more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to enter daily all such registrations in the permanent registration books in his office for the respective precincts, and preserve in his office for the period of two years thereafter such original registration sheets. The county clerk shall, under the column of "Remarks," identify each such registration with the original registration sheets therefor.

Sec. 16. Wherever in this act the masculine pronoun is used it shall be construed to apply to women as well as men.

Sec. 17. Except as otherwise provided in this act any person who shall make false answer, either for himself or another, or who shall violate or attempt to violate any of the provisions of this act, or knowingly permit another to violate the same, or any public officer or officers upon whom any duty is imposed by this act or any of its provisions, who shall willfully neglect such duty, or who shall willfully perform it in such a way as to hinder the objects and purposes of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than five years, and if he be a public officer shall forfeit his office.

Sec. 18. "An act to provide for establishing and maintaining at public expense permanent registration lists of all qualified electors in election precincts included wholly or partially within the limits of cities of the first and second classes, and in all other cities with a greater poulation than fifteen thousand inhabitants, and to provide for punishing violations thereof," approved April 13, 1891, and all acts amendatory thereof, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed; Provided: Nothing herein shall be construed as a repeal of any act concerning registration in its application to elections in election precincts not included within the limits of cities of the classes and population mentioned in section 1.

Sec. 19. In the opinion of the General Assembly an emergency exists; therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 2, 1894.

(H. B. 331.)

AN ACT

CONCERNING THE ELECTION AND TERM OF OFFICE OF CITY TREASURERS OF CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS.

Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. The qualified electors of all cities of the second class shall on the first Tuesday in April in the year 1897 and the first Tuesday in April of each and every second year thereafter elect a City Treasurer who shall hold his office for the term of two years and until his successor is elected and qualified. The Treasurer shall have such powers and perform such duties as are prescribed by the statutes of this State and by the ordinances of the City Council not inconsistent therewith.

Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. In the opinion of this General Assembly an emergency exists; therefore, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 17, 1897.

APPENDIX.

T.

Ross. J. Yeaman

APPENDIX.

ELECTION LAWS ENACTED PRIOR TO EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY, NOT REPEALED, AND IN FORCE JUNE 2, 1891.

CHAPTER XXXIV., G. S.

Section 1. Every male person over the age of twenty-one years, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections:

First-He shall be a citizen of the United States, or, not being a citizen of the United States, he shall have declared his intention according to law to become such citizen not less than four months before he offers to vote.

Second-He shall have resided in this state six months immediately preceding the election at which he offers to vote; in the county ninety days, and in the ward or precinct ten days; Provided, That no person shall be denied the right to vote at any school district election nor to hold any school district office, on account of sex. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. No person under guardianship, non compos mentis, or insane, shall be qualified to vote at any election, nor shall any person while confined in any public prison be entitled to vote, but every such person who was a qualified elector prior to such imprisonment and who is released therefrom by pardon, or by having served out his full term of imprisonment, shall be vested with all the rights of citizenship, except as provided in the constitution.