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2 ELECTIONS. 
 
 REGISTRATION, 
 
 In all the counties of 50,000 inhabitants or over and in all 
 civil districts of 2,500 inhabitants or over, *also in all wards or 
 civil districts in which there is a town of 750 inhabitants or over 
 in counties containing 15,000 inhabitants and upwards, registra- 
 tion is a prerequisite to voting ; Provided, that the last published 
 census shall control in every case.— ^ic. Ses. 1890, Ch. 25; Acts 
 1891, Ch. 224 ; Ex. Ses. 1891, Ch. 12. 
 
 Only one general registration shall be held every two years 
 in order to entitle voters to vote, except upon a change of resi- 
 dence. In civil districts of under 5,000 inhabitants, situated in 
 counties not wholly subject to the registration laws, such general 
 registration shall occur every four years.— Ex. Ses. 1895, Ch. 3. 
 
 The Commissioners of Registration shall appoint for each 
 ward or civil district two registrars of voters, who shall be resi- 
 dents of the wards or civil districts for wnich they are appointed, 
 not more than one of whom shall be of the .-^ame political party.— 
 Code, Sec. 1192. 
 
 Before entering upon their duties the registrars shall take 
 and subscribe to the following oath: "I do solemnly swear 
 (or affirm) that I will faithfully and impartially keep the register 
 of voters in my district (or ward) ; that I will not knowingly 
 register or allow to be registered any person not a legally quali- 
 fied voter, and that I will not knowingly prevent any person from 
 registering who is a legally qualified voter, so help me God."— 
 Code, Sec. 1214. 
 
 The registrars shall open books for the registration of voters 
 in their respective wards and districts on the second Monday in 
 August, 1895, and every two years thereafter. Said books shall 
 remain open from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. for ten days, Sundays 
 excluded. They shall issue certificates to all qualified voters 
 applying therefor within said ten days.— Coc^e, Sees. 1195-1197. 
 
 The registration books shall be open for three successive days 
 at least twenty days prior to every election for the purpose of 
 registering those who have not previously registered or who shall 
 have changed their residence since the last general registration.— 
 Acts Ex. Ses. 1895, Ch. 3. 
 
 *Note.— Ch. 147, Acts 1901, declared unconstitutional by 
 Supreme Court. 
 
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 If the registrars disagree as to the right of an applicant to 
 be registered as a voter, they shall register his name, and after 
 issuing the certificate of registration shall write across the face 
 of the same the words, "The registrars disagree," whereupon 
 the applicant may take such certificate to the Commissioners 
 of Registration, who shall determine the question of disagree- 
 ment and endorse on the certificate the words, "Approved" or 
 "Disapproved," and the holder of such certificate shall not be 
 entitled to vote unless the word "Approved" is endorsed on the 
 certificate and signed by the majority of the Board of Commis- 
 sioners.— Code, Sec. 1212. 
 
 At the close of each day's registration the registrars shall 
 draw a heavy black line in ink immediately under the last name 
 registered on that day, entirely across the page of the registration 
 book, to indicate the completion of that day's registration.— 
 Code, Sec. 1209. 
 
 AVhen the books of registration are completed they shall be 
 turned over by the registrars to the Commissioners of Registra/- 
 tion for their county for safe keeping, and said commissioners 
 shall thereafter be held responsible for the soine.— Code, Sec. 
 1207. 
 
 SPECIAL ELECTIONS. 
 
 Special elections are held (1) to fill vacancies in the ofiice of 
 Senator or Representative in the General Assembly or of Repre- 
 sentative in Congress, or (2) where a vacancy in any office is 
 required to be filled by election at a time other than the time 
 fixed for the general election, or (3) in such other cases as are or 
 may be provided by law.— CocZe, Sec. 1160. 
 
 (a) The Governor shall give notice by proclamation of vacan- 
 cies in the offices of Representative in Congress, members of 
 Assembly, judges, district attorneys general, and also shall issue 
 writs of election to the officers charged by law to hold the election 
 in the county where the vacancy is to be filled. Upon receipt of 
 which writ or notice of proclamation such officer shall give notice 
 of the time, place, and object of such election by publication in 
 some newspaper in the eounty.— Code, Sees. 1162-1165. 
 
 (6) All other special elections shall be opened and held up«tt 
 notice by the Commissioners of Registration. 
 
4 ELECTIONS. 
 
 (Note.— Special elections for judges, district attorneys gen- 
 eral, clerks, registers, and tax assessors, shall occur only at the 
 general biennial August oieoXicm..— Constitution, Art. 2, Sees. 2-5; 
 Code, Sees. 1157, 763; Note to Code, Sec. 558.) 
 
 (c) Va<iancies in the offices of justice of the peace and con- 
 stable shall be filled by special election to be held for the purpose 
 on at least twenty-three days' notiee.— Acts 1895, Ch. 3, Ex. Ses.; 
 Code, Sees. 431, 492. 
 
 Should a vacancy occur in the offices of Sheriff, Trustee, 
 County Court Clerk and Register, it shall be filled by the County 
 Court until the general biennial August election; vacancies 
 in the offices of Circuit and Criminal Court Clerks are filled 
 by appointment of the Judges of the respective Courts until the 
 next general biennial August election.— ^r^. 7, Sec. 2, Const. 
 
 RIGHTS OF ELECTORS. 
 
 PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE. 
 
 Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years being a 
 citizen of the United States and a resident of this State for 
 twelve months, and of the coiinty wherein he may offer to 
 vote for six months next preceding the day of election, shall 
 be entitled to vote.— Coc^e, Sec. 1167. 
 
 All persons shall vote in the civil district or ward in which 
 they reside, except as follows: ' ^ 
 
 1. Judges, jurors, litigants, and witnesses attending court 
 may vote in any ward or district in which court is held. 
 
 2. Sheriffs or other officers holding elections may vote in 
 any ward or district in which they may hold an election. 
 
 3. Candidates for county and State offices or for Congress 
 may vote in any ward or district of their county in which 
 they may be on election day. 
 
 4. If from any cause, there should be a failure to hold an 
 election in any civil district or ward, the voters thereof may vote 
 in any other district or ward in their county or town. — Code, 
 Sees. 1168, 1169. 
 
 PLACE OF VOTING. 
 
 If any person go out of his county for a definite purpose, 
 not intending to change his home, and return on or before the 
 day of election, he shall be entitled to vote; and when a person 
 
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 has a fixed residence in a county, the same shall continue to 
 be his residence until he change the same to some other county or 
 State. -CofZe, Sec. 1171. 
 
 (Note.— Such voter must be reg-istered as required by the 
 registration laws.) 
 
 ELECTORS^ PRIVILEGES. 
 
 Electors shall in all cases, except treason, felony, or breach 
 of the peace, be privileged from arrest or summons during their 
 attendance at elections, and* in going to and returning from 
 them.— Cod€, Sec. 1172. 
 
 ELECTION PRECINCTS. 
 
 The place of holding elections shall be in each civil district 
 at some convenient locality, to be designated by the County 
 Court at least six months before the election, and entered of 
 record.— OocZe, Sec. 1175. 
 
 The sheriffs of the different counties in this State shall open 
 and hold the elections provided for, according to the rules, 
 regulations, and restrictions required by law, and if there bo 
 no sheriff, or if he be a candidate, the coroner shall hold the 
 elections; or if there be no coroner, or if he be incompetent, 
 then the election shall be held by some person appointed by the 
 County Court, and said officer or person shall appoint a sufficient 
 number of deputies to hold said elections.— CocZe, Sees. 1157-1178. 
 
 (Note.— The Commissioners of Registration and Election 
 Commissioners now perform the duties formerly imposed upon 
 the sheriff, coroner, and other officers of opening and holding 
 elections, returning the results, and issuing certificates of elec- 
 tion.— Acf 5 1897, O/i. 16.) 
 
 The Commissioners of Registration appoint all the officers 
 of elections, and the judges or inspectors and clerks of election. — 
 Acts 1897, Ch. 16. 
 
 In case of failure at a particular voting place to appoint 
 officers, any justice of the peace present, or, if none be present, 
 any three freeholders may perform the duties of holding the 
 election, or, in case of necessity, may act as officers or inspectors. 
 Code, Sec. 1184. 
 
 OATHS OF JUDGES. 
 
 The officer or person holding any election, or some justice 
 
6 ELECTIONS. 
 
 of the peace, before the opening of the polls, shall administer 
 to the judges appointed to hold the election the following oath : 
 
 ''You do solemnly swear that as judge of this election you 
 will suffer no one to vote whom you know of your own knowledge 
 or who appears, either by his own oath or by the testimony of 
 others, not to be a qualified voter; that you will not suffer the 
 ballot box to be out of the presence or sight of at least two of 
 your number until every vote is counted out ; that you will faith- 
 fully and impartially conduct yourselves as judges of this elec- 
 tion, and that you will in all respects perform the duties imposed 
 upon you by law as judges and inspectOTS of this election."— 
 Code, Sec. 1885. 
 
 OATH OF CLERK OF ELECTION. 
 
 The clerks of the different elections shall take the following 
 oath : 
 
 "You do solemnly swear that you will faithfully, truly, and 
 impartially discharge your duty as clerk of this election. ' ' 
 
 Which oath shall be administered by the officer of election, 
 or the justice of the peace, or by one of the judges themselves. — 
 Code, Sec. 1186. 
 
 COMPENSATION FOR HOLDING ELECTIONS. 
 
 The Commis'sioners of Registration, after the election returns 
 are deposited with them, shall deliver to the Chairman of the 
 County Court a complete list of the judges, clerks, and officers 
 of election, to each of whom said Chairman shall issue a warrant 
 for one dollar.— CocZe, Sees. 1187, 1188; Acts 1897, Ch. 16. 
 
 REQUIREMENTS AS TO BALLOTS. 
 
