Second-A person shall not be considered to have lost his residence who leaves his home to go into another state, or county in this state, for temporary purposes merely and with the intention of returning.

Third-A person shall not be considered to have gained a residence in any county into which he comes for temporary purposes merely, without the intention of making such county his home.

Fourth-If a person go into another state, with the intention of making it his residence, he loses his residence in this state.

Fifth-If any person remove to another state, with the intention of remaining there for an indefinite time as a place of residence, he loses his residence in this state, notwithstanding he entertains the idea of returning at some future time.

Sixth - The place where a man's family resides shall be held to be his place of residence; but if it be a place of temporary establishment for his family, or for transient purposes, it shall be otherwise.

Seventh- If a man have a family fixed in one place, and he do business in another, the former shall be considered his place of residence; but any man having a family, who has taken up his abode with the intention of remaining, and whose family refuses to reside with him, shall be regarded as a citizen and voter where he has taken up his abode.

Eighth-The mere intention to acquire a new residence, without the fact of removal, shall avail nothing, neither shall the fact of removal without the intention. And no person employed temporarily in the construction or repair of any railroad, canal, municipal or other work of public nature, shall acquire a residence in any election precinct into which he came for that purpose, so as to entitle him to vote therein; but this provision shall not be held to extend to station agents and section men who permanently reside in such election district. In any question that may arise as to the right of any person in the employment of any railroad corporation or employed upon public work as aforesaid, to be registered, or to vote in any election precinct, it must first satisfactorily appear to all the judges of such election that the said party is an actual bona fide resident of said election district, and not there for temporary purposes merely; and the mere affidavit of such person shall not be received as conclusive as to any fact necessary to entitle him to vote.

diers' homes.

Ninth-That any person being a permanent inmate of Inmates of solany soldiers' home in this state shall, for the purpose of this act, have a legal residence thereat.

SEC. 10. The polls in the several election districts in towns, villages and cities of less than four thousand (4,000) inhabitants shall be opened at nine (9) o'clock in the

Time of opening

and closing

polls.

Board of registry, times of meeting.

morning and kept open until five (5) o'clock in the afternoon; but in cities of four thousand (4,000) or more and less than twelve thousand (12,000) inhabitants, the polls shall be opened at seven (7) o'clock in the morning and shall be kept open until six (6) o'clock in the evening; in cities of twelve thousand (12,000) inhabitants and over the polls shall be opened at six (6) o'clock in the morning and closed at seven (7) o'clock in the evening. No adjournment or intermission whatever shall take place until the same be closed and until all the votes cast at such poll have been counted and the result publicly announced.

REGISTRATION IN CITIES CONTAINING OVER 12,000 INHAB-
ITANTS.

SEC. 11. In all incorporated cities of over twelve thousand (12,000) inhabitants, the persons authorized by or appointed pursuant to law to act as judges and clerks of election in any such city, or in any ward or other election district in such city in this state, shall constitute a board of registry for their respective cities, wards or election districts, and shall meet on Tuesday three (3) weeks preceding any general, state or city election, and fourteen (14) days before any special election. Said board shall meet at nine (9) o'clock in the morning at a place where the last election was held, or such other place that may be lawfully designated for the polling place in the election district in which such board are judges and clerks, and shall continue in session until nine (9) o'clock in the afternoon; they shall proceed to make a registration as hereinafter prescribed of all persons entitled to vote at the ensuing election in such election districts. Such registration, when completed, shall constitute and be known as the register of electors of such election Two registers to district. Two (2) such registers shall be made by said board. Such board shall have and exercise the same right to preserve order at their meetings as is given to judges of election to preserve order on election day, and vacancies in said board shall be filled in the same manner as such vacancies are filled at election.

be made.

SEC. 12. Said register shall be in form substantially as follows:

Judges to copy from previous poll list names of all known qualified

electors except in cities over 40,000.

Entry of new names of electors.

