REGISTRATION. The word "registra tion," used in the U. S. R. S. § 2011, has a general, not a technical, meaning, and indi cates any list or schedule containing a list of voters, the being upon which constitutes a prerequisite to vote, unless there is a sys tem of registration described by act of con gress, and applied by the act as the only registration of voters under the law. The Delaware assessment lists, made primarily by the assessors of the different hundreds, and completed by the levy courts of the dif ferent counties, are such lists, though they contain not only a list of voters, but of oth er persons besides. .The registration of vot ers intended by the act of congress need not be conclusive evidence that the person reg istered is qualified to vote ; In re Appoint ment of Supervisors of Election, 1 Fed. 1. This decision was prior to the existence in Delaware of a registration act eo nomine.
The registration of voters under the Dela ware act was held to be so far judicial and not ministerial that a mandamus wa refused to restore to the voting list the na e of a person stricken off by the board of egistra tion ; Lurtz v. Hardcastle, 1 Mary 1 (Del.) 450, 41 Atl. 194.
In the United States circuit court for South Carolina it was held that the registration laws of that state were null and void as be ing an unreasonable restriction of the right of suffrage, evidently intended to exclude ig norant persons, especially of the African race, and a violation both .of the constitu tion of the state and of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States; Mills v. Green, 67 Fed. 818.
See LAND TRANSFER; TORRENS SYSTEM; RECORD; REGISTRATION.