PRIMARIES, CAUCUSES AND CONVENTIONS CHAPTER 37. Primaries, Caucuses and Conventions. Sec. 685. Enrolment when to be made. In every town in which an election is to be held during the month of March, April, May, June, July or August, the registrars of voters shall annually be in session on the first and second Fridays of February, and in every town in which an election is to be held during the month of September, October, November, December, January or February, the registrars of voters shall annually be in session on the first and second Fridays of August, for the purpose of making an enrolment of the legal voters of such towns, and for the purpose of making such changes in the enrolment lists last perfected as are hereinafter provided for. Said registrars may hold sessions at such other times as they may deem necessary; but no session shall be held on the day when a caucus or primary shall be held, and all sessions shall be from twelve o'clock noon until nine o'clock in the evening. Chap. 37. 75 C. 584.. Attitude of courts towards party nominations. Sec. 686. Notice of sessions. Notice of all sessions, and of the time and place thereof, shall be given by such registrars by publication at least twice in a newspaper published in or having a circulation in the town where such sessions are to be held, and by posting notice thereof upon the public signpost in said town, not less than one week before such sessions. In towns, cities or boroughs divided into voting districts or wards, and in which deputy registrars are now provided by law and appointed for each of said voting districts or wards, said deputy registrars shall be in session in each district or ward, for the purpose of making such enrolment, and such changes and corrections in the enrolment list last perfected as are hereinafter provided for; and the time and place for holding such sessions in such voting districts or wards shall be specified in the notice hereinbefore provided. Within forty-eight hours after the close of each of said sessions, each of said deputy registrars shall deliver to the registrar of whom he is the appointee, a true and attested list or lists, as made by him, showing all enrolments and corrections by him made, together with a list of all applications rejected under the provisions of this chapter. Sec. 687. Preparation and distribution of lists. Said registrars at said sessions shall compile separate lists of all qualified electors making application for enrolment according to the declared political preference of said electors. In those towns having cities or boroughs within, and not coterminous with, their limits, said registrars shall prepare separate lists for use in such cities or boroughs; and when cities or boroughs are divided into wards or voting districts, then for such wards or voting districts. Unless application for erasure or transfer is made, said registrars shall continue thereon the names of all qualified electors appearing upon the lists last perfected; provided, when any elector whose name appears upon said last-perfected list has ceased to be a legal voter in the town, or, in a town divided into voting districts or wards, when an elector whose name so appears has removed from one voting district or ward to another voting district or ward in said town, and has forfeited his right to vote in the voting district or ward from which he has so removed, and as hereinafter provided, then said registrars may erase such name. In all cases where an erasure is made because of the removal of an elector from one voting district or ward to another voting district or ward in the same town, the registrar or deputy registrar making such erasure shall, within twenty-four hours, report such erasure to the registrar or deputy registrar of the same political party in the voting district or ward to which such elector has removed, and such registrar or deputy registrar shall add such name to the list of those of the same political preference in such district or ward, unless otherwise directed by said elector. Sec. 688. Application for enrolment, how made. At any session of the registrars herein provided for, any elector may make application to the registrar of the political party with the caucuses or primaries of which he desires to affiliate, and his name shall, |