PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION AND STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES, LANSING: 1888. I. CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO ELECTIONS. II. ANNUAL MEETING AND GENERAL ELECTION... III. PRESERVATION OF THE PURITY OF ELECTIONS, AND OFFENSES AGAINST ELECTION Laws: The Registration of Elections; Registration in New Townships; Election Dis- tricts; Offenses Against Election Laws; Betting on Elections ; Bribery ; Exciting Dis- turbance at Elections; Offenses Against Primary Elections and Conventions; Correc- tions of Frauds and Errors in Election Returns ; Closing of Saloons, etc., on Election IV. CONGRESSIONAL, JUDICIAL, SENATORIAL, AND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS.. 40 V. GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTIONS: Elections Other Than for Militia and Township Officers; Election of Certain Officers; Election of United States Senators; Elections in the Upper Peninsula; Identifying (Ballots of Unqualified Voters; Uniformity in Election Returns..... 47 VI, STATE OFFICERS : Bond of State Treasurer; Omcial Oaths and Bonds of State Officers.. 72 VII. COUNTY OFFICERS : County Auditors of Wayne County; County Treasurer; Judge of Probate; County Clerks; Sheriffs; Coroners; Register of Deeds; County Surveyors; Circuit Court Commissioners. 74 VIII. RESIGNATIONS, VACANCIES, AND REMOVALS FROM OFFICE, AND SUPPLYING VACANCIES. 79 IX. ELECTION OF JUDGES AND REGENTS: Election of Circuit Judges; Superior Court in the City of Grand Rapids ; Election of Justices of the Supreme Court; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; Election of Regents of the University... 84 X. ELECTIONS IN TOWNSHIPS: Annual Township Meetings; Resignations, Vacancies, and Supplying Vacancies; Certain Duties of Township Clerk; Bonds of Township Officers; Township Business other than Elections; Qualifications of Voters and Officers; First Elections in Townships; Miscellaneous Provisions...... 91 XI. ELECTIONS IN CITIES AND VILLAGES: Elections in Cities; Elections in Villages; Water Works in Cities and Villages; Vacating Incorporated Villages.... 113 XII. ELECTIONS IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS: Formation, Meetings, and Powers of Districts; Dis- trict Board and Officers; Supervisor and Treasurer; Bonded Indebtedness of Districts; Sites for School-houses ; Graded School Districts; Libraries ; Penalties and Liabilities. 141 XIII. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS: Removal of County Seats; Raising Money for County and Township Purposes; Division of Counties into Representative Districts; Elections in the Militia ; Uniform Ballots on Constitutional Amendments; Free publc libraries and reading rooms; Regulation of the manufactnre and sale of liquors: Banking; Proposed Constitutional Amendments.... 153 XIV. DIGEST OF DECISIONS RELATING TO ELECTIONS... APPENDIX-PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION AND STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES, APPLICABLE TO ELECTIONS IN THE STATES. 173 ALPHABETICAL AND ANALYTICAL INDEX. * |
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