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 10 FEDERAL REPORTER. �state of Delaware, referring to the action of the clerks of the peace in making out these lists, will show that he performs other than mers clerical duty in taking names from the assessment lists ; in fact, some of them are quasi judicial, sucb as determining the faot of naturalization of foreigners, and determining and certifying to the residence of ail persons assessed. They are in part as follows : �"Section 21. He shall make and certify under his hand and officiai seal, and deliver to the sheriff of his county, in the month of August, in the year of holding the general election, an alphabetical list for each hundred, [and election district where a hundred is divided into two or more election districts,] of the names of ail the free white maie citizens of the age of 21 years and upwards, residing and assessed in such hundred [cr election district ;] and when it appears by any certificate recorded in his office that a person named in said list has been naturalized he shall write the word 'naturalized' opposite his name. If the general election be not held in any year on the same day as the election for electors of president and vice president, he shall, in that year, make, certify, and deliver two such lists. �"Section 5. The said alphabetical list shall be made and certified by the clerk of the peace of the county, under his hand and sealof office ; and, as to every person whose name shall be contained in such list and who shall appear by any cer- tificate recorded in the office of said clerk to be naturalized, the word 'naturalized' shall be distinctly affixed to the name of every such person. Such alphabetical list shall be delivered by the clerk of the peace to the sheriff on some day in the month of August next preceding the general election. �"Section 18. Each qualified elector shall deliver a single ballot, containing the names of the person voted for, to ,the inspecter, who shall audibly pronounce the name of the elec- tor, which shall be entered in words at length upon a list of poils to be kept by each of the clerks, whom the judges shall direct to that duty, and one of the judges shall write against it, on the alphabetical list delivered by the sheriff to the inspecter aforesaid, the word 'voted.' Theve shall be no ��� �