Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-10-07

90 or one Of them shall put the following
questions:
lsI. When did you last come into This
county,
I'd. When you came to this county did
you come Tor q temporary purpose mere
y or for the purpose Of max log it your
homer
Sd. Did you como to This county for
the parPOse Of voting IN Ibis county?
4th Are you an actual resident Of
This township or wardf
Fourth: II the person be- challenged
as unqualified, on The ground that no is
not lwenty-one years Of age, the Judges
or one oil IhOm shall put the following
questions:
Are you tw%enly-one years Of age to
the best Of your knowledge and belief.
The Judges Of the election, or one Of
them shall put all such questions to the
person challenged, under the respective
heads aforesaid las may DO necessary to
test the qualification Of an eIeclor at that
election.
Sec. Ia. If the person challenged as
aforesaid, shall refuse to answer fully
any question whidh shall be put TO him
as aforesaid the judges shall reject his
vote.
Sec. Is II the challenge be not with
drawn after the person Offering tho vo,e
shall have answered the questions put
to him as aforesaid, one Of the Judges
shall tender to him The following oath:
you do SoIemnIy swear Tor affirm that
you are a citizen Of Inc United States,
oil tho age OF Iwenty-one years; that
you have been an lnhabilanl Of this
Stale for / year preceding the election;
that you are an actual resident Of this
township or ward, and that you have
not voted at thus election
REFUsING TO BE SWORN.
Sec. l6. If any person shall refuse
10 take the oath, or affirmation, so ten
dered, his vote shall be rejected, provl-
ded, that ailer such cath shall have been
taken, the judges mag, nevertheless, re
luse such person 10 vote, # they shall!
be satisfied from recorded evidence, or
other legal testimony adduced before
them that he Is DOT a legal voter; aud
they are hereby authorised TO administer
the necessary oaths, or uAirmali0nS t.
ali Witnesses brought before them to ies-
Oi(Y 10 the qualifications OF a person OIL
lering 10 vote.
Sec. II. When any PERSONS vote
shall lie received. after havIug taken the
oath prescribed IN The fifteenth section
olthIs act, it shall be the duty OF The
clerk OF The election to write on
the poll book, at The end of such PERSONS
name, the word "swOrn."
DUTIES OF JUDGES.
SEC. l8, 1t shalt be the duty oieach
Judge ol The election 10 challenge every
person offering 10 vote, whom he shall
know or suspect mol 10 be duly qualified
: az an %eleClor.
Sec. 10. 1t shall be the DUTY of the
Judges ofihe election. immediately be
loreiprocIamatlOn Is made OF The opening
Of the polls, to open the balIot.boxes II
the presence Of The people thrre assem'
, bled, add turO lhem upside down, 40 as II
: empty them oil every hing that may b,
IN them, and lock them; aud they shal
not be re opened uGtIl Tor lie purpose 4
n counting tho ballots therein, at the clos
q ol the polls.
FRAUDULENT VOTING,
| SEC, 90. Any person who shall, al
ter proclamation made of The opening (
d tho polls, frauduIenlly or maIlclcu+ly pu
Il ballot or ticket into the ballot hoX
a shall, 90 conviction thereof. be imprisou
!, ed in the pen%itenliary, and kept 4
hard labor, not more than three years
Q nor less than one.
# Sec. 81. Any judge oftbe e)lec'io
who shall, after proclamation male of h
opening Of The polls, put a ballot or 'Icke
into the ballot box, except his " bal
IUl1 UT SlCU no VIA uo iCNNlNCu w III
6 regular discharge Of his duty. shall, o
conviction thereof, be imprisoned in th
f. penilen.iary, aud kept at hard labor, nj
r moro than five years, nor less than on
year.
IS ADMITTING SPECTATORS,
70 SEC. %. The judges Of the electio
u shall, if requested, permit the ~respectiV
y candidates, or one or more mot exceed
ing lhree) Of their friends, To be presoT
d IN the room where The Judges are, durin
;" the lime Of receiving aud counting OF
70 the ballots.
PERJURY.
SEC. 90. lfany person, challenge
n az u~nquaIlhed to vote, shall he guilty
"a wilGuI and false swearing, or afirmOIlo
70 in taking an oath or affirmation prescr
bed by this act, such person shall be ac
.. ulged gully of wllGuI and corrupt pei