A Digest of the Election Laws of the State of Arkansas

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Excerpt from A Digest of the Election Laws of the State of Arkansas: In Force April 1, 1904 The appointment of the county commissioners shall be in writing under the hands of the state board, and the said state board shall immediately mail to each county commissioner, at the county seat, a notice of his appointment, and, in addition thereto, shall mail to the clerk of the circuit court in such county a certificate of the appointment of. such commissioners, and, upon the receipt of such certificate, it shall be the duty of such circuit clerk to cause to be served upon each of said commissioners, by the sheriff, a notice requiring said commissioners to appear before said clerk on or before the day fixed for entering upon their duties, and take and subscribe the oath prescribed by section twenty, of article nineteen of the constitution, which said oath shall be indorsed on the certificate, and when so indorsed, said certificate shall be filed in said office as a record. Sec. 2600. The said commissioners shall hold office until their successors are appointed and qualified. Said commissioners shall meet at the courthouse at least twenty days prior to the general election, and shall organize themselves into a board of election commissioners by electing one member chairman and another clerk. Each commissioner shall have one vote, and two shall constitute a quorum, and the concurring votes of any two shall decide all questions before them. [N. B. - The Federal statutes fixes the Tuesday after the first Monday in November for election of members of Congress.] Sec. 2601. They shall, after their organization as aforesaid, not less than five (5) days before any general election, appoint three (3) judges of election for each voting precinct in the county, which appointments shall be served on or delivered to the persons appointed by the sheriff of the county and the clerk of the board shall make a record of such appointments and shall file the same, attested by the chairman and the clerk of the board, with the county clerk. If any judge so appointed shall die or resign before the election, said board shall fill the vacancy. All of said county commissioners shall not be members of the same political party. Act May 23, 1901. Sec. 2602. Any vacancy in the county board of commissioners shall be filled by appointment by the state board of commissioners, in the same manner as the county commissioners are originally appointed, and if it shall occur that all, or a majority, of the county commissioners shall resign, refuse to act, die, or their places become vacant from any cause, so that there shall not be a quorum in office at the time that said board is required to do and perform any of the acts or things by this act required of them, then, and in that event, the county judge, sheriff and county clerk shall, in the order herein named, fill said vacancies for the time, and shall perform the duties of election commissioners until the vacancies in said board can be filled, as herein provided for. Act March 4, 1891, sec. 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.