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 following, and under title of "Valuation of Property," and in other places, in the Revised Statutes of Delaware, which we do not deem necessary to quote at large, an examination of which will, we think, show the truth of the following propositions:

1. There are officers appointed to make lists of voters, or to put on the assessment lists the names of persons who, if not thus assessed, will, though entitled in all other respects, be deprived of the right of voting.

2. Those officers are the assessors for the different hundreds and the levy courts of the different counties.

3. There are not only lists such as have been spoken of, and men authorized to make them, but there are times and places fixed by law for their examination, investigation, addition to and correction.

4. The laws of Delaware contemplate their being guarded and scrutinized by its own citizens.

5. There are times and places fixed by law for guarding and scrutinizing those lists in the hands of the assessor, from the tenth day of January to the last Saturday in that month, and in the levy court during the months of February and March.

6. Before the assessor, objections or challenges to a name being put on the lists can be made, and he is bound to entertain those objections, (for if he fraudulently places names on his assessment lists he is liable to indictment,) and on the proper application and evidence he is bound to place names on his lists which have been omitted.

7. The levy court is bound to entertain applications for placing names omitted on the assessment lists, though it may not take any off which may have been returned by the assessor. So that here is time and place for guarding and scrutinizing.

8. The clerk of the peace is bound to "make and certify, for the use of the inspectors of the election, in the month of August in each year of the general election, an alphabetical list, for each hundred and election district where a hundred is divided into more than one, of the names of all the