Falk v. Reis

Citations

• 88 Cal. 514
• 26 P. 359
• 1891 Cal. LEXIS 725

Syllabus

<p>San Francisco — Board op Election Commissioners — Appointment op Agent and Assistants — Jurisdiction.—The act of March 18, 1878 (Stats. 1877-78, p. 299), only authorizes the board of election commissioners of the city and county of San Francisco to appoint clerks or other persons to assist the registrar in ascertaining the correctness of the precinct registers and in correcting the same, and the board cannot appoint an agent or other assistants to advise it in the selection and appointment of precinct boards of registration and officers of election, nor for the purpose of scrutinizing the roll and detecting fraud in the registration, for its own information, and not as assistants to the registrar.</p>