Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-09-07
AN ACT
To preserps the purity of elections.

Sec. 1. Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly of the State Of Ohio, That the
provisions Of this aclshall have reference,
and be applicable to all elections hereaf-
Ter TO be holden for governor, sheriff,
coroner, county auditor, county assessor,
county commissioners, county treasurer,
county recorder, county surveyor, prose-
cutting attorney, all township officers, SEN
ators and representatives to the general
assembly, representatives to congress and
electors Of president and vice president of
the United States.
Sec. Q. The Judges of the election;in
5 determining the residence of Il person Of
teripg 10 vote, shall be governed by the
following rules, SO far as they may be ap-
pIicable:
First: That place shall be considered
and held 10 be the residence of person
in which his habilaton is fixed, without
any present intention of removing there
FROM and 10 which, whenever he is
absent, he has the intention Of return.
ing:
Second: A person shall not be con-
sidered or held to have lost his residence, 3,
who shall leave his home and 60 into an
other stale, or couily of this state for
temporary purposes merely, with an in
tention Of returning:
Third: A person shall not be Consd-
cred OF held to have gained residence,
in any county of this stale, into which he
shall come for temporary purposes mere
ly, without the intention of making such
county his home, but with the intention
of leaving the same when he shall have
gotten through with the business that
brought him into it:
Fourth: If a person remove 10 anOth-
er state, with an intention to make it his
permanent residence, he shall be consd
ereG and held to have lost his residence
in this stale:
Fifth: If "a person remove to another
state with an ninlentIon of remaining there
for an indefinite time, and as apace of
present residence, he shall be considered
and held 10 have lost his residence in
this state, notwithstanding he may en-.
iertain an intention to return at some flu
ture period:
Sixth: The place where a marie d
mans family resides, shall, generally, be
considered and held to be his residence; !;
but, if it is place of temporary estab.
lishment for his family, or fo, transient
objects, it shall be otherwise:
Seventh: Ifa married man has his
family fixed in one place, and he does
his business in another, the former shall
be considered and held to the place of his
residence:
Eighth: The mere intention to &C.
quire new residence without the fact
Of removal, shall avail nothing; neither
shall the fact of removal without the in
tention:
Ninth: If person shall go into an
other state, and, while there, exercise the
right of a citizen by voting, he shall be
considered and held to have lost his resi-
dence in this state.
SEC. 3. Each elector shall, in full
view ofthe people assembled at the polls,
where he offers to vote, deliver, in per-
son, to one Of the judges Ofthe election
a single ballot or piece Of paper, on which
shall be written or printed the names of
the persons voted for, with a pertinent
designation of the office, which he or
they may be intended to fill; but no elec.
tor shall vote except in the township, or
ward, IN which he actually resides.
Sec. 4. Any person WHO shall will
fully vote in any township, or ward, in
which he does not actually reside, which
township, or ward, shall bo in the coun-
ty ofwhch he is resident, shall, on
conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the
county jail Of the proper county not
more than six months nor less than one
month.
SEC. o. Any Parson, being resident
of this state, who shall 60, or come, into
any county and vote in such county moi
being residentthereCf, shall, on convic.
ton thereof, be imprisoned in the peni.
tentiary, and kept at hard labor, moi
more than three years nor less than one
year.