 The ballots printed for use at the public expense shall con- 
 tain the names of all the candidates who have been put in 
 nomination by any caucus, convention, mass meeting, or other 
 assembly of any political party of this State at least ten days 
 previous to the day of election. It shall be the duty of the Chair- 
 man of the Board of Commissioners to have printed all necessary 
 ballots for use under the provisions of this article, and he shall 
 cause to be printed upon said ballots the names of candidates so 
 nominated, upon the written request of any one of the candidates 
 so nominated, or upon the written request of any qualified voter, 
 
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 who will affirm that he was a member of said caucus, and the 
 name presented by him was the nominee of said caucus, conven- 
 tion or mass meeting, or other assembly, of any such political 
 party.-Coc^e, Sec. 1233. 
 
 The Commissioners of Election shall, in addition to the ballots, 
 prepare separate cards, to be called ''Cards of Instructions," 
 for the guidance of voters at such elections, and they shall fur- 
 nish the same and the ballots for use in every election.— (7o(ie, 
 Sec. 1241. 
 
 The said officers shall cause to be printed upon said ballots 
 the name of any qualified voter who has been requested to 
 become a candidate for any office by a written petition signed 
 by at least fifteen citizens qualified to vote in. the election to 
 fill said office, when such petition has been given in at least 
 ten days previous to the election.— Ocxie, Sec. 1234. 
 
 If any qualified citizen has been nominated, as above specified, 
 within less than ten days of the election, or has been requested 
 to be a candidate, as above specified, then said names shall not be 
 printed upon said tickets, but in addition to the names printed 
 upon said tickets there shall , be at least one blank space under 
 each office to be voted for, and the candidate nominated or who 
 desire's to run of his own volition, may have a separate ticket 
 printed, upon which the title of the office for which he is a candi- 
 date and his own name and address shall be printed; and said 
 candidate may give these to the officer or officers distributing 
 ballots upon the day of election, and said officers shall give to 
 each voter, in addition to the printed ticket as hereinafter 
 specified a copy of said ticket. The voter receiving said ticket 
 shall not vote it, but may consult it to enable him to write upon 
 the ticket printed at public expense the name of such candidate, 
 should he so desire, and designate the same by a mark as herein- 
 before prescribed.— Coc^e, Sec. 1235. 
 
 After the proper officer has been notified of the nomination 
 of any candidate for any office he 'shall not withdraw the same 
 unless upon the written request of the candidate so nominated, 
 made at least ten days before the election.— Coc^e, Sec. 1237. 
 
8 ' ELECTIOSS. 
 
 PROCEEDINGS AT THE POLLS. 
 
 VOTING. 
 
 On the day of any election held, where registration is 
 required, the registrars for each district or voting precinct shall 
 appear at the place where said election is being held, with the 
 books containing the names of all registered voters, together wnth 
 a copy of the same, and shall occupy a place inside the polling 
 precincts, and as each voter therein registered shall vote, said 
 registrars shall check off or mark said voter ; and said registrars 
 shall make a copy of said voters checked off and return the same 
 tothe officer holding the election, who shall file the same with 
 the election returns. But a failure of the registrars to attend and 
 check the voters shall not render an an election void.— Coc^e, Sec. 
 1217. 
 
 The registrars shall have charge of the official ballots and the 
 cards of instruction to voters issued by the Commissioners of 
 Election, on the day of election, and shall distribute them to 
 each voter as he presents himself to cast his ballot. He shall 
 stand not closer than ten feet to the entrance of the room in 
 which the ballot box is placed. There shall be appointed by the 
 Commissioners of Registration for every polling place one assist- 
 ant registrar, who shall serve for the day of election only and 
 without compensation.— Code, Sees. 1242, 1244, 1246. 
 
 Upon receipt of his ballot the voter shall present to the assist- 
 ant registrar his blank ballot and certificate of registration, 
 who shall number the ballot upon the stub thereof and also place 
 upon the certificate of registration the same number.— Coc?e, Sec. 
 1247. 
 
 Upon receiving the ballot from the registrar the voter shall 
 thereupon proceed to place a cross mark X opposite the name 
 of the candidate of his choice for each office to be filled, or by 
 filling in the name of the candidate of his choice in the blank 
 space provided therefor, and marking a cross mark X opposite 
 thereto. No voter shall be allowed to occupy a voting booth 
 longer than ten minutes, if other voters are not waiting, or longer 
 than five minutes in the event other voters are waiting.— CocZe, 
 Sees. 1248, 1251. 
 
 If any voter spoils his ballot he may successively obtain 
 
ELECTWyS. 9 
 
 others, one at a time, not exceeding three in all, upon returning 
 each spoiled one.— Code, Sec. 1253. 
 
 If the voter marks more names than there are persons to 
 be elected to an office, or if for any reason it is impossible to 
 determine the voter's choice for any office to be filled, his ballot 
 shall not be counted for such office. But this shall not vitiate 
 the ^ballot so far as properly marked. No ballot without the 
 official endorsement of the Chairman of the Board of CommivS- 
 sioners shall be deposited.— Coc^e, Sec. 1255. 
 
 If there be two tickets rolled up together, or if any ticket con- 
 tain the names of more persons than the elector has a right to 
 vote for, in either of these cases such tickets shall not be numbered 
 in taking the ballots, but shall be adjudged Yo\d.— Code, Sec. 
 1280. 
 
 (Note. — The judges in their certificate should state that such 
 ticket was adjudged void.) 
 
 Each qualified voter, after preparing his ballot according 
 to law, shall give it to the returning officer in presence of the 
 judges, to be put into the ballot box. The returning officer shall 
 not open or examine the ballot before putting it into the box. — 
 Code, Sees. 1264-1268. 
 
 OATH AND QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS. 
 
 If a voter's right to vote is questioned, the judges, or one 
 of them, or the officer holding the election, under the direction 
 of a majority of the judges, may administer the following oath : 
 
 "You do solemnly swear that you will true answers make 
 to such questions as may be asked you touching your qualifica- 
 tions or right to vote in the present election. So help you God." 
 — Code, Sec. 1270. 
 
 The judges or some of them, 'shall then ask the person offering 
 to vote the following questions? 
 
 Are you a citizen of the State of Tennessee? 
 
 Are you twenty-one years of age ? 
 
 Do you reside in this county? 
 
 Has your home been in this county six months next before 
 this day (the day of holding election) ? 
 
 Have you voted at any other time or place in this election? 
 And any other questions the judges may think material to 
 ascertain the qualifications of the person offering to vote. And 
 if they, or any one of them, have reason to suspect that the person 
 
10 ELECTIONS. 
 
 offering" to vote 'has sworn falsely, they or the officer, or some 
 justice of the peace under their direction, may swear any by- 
 stander as to the right or qualification of such person to vote. — 
 Code, Sec. 1271. 
 
 The said questions having been asked and answered and the 
 testimony of the bystanders taken if desired, if the judges, or a 
 majority of them, are satisfied that the person offering to yote 
 is a citizen of this State, that he is twenty-one years of age, that 
 he has had his home in the county in which he offers to vote six 
 months next preceding, that he has not voted before at the same 
 election, and that he is otherwise qualified, the judges shall 
 thereupon receive his \o\Q.—Code, Sec. 1273. 
 
 The judges must also be satisfied that the voter is a resident 
 of the civil district or ward in which he offers to vote, as to 
 which matters they may examine him on oath.— Code, Sees. 1168, 
 1273. 
 
 If a foreigner offering to vote is objected to, he shall produce 
 a certified copy of the record of his naturalization if it be in his 
 possession, showing that he has been declared by a competent 
 court a citizen of the United States. If the record be not in his 
 possession the judges may satisfy themselves from his examina- 
 tion or other oral testimony that he has been naturalized. The 
 judges may likewise examine him on oath if his record of naturali- 
 zation is objected to as not authentic— Code, Sees. 1274-1276. 
 
 Any person qualified to vote under existing laws at the date 
 ■of his application, or who may become qualified by reason of his 
 arriving at the age of twenty-one years by the date of the elec- 
 tion for which the registration is had, or who will be qualified by 
 reason of having resided in the State for twelve months and 
 county six months by the date of said election shall be entitled 
 to be registered as a voter.— ^c/5 1890, Ch. 25. 
 
 As an additional qualification every person in this State who 
 is otherwise a qualified voter shall, as a condition precedent 
 to the exercise of voting, furnish to the judges satisfactory evi- 
 dence that he has paid his poll tax, if any assessed against him, 
 for the year next preceding the election, without which his vote 
 shall not he receiyed.- Code, Sees. 1220-1225. 
 
 A person arriving at the age of twenty-one years after the 
 "'0+h day of January on the year next preceding the election is 
 ?" t roquired to have paid his poll tax in order to vote in such 
 
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 election. A person who reaches fifty years of age before the 
 10th day of January of the year next preceding the election is 
 not required to furnish satisfactory evidence of the payment 
 of poll tax for that year in order to vote at such elections ; other- 
 wise he must do so. 
 
 Satisfactory evidence that a voter has paid his poll tax shall 
 consist of the original poll tax receipt or a duly certified duplicate 
 and copy of the same, properly certified by the Trustee, or an 
 affidavit that he has paid his poll tax and that the receipt for the 
 same is lost or misplaced, which affidavit shall be filed with the 
 judges of election, or his name shall appear upon the certified 
 list of voters furnished by the Trustee, as provided in Chapter 
 402, Acts 1899.-^c^5 1891, Cli. 222; Acts 1899, Ch. 402. 
 
 A voter making affidavit as to the loss of his poll tax receipt 
 shall subscribe to the following oath : 
 
 State of Tennessee, 
 County, 
 
 I, , of precinct (or ward) No. , in said 
 
 county of , State aforesaid, do solemnly swear 
 
 (or affirm) that I paid my poll tax on or about the day of 
 
 , 190—, to one , the County Trustee of 
 
 county, for the year — and took his receipt therefor, 
 
 and that the same has been unintentionally lost or mislaid. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 Code, Sec. 1222. 
 
