Carroll, Whiteside and Ogle.

The sixth district, of the counties of Lee, Bureau, Putnam, Henry and Rock Island.

The seventh district, of the counties of LaSalle, Kendall, Grundy and Will. The eighth district, of the counties of Kankakee, Iroquois, Ford, Livingston, Woodford and Marshall.

The ninth district, of the counties of Stark, Peoria, Knox and Fulton.

The tenth district of the counties of Mercer, Henderson, Warren, Hancock, McDonough and Schuyler.

The eleventh district, of the counties of Adams, Brown, Pike, Calhoun, Greene and Jersey.

The twelfth district, of the counties of Scott, Morgan, Cass, Menard, Sangamon and Christian.

The thirteenth district, of the counties of Mason, Tazewell, McLean, Logan and DeWitt.

The fourteenth district, of the counties of Macon, Piatt, Champaign, Douglas, Coles and Vermilion.

The fifteenth district, of the counties of Edgar, Clark, Cumberland, Moultrie, Shelby, Effingham, Jasper, Crawford and Lawrence.

The sixteenth district, of the counties of Montgomery, Fayette, Bond, Clinton, Washington, Marion and Clay.

The seventeenth district, of the counties of Macoupin, Madison, St. Clair and Monroe.

The eighteenth district, of the counties of Randolph, Perry, Jackson, Union, Williamson, Johnson, Pope, Massac, Pulaski and Alexander.

The nineteenth district, of the counties of Richland, Wayne, Edwards, Wabash, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, White, Saline, Gallatin and Hardin.

151. ONE REPRESENTATIVE FROM EACH DISTRICT.] § 2. One representative to congress of the United States shall be elected in each of the districts before enumerated, on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, in the year of our Lord 1872, and one in each of said districts every two years thereafter. Such elections shall be held and the returns thereof made and canvassed in the manner provided by law.