Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1842-10-04
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Sec. l. Be ii enacted BY the General
Assembly OF the State of Ohio, That the
provisions of this act shall have refer
eDce and be applicable to all elections
hereafter t0bc holden for governor, sier.
id, coroner, county auditor, county asses
sor, county commissioners, county treas
urer, county recorder, county suryeyo r,
prosecuting attorney, all township officers
senators and representatives to the gen
eraI assembly, representatives TO congress
and electors of president and vice presi-
dent of the United States. I'll
Sec, 2.oThe judges Of election, in de-
:ermining the residence Of person OF
fering TO vote, shall bs governed by tn
following rules, so far as they may be ap.
plcable
First; The place shall be considered
and held to be the residence of a person
in which his habitation is fixed. without
any present intention of removing there
from, tO.which, whenever he is absent, he
has the intention of returning:
Second; A person shall not be consid>
cred or held TO have lost his residence,
who shall leave his home and 90 into an
other State, or county in this state, for
temporary purposes merely, with an in
tention of returning,
Third; A person shall not be consid,
cred or held to have gained residence.
in any county Of this state, into which he
shall come fOI temporary purposes mere,
ly, without the intention ofmaking 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 il.
Fourth; lf a person remove to anoth
Ell state, with an intention to make it his
permanent residence, he shall be consid.
cred and held to have lost his residence
in this state.
Fifth: Ifa person remove to another
state with an intention Of remaining for
an indefinite time, and as a place of pres
ent residence, he shall be considered and
held to have lost his residence in this
stale, notwithstanding he may entertain
an intention to return at some future Pc
iod.
Sixth; The place where married
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, OF for transient
objects, it shall be otherwise.
Seventh; If married man has his fam
lily fixed in one place, and he does his
business in another, the former shall be
considered and held to be the place Of
his resid ence.
Eighth: The mere intention TO acquire |
anew residence without the fact of re-
moval, shalt avail nothing, neither shall
the fact of removal without the inten-
tion.
Ninth: IF person shall go into anoth-
or state and while there, exercise the
right ofa citizen by voting, he shall be
considered and held to have. lost his resiN
dence in this state.
Sec. 8. Each elector shall, in full
view of the people, assembled at the
polls, where he offers TO vote, deliver, in
person, to one of the judges Of the cleo,
ton single ballot or piece Of paper, on
which shall be written or printed the
names ofthe persons voted for, with
pertinent designation OF The office, which
he OF they may be intended to filI, but no
eIector shall vote except in the township,
or ward. in which he actually resides.
Sec A. Amy, person who shall wllfully
vote in any township, OF, ward, in which
he does not actually reside, which town
ship, or ward, shall be in the county of
which he is resident, shall, on convic-
lion thereof, be imprisoned in the county
iailof the proper countgsnot more than six
months nor less than one month.
Sec. 5. Any person being resident OF
this state, who shall go. or come, into
any county and'vote in such county, not
being resident thereof, shall, on conVIc-
tiou thereof, be imprisoned in the pene'
tentiary, and kept at hard labor, not more
than three years norless than one year.
Sec. 6. Any person who shall vote
more than once at the same electIoD;shaii
on conviction thereof, be imprisoned IN