Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-08-10

| poll; and the inspector having the box shall
carefully keep 1t without opening, or suffer
ing 1t to be opened, or the seal thereof to be
broken or removed, and shall publicly deliver
/ 1t In that condition to the board of inspectors
~ the next opening of the poll, when the seal
shall be broken, the box opened, the lists to
ken out and the box again locked.
Al. 1t shall be the duty of each iuspec-
tor to challenge every person offering to vote,
whom he shall know or suspect rot to be du
ly qualified as an elector; and the board of
inspectors shall possess full authority to main
tain regularity and order, and to enforce ODE
dlence to their lawful commands, during an
election, and during the canvass and estimate
of the votes.
42. If any person shall refuse to obey
the lawful commands of the inspectors, or by
dIsorderly conduct in their presence or hear
ing, shall interrupt or disturb their proceed
lngs, they may order any constable or other
person to take him into custody during the
election.
Cdnrass by the Inspectors.
s 43. AS soon as the poll of an election
shall be finally closed, the inspectors shall
Immediately proceed to canvass the votes Civ
en- at such election; and the canvass shall be
public, and continued without adjournment
until completed.
s ii. The canvass shall commence by
comparison of the poll lists from the COM
mencement, and correction of any mistakes
that may be found therein, until they shall be
found or made to agree. The box shall then
be opened, and the ballots contained therein
taken out and counted by the inspectors uno-
pened, except so far as to ascertain whether
each ballot is single, and if two or more bal
lots shall be found SO folded together as to
present the appearance of a single ballot.
they shall be laid aside until the count of the
ballot Is completed; and if, upon a COMPARE
son of the count, and the appearance of such
ballots, majority of the board shall be of
opinion that the ballots thus folded together
were voted by one elector, they shall be de-
stroyed.
s As. If the ballots in the box shall be
found to exceed in number the whole number
of votes on the poll lists, they shall be replaced
in the box, and one of the inspectors shall
publicly draw out and destroy therefrom so
many ballots unopened as shall be equal to
5 46. The ballots and poll lists agreeing,
or being made to agree, the board shall then
proceed to count and ascertain the number of
votes.
s ~. The canvass being completed, the in
spectors shall draw up statement of the re-
suit In writing. and cause a duplicate thereof
TO be made; which statement and duplicate
they shall certify to be correct, and subscribe
with their names.
5 48. Such statement shall set forth in
words at length, the whole number of votes
given for each Office at such election, the
names of the persons for whom such votes
were given, and the number of votes so given
for each person.
40. One of said statements shall forth
with be delivered to the town clerk, to be filed
and preserved by him, or if made in any ward
of any city, then to the clerk of such city for
the like purpose; and the other, together with
one of the poll lists, shall be carefully en-
closed, sealed up and directed to the clerk of
the board of supervisors of the proper coun-
ty, and delivered to the chairman of the su-
pervisors Of the town, or such one of said SUI
pervlsors shall attend the next annual
meeting of the county board of supervisors
and such officer to whom such statement and
poll list shall he so delivered, shall, within
seven days after the election, deliver the same,
with the seals and envelopes unbroken, to
such clerk, without charge for mileage, when
they receive pay for mileage as members of
the county board.
S so. The inspectors shall carefully enveI-
ope and preserve all ballots rejected as defec-
tive, and deliver the same, together with the
other poll list, 10 the town or city clerk, as
the case may be, to be filed In his office; all
the other ballots shall then be destroyed, and
County Canvass and the Proceedings thereon.
S 81. On the Tuesday next following the
election, the clerk of the board of supervisors
shall take to his assistance two justices of the
peace of his county, who, together with such
clerk, shall constitute the county board of
canvassers, and proceed to open said returns
and make estimate and statement of the
votes as follows
They shall make a separate statement, writ
ten out in words at length, containing the
whole number of votes given in such county
for the Offices of governor, lieutenant govern
or, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney gem
eraI, state superintendent, and representatives
in congress, the names of the persons to whom
such votes are given, and the number of votes
given to each; another similar statement of
the votes given for electors of president and
vice president; another Of the votes given for
senator, when the county alone does not
constitute senate district; another of the
vote given for county officers; and another of
the votes given for senators and members of
assembly, when the county constitutes one or
more senate or assembly districts, specifying
the number of votes for each person for sena-
tor and member of assembly in each such dis
trct respectively.
So Each statement shall be certified as
correct and attested by the signatures of the
said county board of canvassers, and filed in
the office of the clerk of the board of super
visors, and the same shall be recorded by him
in a suitable book to be provided and kept in
his office.
So. They shall then determine the per-
sons who have been, by the greatest number
of votes, elected to the several county Offices,
and members of the senate aad assembly,