to present tax bill or certificate, etc.

the words: and Chelsea, so as to read as follows:Male applicant Section 46. Every male applicant for registration, except in Boston and Chelsea, whose name has not been transmitted to the registrars as provided in section sixteen shall present a tax bill or notice from the collector of taxes, or a certificate from the assessors showing that he was assessed as a resident of the city or town on the preceding first day of April, or a certificate that he became a resident therein at least six months preceding the election at which he claims the right to vote, and the same shall be prima facie evidence of his residence.

Listing board
in Chelsea, how
constituted.

To make lists of male persons, etc.

SECTION 8. There is hereby established in the city of Chelsea a listing board composed of the chief of police of said city and the board of assessors ex officiis. In case of a tie vote or other disagreement in said board, the presiding justice of the police court of Chelsea, or in case of his disability, the senior associate justice of said court who is not disabled, shall, for the purpose of settling the disagreement, or breaking the tie vote, be a member of said board and shall preside and cast the deciding vote.

SECTION 9. The listing board shall, within the first seven week days of April in each year, by itself or by police officers, visit every building in said city, and, after diligent inquiry, make true lists, arranged by streets, wards and voting precincts, and containing as nearly as the board can ascertain, the name, age, occupation and residence on the first day of April in the current year, and the residence on the first day of April in the preceding year, of every male person, twenty years of age or upward, who is not a pauper in a public Buildings used institution, residing in the city. The said board shall desig

as residences to be desig

nated, etc.

To make lists of women voters.

nate in such lists all buildings used as residences by such male persons, in their order on the street where they are situated, by giving the number or other definite description of every such building so that it can readily be identified, and shall place opposite the number or other description of every such building the name, age and occupation of every such male person residing therein on the first day of April in the current year, and his residence on the first day of April in the preceding year. The board shall also inquire at the residences of the women voters whose names are contained in the list prepared by the registrars of voters, under the provisions of section forty-four of chapter eight hundred and thirty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and which shall be transmitted by said registrars

to the listing board before the first day of April in each year, whether such women voters are resident thereat, and shall thereupon make true lists of the women voters found

may take

when neces

by them. If in any year the chief of police shall believe it Chief of police to be impracticable, because of any public exigency requiring further time unusual service from the police force of the city, to complete sary, etc. within the first seven week days of April the said visitation, and to transmit to the registrars of voters on or before the eighteenth day of April the lists described in this section, he shall have authority, after giving notice in writing to the listing board, to take such further time for such visitation and transmission, not exceeding ten week days, as he shall deem necessary.

informants to

The board shall place in the lists made by it, opposite Names of the name of every such male person or woman voter, the be given, etc. name of the inmate, owner or occupant of the building, or the name and residence of any other person, who gives the information relating to such male person or woman voter. Where such information is given by one person relating to more than one such male person or woman voter residing in one building, ditto marks may be used in the said lists under the name of the person giving the information, after his name has once been placed opposite the name of such male person or woman voter first written down as residing in the building.

errors in

The board shall, upon the personal application of a person To correct listed for the correction of any error in their lists, or when- lists, etc. ever informed of any such error, make due investigation, and upon proof thereof correct the same on their lists, and shall immediately notify the registrars of voters of such correction, who shall correct their copies of said lists accordingly and proceed to revise and correct the registers under the provisions of section fifty-one of said chapter eight hundred and thirty-five. The board shall cause all applications Applications, and affidavits received by it under this section to be pre- preserved for served for two years. SECTION 10. The board shall, on or before the eighteenth To transmit day of April in each year, transmit to the registrars of voters certified copies of those parts of the lists prepared as provided in the preceding section, containing the name, age, occupation and residence on the first day of April in the current year, and the residence on the first day of April in the preceding year, of every male person, twenty years of age or upward residing in said city, and shall promptly

etc., to be two years.

copies of lists

to registrars

of voters, etc.

To prepare printed copies

of lists, etc.

Listing of persons not previously listed.

Certain

persons desiring to be listed to present a statement in writing, etc.

Board of assessors to

in certain

cases.

transmit to the registrars of voters notice of every addition to and correction in the lists made by it. The board shall furnish all information in its possession necessary to aid the registrars in the performance of their duties.

SECTION 11. The board shall, on or before the first day of June in each year, prepare printed copies of the lists prepared for the use of the registrars of voters. The board shall print such lists in pamphlet form by precincts, deliver to the registrars of voters as many copies thereof as they may require, and hold the remaining copies for public distribution.

SECTION 12. If a male person, twenty years of age or upward, resident in Chelsea on the first day of April, was not listed by the board, he shall, in order to establish his right to be listed, appear before the board of assessors at such time as it may designate, the members of which are hereby authorized to administer oaths for this purpose, and present under oath a statement in writing that he was on said day a resident of said city, giving his name, age, occupation and residence on the first day of April in the current year, and his residence on the first day of April in the preceding year.

