whom it was received by the inspectors and such officer shall preserve it in his office.

The officer or board with whom the original challenge affidavits or copies thereof are filed may destroy the same six months after the date of the election for which they were made, except those which are to be used in any criminal prosecution.

§ 173. Entry requiring challenge by inspectors. If, at a meeting of the board of inspectors for registration, any voter shall, upon oath, declare that he has reason to believe that any person on the register of voters will not be qualified to vote at the election for which the registration is made, the board of inspectors shall place the words " to be challenged " opposite the name of such person, and when such person shall offer his vote at such election, the general oath as to qualifications shall be administered to him, and if he shall refuse to take such oath he shall not be permitted to vote.

§ 174. Production of naturalization papers. It shall be the duty of every naturalized citizen before being registered to produce to the inspectors, if any inspector shall require, his naturalization papers or a certified copy thereof for their inspection, and to make oath before them that he is the person purporting to have been naturalized by the papers so produced, unless such citizen was naturalized previous to the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. If, however, such naturalized citizen can not for any reason produce his naturalization papers, or a certified copy thereof, the board of inspectors, or a majority of such board may place the name of such naturalized citizen upon the register of voters upon his furnishing to such board evidence which shall satisfy such board of his right to be registered.

§ 175. Persons excluded from the suffrage. No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or any other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an election, or for registering or refraining from registering as a voter, or who shall make any promise to influence the giving or withholding any such vote or registration, or who shall make or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of

an election, shall vote at such election. No person who has been convicted of a felony shall have the right to register for or vote at any election unless he shall have been pardoned and restored to the rights of citizenship.

§ 176. Certification of register. At the close of each meeting for the registration of voters, for a general or other election in a city, or in an election district wholly within a village having five thousand inhabitants or more, the inspectors shall append to each book of registration their certificate to the effect that such register as it now is, comprising (here insert the number) names, is a true and correct register of the names and residences of all the voters qualified to vote at such election in such district, who have personally appeared before the board of registration, and such registers so certified shall be presumptive evidence that the names and places of residence contained therein are the names and places of residence given by the persons registered respectively.

At the close of each meeting for the registration of voters for a general or other election elsewhere than in a city, or in a district wholly within a village having five thousand inhabitants or more, the inspectors shall append to each book of registration a certificate to the effect that such register as it now is, comprising (here insert the number) names, is a true and correct register of all voters qualified to vote at such election in such district who have personally applied for registration, or whose names the board was required by law to place thereon.

Each such certificate shall be signed by all the inspectors, but in case one inspector required to sign such certificate. shall fail for any reason so to do, he may be required by the officer with whom such register is filed to sign such register at a subsequent date. In all cases a majority of the inspectors must sign such certificate at the close of each day of registration.

§ 177. Making up the registers; custody thereof after registration. The register of voters made by the chairman of the board of inspectors shall be, and shall be known as, the public copy of registration. Such public copy shall be left in a prominent position in the place of registration. from the first day of registration until election day, and shall at all reasonable times be open to public inspection and for making copies thereof. Each other inspector shall carefully preserve his register of voters and shall be responsible therefor, until the close of the canvass of the votes on election day, except

as hereinafter provided for in cities of the first class. At the close of each day of registration the inspectors shall draw a line in ink immediately below the name of the voter last eu tered upon each page of each such register. Upon the succeeding day of registration, they shall enter the names of voters in the alphabetical order of the first letter of the surname below the line so drawn upon the proper page after the close of the previous day of registration. Upon the close of the last day of registration, the inspectors shall again carefully compare all the books of registration, to see that they are identical as to their contents, and shall certify as a board in the proper place provided therefor upon each such register that such register is a true and correct register of persons registered by them in such district for the next ensuing election, and shall state the whole number of such persons so registered.

§ 178. Custody and filing of registers after registration in cities of first class. In cities of the first class, at the close of the last day of registration, the chairman of the board of inspectors shall take from an inspector of opposite political faith from himself, the register of voters made by such inspector, and deliver it to the police, who forthwith shall file the same, if in the city of New York, with the board of elections in the borough of Manhattan, and with the chief clerk of the branch office of the board of elections in each other borough, and if in any other city, with the commissioner of elections. Such registers so filed shall be a part of the records of the offices in which they are filed. The two other inspectors of opposite political faith from each other shall retain their respective registers of voters for use on election day. All registers of voters shall at all reasonable hours be accessible for public examination and making copies thereof, and no charge of any kind shall be made for such examination or for allowing any voter to make a copy thereof. In cities of the first class the public copy of registration shall be used, if necessary, on election day by the inspector whose register was filed by the chairman as herein provided.

