CASES
ARGUED AND DETERMINED
IN THE
United States Circuit and District Courts
In re APPOINTMENT OF “SUPERVISORS OF ELECTION” IN THE
STATE OF DELAWARE.
(Circuit Court, D. Delaware. January 24, 1880.)
U.S. Rev. ST. § 2011—Word “Registration” CONSTRUED.—The word ‘registration" used in the U.S. Rev. St. § 2011, has a general, not a technical meaning, and indicates any list or schedule containing a list of voters, the being on which constitutes a prerequisite to vote, unless there is a system of registration described by act of congress, and applied by the act as the only registration of voters under the law.
ASSESSMENT LISTS.—The Delaware assessment lists, made primarily by the assessors of the different hundreds, and completed by the levy courts of the different counties, are such lists, though they contain not only a list of voters, but of other persons besides.
REGISTRATION OF VOTERS—EVIDENCE.—The registration of voters intended by the act of congress need not be conclusive evidence that the person registered is qualified to vote.
LIST OF VOTERS—REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.—The clerk of the peace, in Delaware, is required by the state statutes to make and certify, for the use of the inspector of the election, "an alphabetical list for each hundred, and election district where a hundred is divided into two or more election districts, of the names of all the free white male citizens of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, residing and assessed in such hundred or election district.” Held, that such list is a registration of voters within the meaning of the above sections of the United States Revised Statutes. Constitutionality of the above statutes not decided.
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