shall be the registry lists of said towns. Notice of said meetings shall be given in the manner provided in section twenty-eight of this act.

[P. A. 1921, Ch. 305, Sec. 33.]

Sec. 570. Admission of electors in Waterbury. The selectmen and town clerk of the town of Waterbury shall hold sessions to examine the qualifications of electors and admit to the elector's oath those who shall be found qualified on the second Saturday of September before the biennial city and town meeting from nine o'clock in the forenoon to eight o'clock in the afternoon and may adjourn the same from day to day for the same hours until the following Saturday, and said selectmen and town clerk shall hold a meeting for said purpose during the same hours on the fourth Friday before any state and national election, and may adjourn the same from day to day, for the same hours, until the following Friday. If the registrars of voters of the city and town of Waterbury shall find that they are unable to comply with the requirements of section 695 of the general statutes within the period of seven days as therein specified, said registrars of voters are authorized to extend said time for a period not to exceed seven days. The registrar of voters of the town of Waterbury shall hold the meetings provided in section 548 of the general statutes on Tuesday of the fourth week before each biennial town meeting, and for that purpose shall be in session from nine o'clock in the forenoon until nine o'clock in the afternoon. [P. A. 1921, Ch. 351.]

Sec. 571. Meetings for the admission of electors for town elections in towns generally. The selectmen and town clerk of every town, except as otherwise provided by law, shall hold a session to examine the qualifications of electors and admit to the elector's oath those who shall be found qualified on Saturday of the third week before the annual or

biennial meeting for the election of town officers, from nine o'clock in the forenoon until eight o'clock in the afternoon. In towns of more than ten thousand inhabitants the selectmen and town clerk may publicly adjourn said session, from time to time, if necessary, until Saturday of the second week before said annual or biennial electors' meeting for the election of town officers; and unless all entered on the first list as "to be made" shall have been admitted or rejected before said Saturday of the second week before said electors' meeting, they shall be in session on said day for said purpose from nine o'clock in the forenoon until eight o'clock in the afternoon, and not afterwards. The selectmen and town clerk shall not admit to the elector's oath on any of said days, any applicant whose name is not on the list "to be made" as provided in section twenty-four of this act. In towns electing town officers on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in the even numbered years, the meetings of the selectmen and town clerk to examine the qualifications of electors and admit to the elector's oath shall be held under the provisions of section twenty-eight of this act. The selectmen and town clerks in all towns shall give notice of the times and places of their meetings as provided in section twenty-eight of this act. The registrars shall add to the lists prepared for the last preceding electors' meeting in their several towns the names of those persons who are admitted electors under the provisions of section twenty-eight of this act. Such lists, with the names added as herein provided, shall be the registry lists which shall be used at said

annual or biennial meetings for the election of town officers. [P. A. 1921, Ch. 305, Sec. 35.]

Electoral privileges extended to females. All electoral privileges extended to males by authority of the provisions of the general statutes are extended to females. The provisions of the statute relating to the forfeiture of such privileges applicable to males shall be applicable to females. The provisions of said statutes and of this act relating to the admission of electors and to their participation in primaries, caucuses, conventions and elections and to the casting and counting of ballots, having reference to males shall be construed to include females. Proof of citizenship shall be required of all women, and admission to the privileges hereby conferred shall be otherwise upon the same conditions as are imposed upon males. All applications of women to have their names placed upon the list "to be made" prior to the date of the passage of this act shall be construed to have been made for the electoral privileges conferred by the provisions hereof.

[P. A. 1921, Ch. 305, Sec. 37.]

Hours for opening and closing of polls at national elections. At the electors' meeting at which candidates for national or state offices are to be balloted for, the polls shall remain open from six o'clock in the forenoon until six o'clock in the afternoon for the reception of ballots. Any town, city or borough may, under the provisions of section 388 of the general statutes as amended by chapter 60 of the public acts of 1919, provide that the polls shall open at any hour not later than nine o'clock

a. m. and close not earlier than five o'clock p. m., for state and national elections, and not earlier than two o'clock for town elections.

[P. A. 1921, Ch. 305, Sec. 41.] Applications for lists "to be made" before national elections. No name placed on the "to be made" list for any state or national election shall be continued on such list for a succeeding election unless a new application shall be made to the registrars as provided by this act.

[P. A. 1921, Ch. 305, Sec. 42.] Statements of political agents and treasurers to be filed fifteen days after election. Within fifteen days after any such election, every treasurer, except the treasurer of a state central committee, and every political agent shall file an itemized sworn statement with the officer with whom his designation was filed as aforesaid, which statement shall include the amount of money or property in each case received or promised, the name of the person from whom it was received or by whom it was promised, the amount of every expenditure made or liability incurred, and the name of the person to whom such expenditure or promise was made, and shall clearly state the purpose for which such money or property was so expended or promised, separating the expenditures for caucuses, primaries and elections. A similar itemized sworn statement shall be filed by the treasurer of every state central committee on or before the twentieth day of December following a state or national election. If any money or property has been received from or has been paid, given or promised to or by any person who was

a candidate for any office, or a political treasurer, the title of the office which said person holds or for which he was a candidate shall be plainly given in the statement hereinbefore provided for. Any treasurer or political agent who shall fail to file such statement within the time required shall be fined twenty-five dollars for each day on which he is in default, unless he shall be excused by the court. Within five days after the time limited for the filing of said sworn itemized statements the secretary of the state or the town clerk, as the case may be, shall notify the proper prosecuting officer of any failure on the part of any treasurer or political agent to file such statement, and within ten days thereafter such prosecuting officer shall proceed to prosecute for such offense.

[P. A. 1921, Ch. 305, Sec. 43.] Repeal. Chapter 34 and sections 256, 310, 582, 586, 593, 597, 600 and 834 of the general statutes; chapters 5, 22, 23, 26, 30, 31, 42, 53, 66, 100 and 250 of the public acts of 1919; chapters 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 of the public acts of the special session of the general assembly of September 14 and 21, 1920; and chapter 10 of the public acts of 1921, are repealed. [P. A. 1921, Ch. 305, Sec. 44.1

CHAPTER 35.

Electors' and Other Meetings.

Sec. 576. Ballots how furnished; form. All ballots used at elections held on the Tuesday after

Sec. 576. "Citizens' ballots" rejected, there being no such party. 59 C. 472. Such ballots counted; "Political party" construed. 60 C. 544. Under act of 1889 prefix "for" did not of itself invalidate ballots.

60 C. 544; 62 C. 260.

Ballots