 LIST OF VOTERS. 
 
 "When the officer receives the ballot he shall call the name 
 of the voter in a distinct voice, and the clerks of the election 
 shall take down on separate lists or books the name of every 
 person voting, and shall attest the correctness of them under 
 their hands. 
 
 LIST OF VOTERS WHO HAVE PAID THEIR POLL TAXES TO BE FUR- 
 NISHED BY TRUSTEE. 
 
 Thirty days before any general election the Trustee shall 
 furnish to the Chairman of the Board of Election Commissioners 
 a certified list of the voters in each voting precinct of the county 
 who have paid their poll tax. This list shall be furnished by 
 the Chairman of the Election Commissioners to the judges hold- 
 ing the election on or before the opening of the polls on election 
 
12 ELECTIONS. 
 
 day, and by them returned to the said Chairman, who shall 
 deliver same, together with the poll sheets of the respective dis- 
 tricts, to the County Court Clerk, which shall be preserved by 
 said clerk for two years.— Acfs 1899, Ch. 402. 
 
 COUNTING THE VOTES. 
 
 The officer and judges appointed to hold an election shall 
 not proceed to or commence counting the votes given in an 
 election until the polls shall have been closed.— Cocie, Sec. 1278. 
 
 AVlien the election is finished the returning officer and judges, 
 in the presence of such of the electors as may choose to attend, 
 shall open the box and read aloud the names of the persons which 
 shall appear on each ballot, and the clerks at the same time- 
 shall number the ballots, each clerk separately.— CocZe^ Sec. 1279. 
 
 POLICE. 
 
 The inspectors have authority to maintain regularity and 
 order in the balloting, to keep access to the polls free and 
 unobstructed, to prevent all disorderly and riotous conduct dur- 
 ing the election and during the counting of the votes after the 
 polls are closed, and for this purpose they are invested with 
 all the powers of a peace officer.— CofZe, Sec. 1281. 
 
 HOURS. 
 
 In all State and county elections the polls shall be opened 
 at 9 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m. — Code, Sec. 1282. 
 
 DUTIES OF OFFICERS HOI^DIXG THE ELECTION. 
 
 The officers in each county whose duty it is to hold the elec- 
 tion and appoint polling places therein as herein provided for, 
 shall cause the same to be suitably provided with a sufficient 
 number of voting shelves or tables at or on which voters may 
 conveniently mark their ballots. The number of such voting 
 shelves, tables or compartments shall not be less than three for 
 every one hundred voters qualified' to vote at such polling places. 
 No persons other than the election officers and voters admitted 
 as hereinafter provided shall be permitted within said rail or 
 room where the election is held, except by authority of the officer 
 holding the election for the purpose of keeping order and enforc- 
 ing the law. Each voting shelf or compartment shall be kept 
 
ELECTIONS. 13 
 
 provided with the proper supplies and conveniences for marking 
 the ballots.— Code, Sec. 1245. 
 
 No person shall be allowed in the room in which said ballot 
 box and compartments are except the officers of election and 
 those appointed by the officer holding the election, and none 
 i'lhers, to secui^e the observance of the provisions of this article. 
 In the case of cities having duly enrolled policemen or police 
 officers, the city authorities may designate the officers to keep 
 the peace at the polls on the outside of the room in which is the 
 ballot box, and not closer than ten feet to the entrance or outer 
 rail-guard, if there be such, leading to said room. But in no 
 €vent shall said policemen or peace officers come nearer to said 
 entrance than ten feet or enter the room in which is the ballot 
 box, unless specifically requested to do so by the sheriff or deputy 
 sheriff holding the election; and at any time w^hen requested to 
 do so by said officer holding the election, the said policeman or 
 policemen shall retire from the room in which i's the ballot box, 
 and to a point not n( nre?* iViSii ten feet to the aforesaid eniraiic-^ 
 or rail guard.— CotZe, Sec. 1252. 
 
 THE POLL BOOKS. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the officer holding the election to 
 or lists of th enanies of voters, kept by the respective clerks; 
 and 'said judges, or a majority of them, shall certify that the 
 same do contain a true list of the voters at the respective places 
 of holding elections, which certificates shall be attested by the 
 clerk and officer, or person holding the election.— Code, Sec. 1287. 
 box, unlese 'specally requested to do so by the sheriff' or deputy. 
 
 It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, except the 
 officers holding the election, to approach nearer to any voter 
 or to any ballot box than thirty feet, w^hen the said voter is 
 in the act of casting his ballot or offering or proposing to 
 exerci'se the elective frajichise. The judges and officers of 
 any and all legal elections are hereby authorized and empowered 
 to construct a railing or double gangw^ay through which voters 
 may approach the ballot box and retire therefrom; Provided, 
 that this shall onl yapply to counties o fthirty thousand inhabit- 
 ants or over, under the Federal Census of 1900, or any subsequent 
 Federal Census.— Acts 1901, Ch. 142. 
 
 Any voter who declares to the officer holding the election 
 
14 ELECTIONS. 
 
 that by reason of blindness or other physical disability he is 
 unable to mark his ballot, shall, upon request, receive the assist- 
 ance of the officer holding the election in the marking thereof, 
 and such officer shall certify on the outside that it was so marked 
 with his assistance, and shall give no information in regard to 
 the same.— Code, Sec. 1254. 
 
 JUDGES AND ATTORNEYS GENERAL AND REPRESENTATIVES IN 
 
 CONGRESS. 
 
 Within five days of an election the said Commissioners shall 
 make out triplicate returns of the number of votes received by 
 each candidate for Judge and Attorney for the State and Repre- 
 sentatives in Congress, and forward one copy by mail to the 
 Secretary of State, another copy by a different mail to the Gov- 
 ernor, and deposit the third copy in the office of the County 
 Court Clerk.- Ood^e, Sees. 1152, 1299; Acts 1897, Cli. 16. 
 
 governor's ELECTION. 
 
 The Commissioners of Registration and Election Commission- 
 ers of the several counties shall make out triplicate returns 
 of the votes cast in each county for Governor, one copy to be 
 directed to the Speaker of the Senate and transmitted by mail, 
 one copy, similarly directed, to be delivered to the Senator or 
 Representative of his district, the third to be deposited in the 
 office of the County Court Clerk.— CocZe, Sec. 1303; Acts 1897, 
 Ch. 16. 
 
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY— ELECTION OF. 
 
 In counties which singly elect one or more Representatives, 
 the poll shall be compared at the court house in each county; 
 and in all Senatorial and Representative districts it shall be the 
 duty of the Commissioners of Registration in each county, within 
 ten days after said election, to certify and forward to the Secre- 
 tary of State one copy, or set, of the poll hook^.— Code, Sec. 1284; 
 Acts 1897, Ch. 16. 
 
 CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION. 
 
 The certificate of election in Senatorial or Floterial districts 
 is issued by the Governor ; in counties singly electing a Represen- 
 tative it is issued to the person receiving the highest vote by the 
 Commissioners of Registration, who shall make out and transmit 
 immediately to the Secretary of State a statement of the vote.— 
 Code, Sees. 1280-1298 ; Acts 1897, Ch. 16. 
 
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 RETURNS — WHEN MADE. 
 
 In all cases when the persons, elected by a single county 
 or fraction of a county, are commissioned by the GoTcrnor 
 the Commissioners of Registration of such county shall make 
 return of such election to the Secretary of State by mail, to 
 be deposited in the postoffice within three days after comparing 
 the polls. In all other cases of persons elected by the vote of a 
 single county or district thereof, the said Commissioners shall 
 make return of the election to the tribunal before whom the 
 officer is required to qualify.— Co(ie, Sees. 1295-1297. 
 
 RETURNS — HOW MADE. 
 
 Returns of election shall be sealed up and directed to the 
 officer to whom the return is to be made, and when required 
 to be sent, by mail shall be deposited in the postoffice and the 
 receipt of the postmaster taken iheveior.—Code, Sec. 1306. 
 
 ELECTORS FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. 
 
 Commissioners of Registration shall advertise at the court 
 house in every county, and in every civil district of the county, 
 the day on which the election of electors shall take place, at least 
 sixty days before the time of holding it— Code, Sec. 1353; Acts 
 1897, Ch. 16. 
 
 The Commissioners of Registration aforesaid shall all meet 
 at the court house of their county on the day immediately suc- 
 ceeding said election, and compare the votes polled for electors. 
 
 They shall make out triplicate statements of the number 
 of votes received by each person voted for as elector, and regu- 
 larly certify the same. They shall deposit one of said state- 
 ments in the office of the Clerk of the County Court, taking 
 his receipt therefor; another in the postoffice at the court house 
 of the county, directed to the Governor and Secretary of State, 
 and direct the other in the same way by the next mail, ai;id take 
 the postmaster's receipt for the same; or said Commissioners 
 may in person deliver said statement to the Governor and Secre- 
 tary of State.— Code, Sees. 1358-1360; Acts 1897, Ch. 16. 
 
 MEMBERS OP CONGRESS— RETURNS, HOW MADE. 
 
 On the day succeeding an election for members of Congress, 
 the Commissioners of. Registration and Election Commissioners 
 in each county shall make out triplicate returns of the number 
 
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 of votes for each candidate, one of which they shall retain, 
 and the other two shall be sent, in different mails, immediately 
 thereafter, to the Governor. — Cof/f, Sec. 1371; Ads 1897, Ch. 16. 
 
 SCHOOL DIRECTORS. 
 
 The Commissioners of Registration and Election Commission- 
 ers holding- an election for School Directors shall certify the 
 result to the County Superintendent and to the County Court 
 Clerk, and shall give notice of the same to the Directors elected. 
 -Code, Sec. 1420. 
 
 CASTING VOTE. 
 
