Failure of officer to keep

record.

When opened.

There shall be allowed one line for each day and one page for each month in said record, and it shall be of at least one hundred and thirty (130) pages, so that it shall last for ten years. It shall be the duty of the register to foot the totals of each day's entries at the close of each month, and promptly at the end of each year to recapitulate in the record the monthly footings, and also to transmit to the state auditor a statement of the totals for each calendar year, and it shall be the duty of the state auditor to embody said statement in his report.

SEC. 4. If any register shall neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties required of him by this act, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and proceeded against accordingly, and shall, for any willful omission to keep up such record, or continued errors, neglect, or carelessness in the entries and footings therein, be subject to fine or penalty of not less than five ($5) dollars nor more than fifty ($50) dollars for each and every omission or error, and on information being furnished the county commissioners of such omissions or errors, they shall have recovered from the register by civil action, for the benefit of the school fund, the amount of the penalty for such omissions or errors.

SEC. 5. The record herein provided for shall be opened in each county in this state as of the first day of June, 1891, and be kept continuously thereafter.

Approved April 6, 1891.

[House Roll No. 231.

CHAPTER 23.

AN ACT to amend section seven (7) of chapter twenty-six (26) of
the Compiled Statutes, entitled "Elections," and to repeal said
section seven (7), as now existing.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Nebraska:

Amending sec.

Comp. Stats.,

SECTION 1. That section seven (7) of chapter, chap. 26, twenty-six (26) of the Compiled Statutes, entitled 1889. "Elections," as now existing, be amended so as to read as follows:

Section 7. One (1) judge of the supreme court omfarselected and two regents of the university shall be elected in the year eighteen hundred seventy-nine (1879), and every second year thereafter, who shall serve for the term of six (6) years. Judges of the district court shall be elected in the year eighteen hundred seventy-nine (1879), and every four years thereafter. The governor, lieutenant governor, congressmen, state treasurer, auditor of public accounts, secretary of state, attorney general, commissioner of public lands and buildings, superintendent of public instruction, and members of the legislature shall be elected in the year eighteen hundred and eighty (1880), and every second year thereafter. In counties not under township organization, one (1) county judge, one (1) sheriff, one (1) coroner, one (1) county treasurer, one (1) county clerk, one (1) county surveyor, one (1) county superintendent of public instruction shall be elected in the year eighteen hundred seventy

nine (1879), and every second year thereafter. And in each precinct, two (2) justices of the peace and two (2) constables shall be elected in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine (1879), and every second year thereafter, except as hereinafter provided, and three (3) judges of election, and two (2) clerks of election, one (1) assessor, and one (1) overseer of highways for each road district shall be elected in the year eighteen hundred seventy-nine (1879), and annually thereafter, and one (1) county commissioner shall be elected annually, who shall serve three (3) years.

In counties under township organization, one (1) county judge, one (1) sheriff, one (1) coroner, one (1) county treasurer, one (1) county clerk, one (1) county surveyor, and one (1) county superintendent of public instruction shall be elected at the first general election after the adoption of township organization, and every second year thereafter.

At the first general election in each township after the adoption of township organization, one (1) town clerk, one (1) town treasurer, three (3) judges and two (2) clerks of election, one (1) assessor, and (1) overseer of highways for each road district shall be elected annually thereafter, and two (2) justices of the peace and two (2) constables shall be elected at said election, and every second year thereafter, except as hereafter in this section provided, and at said election one supervisor shall be elected in each township and thereafter each odd numbered year in the odd numbered township and each even numbered year in the even numbered townships, said townships to be numbered by the county board at their first regular meeting after the passage of this