1905_private laws_174_10
CHAPTER 174 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MAGNOLIA IN DUPLIN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That said judges of election, together with the registrar, who shall take with him the registration book, shall assemble at the polling place on the day of election held in said town and shall open the polls at seven o'clock A. M. They shall superintend said election and shall keep the polls open until sunset, when the polls shall be closed and the votes for mayor and commissioners shall be counted out by them. They shall keep poll-books and shall write in them the name of every person voting at said election, and at the close thereof shall certify said poll lists and deposit them with the clerk and treasurer of said town, and said poll-books shall, in any trial for illegal or fraudulent voting, be received as evidence. If for any cause any of the judges of election shall fail to attend, the registrar shall appoint some discreet person or persons to fill the vacancy, who shall be sworn before acting.