An Act TO ASCERTAIN BY PROPER PROOFS THE CITIZENS WHO SHALL BE ENTITLED TO THE RIGHTS OF SUFFRAGE. PASSED MAY 13, 1865; THREE-FIFTHS BEING PRESENT. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There shall be four persons appointed by the Board of Commissioners of Metropolitan Police for each election district in the city and county of New York, and there shall be the same number of persons appointed by the Board of Supervisors of the city of Brooklyn, to be known as Inspectors of Registry and of Elections. The Inspectors in the city of Brooklyn shall be appointed by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to said Board of Supervisors of said city of Brooklyn. The said Inspectors shall make the registry hereinafter provided for, for said cities, and shall hold the elections hereinafter mentioned, and preside at the same, and have and possess all the powers and be subject to all the duties and liabilities of Inspectors of Elections. Such appointments shall be made during the months of August and September in each year, by resolution of the said Boards respectively, and the persons so appointed shall take and file in the office of the Chief Clerk of the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police and in the office of the City Clerk of Brooklyn, respectively, the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, and receive a certificate of such appointment in such form as shall be prescribed by said Commissioners of Metropolitan Police and by said Board of Supervisors respectively. The said Inspectors, so appointed for the city and county of New York and for the city of Brooklyn, and the Inspectors of Election in each of the other election districts in this State in which any part of an incorporated city or village is included, shall meet annually, on Tuesday, three weeks preceding the general election, at nine o'clock A.M., at the place designated for holding the poll of said election, and organize themselves as a Board for the purpose of registering the names of the legal voters of such district; and for this purpose they shall appoint one of their number chairman of the Board, who (except in the city and county of New York and in the city of Brooklyn) shall administer to the other Inspectors the oath of office, as prescribed by the Constitution, and the same oath shall then be administered to the chair |