A male person, twenty years of age or upward, who becomes a resident of said city after the first day of April, and desires to be listed, shall appear before any member of the board of assessors, who is hereby authorized to administer oaths for this purpose, and present under oath a statement in writing that he became a resident of said city at least six months immediately preceding the election at which he claims the right to vote, giving his name, age, occupation and residence on the above date, and his residence on the first day of April in the preceding year.

If the board of assessors, after investigation, is satisfied give certificate that such statements are true, it shall give the applicant a certificate that he was a resident of said city on said first day of April, or a certificate that he became a resident at least six months immediately preceding the election, as the case may be, which certificate shall state his name, age, occupation and residence on the first day of April in the current year or on the above date, as the case may be, and his residence on the first day of April in the preceding year; but no such application shall be received later than the thirtieth day preceding a state or a municipal election, and no such person shall be listed or be given such certificate

later than the twenty-first day preceding the state or municipal election. The board shall also forthwith transmit to the registrars of voters the names of all persons receiving such certificates, together with their residence on the first day of April in the current and in the preceding year. The board shall not, after the last day for making the said application before a state election, receive an application until after the election.

prescribing

In every place where oaths are administered for the purpose Copy of laws of listing, the board of assessors shall post in a conspicuous penalties to be place a copy of section four hundred and sixty of said chapter posted. eight hundred and thirty-five, printed on white paper with black ink, in type not less than one quarter of an inch wide.

SECTION 13. The board of assessors shall enter the date Record of applications of application, the name, age, occupation and residence on to be kept, etc. the first day of April in the current year, and the residence on the first day of April in the preceding year, of every such applicant, as above provided, together with the result of its investigation of his application in a book provided for that purpose, which shall be open for public inspection. The board shall cause to be printed in some newspaper published in Chelsea, the name and residence of every such applicant. The names and residences of the applicants shall be printed by wards and precincts within two days after the number of names of applicants, not printed, reaches fifty; and on the day when that number is reached, the names to be printed within the said two days shall include the names of all such applicants up to the close of business for this purpose in the office of the board on the said day.

assessors.

SECTION 14. The board of assessors shall keep its office Sessions of open during such hours as shall be necessary to carry out the provisions of the preceding two sections.

entries, arrange

SECTION 15. The registrars of voters shall, after the Annual register, first day of April in each year, prepare an annual register ment, etc. containing the names of all qualified voters in Chelsea for the current year, beginning with the first day of April. The names shall be arranged by wards and precincts and, opposite the name of each voter, shall be entered his residence on the preceding first day of April or any subsequent day when he became a resident of said city. The registrars of voters shall enter in the annual register every name contained in the lists, for the current year, of persons transmitted to them by the listing board, giving, as the residence of each person on the first day of April, the place at which

Proviso.

Registrars to make inquiries,

etc.

he was listed by said board; and likewise the name and residence, as aforesaid, of every woman voter whose name is contained in the list of women voters transmitted to them under this act: provided, that in every case they are able to identify the name so transmitted as that of a man or woman whose name was borne on the voting list of said city at the last preceding election. They shall make all investigations, inquiries and investigations necessary to identify such person, and they shall not enter in the annual register the name of a person objected to by any of the registrars of voters, until such person has been duly notified and given an opportunity to be heard by them, and shall have appeared and satisfied them of his right to have his name so entered. They shall forthwith enter in the annual register the name of every person whose qualifications as a voter have been determined by them in the current year and whose name has accordingly been entered in the general register. They To send notice shall, on or before the first Monday of August in each year, send notice in writing by mail to each male and female voter of the preceding year whose name has not been entered in the annual register of the current year that his name has not so been entered. They shall, before the first day of April in each year, transmit to the listing board a list of the women voters whose names are contained upon the register of the preceding year, with their residences, as they appear on said register.

to male and

female voters whose names have not been entered in annual regis

ter.

Registration, personal application, necessary in certain

cases.

1913, 835, § 436, etc., amended.

Penalty on listing board

SECTION 16. Every person, male or female, whose name has not been entered in the annual register in accordance with the preceding section, shall, in order to be registered as a voter, apply in person for registration and prove that he is qualified to register.

SECTION 17. Section four hundred and thirty-six of said chapter eight hundred and thirty-five, as amended by section eight of said chapter ninety-one, and by section thirteen of said chapter twenty-nine, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "Boston", the words: - or Chelsea, so as to read as follows: Section 436. A member of or police officer the listing board or a police officer in Boston or Chelsea who knowingly enters on any list of male persons or women voters, or causes, or allows to be entered thereon, or reports the name of any person as a resident of a building, who is not a resident thereof, shall for each offence be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year.

in Boston or

Chelsea.

1913, 835, § 458, etc., amended.

SECTION 18. Section four hundred and fifty-eight of said chapter eight hundred and thirty-five, as amended by