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ÀPPOINTMENT OF 8DPEBVIB0B8 OF ELECTION. 11 �examination of a ballot, except to determine that it is single ; and the inspecter shall, immediately after pronouncing the elector's name, put the ballot into the box in his presence, unless the vote shall be objected to. �"Section 33. Each inspecter shall, on Thursday preceding the day of the general election, deliver into the office of the clerk of the peace of his county the oaths or affirmations that shall have been signed by the inspecter and judges of the election in his hundred, and the certificate of said oaths or affirmations being administered, to be made and signed as directed in the thirteenth section, and the two lista of the poils kept at the election as before directed, and the alpha- betical list aforementioned, with the notes of 'voted' as the same shall have been made thereon; ail of which shall be filed in the office of said clerk, and shall be public records, and as such admissible as evidence." �New, on a comparison of the two Systems of Pennsylvania and Delaware, in what respect does the Pennsylvania assessor present on his list of voters a stronger case of prima fade right to vote than does the clerk of the peace on his ? By the former law the assessor makes out from his own assess- ment an alphabeticai list of persons entitled to vote. By the law of Delaware the clerk of the peace makes out an alpha- beticai list from the lists of the county in his officiai possession of ail freemen over the age of 21 years "residing and assessed in each hundred or election district." The as- sessor in Pennsylvania entera the letter "N " opposite the names of naturalized persons; the clerk of the peace writes the full word "naturalized" opposite the foreigner's name. The Pennsylvania assessor is required to write the word "vote," while the inspectors of election in Delaware write against each name the word "voted," as the act of voting takes place. �So it will be seen there is a great similarity between these two Systems, and my last proposition on this subject is this, that if the test of the character of the list as made out by the clerk of the peace as a list of voters is the making a lisi presenting a prima facie right to every one on the list to vote on the payment of a tax, then that test is found as fally to ��� �