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of the disposition of each application; a copy of such minute shall at once be given to said commissioners, who shall forthwith cause such names to be placed upon the appropriate register, and indicate that it was entered by order of court. After the entry of the applications, so allowed by said court, no further change shall be permitted, and the appropriate stamp prepared shall be affixed to the end of each page of names in each precinct registered by said board of commissioners. Said books of registry so prepared shall, on the day prior to the election, be delivered to the judges of election, one only, however, to be delivered to, the judge or judges representing the same political party. No person admitted to the registry by order of such court or such board shall be protected by such order in case he should be indicted for false registration or false voting.

$26. On the next day after election day said registers shall be returned to the board of election commissioners, and in case any register of any precinct shall be lost or mutilated, said board of election commissioners shall cause a true copy to be made from the other register. This section is made applicable, and it shall be the duty of the judges of election to observe it, after each and every election.

§ 32. All affidavits left with the judges of election at any registration, revision of registration or election shall be immediately returned to the office of the election commissioners. Said affidavits, before being so returned, must be enclosed in an envelope provided for that purpose, which shall then be securely sealed with sealing wax or other adhesive. material and each of the judges shall write his name across the seal. Said judges of election of any precinct shall, on the day preceding any registration or election, and upon the day of any revision, call at the office of said commissioners and receive the registers of such precinct, said registers being enclosed in an envelope and sealed with a stamp of the chief clerk of the election commissioner's office. Such envelope shall not be opened by the judges of election until the beginning of the session of registration, revision or election at which the registers are to be used, and shall only be opened when all of the judges are present. Immediately at the close of any registration, revision or election, the said registers shall be enclosed in an envelope provided for that purpose and securely sealed with sealing wax or other adhesive material, and each of the judges and each of the election clerks shall write his name across every fold at which the envelope, if unfastened, could be opened. Thereupon said judges shall take such registers so enclosed and sealed and the affidavits and, within the time specified in this Act, shall deliver said envelope with registers enclosed to the board of election commissioners, with the seal unbroken, and receive a receipt therefor. There shall be endorsed upon the back of such envelope the number of the precinct and ward of the enclosed registers and the signature of the judge who delivered the same to the election commissioners. If any judge of election shall break the seal of or open any envelope containing affidavits or registers or shall permit any person to open any such envelope or break the seal thereof while the same is in his custody, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be

imprisoned in the county jail not less than three (3) months nor more than twelve (12) months.

§ 2. Section 30 of Article III of an Act entitled: "An Act regulating the holding of elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns in this State," approved June 19, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, as amended, is repealed. APPROVED June 28, 1919.

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(SENATE BILL NO. 32. APPROVED MARCH 26, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the printing and distribution of ballots at public exepense and for the nomination of candidates for public offices, to regulate the manner of holding elections and to enforce the secrecy of the ballot," approved June 22, 1891, and in force July 1, 1891, as amended by subsequent Acts.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly. That section twenty-two (22) of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the printing and distribution of ballots at public expense and for the nomination of candidates for public offices, to regulate the manner of holding elections and to enforce the secrecy of the ballot," approved June 22, 1891, and in force July 1, 1891, as amended by subsequent Acts, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 22. Any person desiring to vote shall give his name and, if required to do so, his residence to the judges of election, one of whom shall thereupon announce the same in a loud and distinct tone of voice, clear, and audible; and if such name is found on the register of voters by the officer having charge thereof, he shall likewise repeat said name, and the voter shall be allowed to enter the space enclosed by the guard rail, as above provided. One of the judges shall give the voter one, and only one ballot, on the back of which such judge shall indorse his initials in such manner that they may be seen when the ballot is properly folded, and the voter's name shall be immediately checked on the register list. At all elections, when a registry may be required, if the name of any person so desiring to vote at such election is not found on the register of voters, he shall not receive a ballot until he shall have complied with the law prescribing the manner and conditions of voting by unregistered voters. If any person desiring to vote at any election shall be challenged, he shall not receive a ballat until he shall have established his right to vote in the manner provided by law; and if he shall be challenged after he has received his ballot, he shall not be permitted to vote until he has fully complied with such requirements of the law upon being challenged. Besides the election officer, not more than two voters in excess of the whole number of voting booths provided shall be allowed in said enclosed space at one time. The provisions of this Act,

so far as they require the registration of voters as a condition to their being allowed to vote shall not apply to persons otherwise entitled to vote, who are, at the time of the election, or at any time within thirty days prior to such election, have been engaged in the military or naval service of the United States, and who shall produce to the judges of election satisfactory evidence thereof, but such persons, if atherwise qualified to vote, shall be permitted to vote at such election without previous registration, but shall not be permitted to vote without such registration at any election held after the expiration of the period of sixty days next succeeding the completion of the demobilization of the National Army of the United States, or at any election subsequent to the first day of registration occurring not less than thirty days after such persons have been discharged or released from the military or naval service of the United States.

