CHAP. 147 -record of applications both automobiles and motor cycles the numbers must be so placed to be always plainly visible. A proper record of all shall be kept. applications and of all certificates issued shall be kept by the secretary of state in his office and shall be open to the inspection of any person during reasonable business hours. The certificate of registration shall always be carried in some easily accessible place in the automobile or motor vehicle described therein. Upon the sale of any automobile or motor vehicle its registration shall expire, and the vendor shall immediately return the certificate of registration to the secretary of state, with notice of sale, and of the name, place of residence and address of the vendee. -registration expires upon sale of automobile. Registration by manu. facturers and dealers. 'Section 18. Every manufacturer of or dealer in automobiles or motor vehicles, may instead of registering each automobile or motor vehicle owned or controlled by him, make application upon a blank provided by said secretary of state for a general distinguishing number or mark, and said secretary may, if satisfied of the facts stated in said application, grant said application, and issue to the applicant a certificate of registration containing the name, place of residence and address of the applicant, and the general distinguishing number or mark assigned to him, and made in such form as said secretary of state may determine; and all automobiles and motor vehicles owned and controlled by such manufacturer or dealer, shall, until sold or let for hire or loaned for a period of more than five successive days, be regarded as registered under such general distin-license fee. guishing number or mark. The fee for every such license shall be ten dollars. Licenses for operating shall be issued by secretary of state. -fee for operating license. 'Section 19. Licenses for operating automobiles and motor vehicles shall be issued by the secretary of state. Application shall be made upon blanks prepared by the secretary of state for this purpose, and the licenses issued shall be in such form and shall contain such provisions as said secretary of state may determine. To such licensee shall be assigned some distinguishing number or mark, and a proper record of all applications for license and of all licenses issued shall be kept by the secretary of state at his office, and shall be open to the inspection of any person during reasonable business hours. Each license shall state the time, place of residence of the licensee and the distinguishing number or mark assigned to him. The fee for each license to operate shall be two dollars. All fees shall be deposited at the time of making the application. The secretary of state may at any time suspend or revoke any license for any violation of this act or regulation made thereunder. Before a license to operate is granted, the applicant shall present such evidence as to his qualifications as may be required by the secretary of state. CHAP. 148 automobiles shall not be operated after June 1, 'Section 20. Except as otherwise provided herein no auto- Unlicensed mobile or motor vehicle after the first day of June, nineteen hundred five, shall be operated upon any highway, townway, public street, avenue, driveway, park or parkway, unless registered as heretofore provided, and no person shall on or after the first day of June in the year nineteen hundred five, operate an automobile or motor vehicle upon any highway, townway, public street, avenue, driveway, park or parkway, unless licensed to do so under the provisions of this act. 'Section 21. Automobiles or motor vehicles owned by nonresidents of this state and driven by a person licensed in this or in some other state may be operated on the roads and highways of this state unless prohibited by special law or town ordinance duly authorized by the legislature, subject, however, to the provisions of sections seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve, and provided that such person shall show in front and at the back of his automobile and at the back of his motor cycle the registration number granted him in such other state, and the name of the other state in Arabic letters at least one inch high. The provisions of this and the preceding sections shall not prevent the operating of automobiles by unlicensed persons if riding with or accompanied by a licensed operator. 'Section 22. Whoever violates any provision of the five preceding sections shall be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding ten days.' Section 2. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 24, 1905. Provisions automobiles non-resi for operating owned by dents. Penalty for violation of the five preceding sections. Chapter 148. An Act to amend Section twenty-two of Chapter six of the Revised Statutes, relating to the regulation and conduct of Elections. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Section twenty-two of chapter six of the revised statutes is hereby amended by striking out the word "or" in the third line between the words "shelves" and "compartments," and inserting in lieu thereof the word 'and' and by inserting after the word "others" in the fifth line of said section the following: 'and each voting shelf and compartment shall have a Section 22, chapter 6, R. S., amended. CHAP. 148 How booths shall be arranged. Voting compartments shall be provided where voters may be screened from observation while marking their ballots. -each compartment shall have door. wooden swing door so arranged that the top thereof shall be not less than six feet from the floor and the bottom of the door shall be at least two feet and six inches from the floor. And such door shall be shut while the voter is within the compartment and no one shall be allowed therein with him unless he calls for assistance in the marking of his ballot and such assistance shall be so furnished according to the provisions of this act.' And by striking out the word "or" in the eighth line between the words "shelves" and "compartments" and inserting in lieu thereof the word 'and,' and by striking out the words "the arrangement shall be such that neither the ballot boxes nor the voting shelves nor the compartments shall be hidden from the persons just outside the guard rail," and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The arrangement shall be such that the ballot boxes shall not be hidden from