qualified voter, the court would not compel the inspectors t thus place him in a position where he might cast an illegal v Where a person, applying for registration, claims to be a the naturalization of his parent, secondary evidence thereof reason of the loss of the certificate of naturalization, the prim be adduced. People v. McNally, 59 How., 500; 9 Abb. N. C is competent to supply the loss of the certificate by his own oa Where a person has been naturalized by a court of compe right to citizenship can not be questioned by the election Walsh, 9 Abb. N. Č., 465.

The power of a county judge, or justice of the Suprem section, to correct alleged errors in the matter of registration where the board of inspectors refuses to strike from the list t not qualified to vote, or neglects or refuses to place thereon t entitled to register, but does not authorize such officer to stri a summary application, the names of persons who have co statutory requirements to entitle them to registration. Matte Rep'r, 613.

If the inspectors register persons who refuse to take the oa or refuse to present themselves in person on the days required tration, or who fail to comply with other steps which the law the inspectors as ministerial officers plainly see have not beer refuse to register persons complying with the laws, or in an exercise a judicial power which is not conferred upon inspecto privilege conferred upon judicial officers to correct these erro ceeding of a summary character may be wisely exercised. Id

The inspectors of election have no judicial power to determ tions of fact as to residence or any other matter which invol tion. Id.; People, ex rel. Stapleton, v. Bell, 119 N. Y. 175; 2 A judicial officer, who has power to revise a ministerial acti inspectors, does not by this statute gain a power to do a thing of inspectors may not do. Matter of Ward, ante. His power limited to the correction of an error which would not have t the invalid action of the board of inspectors. Id. The statut give other power, but expressly provides that the power of may be exercised only if the board refuses to strike from the li person not so qualified to vote, or neglects or refuses to place name of a person entitled to register. Id. A judge may no tory power, strike a name from the list which the inspectors of strike from the registry. Id.

Students at a college or seminary, who have left and aband residences, and who have no other residence for the time th seminary town, were held, in this case, not to be precluded by State Constitution, from registering and voting in such town.

The board of registration acts only ministerially in rec tering the name of the voter and must, therefore, register al their application for registration to the formal requirements o of Hamilton, 80 Hun, 511; People ex rel. Stapleton v. Bell, must refuse registration to any who may fail in such confirm only when the board fails in the discharge of such minister judge, under the provisions of the act, can compel by order of such ministerial duty. Id. No power 13 conferred upon the section, upon a summary application, to determine, upon t the right of a citizen to register and vote without regard t conformance on his part, or on the part of the board of regis formal requirement of the statute regulating the registration Under 37 of the Election Law, as amended by chap. 27 at chambers has the right to strike from a registry list the who is not qualified as a voter in the election district, or wh so qualified before the election Matter of Goodman, 146 N. provision does not, it seems, apply to a case of doubt, where about the facts, or there is ground for differing inferences, b facts show affirmatively that he is not, and cannot become,

An order to show cause why the name of a person should not be stricken from the registry list need not be served upon any one except such person, though the order provides for service upon others. Matter of Griffiths (County Court, 1896), 16 Misc. 128.

32. Forms for registration.- Subdivision 1. The board of inspectors of each election district in the state shall, at their meetings for registration for the general election in each year, make a quadruplicate register - one copy by each inspector of the names and residences of those persons, and none other, who are or will be qualified to vote in such district at such election, which register, when finally completed, shall be the register of electors of the district for such election. Such register shall also be used at all other elections held in such district during the year succeeding the election for which it is made, except for town meetings and village elections for which no registration is required. In cities of the first class, the register shall be arranged in fifteen columns. In the first column of such register there shall be entered at the time of the completion of the registration on the last day for registration, a number opposite the name of each person so enrolled, beginning with "1" and continuing in numerical order. On each day of regis tration there shall be entered in the second column thereof the surnames of such persons in the alphabetical order of the first letter thereof, and in the third column the Christian names of such persons respectively. In the fourth column shall be entered the residence number or other designation, and in the fifth column the name of the street or avenue of such residence or a brief description of the locality thereof. In the sixth column shall be entered the number of the floor or room occupied by the elector at the residence given by him, in the seventh column shall be entered his age, in the eighth, ninth and tenth columns his length of residence in the state, county and election district, respectively; in the eleventh column shall be entered the fact, if he be a native citizen. In the twelfth column the fact, if he be a naturalized citizen; in the thirteenth column shall be entered the date of the registration of the elector. The fourteenth column shall be reserved for entering the consecutive number on the stub of the official ballot voted by the elector on election day. In the fifteenth column shall be entered, opposite the name of each elector, under the heading "remarks," the facts regarding challenges, oaths and other facts affecting such elector required to be recorded.

