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O#17 ORDI~,~IN~E NO. 17. Registrations ~nd Elections. Sec. 1. No person shall be entitled to vote at any annaul election held under the Charter of this Town who shall not have registered with the Town Clerk at least ten days prior to such election, but this shall not re- quire an annual registration. U~enever an elector shall have registered, his or her name shall remsin on the re- gistration list until er~ased by the Town Commission as hereinafter provided. Provided, that for any special elec- tion to be held in the year 1921, any elector may register at any time prior to the day of such special election. Sec. 2. Any person may vote at any special election, who shall have registered for the next preceding annual election, or who shall have registered for suda special election. Sec. 3. The Clerk shall open such registration book at least thirty days before any annaul or special election, and shall keep the book open at some convenient place with- in the Town each day from eight o'clock A. N. to eight o'clock P. ~. up to ten days prior to the election day, but this shall not apply to any special election to be held in the year 1921. Sec. ~. Upon appli~.~ation for registration each elec- tor shall be required to take and subscribe the following oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will pro- tect and defend the Constitution of the United States and of the State of ~lorida; that I am ~venty-one years of age and have been a resident of the State of Florida for twelve months, and of this Town for six months; that I am a citizen of the United States, and that I am qualified to vote under the Constitution and laws of the State of Florida,, The Clerk is hereby authorized and required to administer this oath, and the voter shall also be required, under oath to be administered by the Clerk, to give suda description of himself as will be sufficient to clearly indentify his or her person with the act of registration. This oath shall be varied for registration during 1921 so that resi- dence within the Town beginning ~'~ith the date of its incor- poration, shall be sufficient. Sec. 5. ~daenever any elector shall register, the Clerk shall issue to him ~ her a registration certifi- cate in substantially the same form as used by the County Supervisor of Registration. Sec. 6. The Totem Commission shall, at is first re- gular m~eting in July of each year, examine and revise the registration book of the Town, erasing therefrom the names of all voters who hav~ die~, re.~noved from the Town or are other~vise disqualified to vote, and restoring the names of any voters whose aames have been erroneously erased. Such revision must be completed '.~ithin three days of the day fixed for the first regular meeting of the Commission in July, and immediately thereafter, there shall be published in a newspaper published in this Town, or posted at the door of the Town Hall, a list of the namesof all voters ~hose names shall have been ~rased, alpahbetically arranged. At any meeting of the To~,rfn Commission held at least ten days prior to the election, the name of any voter erroneously erased shall be restored to the list by the Commission. Sec. 7. The Clerk shall receive as co~'_'pensation for his services as registrat!on cf ricer a fee of ten cents for each person registered, which fee shall be paid by the Tc~¥n. Sec. 8. The Town Com~nis si on shall prepare and cause to be printed the official ballot for each regular and special election of the Town .Nominations may be made by the filing of a petition sign.ed by at least five (5) re- gistered voters of the Town, or by a certificate signed by the Chairman ~ Secretary of any mass meeting, held within the Town, at which nominations shall have been made. The said certificate shall state ~hen and where said mass meeting was held and give the names of the respective candidates for the offices for which they sh~ll be nominated. All nominations shall be made at least ten (10) days prior to the date of the election. Electors shall not b~~ confined to the names of candi- dates printed or typewritten upon the official ballot but may erase such names and substitute names of other candidates to be written upon the ballots by the elec- tors, None but t~e official ballot shall be used. Typewritten forms for oallots may be used as well as printed forms. The above Ordinance No. 17, having been read in full at a l~eeting of the Town Commission of the Town of Boynton, Florida, held on the 18th day of October A. D. 19~1, was adopted and passed at a Regular ~Ieeting of said Commission held on the 1st day of l~ovember A. D. 1921, and a copy thereof posted, at the front door of the Town Hall at Boynton, Florida, on the 2nd day of November A. D. 1921. ~?. B. Miller, Vice ~ayor (Signed) J. C. Powell,Clerk (Signed) Commissioners of t~e Town of Boynton, Florida.