TIME OF MEETING.

SECTION 3. The Boards of Registration shall meet within thirty days after this Constitution takes effect, for the purpose of registering persons entitled to be registered to vote for Senators and Representatives, and shall continue to meet at such points within their respective districts, for such time as will give all persons entitled to register a reasonable opportunity so to do. Provided however, that the final sitting of such Boards shall not be less than twenty-one days.

SECTION 4. The Boards shall meet within their respective districts at such times between the first day of April and the thirtieth day of June in the year 1897, and between such days in each second year thereafter, as many times as may be necessary to enable them to register all persons entitled to register.

REGISTER AT SPECIAL ELECTIONS.

SECTION 5. At any intermediate special election the Register of Voters used at the last preceding general election shall be used without change.

PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF APPLICANT.

SECTION 6. No name shall be placed upon the Register of Voters for either Senators or Representatives, except upon the personal appearance of the applicant before the Board of Registration at an advertised public meeting of the Board.

EXAMINATION OF APPLICANTS.

SECTION 7. Each Applicant to be placed upon the Register of Voters for either Senators or Representatives shall, upon each application for registration be examined under oath by the Board of Registration as to each one of the required qualifications.

Provided however, that after an Applicant shall once have passed an examination concerning his ability understandingly to speak, read and write the English or Hawaiian language, it shall be at the discretion of the Board to examine him further or not, concerning such qualification.

The examination of the applicant, and of all witnesses examined before any Board of Registration, shall be under oath, administered by any of the members of such Board, who are hereby authorized to administer oaths for such purpose.

The examination, number of witnesses, and time or times of examination, shall be under the reasonable control and discretion of the Board.

POWERS OF Board.

SECTION 8. Each Board of Registration is hereby given all of the powers and authority, for the summoning and examination of witnesses and the maintenance of order, including the power to punish for contempt, given by law to Circuit Courts.

PERJURY.

SECTION 9. Any person who shall, under oath, knowingly make any false statement before any such Board, or who, knowing that he is not entitled to register or to vote, shall so register or vote, shall be guilty of the offense of Perjury.

SUMMARY COMMITTAL FOR PERJURY.

SECTION 10. The several Boards are hereby given power to summarily commit any person for trial for perjury committed before any such Board, if, in their opinion, there is probable cause to believe that, upon the trial, such person would be convicted of such offense.

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SECTION 11. Any lawful voter may challenge the right to register of any person claiming to be eligible to register as a voter; cross-examine the applicant and any witnesses produced by him, and produce and examine witnesses against such eligibility.

SECTION 12. No Board of Registration shall enter the name of any person upon the Register of voters until satisfied that such person possesses the requisite qualifications.

APPEAL FROM BOARD.

SECTION 13. If any Board shall refuse to register the name of any person applying to be registered, the person refused, and, in case any name has been registered, any legal voter, may, at any time within ten days after the decision of such Board, appeal to the Supreme Court in the manner provided by law for civil appeals to the Supreme Court from the Circuit Court, or in such manner as may hereafter be provided by law.

SECTION 14. Upon such appeal being perfected, the Supreme Court shall proceed to hear such cause either in term time or in vacation, as soon thereafter as reasonably may be; and the determination by such Court of such question shall be final.

NOTICE OF DECISION TO BOARD.

SECTION 15. Immediately upon rendering a decision upon any such appeal, the Supreme Court shall notify the Board of Registration from which such appeal was taken; and if such decision shall reverse the decision of the Board, such Board shall immediately cause the Register to be corrected to conform with such decision.

STATUS OF PERSON REGISTERED PENDING APPEAL.

SECTION 16. In case of an appeal from a decision of any Board admitting the name of any person to registration, the name of such person shall remain upon the Register pending the decision of the Supreme Court concerning the same.

If the person so registered shall vote at any election before a decision of the Court shall have been made and acted upon, such vote shall not invalidate such election, even though the decision of the Court shall be adverse to the registration of such name.

NOTICE OF MEETINGS.

SECTION 17. The time and place of all meetings of the several Boards shall be advertised in the English and Hawaiian languages, in newspapers, or by notices posted in at least three frequented places in the locality where such meetings are to be held.

This section shall not be construed to prohibit the adjournment of any such advertised meeting from day to day to a time certain, announced at the time of adjournment.

TIME OF REGISTERING.

SECTION 18. No name shall be registered or stricken from the Register except in an open meeting of the Board and upon public announcement, except for the following causes, viz.:

1. In case the Supreme Court shall render a decision upon appeal, reversing the decision of the Board.

2. In case the Board has decided that a person is entitled to registration and his name has been accidentally omitted from the Register, mis-spelled, or he has therein been misnamed.

COPIES OF REGISTER TO BE SENT TO INSPECTORS OF ELECTION.

SECTION 19. The respective Boards shall, as soon as reason

ably may be after the Register of Voters for any voting precinct is completed, prepare four copies thereof and forward them to the Chairman of Inspectors of Election for such precinct; or, in case such officer shall not then have been appointed, to the Deputy Sheriff of the District in which such precinct is located.

The officer receiving such copies shall retain one for use at the election, and immediately post the other copies in three frequented places within the precinct, for the inspection of the public.

INSPECTORS NOT TO CHANGE REGISTERS.

SECTION 20. No name shall be added to or stricken from the Register of Voters, or in any manner changed by the Inspectors of Election, except upon the written order of the Board of Registration for such District.

CORRECTION OF REGISTER.

SECTION 21. If it shall be manifest to any Board, at any time, that the name of a person admitted to registration has been accidentally omitted from the Register or mis-spelled, or that he has been misnamed therein, such Board shall immediately remedy such omission or mistake; and, if a copy of the Register has been sent to the election precinct in which such person is entitled to vote, shall immediately in writing, order the Inspectors of Election for such precinct to correct such copy of the Register.

Such order shall set forth the reasons for the action directed to be taken, and shall be retained and filed by the Inspectors of Election as a part of the records of the election.

The power of revision and correction hereby conferred, shall not be construed to allow the reopening of the question of the qualifications of any person registered by the Board.

RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS.

SECTION 22. The several Boards shall each keep books of