"All such persons shall also make an affidavit which shall be in substantially the following form:

STATE OF ILLINOIS

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County of...

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do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I am a citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years or over, and that within the past thirty days prior to the date of this election at which I am applying to vote, I have been engaged in the ... (military or naval) service of the United States; and I am qualified to vote under and by virtue of the Constitution and laws. of the State of Illinois, and that I am a legally qualified voter of this precinct and ward except that I have, because of such service, been unable to register as a voter; that I now reside at....

(insert street and number, if any) in this precinct and ward; that I have maintained a legal residence in this precinct and ward for thirty days, in this county ninety days, and in this State one year next preceding this election.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this.

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Judge of Election.

The affidavit of any such person shall be supported by the affidavit of a resident and qualified voter of any such precinct and ward, which affidavit shall be in substantially the following form:

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I am a resident of this precinct and ward and entitled to vote at this election; that I am acquainted with....

..(name of the applicant); that I verily believe him to be an actual bona fide

resident of this precinct and ward and that I verily believe that he has maintained a legal residence therein thirty days, and in this county ninety days, and in this State one year next preceding this election.

of

Subscribed and sworn to before me this..

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Judge of Election."

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All affidavits made under the provisions of this section shall be enclosed in a separate envelope securely sealed, and shall be transmitted with the returns of the elections to the county clerk or to the board of election commissioners, who shall preserve the said affidavits for the period of six months, during which period such affidavits shall be deemed public records and shall be freely open to examination as such.

§ 2. Whereas, an emergency exists, this Act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

APPROVED March 26, 1919.

SCHOOLS.

1. Board of education to establish polling place.

2. Board of education to appoint at least one judge and one clerk for each polling place.

§ 3. Notice to be given or posted. 8 4.

Emergency.

(SENATE BILL No. 49. APPROVED MAY 21, 1919.)

AN ACT to regulate the manner of holding elections in school districts having boards of education and operating under special charters.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: In all elections in any school. district having a board of education elected by the people of the said district and operating under a special charter, it shall be the duty of the board of education to establish a polling place, or polling places, at such school building or school buildings, in such district as will in its judgment accommodate the voters of such district, provided that in such districts having 10 or more school buildings used as school houses, there shall be not less than 5 polling places established.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the board of education in any such district to appoint for any election therein, at least one election judge and one election clerk for each polling place. So far as possible, at least one member of such board of education shall be assigned to each polling place.

§3. Notice of any election in any such district shall be given. ar posted in the manner provided by law for the giving or posting of notices of election in such district.

84. Because of an emergency, this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED May 21, 1919.

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(SENATE BILL No. 265. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1919.)

AN ACT to revise the law in relation to the regulation of the practice of

embalming.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: It is unlawful for any person to practice, or to attempt to practice, embalming without a certificate of registration as a registered embalmer, issued by the Department of Registration and Education, pursuant to the provisions of "An Act in relation to the civil administration of the State government, and to repeal certain Acts therein named," approved March 7, 1917, in force July 1, 1917.

After the first day of July, 1920, it shall, also, be unlawful for any person to serve, or to attempt to serve, as an apprentice under a registered embalmer without a certificate of registration as a registered apprentice, issued by the Department of Registration and Education, pursuant to the provisions of "An Act in relation to the civil administration of the State government, and to repeal certain Acts therein named," approved March 7, 1917, in force July 1, 1917.

§ 2. Either the embalming of dead human bodies or the preparation for transportation of human bodies dead of a contagious or infectious disease, constitutes the practice of embalming.

No registered apprentice may independently practice embalming. A registered apprentice may, however, under the immediate personal supervision of a registered embalmer, assist a registered embalmer in the practice of embalming.

3. This Act shall not apply to undertakers or others conducting funerals or burying dead human bodies, who neither practice nor attempt to practice embalming.

§ 4. A person is qualified to receive a certificate of registration as a registered embalmer:

(a) Who is at least twenty-one years of age;

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