Said board shall enter all names in said registers, alphabetically by surnames; they shall enter therein the name of all persons residing in their election district whose names appear in the poll list in said district at the last preceding election as having voted thereat, except such as are known to the board to have since died, removed from the district or become disqualified; and, so far as known to any of said board, the proper entries shall be made opposite each name in the different columns of said registry. In case the boundaries of the district have been changed since the preceding election at which such poll list was made, then the judges shall place on the registers only the names of persons appearing by such poll list to be resi dents within the new district in which they are sitting. In addition to the names on said poll list, the board shall enter in said registers the names of all persons who shall personally appear before them for registration, and also the name of any person who shall make and have presented to the board at any time while sitting to make or correct the registry lists as provided in this act, an affidavit in the form following, and also, if it appears by such affidavit that the affiant has removed from another election district or is registered elsewhere in the city, a certificate of removal from such other district, as provided in section sixteen (16) of this act.

REGISTRY OATHS OF ABSENT PERSON.

I,............. , being first duly sworn, on oath say that I am twenty-one years of age, and a duly and legally qualified voter in the state of Minnesota. That I am [or am not] a native, have [or have not] been naturalized. [Date of naturalization papers. Court before which granted.] That I am a resident, and for ten days have been a resident, of the city of........ ...,and reside, and for ten days have resided, at number.. in said city. That I can

That by occupa

not be present in person to register in the proper election
district for the reason that........
tion I am a........
That I voted at the last preced-
ing election held in said city, and that at that time resided
at number........., and believe that I am now registered in
that election district, [or that I did not vote at the last
preceding election in said city, and believe that I am not
registered in said city.] That I make this affidavit that
I may be registered in the proper election district where
I now reside.

..,18...., before me, ...in and for said county, per..., to me personally known, and

On this.............day of..... the subscriber, a........ sonally appeared....

being by me first duly sworn, subscribed and swore to the

foregoing statement.

Such affidavit shall be subscribed and sworn to before some person qualified to administer oaths, who shall attach his official certificate thereto, according to the above form. Provided, That in all cities of forty thousand (40,000) inhabitants and upward, there shall be no name of any person registered unless he shall appear personally before said judges or register by affidavit of absent person as provided by this section of this act, and that no copy shall be made of any names on the poll lists of any previous election; and that sections sixteen (16) and seventeen (17) of this act shall not apply to cities of forty thousand (40,000) inhabitants and upwards.

40,000 inhab itants an entire new registration

In cities of over

must be made.

swear or affirm.

asked.

SEC. 13. One of the judges of election shall administer Every person to all persons appearing personally before him for registra- registering must tion the following oath or affirmation: "You do solemnly swear [or affirm] that you will fully and truly answer such questions as shall be put to you touching your place of residence, place of birth, and your qualifications as an elector, and your right to register and vote under the laws of this state." One of the judges shall then ask each of the said Questions to be persons appearing before them the questions necessary to properly fill out the spaces opposite the names of such persons in the various columns of the register. The clerk or other members of the board shall enter the names of such persons in the registers, and the answers to the questions in the appropriate columns therein. In the column headed "Residence" there shall be the name and number of the street or other location of the dwelling, if there be a definite number; if not, such clear and definite description of the place of such dwelling as shall enable it to be readily ascertained. If more than one family be residing in a house, there shall be entered the floor on which the applicant resides and the room or rooms occupied by him. The reg ister shall be ruled, and one (1) name shall be written on each line, but no name shall be written between the lines, and if the name of any person be so written, such person shall not be entitled or allowed to vote, unless his name shall also appear properly on a line in said register. At the end of each day's register the board shall carefully com pare the registers and make them to correspond and agree, and the judges of election shall sign their names at the end of the list on every page of such register, so that no new name can be added without discovery, and shall also sign and attach to such register a certificate in substance as follows: "We, the undersigned, judges of election in the Form of certifi ......... district of the ward, of the city of in the state of Minnesota, do jointly and severally certify that at the general registration of electors in said election district, on the day of ... ........................., 18........, there were registered by us in said election precinct the names which in this book are inserted, and that the number of registered and qualified voters was and is the number of..........`

......

Each page of signed by the judges after each

register to be

day's session.

cate.