The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-10-02

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such cand dates as he intended, shall, on %conyic-
lion thereof, be imprisoned in the penitentiary,
aud kept al hard labor, not more than three years
nor less than one year.
SIC. 10. If person, offering TO vote, is chal-
lenged as unqualified, byone of the judges of the
election, or by an %eleclor, one ofthe Judges shall
tender TO him the following oath or affirmation
"You do swear Tor afirm) that you will fully and
truly answer all such questions as shall be put to
you touching your place of residence, and quail
~hcations as an elector at this election
First: If the person be challenged as %unquali-
fed, on the ground that he is not a citizen, the
Judges, or one of them, shall put the following
questions:
lst. Are you a citizen of the United Slaies?
2nd. Are you a native or naturalized citizen?
Ii the person offering TO vote, claim to be a
naturalized citizen Of the United States, he shall,
before his vote shall be received, produce for The
inspection of the Judges of the election, a certih-
cafe of his naturalization, and also stale, under
oath or affirmation, thai be is the identical person
named therein: provided, that the production OF
such certificate shall be dispensed with, if the
person offering TO vote shall state, under oath or
affirmation, when and where he was naturalizod,
thai he has had a certificate of his naturalization
and that against his will the same is lost, destroy
ed, or beyond his power TO produce 10 The judges
of the election: provided, further, that ifhe shall
state, under oath Or Affirmation, that. BY reason of
the naturalization of his parents, or one of inem
he has become a citizen of the United States,
and when and where his parent or parents was
naturalized, the certificate of said naturalization
need not be produced.
Second: 1.-THE person be challenged as unqual-
fled, on the ground that he has not resided in
this state for one year Immediately preceding the
election, the Judges, Or one Of them, shall put the
following questions:
LIST. Have you resided in this state for one
year Immediately preceding this election?
2nd. Have you been absent from this state
within the year Immediately preceding this cleo
tion?-If yes, then.
Bird. When you left, did you leave for a tenl-
porary purpose, with the design of returning, or
for the purpose of remaining away?
4th. Did you, while absent, look upon and re-
gard this state as your home?
9th. Did you, while absent, vote in any other
state?
Third: If the person be challenged as unqual-
flied, on the ground that he is not a resident Of
the county, township, Or ward, when he offers to
vote, the judges, or one Of them, shall put the
following questions:
LIST. When did you last come into this county
End. When you come into this county, did you
come for a temporary purpose, merely, or for the
purpose Of making il your home?
Bid. Did you come into tbs county for the pur-
pose of voting in this county?
4th. Are you al actual resident Of this town
ship, or wafdG
Fourth: If the person bel challenged as I'M
qualified on the ground that he is not twenty-one
years of age; the judges, or one of them, shall
Ipgt the following question: are you twenty-one
years of age to the best Of your knowledge and
beliel?-Tne Judges Of the ~election, or enc OF
them, shall put all such other questions to the
person challenged, under the respective heads
aforesaid, as may be necessary 10 test his quail
~icat;ons as an elector at that election.
Sec. ii. 1.-The person challenged as aforesaid,
shall refuse to answer fully any questions which
shall be put 10 him, as aforesaid, the judges shall
reject his vote.
SEC. Is. If the challenge be not Withdrawn
after the person Offering to vote shall have an
swered the questions put TO him as afoesaid, one
ofthe judges Of the election shall tender to him
the following oath: "You do solemnly swear Tor
affirm) that you are citizen Of the United States
of the age Of twenty-one years; that you have
been an inhabitant ofth;s state for one year next
preceding this election; that you are now an ac-
tuaI resident Of this township, or ward, and that
you have not voted at this election"
SEC. Is. If any person shall refuse to take the
oath, or affirmation, so rendered, his vote shall be
rejected, provided, that aftersuch oath shall have
been taken, the Judges may, nevertheless, refuse
to permit such person to vote, if they shall be sat
isfied, from record evidence, or other legal tes-
timony 0dduced before them, that he is not a le-
gal voter. And they are hereby authorized to
administer the necessary oaths or afirmations TO
all witnesses brought before them, to. testify to
the qualifications of a person offering 10 vote.
SECT. II. Whenever any persons vote shall
be received, after having taken the oath prescri-
bed in the fifteenth section of this act, it shall
be the duty Of the clerks of the election to write
on the poll book, at the end of such persons
name, the word Hsworn."
Sect. IL. 1t shall be the duty of each Judge
Of the election to challenge every person offering
to vote, whom he shall know, or suspect not to
be duly qualified as an %clector.
SECT. 10. 1t shall be the duty of the Judges
OF the election, or one Of them, Immediately
before proclamation is made Of the opening of
the polls, to open the ballot boxes in the pre-
sence of the people there assembled, and turn
them up SIDE down, so as 10 empty them of eve
ny thing that may be in them, and then lock
them; and they shall not be re-opeucd until fol
the purpose of counting the ballots therein, al
the close of the polls.
SECT. 90 Any person who shall after procla.
nation made of the opening of the polls, fraudu.
Iently put a ballot or ticket into the ballot box.
shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in
the penitentiary, and kept at hard labor, moi
more than three years, nor less than one year
Sect. 81. ANY Judge Of tho election, who
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