APPENDIX TO THE ELECTION LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING AMENDMENTS TO THE ELECTION LAW PASSED BY THE THIRD STATE LEGISLATURE (1895). REGISTRY AGENTS OF OFFICE. REGISTRATION. APPOINTMENT-QUALIFICATION-TERM Sec. 15. The boards of the county commissioners of the several counties shall at their regular meeting held in July, in the year 1890, and thereafter at each regular July meeting to be held every general election year, appoint two registry agents for each election district in their respective counties in which there were cast, at the last preceding general election, in each polling precinct in said district, as shown by the returns thereof, more than fifty votes; said registry agents shall not be members of the same political party. Such registry agents shall be qualified voters in the several election districts for which they are respectively appointed, and shall be otherwise competent to attend to the duties incident to their appoinment. Such registry agents shall hold their offices for the term of two years and until their successors are appointed and qualified, and they may be removed at the will of the county commissioners for cause. (Sec. 15 as amended by Act of Februarv 26. 1895.) JUDGES OF ELECTION SHALL BE EX-OFFICIO REGISTRY AGENTS-WHEN. Sec. 27. The judges of election of each election precinct in Wyoming in all districts in which there were cast, at the last preceding general election in each polling precinct in said district, as shown by the returns thereof, not more than fifty votes, shall be ex-officio registry agents for their respective precincts. Sec. 27. a. It shall be the duty of the county clerk of each county, to furnish to the judges of election, if such polling precinct has by the returns of the last preceding general election shown to have polled not more than fifty votes, the same books, stationery, including black lead pencils for the purpose of marking ballots of electors, and none other shall be used for such purpose, and blank forms of affidavits and printed copies of the Election Act, as they are required to furnish to the registry agents of such election districts on which registration is required before the day of election. It shall be the duty of the judges of election in the precincts wherein they are required to also act as registry agents to register in the proper official register each voter applying to vote in the manner prescribed by law for registration, prior to such voter being permitted to cast his ballot at such election. (Sec. 27 as amended by Act of February 26, 1895.) MISCELLANEOUS. SPECIAL AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS INCLUDED IN ELECTION LAW. Sec. 33. The provisions of this act shall apply to all special elections and municipal elections. Sec. 33. a. All persons who have registered either during the registration period immediately preceding a special election, or a municipal election, or who have registered less than two years before such election, during a regular registration period for county elections, or during any special or municipal registration period, subsequent to such regular county election, shall be entitled to vote at such special election, or municipal election, as the case may be, in the precinct in which they are registered. (Sec. 33 as amended by Act of February 16, 1895.) ASSISTANCE TO VOTER. VOTING. Sec. 126. Any voter who declares to the judges of election that he or she cannot read, in case such person was a voter on the 10th day of July, A. D. 1890, or that by blindness or other physical disability, he or she is unable to mark his or her ballot, shall, upon request, receive the assistance of two of the election officers, who shall not be members of the same political party, in the marking thereof, and such officers shall certify on the outside thereof that it was so marked by their assistance, and shall thereafter give no information regarding the same. (Sec. 126 as amended February 15, A. D. 1895.) CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. CHAPTER 49, SESSION LAWS OF 1895. AN ACT to provide for the submission of proposed amendments of the Constitution to the. people of Wyoming. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming: AMENDMENT-WHERE FILED. Section 1. Every proposed amendment of the constitution of the state which shall have been agreed upon by the legislature as provided by the constitution, shall be transmitted, by the house in which it originated, to, and be filed by the secretary of state in his office. SECRETARY SHALL NUMBER. Sec. 2. The secretary of state shall number serially all proposed amendments of the constitution received by him from each legislature, commencing with number one, in the order in which they are received, and thereafter such number shall constitute a part of such proposed amendment for the purposes of reference. AMENDMENT SHALL BE PUBLISHED. Sec. 3. The secretary of state shall cause each proposed amendment to be published, as required by the constitution. The expense of such publication shall be paid out of his contingent fund. COPY SENT TO COUNTY CLERKS. Sec. 4. The secretary of state shall send a copy of each proposed constitutional amendment, on file in his office, and not theretofore submitted to the people, to each county clerk in this state, at least thirty days prior to the election at which such proposed amendment is to be submitted to the people, He shall append to each copy of a proposed amendment, or if there be more than one, then to the series of amendments, his certificate that it or they are true copies. COPY TO BE POSTED. Sec. 5. Each county clerk shall cause each copy of proposed constitutional amendments received by him, from the secretary of state, to be conspicuously posted in his office from the time of its receipt until after the date of the general election at which it is to be submitted to the people. OFFICIAL BALLOTS. Sec. 6. Each county clerk, when preparing the official ballot for an election, shall include as part of such ballot the submission to the people of every constitutional amendment, |