 In case of a tie vote between pei-sons having the highest num- 
 ber of votes for an office filled by the vote of a single county, 
 the Commissioners of Registration shall give the casting vote.— 
 Code, Sec. 1292. 
 
 In case of a tie vote in an election in a civil district the 
 election is void, and the Coinmissioners of Registration shall 
 advertise and hold a new election.— CofZc, Sec. 1293. 
 
 EXTRAORDINARY ELECTIONS. 
 
 MUNICIPALITIES. 
 
 For method of holding election to establish a new municipality 
 see Code Sees. 1881-1898. See also special form of municipal 
 government provided by Acts 1901, CJi. 6-1. 
 
 For methcd of electing officers of same, see Code, Sees. 1948- 
 1352. 
 
 NEW BRIDGES. 
 
 For regulations for holding an election to establish a new 
 bridge, see Code, Sec. 1716. 
 
 ROAD LVll'KOVEMENT. 
 
 For regulations for holding an election to impi-ove county 
 roads, ^ee Code, Sees. 1689-1691. 
 
 NEW RAILROADS — COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL SUBSCRIPTION FOR 
 
 STOCK IN. 
 
 The election shall be advertised at least thirty days before- 
 hand, by notices posted up at the different places of voting, 
 specifying the time when it is to be held, for what road, the 
 
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 amount of stock proposed to be taken, and when payable.— Code, 
 Sees. 1543-1564. 
 
 The Commissioners of Registration shall open and hold an 
 election at every voting place established by law in such county, 
 city, or town, and their certificate of the result of said election 
 to the County Court, or other proper authorities of such city 
 or town shall name in writing every legally established voting 
 place at which an election was opened and held, and every one 
 at which such election was not ]iQ\di.— Code, Sees. 1544-1565. 
 
 If the election was not held at every voting place^ it shall 
 be void, unless the officers holding the election, or deputy, was 
 present at said precinct and was unable to hold the election for 
 want of judges and clerks sufficient to hold \i. — Code, Sees. 1545- 
 1565. 
 
 LEGALIZED PRIMARY ELECTION LAAV. 
 
 A primary election is an election held within the State, county, 
 city, district or sub-division thereof, as the case may be, by 
 the members of any political party, or by the voters of some 
 political faith for the purpo'se of nominating a candidate or 
 candidates for office. Such primary elections shall be held and 
 conducted in the same way as regular State elections, except as 
 herein excepted. Whenever the committee or governing authori- 
 ties of any political party desire to hold a primary election under 
 the provisions of this law, they shall, at least thirty days prior 
 to such primary election give public notice thereof by posting 
 such notice at the court house door and at one or more public 
 places in each ward or district in the county in which such 
 election is to be held, or by publication in a newspaper, if 
 there be one published in said district or county, once a week 
 for at least two weeks prior to said primary. Such notice 
 shall state the date of such proposed primary election, the hours; 
 between which it will be held, the offices for which candidates 
 are tc be nominated, and the places at which polls are to be opened 
 for holding such election. All legal voters shall have the right 
 to participate in such primary election, subject to such addi- 
 tional qualifications as may be prescribed by the committee or 
 governing authority. In all counties, districts, wards or precincts 
 all legal electors or persons who will be legal electors at the 
 
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 regular election at which the candidate is to be voted for, shall 
 have the right to vote at any primary election held by any 
 political party if they conform to the requirements prescribed 
 by the committee or governing authority of the political party 
 holding such primary, by applying at the polls at the precincts 
 in Vv'hich they reside and making known the faet that they will 
 conform to such conditions and qualifications as have been so 
 prescribed. In case the officers of such primary election be in 
 doubt as to the right of any person to vote, such person shall 
 be sworn by the judges of election and examined as to such right. 
 Any bystander may also challenge the right of any person to 
 vote, and in all such cases such person so challenged shall be 
 sworn and examined as hereinbefore set forth. The same number 
 of officers shall hold a primary election under the provisions 
 hereof as are required and designated by law to hold regular 
 State elections, and their duties and responsibilities shall be pre- 
 cisely the same as' the regularly qualified officers of State elec- 
 tions. They shall be appointed by the regularly organized 
 and constituted committee or governing authority of the political 
 party holding such primary election and shall as a preliminary 
 to the discharge of their duties take the same oath required 
 to be taken by officers of regular State elections. The officers 
 in each primary election, precinct, ward, or district shall be 
 selected from lists furnished by the ward or district committee- 
 men at least ten days before such primary election, and shall 
 be as nearly equally divided as possible as to judges, clerks and 
 officers among the various candidates. 
 
 The officers of all primary elections held under the provisions 
 hereof shall have the same power and privileges as officers of 
 regular State elections, and shall be subject to the same restric- 
 tions, limitations and conditions. Any act which would be an 
 offense against the regular State election laws will <jonstitute 
 an offense against the primary election laws, and shall be 
 punished in the same manner as is prescribed by general law. 
 Any person desiring to submit his name to the voters in a 
 primary election shall, not later than fifteen days next preceding 
 the holding of such primary election, apprise the committee 
 or gov^mingt authority of the political party holding such 
 primary of the fact that he is a candidate, and upon complying 
 with the conditions prescribed by the committee or governing 
 
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 authority for the regulation of candidates shall be declared 
 to be a candidate by the committee or governing authority of 
 such political party ; any person failing to give such notice to the 
 proper authorities or who fails to comply with the conditions 
 prescribed for the government of candidates shall not have 
 his name printed on the ballots used in said primary elections; 
 but any person desiring to vote for another than the persons 
 whose names are printed on such ballots shall have the right 
 to' do so by writing the name of the person for whom he desires 
 to vote in the space on the ballot set apart for the names of 
 the candidates for such office as he may desire such person so 
 voted for to hold. 
 
 The election returns in all primary elections shall be deposited 
 with the committee or governing authority of' the political 
 party under whose direction and control such primary election 
 is held within the "same time as is provided by law in the case 
 of State elections and in the same manner, and at such place 
 as the committee or governing authority shall designate. Any 
 person changing or in any wdse altering such election returns 
 shall be subject to the same punishment as is prescribed for 
 persons violating the regular State election laws. 
 
 The constituted committee or governing authority of a politi- 
 cal party holding such primary election is authorized to count 
 the votes in such primary election and to declare the candidate 
 receiving the highest number of votes the nominee of such 
 political party for the office for which he was a candidate. In 
 cases of a tie vote or contest the committee or governing authori- 
 ty are empowered to hear and determine such contests and decide 
 who shall be entitled to the nomination. In case there are 
 more than two candidates seeking the nomination in such pri- 
 mary and no one candidate receives a majority of the vote cast 
 at said primary election, then the committee or governing author- 
 ity of the political party holding the election can, if it sees fit, 
 order for the two candidates receiving the highest number 
 of votes a run off to determine the party candidate, for the 
 said office ; Provided, however, if this section of the law is to be 
 taken advantage of it must be made known when the primary 
 •election is called. The proper proceedings in such cases shall 
 be determined by the committee or governing authority. Before 
 entering upon the discharge of their duty as set forth in this 
 Act, the committee or governing authority shall be sworn by 
 
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 some officer authorized by law to administer an oath to faithfully 
 and honestly discharge the duties herein imposed, and the failure 
 on the part of any member of the committee or governing authori- 
 ty to so discharge their duty shall be deemed a misdemeanor, 
 punishable upon indictment and conviction in the Circuit or 
 Criminal Court in the county or district by a fine of not less 
 than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and 
 imprisonment in the county jail not less than sixty days nor more 
 than one year. 
 
 All expenses for holding such primary election shall be 
 borne by the political party conducting the same. The ballots 
 used in such primary election shall be printed by order of the 
 committee or governing authority having direction and control 
 of such primarief under the same restrictions and limitations 
 as is provided by general law for the printing of ballots used 
 in regular State elections. This Act shall apply to all primary 
 elections held for the purpo'se of nominating candidates for 
 State, county, district, or municipal offices hereafter held in 
 this State. 
 
 Each of the candidates voted for at any election held under 
 the provisions of this Act shall be entitled to an inspector of 
 count, and for that purpose may appoint in writing such inspector 
 to be present and witness the casting and count of the ballots 
 in said election, and said inspector shall have free access to 
 the polling places during the progress of said election ; Provided, 
 if there be more than five and less than ten candidates, any two 
 of said candidates shall jointly appoint one inspector, and for 
 all over twenty, then any five of said candidates shall jointly 
 appoint said inspector. It shall be the duty of the judges 
 on the close of the polls to admit to the count of the vote as 
 inspector any person as herein provided. Any person presenting 
 to the judges of said election an appointment in writing of any 
 candidate or candidates at the close of the polls as aforesaid, 
 shall be permitted to be present to witness the count of the 
 ballots, and any officer of election who shall prevent such 
 authorized inspector from being present at the count of the 
 ballot shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine 
 of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. 
 
 The constituted authority of the political party holding such 
 election shall designate in the public notice required to be given 
 
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 of said election the hours between which such election shall be 
 held; Provided, no election shall be held before the hour of 7 a. 
 m., and not later than 9 p. m. 
 
 A poll tax receipt is not a necessary prerequisite to entitle a 
 citizen to vote in such primary election. 
 
 The provisions of the general law requiring saloons to be 
 closed during the day of election shall only apply during the 
 hours of said primary election. — Acts 1901, Cli. 39. 
 
 AMENDMENT OF 1901 PRIMARY ELECTION LAW. 
 
 Senate Bill No. 470. 
 
 A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled, "An 
 Act to legalize and regulate primary elections," passed April 
 11, 1901, and approved April 17, 1901, being Chapter 39 of 
 
 the Acts of 1901. 
 
