The judges and clerks should, immediately after their being notified of their appointment, appear before the trustee or clerk, as the case may be, and take and subscribe the oath required, in order that the county clerk may be promptly notified by the trustee or clerk of such appointment or qualification, thus advising him as to the proper persons to whom the ballots should and must be delivered 12 hours before the election. The county clerk is also required to cause to be published (at least once), prior to the day of election, in at least two newspapers, if there be so many published in such county, representing the political parties which cast at the preceding general election the largest and next largest number of votes, a list of all the nominations made, as provided by said act, and to be voted for at such election, as near as may be in the form in which they may appear upon the general ballot. The county clerk is also required to provide and retain at his office an ample supply of ballots, in addition to those distributed to the several voting precincts, to be furnished to any precinct requiring same, by reason of the supply already furnished having been lost, destroyed, or exhausted before the polls are closed, as required by section 15 of said act. The county clerks of the several counties of the State have entire charge of the printing of cards of instruction to voters and the ballots for all general elections, and their distribution, together with the publication of the list of candidates nominated, furnishing the poll books and other necessary blanks connected with or growing out of the provisions of this act, (except the books of registration required in cities of the first and second class,) the same to be done at the expense of the county in the first instance; such expense to be apportioned by the board of county commissioners among the various townships and cities of the first and second class in such counties in proportion to the vote cast at the last preceding election in each township and city, and to be paid for by such townships and cities by warrants drawn in favor of the proper county incurring such expense. The provisions of said act do not apply to school-district elections or meetings located outside the limits of an incorporated city. ... The county clerk should procure a record book in which to enter the list of names of candidates certified to him, giving the name of the office to which the respective candidates were nominated, political party making such nominations, etc. The clerk should also procure a register in which to make record of ballots issued at each election, showing the date of issue, to whom given, for what precinct, the number of ballots delivered, date of return of ballots, number unused, the number objected to or defective, and the number voted; also date of destruction of the ballots, and names of witnesses to such destruction, and their politics. It is hoped that if the election law and the suggestions herein made are carefully followed, the elections in this State will be free from fraud and corruption, and the will of the voters can and will be ascertained. R. S. OSBORN, Secretary of State. Approved by John T. LITTLE, Attorney General. Alabama, shire towns in, 62. Aladdin's lamp, 133. Albany Congress, 203. Aldermen, 102, 107, 108, 111, 114, 122. Alexander VI., 140. Alfred the Great, 9, 40, 43, 51. Bank, national, 260. Bemis, E., 89, 92, 94, 98. Berkeley, Lord, 144, 152. Bill of Rights, 190, 256. Board of estimate in Brooklyn, 131. Bonham, J. M., 274. Boroughs, 50; in England, 103-111; in Borough-reeves, 106. Alice in the Looking-Glass Country, 84. Boston, 27, 31, 85, 101, 102, 119, 139; Allinson, E. P., 134. Ambassadors, 238. Amending constitutions, 195, 248. Amendments to Constitution of United States, 190, 227, 256. Andrews, C. M., 46. Andrews, E. B., 273. Andros, Sir E., 149. Annapolis, 113, 206. Articles of Confederation, 205, 248. Assessment and collection of taxes, Assistants, in New York, 111; in Massa- chusetts, 147. Attorney-generals, 169, 240. Australia, 57. Auditors, 130, 169. Australian ballot, 265. Bristol, 106. Brooklyn, 116, 119, 130-133, 137. Bryce, J., 193, 216, 217, 233, 272. Cabinet, 236-240. Cabinet vs. presidential government, 167-169, 236. Cabot, J., 140. Cairo, Ill., 89. California, 57, 93, 95. Calvert, C., 150. Cambridge, Eng., 103. Cambridge, Mass., 17, 102, 271. Carr, D., 203. Charters and constitutions, 188, 189. Cheshire, a county palatine, 150. Christendom, 188. Churches, 16, 37, 38. Church-rates, 37. Cities, 50; in Virginia, 58, 146; defini- Citizens, duty of, 10, 11. Civil service, 128, 132, 261-264. Clergymen formerly supported by taxa- Clerk, city, 111, 123; county, 63, 73; Committees of city council, 116, 125; of Common pasture, 18. Commons, House of, 8, 13, 40, 50, 110, Communes in France, 173. Company, London, 141, 159; of Massa- Complexity of city administration, 122– Comptrollers, 130, 169. Confederation, the Articles of, 205, 248. Connecticut, 253, 255; settlement of, 17, Constables, 2, 21, 24, 32, 33, 37, 39, 63, Constitutions, written, 187-200. Constituent Assembly of 1790 in France, Construction, strict and loose, 259. Contagious diseases, 20. Contract, legal idea of, developed by the Convention, the Federal, 209, 243, 253. Cooley, T. M., 186, 275. Council, governor's, 155; privy, 155, County, 25, 38, 48-100; origin of, 49, ers, 55, 73, 78; courts, 51, 54, 61, 148; |