Subdivision 2. In all election districts other th the first class, the register shall be arranged in In the first column of such register there shall be time of the completion of the registration on the la a number opposite the name of each person so mencing with "1" and continuing in numerical or day of registration there shall be entered in the s thereof the surnames of such persons in the alph of the first letter thereof, and in the third column names of such persons respectively. In the fourth be entered the residence number or other design the fifth column the name of the street or avenue dence, and a brief description of the locality the sixth column shall be entered the date on which th registered. The seventh column shall be reserved the consecutive number on the stub of the official by the elector on election day. In the eighth col entered opposite the name of each elector, under remarks," the facts regarding challenges, oaths an affecting such elector required to be recorded.

Subdivision 3. In cities of the first class, the spectors of each election district shall, immediat close of each day of registration, make and comple all persons enrolled in their respective districts, in t order of the street numbers thereof which list sha and certified by the board of inspectors. Such list livered by the chairman of the board of inspectors captain of the precinct in which the election distri or an officer thereof, who shall forthwith deliver th the city of New York, to the supervisor of the Cit in the city of Brooklyn, to the board of elections, a city of Buffalo, to the city clerk. In the city of New list, compiled by assembly districts, shall be publ City Record within three calendar days after the registration and before the election. In the city the board of elections, and in the city of Buffalo th shall, as soon as possible after the delivery of su before the day of election, print and distribute, form, for each ward, not less than fifty times as ma said list as there are election districts in such wa each ward pamphlet shall contain the lists of the seve districts in such ward. Such lists shall be made in t form, to wit:

GRAND STREET.

Residence number, or other designation.

14.

15.

Name of voter.

Smith, John M.
Jones, Charles M.

§ 33. Method of registration.-Subdivision 1. In cities and in villages having five thousand inhabitants or more, the names of such persons only as personally appear before the inspectors, and who are or who will be at the election for which the registration is made, qualified electors, shall be enrolled upon the register at a meeting for registration 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, who voted at such last preceding general election, except the names of such electors who are proven to the satisfaction of such inspectors to have ceased to be electors since such general election, or have moved within the limits of such village. They shall also place upon such register, at their first and subsequent meetings, the names of all other persons known or proven to their satisfaction, who are or will be entitled to vote at the election, who reside within such election district, but without the limits of such city or village.

Subdivision 2. In cities of the first class the board of inspectors shall issue to every person enrolled upon the register, a certificate in which shall be written the name and address given by such person, and the date of such entry upon the register. Such certificate shall be retained by the person to whom it is issued as evidence of the fact that such name and address were entered upon the register.

Subdivision 3. At the first meeting for registration in all election districts where only two meetings for the enrollment of electors are held for any general election, as provided in section thirty of the election law, the inspectors shall at such first meeting, place upon the register the names of all persons who voted at the last preceding general election, as shown by the register or poll book of such election, except the names of such electors as are proven to the satisfaction of such inspectors

to have ceased to be electors in such district sinc election, and also at said first meeting and at the se they shall place on the register the names of all p or proven to the satisfaction of the inspectors wh be, entitled to vote at the election for which suc is made.

Subdivision 4. At the meeting of the board of i city or village having five thousand inhabitants revising and correcting the register for any election general election, the inspectors shall retain upon t their respective districts, the names of all person vote at such election in such district, which app register of electors for the last preceding genera such election district, except the names of such el proven to the satisfaction of the inspectors to ha be electors of such district since their names were such register, and shall, at such meeting, add register the names of the persons qualified as electo personally appear before the board. If, however, resides within such election district, but without such village, his name shall be placed upon such is shown to the satisfaction of such board that he vote therein. In cities of the first class any elec enrolled upon the register in an election district of the last preceding general election, and who sin shall have removed into another election district city, and who is otherwise qualified to vote at such tion, shall, upon demand, receive from the board of the district in which his name was enrolled for s ceding general election, a certificate duly signed board of the fact that his name was upon such regi been erased therefrom because of such removal, a shall thereupon be erased from such register. U tion of such certificate by the elector to the board of the election district in which he resides, his n placed upon the register for such district. The ins note upon the register opposite the name of such fact of such certificate of removal, specifying the trict from which he has removed. They shall ear such certificate to the register. No elector shall ca to be placed upon the register of an election dis