 • 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the 
 State of Tennessee, That said Act be amended by striking out 
 Section 11 of said Act and inserting in lieu thereof the following : 
 
 That all expenses for holding such primary election shall 
 be borne by the political * party holding same, and the cost of 
 publishing and circulating notices of elections, and all other 
 expenses, including all expenses incurred by reason of any sup- 
 plemental registration that may be ordered, shall be defrayed 
 in such manner as may be provided by the committee, or govern- 
 ing authority of the political party holding such primaries. The 
 ballots used in such primary election shall be printed by order 
 of the committee or governing authority having direction and 
 control of such primaries, under the same restrictions and limita- 
 tions as is provided by general law for the printing of ballots 
 used in regular State elections.— (7/i. 39, Acts 1903. 
 
 ACT CREATING STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the 
 State of Tennessee, That there shall be appointed by the Governor 
 and confirmed by the Senate a Board of three persons, to be 
 known as the ''State Board of Elections," which shall have and 
 exercise all powers now conferred upon the Governor to appoint 
 Commissioners of Elections and Registration. 
 
22 ELECTIONS. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That not more than two 
 of the three members of the State Board of Elections shall be 
 of the same political party and that both the representatives of 
 the majority and minority parties shall be bona fide members 
 of the party they are appointed to represent, and any two mem- 
 bers of said Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction 
 of business. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further euacted, That the members of the first 
 State Board of Elections 'shall be appointed as soon after the 
 passage of this law as practicable, and on the first Monday in 
 March every two years thereafter. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the members of said 
 State Board of Elections first appointed shall hold office until 
 the first Monday in March, 1909, and thereafter the members 
 of said State Board of Elections shall hold office for two years, 
 and until their successors are appointed, and all vacanci'^s shall 
 be filled as in the first instance, except vacancies occurring whi ; i 
 the Legislature is not in session, when the appointment shall be 
 made by the Governor to hold until the convening of the Leg- 
 islature. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the members of said 
 State Board of Elections shall receive as compensation three 
 hundred dollars ($300) per annum each, payable quarterly, and 
 the members of said State Board of Elections shall take and sub- 
 scribe to an oath before any State officer authorized to admin- 
 ister oaths to discharge faithfully and honestly the duties of 
 their office, which oaths so taken and subscribed shall be filed 
 in the office of the Secretary of State, and it shall be the duty 
 of the members of said State Board of Elections to qualify within 
 ten days after their appointment and organize by the selection 
 of one of their number as President and another of their number 
 as Secretary; and the failure on the part of any member of said 
 State Board of Elections to qualify as above provided shall in 
 all cases vacate the appointment of such member. 
 
 Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That the said State Board 
 of Elections shall be allowed the sum of two hundred and fifty 
 dollars ($250) per annum for stationery, postage, and expenses 
 incidental to the conducting of the business of said Board, which 
 shall be payable upon voucher or vouchers signed by the Secre- 
 tary and countersigned by the President of the State Board of 
 Elections. 
 
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 Sec. 7. Be it further enacted. That all meetings of said 
 State Board of Elections shall be held at the State Capitol, in 
 Nashville, in such room as may be provided for their use by the 
 Superintendent of the Capitol, and that no meeting except for 
 organization and an adjourned meeting for the appointment 
 of Commissioners of Election shall be held except upon five 
 days' written notice to each member of said State Board of 
 Elections ; but meetings may be called at any time by the Presi- 
 dent or by any two members; Provided, a requisite notice as 
 hereinbefore required shall be given. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That said State Board of 
 Elections shall select and appoint on the second Monday in May, 
 1907, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and on the second Mon- 
 day in May every two years thereafter three Commissioners of 
 Election for each county in the State; Provided, that not more 
 than two of said Commis'sioners shall be of the same political 
 party ; and. Provided, further, that the State Board ' of Elec- 
 tions shall have the power to remove any Commissioner of 
 Election for cause or failure to perform his duties; and said 
 State Board of Elections shall likewise fill by appointment al] 
 vacancies occurring in the County Board of Commissioners of 
 Election. 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That said State Board of 
 Elections shall issue commissions of appointment to the various 
 Commissioners of Election, which commissions shall be signed by 
 the President and countersigned by the Secretary of said State 
 Board of Elections, and a record be kept by said State Board of 
 Elections of all commissions so issued, with the full names of 
 said Commissioners of Election, their postoffice addresses, the 
 name of the Chairmen and Secretaries of said Commissioners 
 on each county, the dates of their appointment, and their politi- 
 cal affiliation, and the records of all vacancies; and the oaths 
 subscribed by said Commis'sioners of Election shall likewise 
 be kept in the records of said State Board of Elections. 
 
 Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That said State Board of 
 Elections shall cause to be compiled and kept among their records 
 a complete list of all counties, towns, cities, and civil districts 
 within the State which are now or may hereafter be under the 
 State laws pertaining to the registration of voters, and of all 
 counties, towns, cities, and civil districts where the uniform 
 Australian ballot is now or may hereafter by law be in use in 
 
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 the State, and also shall cause to be compiled a list of all counties 
 towns, cities, and civil districts where the three-by-seven ballot 
 is now or may hereafter be in use under the law. 
 
 Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of 
 laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from 
 and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. 
 
 Ch. 435, Acts 1907. 
 
 ACT CREATING COMMISSIONERS OF ELECTIONS. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
 State of Tennessee, That for and in each and every county in 
 the State there shall be appointed by the State Board of Elec- 
 tions a board of three persons, to be known as ' ' CoDimissioners of 
 Elections." 
 
 Sec. '2. Be it further enacted. That all the three Commis- 
 sioners shall be qualified voters of the county for which they are 
 appointed and men of approved character, and shall have been 
 residents of the county for wiiich they are. appointed for at 
 least five years before their appointment. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further enacted. That not more than two of 
 the three Commissioners constituting- the Board shall be of the 
 same political party; Provided, however, that any two of said 
 Commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of 
 business. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further enacted. That the said Commissioners 
 of Elections shall be appointed on the second Monday in May, 
 1907, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and on the second 
 Monday in May every two years thereafter. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further enacted. That said Commissioners shall 
 hold their office for a term'of two years, and, until their successors 
 are appointed, and any vacancy shall b<j filled by the State Board 
 of Elections by appointment. 
 
 Sec. 6. Be it further enacted. That said Commissioners of 
 Elections shall serve without compensation; Provided, however, 
 that the County Court of each county shall have the right to 
 appropriate out of the county revenue such amount, if any, as ii; 
 deems said Commissioners of Elections are entitled to. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further enacted. That before entering upon 
 
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 the duties of their office said Commissioners of Elections shall 
 take and subscribe to an oath before any officer authorized to 
 administer oaths in the county for which said Commissioners are 
 appointed to discharge faithfully and honestly the duties of 
 their office; and it shall be the duty of said Commis'sioners of 
 Elections to qualify within twenty days after their appointment 
 and organize by the selection of one of their number as Chairman 
 and one of their number of Secretary. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That a failure on the part 
 of any Commissioner of Elections to qualify as above provided 
 shall in all cases vacate the appointment of such Commissioner, 
 -and that the oath of the Commissioner duly dated i^hall be filed 
 with the Secretary of the State Board of Elections within twenty 
 days after their qualification, together with a report of their 
 organization, the names of the officers, and the names, postoffice 
 addresses, etc., of Elections. 
 
 Said Commissioners of Elections shall give prompt notice to 
 said State Board of Elections of all vacancies. 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of 
 said Commissioners of Elections within sixty days prior to any 
 election held within the county for which they are appointed, 
 and at least ten days prior to any such election, to appoint and 
 announce the appointment of three Judges, for each and every 
 voting place in their county to superintend the election at the 
 precinct or voting place for which said Judge shall be appointed ; 
 Provided, however, that all three of the Judges shall not be of 
 the same political party, if persons from different political 
 parties are willing to serve, and they shall be appointed from the 
 two political parties most numerously represented in such ward, 
 district, or precinct. 
 
 Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners of 
 Elections shall also within sixty days «and at least ten days prior 
 to any election within the county for which they are appointed 
 appoint and announce the appointment of two Clerks of election 
 for each and every voting place in their county; Provided, 
 that said Clerks shall be of different political parties. If compe- 
 tent persons of different political parties are willing to serve, 
 they shall be appointed from the two political parties most 
 numerously represented in such ward, district, or precinct. 
 
 Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners 
 
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 of Elections within sixty days and at least ten days prior to any 
 election within the county for which they are appointed shall 
 appoint and announce the appointment of an officer of election 
 for each voting place in such county. 
 
 Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That the Commissioners of 
 Elections in appointing Judges and Clerks in all elections shall 
 give bona fide representation to each of the two parties most 
 numerously represented in the ward, district, or precinct for 
 which they are appointed. 
 
 Sec. 13. Be it further enacted. That the Judges, Clerks 
 and officers of election shall be residents and citizens of the ward 
 or district or precinct in which the voting place for which they 
 are appointed is situated. 
 
 Sec. 14. Be it further enacted, That whenever for any rea- 
 son any Judge or Clerk or officer of election so appointed fails 
 to attend promptly, and by reason of his absence at the hour of 
 holding the election other persons shall be selected to fill such 
 vacancies by a majority of the election officers duly appointed 
 and attending, and the election officers so elected to fill vacancies 
 shall be residents and citizens of the ward, district, or precinct 
 for which they are appointed, and shall act only until the regu- 
 larly appointed Judge or Clerk or officer of election in whose 
 stead he was appointed appears and demands that he be permitted 
 to serve, and the person so elected to fill the vacancy shall cease 
 to act; and. Provided, that any such person so elected to fill a 
 vacancy shall be of the same political party as the person in 
 whose stead he is selected to serve. 
 
 Sec. 15. Be it further enacted. That it shall be the duty 
 of the officer holding the election to deliver the polls or returns 
 of the electic-n sealed as received, together with the ballots cast 
 in said election, to the said Commissioners of Elections not later 
 than 12 o'clock noon on the first Monday after the election. 
 