the view of persons present and the voting shelves and the compartments shall be so arranged that the doors of each compartment shall be nearest the guard rail, so as to admit to full view of the persons outside of the guard rail those who enter and leave each compartment.' And by striking out the word "or" in the seventeenth line of said section between the words "shelf" and "compartment" and inserting in lieu thereof the word 'and,' so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 'Section 22. The municipal officers in each city, town or plantation, as aforesaid, shall cause the polling places therein to be suitably provided with a sufficient number of voting shelves and compartments, at or in which voters may conveniently mark their ballots so that in the marking thereof they shall be screened from the observation of others, and each voting shelf and compartment shall have a wooden swing door so arranged that the top thereof shall be not less than six feet from the floor and the bottom of the door shall be at least two feet and six inches from the floor. And such door shall be shut while the voter is within the compartment and no one shall be allowed therein with him, unless he calls for assistance in the marking of his bailot and such assistance shall be so furnished according to the provisions of this act, and a guard rail shall be so constructed and placed that only such persons as are inside said rail can approach within six feet of the ballot boxes and of such voting shelves and compartments. The arrangement shall be such that the ballot boxes shall not be hidden from the view of persons present and the voting shelves and compartments shall be so arranged that the door of each compartment shall be next to the guard rail, so as to admit to full view of the persons just outside. of the guard rail those who enter and leave each compartment. The number of such voting shelves and compartments shall not be less than one for every one hundred voters qualified to vote at such polling place, and not less than three in any town, and not less than five in any ward of a city. No persons other than the election officers, election clerks and voters admitted as her :inafter provided, shall be permitted within said rail, except by authority of the presiding election officer or officers for the purpose of keeping order and enforcing the law. Each voting shelf and compartment shall be kept provided with proper supplies and conveniences for marking the ballots.' Section 2. This act shall take effect only in such towns and cities as by a majority vote of the legal voters so voting in such town or city shall adopt it. Approved March 24, 1905. Chapter 149. An Act to amend Sections one hundred and sixteen and one hundred and seventeen of Chapter six of the Revised Statutes, relating to caucuses in cities of over thirty-five thousand inhabitants. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 116, chapter 6, R. Section 1. Section one hundred and sixteen of chapter six of the revised statutes is hereby amended by inserting the words S., amended. 'the city committees may in their discretion determine in their call for a caucus or convention the persons who are entitled to participate in said caucus or convention' before the word "whenever" in the first line of said section. Section 2. Section one hundred and seventeen of chapter six of the revised statutes is hereby amended by striking out the words "twenty-five" and inserting instead thereof the words 'thirty-five,' so that said section, as amended, shall read, "The provisions of the four preceding sections shall be applicable only to cities of more than thirty-five thousand inhabitants." Section 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved March 24, 1905. section 117, S., amended. chapter 6, R. CHAP. 150 Section 1, act to amend chapter 9, R. S., approved amended. Chapter 150. An Act to amend An Act entitled "An Act to amend chapter nine of the Revised Statutes, relating to the assessment of taxes on lands in unincorporated places." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Section one of an act to amend chapter nine of the revised statutes, relating to the assessment of taxes on lands March 15, 1905, in places not incorporated, passed at the present session and approved March fifteenth, is hereby amended by striking out in the fourteenth line of said section as engrossed the words "on the first Monday of each" and inserting in place thereof the words 'in the months of.' So that that part of said section as amended, shall read as follows: County com. missioners may assess for county taxes. Section 43, amended. Lands assessed and advertised may be redeemed. -within one year. 'Section 41. Such lands may be assessed by the county commissioners according to the last state valuation for a due proportion of county taxes. Lists of such taxes shall immediately be certified and transmitted by the county treasurer to the treasurer of state. In the list, each such township and tract shall be sufficiently described, with the date and amount of assessment on each. The treasurer of state shall, in his books, credit the county treasurer for the amount of each such assessment; and when paid to him shall certify to the county treasurer the amount of tax and interest so paid in the months of January, May and September.' Section 2. Section forty-three of said act is also amended by striking out in the thirteenth line of said section as engrossed, the word "treasurer" and substituting therefor the word 'assessors,' so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: 'Section 43. Owners of the lands so assessed and advertised may redeem them by paying to the treasurer of state the taxes with interest thereon within one year from the time when such interest commences. Each owner may pay for his interest in any tract whether in common or not and upon filing with the state assessors a certificate showing the number of acres, and describing the property on which he desires to pay the tax and where the same is located, and paying the amount due, shall receive a certificate from the treasurer of state, discharging the tax on the number of acres or interest, upon which such payment is made. Each part or interest of every such township or tract, upon which the state or county taxes so advertised are not paid with interest within the time limited in this section for such redemption, shall be wholly forfeited to the state, and vest |