to the dial numbers announcing the votes cast for each candidate, and for or against the various constitutional amendments, questions or other propositions. § 15. The inspectors shall then add together the votes cast for each candidate upon the straight tickets, if any, and the votes cast for such candidates by reason of the push-knob or lever bearing the name of that candidate, and officially and publicly announce the total vote for each candidate thus ascertained. Before leaving the room or voting place, and before closing and locking the counting compartment, the inspectors shall make and sign written statements of election required by section one hundred and fifteen of chapter eight hundred and ten of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, except that such statements of the canvass need not contain any ballots, official or defective. The written statement so made, after having been signed by the inspectors, shall be read in the hearing of all persons present and ample opportunity given to compare the results so certified, with the counter dials so exposed to public view. After such comparison and correction, if, any, are made, the inspector shall then close the counting compartment. § 16. No ballot clerk shall be elected or appointed in any town or city that shall have adopted the use of the ballot machine. § 17. All provisions of the election law, not inconsistent with this chapter, shall apply with full force to all towns and cities adopting the use of ballot machines. § 18. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 450 of 1897. AN ACT relating to the use of voting machines. Became a law May 17, 1897, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, threefifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, the governor shall appoint three commissioners, one of whom shall be an expert in patent law, and two of whom shall be mechanical experts. The said commissioners shall hold office for the term of five years, subject to removal, at the pleasure of the governor. § 2. Any person or corporation owning or being interested in any voting machines may call upon the said commissioners to examine the said machine, and make report to the secretary of state upon the capacity of the said machine to register the will of voters, its accuracy and efficiency, and with respect to its mechanical perfections and imperfections. In their report the said commissioners shall certify whether, in their opinion, the said machine can be safely used by the voters at the elections to be held within this state, and whether in their opinion the legislature ought to legalize the adoption thereof. The said commissioners may also certify and report as to the number of voters which said machine can safely and prudently accommodate within the hours specified by law for the holding of an election. § 3. Any person or persons who shall hereafter present to the legislature any bill to legalize the adoption of any voting machine may present with said proposed bill a certified copy of the report of said commissioners so filed with the secretary of state upon the machine so proposed to be legalized. § 4. In cities or towns using or adopting any voting machine, the officers charged by law with the duty of subdividing said cities or towns into election districts may make such subdivision in accordance with a report of said commissioners as to the number of voters which the machine so reported upon will safely and prudently accommodate in each election district. § 5. The person or persons applying to the said commissioners for the examination and reports herein provided for, shall pay the fees and expenses of said commissioners in making said examination, not exceeding however, the sum of one hundred fifty dollars to each commissioner as compensation for the examination of and report upon any one machine. § 6. No person, while holding the office of commissioner under this act, shall have any pecuniary interest in any voting machine. § 7. This act shall take effect immediately. of chairman to be attached to certificate of party nomination Alderman, form of poster or list of candidates to be sent to (No. 6).... .... Ale or beer, See Nominations. .. 132 .... 2 .... 138 .... no sale of, in room for registry or voting, or adjoining .... ......... |