Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1830-03-24

nemheN OF COn9f655, ana requires clec- /
tions 10 be holden for this purpose in each
county, cifg or borough, when referring toi
the general law for the rules by which the
proceedings at congressional elections are
TO be conducted and governed, must ne
cessarilv be understood as intending to ap-I
DIV those rules to all the elections authOriz-
ed by it.
Let then, the sentence be corrected by
sunnlvino the omitted words, and It will
read thus: Like proclamation and pro-
ceedings shall be had for conducting, con,
tinuing. and closing the poliiu each coun-
tv. cify or borough. of district, as is pre-
scrbed by law, IN the election of members
to the General Assembly" Then let the
question be asked, which Is the subject in
/ debate.-What continuing Of an election is
prescribed by law, in case Of an election
for members Of tho General Assembly,
The answer is easy, and 1t IS to be found
no where bur in the second section Of the
general election law, by which, rsddendO
siaguIa singuhs. Sherifts are expressly au-
thorized TO contlnue the poll in certain cas-
Is. aud Mayors are not so authorized.
There ia no provision of any law from
which an inference can be drawn, that such
/ has ever been the legislative intention, and
( therefore there is no authority to supply by
construction the word IN question.
The argument viii not stop here. 1t
has been stated already that the general
raw was made IN 1875. 1t has with
the other laws of the State, undergone so
many rovisions, that can scarcely reco-
lect mr. state them. The last was in 1873
For the information Of members other than
INV Ct" esgue-, ! will state our usage IN
making those revisJons. At one session
of the General Assembly a Committee is
Amounted 10 revise the laws during the re
cess. These revisers are eminent lursts
Of the Bench and Bar. They reduce all
the written law The State on the same
subject into one act, and report to the mex.
Assembly bills to "reduce into one act
| &c g.. Atthe Spring elections following
the heads Of the Bar in different parts o.
the country are elected to assist in acting
on those revised bills at the next session.
The work of revision has been simply that
Of revision in most cases, until the year
n 1919. At what was then done some re-
! iofce and others fsolregret. That Assem-
'bly not only revised, but amended the
II laws. They raid the most exact attention
not only TO supply each caSHs 0HpSS'LS' 't
remedy each defect, but to exercise the
closest attention TO the grammatical COZ"
I struction of sentences. Whoever viii eX
anime the revised code of that year, vii
Faerceive in many cases, after the word he
the words 'sho or they between the lnvert
ed commas-he will perceive where th'
words he or sho' had been formerly en-
p1vod, the words 'or thew, added ar'
stlndinp between inverted commas. The
EXCLAMATION is this: For the ease and con
veuience Of Judges, lawyers and students
,,.i,-.---, .,e savisor5 OF 1919 added OF
( supplied, is printed between inverted com
mas You know. Mr.. Speaker, that he
/ Assembly Of that year. particularly the
! Senate, contained many of the most pro-
found. eagle eyed iursts of the country
men whose industry and vigilance nohIng
escaped. With this explanation | will
! proceed to exDound the fifteenth and six
teenth sections ofthe general election law;
and in doing this, ! must refer members 10
tho printed copies now in their hands
The fifteenth section is, and ever since it
was first enacted in 1855, has been, in
I these words
"No elector shall be admitted TO poll a
second time at one and the same election,
although at the first time he shall have
given but a single vote.' If the electors
{ who appear he so numerous, that they can
not all be poled before sun-setting, or, il
I by rain or rise Of water courses, many of he
| electors may have heen hindered from at
tending, the Sheriff or uader Sheriff may.
and shall, y request ofany one or more
Of the candidates, or their agents, adjourn
1.-The proceeding on the poll until the next
day, and so from day to day, for four DAYS,
( Sundays excluded, } if the same cause
( continue, giving public notice thereof by
proclamation at the door ofthe court house,
or other place of holding such election,
and shall, on the last day of the election,
conclude the poll according to the direc
tions aforesaid: but if the poll to be held at
any such election is not closed on the first
day, the same shall be kept open for two
I DAVIS thereafter at least.
have 7lre7dv said, that tho eag'o-cyed
revsers Of 1910 fund nothing inihis sec
I ton which needed Notwithstanding
omitted which ought TO be supplied. As
( now printed. it us "a literal copy Of the same
law Of leS-s Our cities had not grown
,.o such a s.zr-had not so increased their
7ooolaHon. that. ike the CITY OF Lonjo.