the chairman of the board of inspectors to the police captain of the precinct, if any, in which the election district is located, or an officer thereof, or to the town clerk, who shall forthwith deliver the same to the board of elections in the county in which such election district is located. The board of elections of each county containing a city of the first or second class and the board of elections of the city of New York shall, as soon as possible after the delivery of such lists, and not less than six days prior to the day of election, print in pamphlet form for each ward of any such city within their respective counties, or for each assembly district in the city of New York, not less than twenty-five times as many copies of said registration lists as there are election districts in such assembly district or ward, so that each assembly district or ward pamphlet shall contain the lists of the several election districts in such assembly district or ward. Upon the written application of the chairman of the executive committee of the county committee of any political party whose candidates are entitled to a place upon the official ballot to be voted at the election for which the registration is made, the board of elections of such city or of any such county, as the case may be, shall respectively deliver to such chairman five copies of each assembly district or ward pamphlet for each election district within such city, or, in the city of New York, within each assembly district of the county which such county committee represents. Two pamphlets containing the lists of the registered persons in the election districts within his precinct shall be furnished to each police captain in all such cities. It shall be the duty of every police captain in every city of the state to forthwith cause an investigation of each name registered in his precinct to be made and to report to the state superintendents of election at their office in such city or at such other office as they may in writing designate any case of false registration there found. In any city of the state in which registration lists are not printed, including third class cities, it shall be the duty of the board of elections of the county or of such city to afford necessary facilities, including clerical assistance, to every such police captain in transcribing the whole or any part of the registration lists in aid of the duty of investigation imposed on him under the provisions of this section. The board of elections in each county shall furnish to the state superintendents of elections three copies of each pamphlet printed by it. The remaining pamphlets so printed shall be distributed in the discretion of the said boards, which shall have respectively the power to charge for each pamphlet a sum not ex

ceeding ten cents a copy, and any moneys resulting from the sale thereof shall be paid to the comptroller of the city of New York or county treasurer of the county for the benefit of the treasury of such city or county. The boards of election shall contract for the printing of such lists of registered electors with whomsoever it may seem to said board to be most advantageous to so contract, but such contract shall only be awarded after proper public notice and to the lowest bidder.

Such lists shall be made and printed as near as may be in the following form, to wit:

[As amended by chap. 649, Laws of 1911, and chaps. 800 and 821, Laws of 1913.]

§ 158. Registration in cities and in villages of five thousand inhabitants. In cities and villages having five thousand inhabitants or more, the names of such persons only as personally appear before the inspectors, and who are or will be at the election for which the registration is made, qualified electors, shall be registered for a general election, except that whenever any election district in a village having five thousand inhabitants or more shall embrace within its boundaries territory without the limits of such village, the inspectors shall, at their first meeting for registration for a general election, place upon such register the names of all persons appearing on the register of the last preceding general election who resided without the limits of such village but within the election district and who voted at such last preceding general election, except the names of such electors as are proven to the satisfaction of such inspectors to have ceased to be electors since such general election or to have moved within the limits of such village. They shall also place upon such register, at their first meeting, the names of all other persons proven to the satisfaction of such inspectors by the affidavits of each such person and of two qualified electors, as provided in the next section, to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at the election who reside within such election district but without the limits of such city or village, and also upon all days of registration the names of all other persons who may appear before the said board and

ceeding ten cents a copy, and any moneys resulting from the sa thereof shall be paid to the comptroller of the city of New Yor or county treasurer of the county for the benefit of the treasury c such city or county. The boards of election shall contract fo the printing of such lists of registered electors with whomsoever i may seem to said board to be most advantageous to so contract, bu such contract shall only be awarded after proper public notice an to the lowest bidder.

Such lists shall be made and printed as near as may be in th following form, to wit:

[As amended by chap. 649, Laws of 1911, and chaps. 800 and 821, Laws of 1913.]

§ 158. Registration in cities and in villages of five thousand inhabitants. In cities and villages having five thousand inhabitants or more, the names of such persons only as personally appear before the inspectors, and who are or will be at the election for which the registration is made, qualified electors, shall be registered for a general election, except that whenever any election district in a village having five thousand inhabitants or more shall embrace within its boundaries territory without the limits of such village, the inspectors shall, at their first meeting for registration for a general election, place upon such register the names of all persons appearing on the register of the last preceding general election who resided without the limits of such village but within the election district and who voted at such last preceding general election, except the names of such electors as are proven to the satisfaction of such inspectors to have ceased to be electors since such general election or to have moved within the limits of such village. They shall also place upon such register, at their first meeting, the names of all other persons proven to the satisfaction of such inspectors by the affidavits of each such person and of two qualified electors, as provided in the next section, to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at the election who reside within such election district but without the limits of such city or village, and also upon all days of registration the names of all other persons who may appear before the said board and