§ 179. Certifying changes in registers. If, in cities, the board of inspectors shall meet on the second Saturday before the election for the purpose of revising and correcting the register of voters in pursuance of an order of the supreme court, a justice thereof or a county judge, as provided in section one hundred and fifty-three of this article, the inspectors shall

certify forthwith to the officer with whom the copy of the register is filed the change or changes made upon such register in pursuance of such order. At any revision of registration for an election other than a general election, the quadruplicate register of voters for the last preceding general election shall be furnished to the inspectors of election by the officer or board having the custody thereof, and the inspectors shall certify to the officer or board in cities of the first class with whom the registers are filed the changes, additions or alterations made in such registers for such election.

§ 180. Custody of registers after election. At the close of the canvass of the votes of any election, or within twentyfour hours thereafter, the two copies of the register of electors used by the inspectors and the public copy thereof shall be filed with the board of elections of the county in which the election district is located and in the city of New York with the office located in the borough of Manhattan, and with the chief clerk of the branch office of the board of elections in each other borough of the city of New York. It shall be the duty of the officers with whom such registers of the election districts are filed, to forthwith file one copy of such register for each election district with the state superintendents of elections. Such register of electors shall be carefully preserved for use at any election which may be ordered or held in either of such counties or cities, respectively, prior to the next ensuing general election at which they may be required. [As amended by chap. 649, Laws of 1911.]

§ 181. Certifying number of registered electors. At the close of registration on the fourth day the board of inspectors shall upon blanks furnished by the secretary of state forthwith certify and file with or mail to the officer or board charged with the duty of furnishing ballots to such district and to the state superintendents of elections the total number of electors registered in such district. The inspectors of each district shall also furnish to the same officials in like manner at the close of each day of registration the total number of electors registered on such day in their respective districts. The chairman of the board of inspectors of election of each district shall also forthwith at the close of each day of registration file with or mail to the state superintendents of elections a certificate showing the total number of voters registered therein in the respective election districts. [As amended by chap. 649, Laws of 1911.]

§ 182. Delivery of blank books for registration; certificates and instructions. The secretary of state shall purchase whenever he deems it desirable for the best interests of the state, a suitable number of blank books for registers of voters, with blank certificates and brief instructions for registering the names of voters therein, in the forms respectively provided in sections one hundred and fifty-four, one hundred and fifty-five and one hundred and fifty-six of this article, at least four of such books for each board of inspectors in the state, and such number of extra copies thereof as in his judgment may be necessary for each county or city to replace lost or damaged registers before delivery to the inspectors. Such register of voters shall have the leaves thereof indexed with the letters of the alphabet, beginning with the letter "A" for the first leaf, and so on. At least twenty days prior to the first day of registration for a general election in each year, the secretary of state shall transmit a sufficient number of such registers, certificates and instructions to the county clerk of each county, except the county of Erie and those counties the whole of which is included within the city of New York, and to the commissioner of elec tions of the county of Erie, for the use of the boards of inspectors within his county; and to the board of elections of the city of New York located in the borough of Manhattan, and to the chief clerk of the branch office of the board of elections in each other borough within the city of New York, a sufficient number thereof for the use of each board of inspectors within said respective boroughs. The county clerk or said commissioner of elections, as the case may be, shall deliver such books to the town clerks of each town and to the city clerk of each city in such county, except the city of Buffalo, by mail or otherwise, at least five days prior to the first day of registration, and such town clerks and city clerks and the said board of elections and chief clerks of branch offices of the board of elections in the city of New York, and in the city of Buffalo the commissioner of elections, shall deliver such books to the inspectors of said boroughs respectively before the hour set for registering the names of voters on the first day of registration. On each day of registration the board of elections of the city of New York and in the city of Buffalo the commissioner of elections shall furnish to each board of inspectors in their respective cities blanks for the list of voters provided for in section one hundred and fifty-seven of this article.