The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-08
Requirements of the Secret Ballot Law I'm
Massachusetts,.


For the State Election on Monday nert, November 10
| Section l. All votes for Governor, Lieutenant
Governor State Senators and Representatives,
| Presidential Electors, and Congressman, must de-
sgnate, either in print or writing, the person and
Office voted for and be deposited in the ballot box
in one sealed envelope. In trials for the choice OF
| Town Represent atives, when other officer is
| voted for, the office need not be indicated.
Sec. g The Secretary of State is required to sup
ply the city and town clerks with sufficient guam
| tiy of selfseang envelopes, of uniform appear
ance, for all the voters in the Commonwealth; and
also keep hand sufficient quantity for all the
general elections mentioned, and furnish whenever
applied for
| Sec. g. The town and city clerks are directed to
procure six times the number of envelopes that
there arc names on the voting lis; and also keep
supply for any State election that may occur; 'and
said clerks shall receive suitable compensation
from their several towns cities, fer the labor and
| expense thus incurred"
Sec A. The town selectmen and city wardens
and inspectors must obtain the envelopes from the
| city and town clerks, and provide them at the
polls; also appoint two more suitable persons to
deliver them to persons claiming to be voers, on
their personal application, and to no others, re-
turning to the clerk aforesaid all envelopes not
| used.
| Sec 5. The inspecting officers must count the
| envelopes before opening them to ascertain the
| number of voters; the envelopes may be opened
once each hour during the election; if any envc
lope contains more than one vote for the same per-
son and office, all but one shall be thrown out; and
II two more votes De f0unu In the envelope, Tor
different persons for the same office, all such vo.es
shall be rejected Any envelope containing only a
blank shall not be counted ballot; and any
velopc bearing any mark, impression or device, or
COLOR designed to distlng 1t from others, shall
not be counted
Sec 6. Each voter must hold his ballot that
the inspecting officers can distinctly whether
more than one Ia deposited in the ballot box.
Sec. I. Any person willully and falsely claim
ing to be voter, and thus obtaining envelopes,
shall be liable to a fine of not less than 80 nor
moro than $50
Sec $. Any clerk or inspecting officer, or enye-
lope distributor, neglectng 10 perform his duties,
| shall pay TO the Treasurer Of the Commonwealth
not less than 800 nor more than $4,000.
Convention TO Revise The Constitution.
The secret ballot law docs not apply to the votes
to be given, yes or no, on this question. These
votes must be separate from those for Governor,
&c, and be deposited in separate ballot-box
Boston Transcript
AN INrEREsrfHG MERCANTILE William
p. Newn and J. A. Allibonc, trading as Newlin
& Alhbone, Us the President and Directors of the
Insurance Company of North America. This was
action to 5000 FOR the loss OF four bales
OF cotton which had been shipped con deck" at Sa-
vannah, and were swept overheard in gale The
| risk endorsed on the policy was "l04 bales,
valued at $50 per bale" which the plaintiff con
| tended WIS separate insurance on each bale,
while the company urged that, the loss lees
than five per cent. of the amount, they were not
| liable The facts were not disputed, the only
| question being TO whether the loss under
| five per cent. of the amount insured.
| The defence introduced testimony to show that,
| by the custom Of the port of Philadelphia, the
plaintiff could not recover unless the claim amount
ed to an average of five per cent upon the whole
| Insurance.; that an average value could not be de-
Quoted from the amount insured upon the whole
number of bales to compensate for the four bales
lost overheard, the loss did not amount 10 the
| FIVE per cent average.
| This controverted by the counsel for the
plaintiff who contended that the defendant had
failed to show the custom of the port in reference
to this claim. lie had only shown that such
claim as this had ever before been made; and that
was not sufficient to bar his clients claim.
! the court, upon the custom Of the port the Judge
rcserving the other points for consideration. Tho
jury found for tho plaintiff and against the custom
Of the port Verdict $40. II. NJ. Phillips for
! plaintiff; b. Gerhard for defendant.
philadelphia Penntgipanian, 5h.