 Sec. 16. Be it further enacted. That on the first Monday 
 after the election it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of 
 Elections to file the said polls and returns at the court house and 
 to certify in writing, signed by at least two of them, the result 
 as shown by said polls or returns, and to deliver to each person 
 elected a certificate of his election. 
 
 Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners 
 of Elections shall cause a true copy of all the poll books or 
 
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 poll lists used at ot in any election to be made out, and, when 
 completed, they shall file the same with the Clerk of the County 
 Court, to be preserved by him as records for a period of four 
 years, and the original poll books or poll lists used at or in any 
 election shall be safely, and securely kept by the Commissioners 
 of Elections, and without alteration shall be sealed and for- 
 warded to the Secretary of State at Nashville, Tenn., within ten 
 days after the election. 
 
 Sec. 18. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners of 
 Elections shall employ a Clerk or copyist to make out the copy 
 of said poll books or poll lists for the County Court Clerk, and 
 said Clerk or copyist shall receive as compensation twenty cents 
 for every hundred names on the poll list, which shall be paid 
 as part of the expense of the election as Judges and Clerks of 
 elections are now paid. 
 
 Sec. 19. Be it further enacted, That in all and every of the 
 counties of the State within the provisions of the registration 
 laws of ll';^ State the Commissioners of Elections shall perform 
 the duties of Commissioners of Registration. 
 
 Sec. 20. Be it further enacted. That all laws or parts of 
 laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 21. Be it further enacted. That this Act take effect from 
 and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.— Gh. 436, 
 Acts 1907. 
 
 AN ACT CREATING ADDITIONAL REGISTRARS. 
 
 Section 1. B eit enacted hy the General Assembly of the 
 State of Tennessee, That Chapter 25, of the Acts of the extra 
 session of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee for the 
 year 1890, being an Act approved March 13, 1890, and entitled 
 ' ' An Act to provide for the registration of voters in this State in 
 counties having a population of seventy thousand inhabitants or 
 over that number, computed by the Federal Census of 1880, or 
 which may hereafter have that number or over , computed by any 
 subsequent Federal Census, and to towns, cities, or civil districtes 
 having a population of twenty-five thousand inhabitant's or over, 
 computed by the Federal Census of 1880, or which may hereafter 
 have that number or over that number by any Federal Census, '^ 
 be, and the same is hereby, amended so the following words shall 
 be added to and appear at the end of Section 3 of said original 
 
28 ELECTIONS. 
 
 Act— to-wit: Provic^ed, furthe7', that whenever two or more Civil 
 Di'stricts have been consolidated into one Civil District or the 
 parfs of one or more Civil Districts added to another Civil Dis- 
 trict, or where a Civil District lies partly within and partly 
 without an incorporated town, city, or taxing district, and such 
 part thereof as is not divided into wards may be divided and 
 designated into as many "registration and voting divisions" of 
 Civil Districts by the Commissioners of Registration a smay be 
 necessary for the convenience and accessibility of the voters of 
 such Civil istricts for the registration and voting of such voters 
 as re'side in said "registration and voting divisions" of Civil 
 istricts, who shall be furnished books, stationery, register the 
 voters residing in said registration and voting divisions of Civil 
 Distrcts, and do all things provided by law to be done as regis- 
 istrars. When the registration and voting divisions have been 
 defined, they shall not be altered except upon a petition sifined by 
 fifty days' notice published once a week for four weeks in some 
 daily or weekly paper having a general circulation in the county 
 and also posted at the court house door for thirty days, setting 
 forth the proposed changes. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from 
 and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.— Ch. 256, 
 Acts 1905. 
 
 AN ACT LEGALIZING AND REGULATING PRIMARY 
 
 ELECTIONS. 
 
 Section 1. Be it encted hy the General AsseniMy of the 
 State of Tennessee, Thas Section 1, of Chapter 39, of the Acts of 
 1901, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding to aforesaid 
 section: and Ward Committeemen and District Committeemen; 
 Provided, that one poll list shall be returned to County Court 
 Clerk, the other to the Chairman of the Governing Committee. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Ac ttake effect from 
 and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.— Ch. 353, 
 Acts 1905. 
 
 Gov. M. R. Patterson appointed E. R. Richardson, of David- 
 son, and N. G. Robertson, of Wilson, Democrats, and T. A. 
 Raht, of Coffee, Republican, State Board of Elections, to 'serve 
 until March, 1909, and said appointments were confirmed by 
 Senate. 
 
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 E. R. Richardson was elected Chairman and N. G. Robertson 
 Secretary. 
 
 TO PREVENT CORRUPTION IN ELECTIONS. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assemhly of the 
 State of Tennessee, That it shall be unlawful for any person, 
 either a candidate or any other person, directly or indirectly, 
 by himself or through any other person. 
 
 (a) To pay, loan, or contribute, or offer or promise to pay, 
 loan, or contribute any money, property, or any other valuable 
 consideration or thing to or for any voter, or to or for any other 
 person to induce such voter or any voter to vote or refrain from 
 voting in or at any political convention, mass meeting, or mass 
 political convention, or assemblage, primary or party election or 
 any kind or character held or sought to be held by the people or a 
 part of them or any political party or organization whatever, 
 or to induce any voter or voters to vote or refrain from voting at 
 any such convention, mass meeting, mass convention, or assem- 
 blage, or primary or party election for or against any particular 
 person or persons, measure or measure's, or to induce any voter or 
 other person to attend, leave, or remain away from any such 
 convention, mass meeting, mass convention, or assemblage, or tbe 
 polls at any such primary or party election, or on account of any 
 voter having voted for or against or refrained from voting for or 
 against any particular person or persons, measure or mea'sures, or 
 having gone to, attended, or remained away from any such 
 convention, mass meetings, mass conventions, or assemblages, 
 primary or party election. 
 
 (b) To give, offer, or promise any office, place, or employ- 
 ment, or to promise or procure or endeavor or promise to endeavor 
 or procure any office, place, or employment to or for any voter or 
 to or for any other person in order to induce such or any voter to 
 -vote or refrain from voting for any particular person or persons, 
 measure or measures, at any such convention, mass meeting, 
 assemblage, primary or party election,- or to attend, leave, or 
 remain away from any such convention, mass meeting, mass con- 
 vention, assemblage, primary or party election. 
 
 (c) To advance or pay or cause to be paid any money or 
 other valuable thing to or for the use of any person, with 
 
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 the intent that the same or any part thereof shall be used 
 unlawfully, at or concerning or in connection with any such 
 convention, mass convention, mass meeting, assemblage, or pri- 
 mary or party election, or to pay or to cause to be paid any 
 money or other valuable thing in discharge or repayment of any 
 money or valuable consideration wholly or in part expended, 
 directly or indirectly, unlawfully, at, touching, or in connection 
 with any such convention, mass meeting, mass convention, assem- 
 blage, primary or party election. 
 
 (d) To advance or pay or cause to be paid as expenses or 
 otherwise to or for the use of any person any money or valuable 
 thing to induce such person or any person to work for, solicit, or 
 seek to influence votes or influences for or against any person 
 or persons, measure or measures, at, concerning, or in connection 
 with any such convention, mass meeting, mass convention, pri- 
 mary or party election, or to induce such person or any person 
 to work to procure, solicit, or influence any voter or voters to 
 attend, leave, or remain away from any such convention, mass 
 meeting, mass convention, assemblage, party or primary election, 
 Or to pay or to cause to be paid any money or other valuable 
 thing to or for the use and benefit of any person in discharge 
 or payment of or for time, labor, expenses, or services alleged 
 to have been spent, performed, incurred, or rendered for or 
 against any person or persons at, touching, or in connection w^ith 
 any such convention, mass meeting, mass convention, assem- 
 blage, party or primary election. 
 
 Provided, this shall not include the payment of expenses of 
 any one for soliciting the attendance of any person or persons 
 upon party conventions or party primaries. 
 
 (e) For any officer of ^any convention, mass convention, 
 mass meeting, primary election or party election or other person 
 to willfully cast the vote of any person voting for some person or 
 measure different from that person or measure sought to be voted 
 for by the person voting, or to falsely cast such vote in any way 
 or to insert a ballot for one person or measure in a ballot box 
 when the person voting sought to vote for another person or 
 measure, or to change, falsify, or tamper with the returns of any 
 primary or party election. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be unlawful for 
 any person, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any 
 person : ' 
 
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 (a) To receive, agree to receive, or contract for before or 
 during any such convention, mass meeting, mass convention, party 
 or primary election as set out in Section 1 of this Act any money, 
 gift, loan or other valuable thing, office, place, or employment 
 for himself or any other person for voting or agreeing to vote, 
 for going or agreeing to go to, or for remaining or agreeing to 
 remain away, or refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting 
 or for voting or agreeing to vote, or refraining or agreeing to 
 refrain from voting for any particular person or persons, measure 
 or measures, at, concerning, or in connection with any such con- 
 ' ontion, mass convention, mass meeting, assemblage, party or 
 primary election. 
 
 (b) To receive any money or other valuable thing, gift, 
 loan, office, place, or employment for himself or any other person 
 for voting or refraining from voting for or against any particu- 
 lar person or persons, measure or measures, or on account of 
 himself or any other person for going to or remaining away 
 from, or on account of having, induced any person to vote or 
 refrain from voting, or to vote or refrain from voting for or 
 against any particular person or persons, measure or measures, at 
 or in connection with any such convention, mass convention, mass 
 meeting, assemblage, or primary or party election. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That a person offending 
 against any of the provisions of Sections 1 and 2 of this Act 
 shall be a competent witness against any other person violating 
 any provisions of this Act, and may be compelled to attend and 
 testify upon any trial, hearing, proceeding, or investigation in 
 the same manner as any other person, but the testimony so given 
 shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or 
 criminal, against the person so testifying, except for perjury in 
 giving such testimony, and a person so testifying shall not there- 
 after be liable to indictment, prosecution, or punishment for the 
 offense with reference to which his testimony was given, and may 
 plead or prove the giving of said testimony accordingly in bar 
 of such an indictment or prosecution. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That any person convicted of 
 the offenses mentioned in Section 1 of this Act shall be fined not 
 less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thou- 
 sand dollars ($1,000) and be imprisoned in the county jail not 
 less than six nor more than twelve months, be disfranchised, and 
 
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 rendered ineligible from holding any office under the laws of 
 Tennessee, or in any county, municipality, division, or district 
 therein. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That any person convicted 
 of any of the offenses mentioned in Section 2 of this Act shall 
 be fined not less than fifty ($50) nor more than one hundred 
 dollars ($100) or be imprisoned in the ^ounty jail not more 
 than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court. 
 
 Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That "all fines collected under 
 the provisions of this Act shall be turned into the school fund. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That any corporation offend- 
 ing against the provisions of this Act may be found guilty, and 
 it and its officers through whom such offense was committed 
 shall be fined and the officers imprisoned as other persons under 
 the provisions hereof. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That no defect or irregularity 
 in calling such convention, mass convention, mass meeiting, 
 assemblage, party election or primary election, nor any irregulari- 
 ty in the proceedings thereof shall be available as a defense 
 under the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further enacted. That nothing herein shall 
 be construed to prevent a candidate or any public or political 
 organization or any person or persons from employing and 
 maintaining a proper clerical or office force so employed and 
 maintained in good faith, nor to prevent public and political 
 parties, associations, candidates, and organizations from dis- 
 seminating literature and defraying the expenses of public 
 speakers nor from announcing any candidacy in any newspaper. 
 
 Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That the Circuit and Crimi- 
 nal Judges of Tennessee shall give this Act in charge to the grand 
 juries in the various counties of this State, and the grand juries 
 shall have inquisitorial power over all the offenses embraced in 
 this Act; Provided, further, that nothing in this Act shall be 
 construed to prohibit the sending of conveyances for voters who 
 may be sick or otherwise physically unable to go to the polls. 
 
 Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect 
 from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.— C/z. 
 402, Acts 1907. 
 
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 ACT TO LEGALIZE PRIMARY ELECTIONS. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the 
 State of Tennessee, That all laws now in force and applicable to 
 the holding of general elections in this State in counties having a 
 population of 90,000 or over by the Federal census of 1890 shall 
 hereafter apply and govern in all primary elections by political 
 parties in counties having a population of not less than 110,000 
 and not more than 130,000 inhabitants by the Federal census 
 of 1900 or which may hereafter have that number by any subse- 
 quent Federal census, except as hereinafter provided; Provided, 
 further, that saloons 'shall only be required to be closed during 
 the hours in which said primary elections are being held. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the officers for each 
 election precinct, ward, or district in all primary elections held 
 under the provisions hereof shall be the same niimber as is re- 
 quired and designated by law to hold regular State elections, and 
 their duties and responsibilities shall be precisely the same as 
 those of legally appointed and regularly qualified officers of regu- 
 lar State elections. They shall be appointed by the regularly 
 organized and constituted committee or governing authority 
 of the political party holding such primary election, and shall, 
 before entering upon the discharge of their respective duties, 
 take the same oath recjuired to be taken by officers of regular 
 State elections. The officers in each primary election, precinct, 
 ward, or district shall be selected from lists furnished by the 
 ward or district committeemen at lea'st ten days before such 
 primary election, and shall be as nearly equally divided as possi- 
 ble as to judges, clerks, and officers among the various candidates. 
 The officers of- all primary elections held under the provisions 
 hereof shall have the same power and privileges as officers of regu- 
 lar State elections, and shall be subject to the same restrictions, 
 limitations, and conditions. Any act or deed denounced by 
 general law as an offense in the case of officers of regular State 
 elections is hereby declared to be an offense in the case of officers 
 of such primary elections, and shall be punished in the same form 
 and manner as is prescribed by general law. 
 
 *Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Executive Commit- 
 tee of such political party shall provide a suitable ballot for 
 each of such primary elections at leasit three days prior to such 
 election, and shall distribute the same to judges of elections imme- 
 
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 diately prior to the opening of the polls, and no other ballot shall 
 be legal or shall be counted in such election. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That any person desiring to 
 submit his name to the voters in a primary election shall not 
 later than fifteen days next preceding the holding of such pri- 
 mary election apprise the committee or governing authority of the 
 political party holding such primary of the fact that he is a 
 candidate, and upon complying with the condiitons prescribed 
 by the committee or governing authority for the regulation of 
 candidates, shall be declared to be a candidate by the committee 
 or governing authority of such political party ; and any person 
 who has not given such notice to the committee or governing 
 authority or who has not complied 'with the conditions prescribed 
 by the committee or governing authority for the government of 
 candidates shall not have his name printed on the ballots used 
 in such primary election; but any person desiring to vote for 
 another than the persons whose names are printed on such 
 ballots shall have the right to do so by writing the name of the 
 person for whom he desires to vote in the space on the ballot set 
 apart for the names of the candidates for. such office as he may 
 desire such person so voted for to hold. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That within such time as is 
 provided by law in the case of State electtions and in the same 
 manner the election returns in all primary elections shall be 
 deposited with the committee or governing authority of the 
 political party under whose direction and control such primary 
 election was held at such place as the committee or governing 
 authority shall designate at which to receive such returns, and 
 any person who shall change or in any wise alter such returns 
 shall be punished in the same form and manner as is provided by 
 general law for the punishment of any person who change's or in 
 any wise alters the re^tums of a regular State election. 
 
 Sec. 6. Be it further enacted. That in any county affected 
 by the provisions of this Act the Election Commissionei*s of such 
 counity, when notified by the Executive Committee of the party 
 intending to hold a primary election on the date fixed for such 
 election, shall cause a supplemental registration of three days to 
 be held, closing at least twenty days before the said primary, and 
 the supplemental regisitration shall in all respects accord with 
 the provisions of the general election law governing supplemental 
 registration; Provided, that no expense shall accrue to any 
 
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 county or municipality by reason of the supplemental registration 
 herein provided for. 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further enacted j That the regularly appointed 
 Registrars under the general election laws shall serve in all 
 primary elections; Provided, that only such regular Registrars 
 who affiliate with the political party holding said primary elec- 
 tion shall serve as Registrars in said primary election; and, 
 Provided, further, that said Registrars shall appoint one addi- 
 tional Registrar of the political party holding the primary elec- 
 tion to serve with him in said primary election. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further enacted. That the general election law 
 which provides that any person desiring to vote shall have as 
 a condition precedent thereto paid his poll tax shall not be appli- 
 cable to primary elections held under this Act.- 
 
 Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That any judge, clerk, officer 
 of such primary election or any voter or other person who 
 would be deemed guilty of any offense against the general elec- 
 tion laws in a general election who is found guilty of the same 
 offense in any primary election as herein provided for shall be 
 deemed guilty of a felony, and shall, on conviction, be punished 
 by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one nor 
 more than three years. 
 
 Sec. 10. Be it further enacted. That the duly authorized and 
 constituted committee or governing authority in the county or 
 district in which a primary election may be held hereunder 
 is hereby empowered to count the votes received by all candidates 
 in such primary elections, and to declare the candidate 
 or candidates in cases where candidates for more than one office 
 are to be nominated receiving the highest number of votes 
 the nominee of such political party for the office for which he 
 was voted for at such primary election. In all cases of a tie vote 
 or contest the committee or governing authority of the political 
 party holding such primary election shall have the power, and 
 it shall be its duty, to hear and determine such contest and decide 
 who shall be entitled to the nomination. In case there be more 
 than two candidates for nomination to any office voted for in 
 said primary, and no one candidate receives a majority of the 
 votes cast at said primary election, then the committee or govern- 
 ing authority of the political party holding such primary 
 election can, if it 'sees fit, order for the two candidates receiving 
 
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 the highest number of votes a run off to determine the party- 
 candidate for said office; Provided, however, if this section of 
 ithe law is to be taken advantage of, it must be made known w^hen 
 the primary election is called. The proceedings in such cases shall 
 be in such form and manner as the committee or governing 
 authority shall determine upon. Before entering upon the dis- 
 charge of the duties set forth in this Act the committee or 
 governing authority shall be sworn by some officer authorized by 
 law tq administer an oath to faithfully and honestly discharge 
 the duties herein imposed, and the failure upon the part of 
 an}' member of the committee or governing authority to discharge 
 such duties faithfully and honestly shall be deemed a misdemean- 
 or, and the persons so offending shall, upon indictment and con- 
 viction in the Cirouit or Criminal Court of the county or district, 
 be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more 
 than five hundred dollars ($500) and be imprisoned in the 
 county jail not less than sixty days nor more than one year. 
 
 Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That all expenses for holding 
 such primary election shall be borne by the political party holding 
 the same, and the cost of publishing and circulating notices of 
 elections, and all other expenses shall be defrayed in such man- 
 ner as may be provided by the committee or governing authority 
 of the political party holding such primaries ; Provided, the only 
 expense incurred shall be for advertising the election and the 
 cost of printing tickets. The ballots used in such primary 
 election shall be printed by order of the committee or governing 
 authority having direction and control of such primaries under 
 the same restricti6ns and limitations as is provided by general 
 law for the printing of ballots used in regular State elections. 
 
 Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That each of the candidates 
 votcrd for at any election hrld under the provisions of this Act 
 shall be entitled to an inspector of count, and for that purpose 
 may appoint in writing an inspector of count to be present and 
 witness the casting and count the ballots in said election in each 
 voting place in the district, ward, or county wherein said elec- 
 tion is held, and said inspector shall have free access to the 
 polling places during the progress of said election ; Provided, if 
 there be more than five and less than ten candidates, any two of 
 said candidates shall jointly appoint one inspector ; if there 
 be more than ten candidates and less than twentj^, then any 
 three of said candidates shall jointly appoint one inspector, and 
 
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 for all over twenty, then any five of said candidates shall jointly 
 appoint such inspector. It shall be the duty of the judges on 
 the close of the polls to admit to the count of the vote as inspector 
 any person as herein provided who submits to them an appoint- 
 ment in writing from any candidate or candidates. Any person 
 presenting to the judge of said election an appointment in writing 
 from any candidate or candidates at the close of the polls as 
 aforesaid shall be permitted to be present and witness the count 
 of the ballots ,and any judge or officer of election who shall pre- 
 vent such authorized inspector to be present at the count of the 
 ballots shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon indict- 
 ment and conviction in the Circuit or Criminal Court, be fined 
 not less than $100 nor more than $500. 
 
 Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, That the committee or gov- 
 erning authority of the political party holding such election 
 shall designate in the public notice required to be given of said 
 election the hours between which said election shall be held, before 
 the hour of 12 m., and not later than 8 :30 p. m., in the different 
 wards and districts of counties affected by this Act. 
 
 Sec. 14. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from 
 and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it— Ch. 422, 
 Acts 1907. 
 
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 POPULATION TENNESSEE COUNTIES, 
 CENSUS 1900. 
 
 And Kind of Ballots to be Used. 
 
 Population. 
 
 Anderson County— IZ Districts 17364 
 
 Districts Nos. 5 and 13 registration required and 
 Australian ballot used. In all other districts 
 3x7 ballot. 
 
 Bedford County— 2b districts 23845 
 
 District No. 7 Australian ballo tused and registra- 
 tion required. In all other districts 3x7 ballots. 
 
 Benton County— 1^ Districts 11888 
 
 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Bledsoe Count— 12 Districts 6626 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used, 
 Chapter 544, Acts 1907. 
 
 Blount County— 1^ Districts 19206 
 
 3x7 ballots used in all districts. 
 
 Bladley County— 14: Districts 15759 
 
 . ^ Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 
 District No. 6, in all other district's 3x7 ballot used. 
 
 Campbell County— 16 Districts 17317 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used 
 in District No. 17, in all other districts 3x7 ballot 
 used. 
 
 Cannon County— lb Districts 12121 
 
 3x7 ballot used in all districts. Chapter 404 Acts 
 1907 (County divided into six districts.) 
 
 Carroll County— 2b Districts •. 24250 
 
 ^ 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Carter County— 1^ Districts 16688 
 
 ^ 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Cheatham County— lb Districts 10112 
 
 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
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 Chester County— 13 Districts 9896 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 6, in all other districts 3x7 ballot used. 
 
 Claiborne County— 15 Districts 20696 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 6, in all other districts 3x7 ballot used. 
 
 Clay County— 12 Districts 8421 
 
 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Cocke County— 11 Districts 19153 
 
 ^ Australian ballot used in District No. 6, in all 
 
 others 3x7 ballot. 
 
 Coffee County— IQ Districts .• 15574 
 
 X Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 
 District No. 13, in all other districts 3x7 ballot used. 
 
 Crockett County— 15 Districts 15867 
 
 "~^ 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 CuTYiherland County— 12 Districts 8311 
 
 \ 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Davidson County— 25 Districts 122815 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 all districts. 
 
 Decatur County— 12 Districts 10439 
 
 ^ No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 DeKalh County— 22 Districts 16460 
 
 District No. 9 Australian ballot used and registra- 
 ^ tione required. In all other districts 3x7 ballot used. 
 
 Dickson County— 14: Districts 18633 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 ^ Districts Nos. 5 and 6, in all other districts 3x7 
 ballot used. 
 
 Dyer County— IS Districts 23776 
 
 Registration required and Australian baljot used in 
 Districts Nos. 4 and 6. In all other districts 3x7 
 ballot used. 
 
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 Fayette County— 15 Districts 29701 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 4, in all other districts 3x7 ballot used. 
 
 Fentress County— IS Districts • 6106 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Franklin CoHniy—19 Districts 20392 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 1, in all other districts 3x7 ballot used. 
 
 Gibson County— 2o Districts 39408 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 Districts 3, 7, S, 13 and 21. In all other distriet:s 
 3x7 ballot used. 
 
 GUes County— 22 Districts 33035 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 7. In all other districts 3x7 ballot . 
 used. 
 
 Grainger County— 14: Districts 15512 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Greene County— 25 Districts 30596 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 10 and 3x7 ballot used in all other 
 districts. 
 
 Grundy County— 13 Districts 8702 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Hamblen County— 12 Districts 12728 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Hamilton County—^ Districts 61695 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 all districts. 
 
 Hancock County— 17 Districts 11147 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Hardeman Coimty— 20 Districts 22976 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 Districts Nos. 4 and 6, and 3x7 ballot used in all 
 cvther districts. 
 
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 Hardin County —S Districts 19246 
 
 Eegistration required and Australian ballot used in 
 Districts Nos. 7 and 9, and 3x7 ballot used in all 
 
 Hawkins County— 20 Districts 24267 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 HoAjicood County— i2 Districts 25189 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 4, 5 and 8, and 3x7 ballot used in all other districts. 
 
 Henderson County— 20 Districts 18117- 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot in all districts. 
 
 Henry County— 2b Districts .24208 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 1, 3x7 ballot used in all other districts. 
 
 Hickman County— lo Districts 16367 
 
 Australian ballot and registration in District No. 1, 
 and 3x7 ballot in all other districts. 
 
 Houston County —S Districts 6476 
 
 •No registration and 3x7 ballot in all districts. 
 
 Humphreys County— lb Districts 13396 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Jackson Caunty—15 Districts 15039 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districtsr 
 
 James County— 10 Districts 5407 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Jefferson County— 19 Districts 18590 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Johnson County— 10 Districts 10589 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Kfiox County— 24: Districts 74302 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 all districts. 
 
 Lake County —S Districts 7368 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
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 Lauderdale County— IQ Districts , 21971 
 
 Australian ballot and registration in District No. 2, 
 District No. 2, in all other districts 3x7 ballot used. 
 
 Lawrence County— 1^ Districts 15402 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Lewis County— 10 Districts 4455 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Lincoln County— 2^ Districts 26304 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 8, and 3x7 ballot used in all otter dis- 
 tricts. 
 
 Loudon County— 11 Districts 10838 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 McMinn County— IS District 19163 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 McNairy County— 19 Districts 17760 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 6, and 3x7 ballot used in all other ^ 
 districts. 
 
 Maoon County— 12 Districts 12881 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Madison County— IS Districts 36333 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 15, and 3x7 ballot used in all other 
 districts. 
 
 Marion County— 1^ Districts. 17281 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No'. 15 and 3x7 ballot used in all other 
 districts. 
 
 Marshall County— IS Districts 18763 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 15 and 3x7 ballot used in all other 
 districts. 
 
 Maury Coi^w#2/-t 25 Districts 42703 
 
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 Registration required and Australian ballot used. 
 Applies to entire county, Chapter 387, Acts 1905. 
 
 Meigs County— 8 Districts 7491 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Monroe County— 20 Districts 18585 
 
 Australian ballt and registration in District No. 1, 
 3x7 ballot used in all other districts. 
 
 Montgomery County— 21 Districts 36017 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 Districts. Nos. 1 and 12 and 3x7 ballot used in all 
 other districts. 
 
 Moore County— 11 Districts 5706 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Morgan County— 12 Districts 9587 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Ohion County— 16 Districts 28286 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 Districts Nos. 6, 13 and 16, and 3x7 ballot used in 
 all other districts. 
 
 Overton Coimty—11 Districts 28286 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Perry County— 11 Districts 8800 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Pickett County— 10 Districts 5366 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Polk County— 11 Districts 11357 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Putnam County— 20 Districts 16890 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 1 and 3x7 ballot used in all other 
 districts. 
 
 Rhea County— 15 Districts 14318 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
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 Boam Caimty— IS Districts 22738 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 Districts Nos. 13 and 16, and 3x7 ballot used in all 
 other districts. 
 
 Eohertson County— IS Districts 25Q29 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 9, and 3x7 ballot used in all other 
 districts. 
 
 Rutherford County— 26 Districts 33543 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 13, and 3x7 ballot used in all other 
 districts. 
 
 Scott County— 14: Districts 11077 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Sequatchie County— S Districts 3326 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Sevier County— 11 Districts 22021 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 5, and 3x7 ballot used in all other 
 districts. 
 
 Shelby County— 19 Districts 153557 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 all districts. 
 
 Smith County— 22 Districts 19026 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Stewart County— 12 Districts 15224 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Sullivan County— 22 Districts 24935 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 17, and 3x7 ballot used in all other 
 districts. 
 
 Sumner County— 1^ Districts 26072 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 Districts Nos. 3 and 12, and 3x7 ballot used in all 
 other districts. 
 
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 Tipton County— 1^ Districts 29273 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 Districts Nos. 1, 7 and 8, and 3x7 ballot used in all 
 other districts. 
 
 Trousdale County— 10 Districts 6004 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Unicoi County— 12 Districts 5651 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Union Cou7ity—16 Districts '. 12894 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Van Buren County —S Districts 3126 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Warren County— IQ Districts 16410 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 Acts of 1905. 
 
 Washington County— 1'^ Districts ; .22604 
 
 Australian ballot and registration in District No. 
 9, and 3x7 ballot used in all other districts. 
 
 Wayne County— 14: Districts 12936 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Weakley County— 2b Districts 32546 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 Districts Nos. 7 and 9, and 3x7 ballot used in all 
 other districts. 
 
 White County— 14 Districts 14157 
 
 No registration and 3x7 ballot used in all districts. 
 
 Williamson County— 2"^ Districts 26429 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 9, and 3x7 ballot used in all other 
 districts. 
 
 Wilson County— 2b Districts 27078 
 
 Registration required and Australian ballot used in 
 District No. 10, and 3x7 ballot used in all other 
 districts. : , . 
 
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