Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1852-10-15
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PRESIDENTIAL, ELECTION.

w HEREAS, in and by an act of the General
w Assembly OF the Commonwealth Of Penn.
syivania entitled, - An act 10 direct the manner
Time, and place of holding Election, for Prcs,-
dent and Vice President Of the United States
enacted the 81 Gay OF February, A. ID. lo20. it
IS required OF The Sheriff to give due notice OF
such election: Therefore, ], WILLIAM SHlMP,
Sheriff of Mifln county, do hereby make
known and give this public notice to the ciI-
gems Of said county, WHO are qualified To vote
for members Of the Genera! Assembly, that on
the
First Tuesday cf November
next, being the 2d day Of said month, an elcc-
tion will lie held at the same place, al hich the
said members shall have been voted for at the
last preceding election, for the purpose of
elcctjng NENrY- EN- PERSONS Of this
Commonwealth as electors for the election Of
President and Vice President of the United
States, and the segeraI Judges, Inspectors and
CLERKS, who attended the general election or
the I'd Tuesday Of October last are hereby en-
joined TO attend and perform at the said election
Of Electors TO be held as aforesaid, the like du-
ties subject to the like penalties for neglect or
misco nduct, as they liable to al the election
of members of the Assembly, &c, aud one
Judge from each district is enjoned to attend az
the Court House in Lewistown, on the Monday
next after the election for Electors, for the pur
dose OF making out the returns Of election.
/ also make known that, by an act entitled
" An act relating to the elections III this Com
monweath," approved the llth day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty two il is
provided that, @ Every year in which the citi-
zens Of this Commonwealth shall vote for cleo
tors of President and Vice President Of the
United States, the Assessors of the several
wards townships, incorporated districts and
boroughs within this Commonwealth, except
within fSs city and county OF Phiade lphia
shall, at all reasonable times after the second
Tuesday of October in said years, and until
within ten days Of the time fixed by law for the
election Of electors of President and Vice Pres
ident of the United States. on the personal ap-
plication of any white freeman claiming to be
assessed within their proper ward, township, in
corporated district or borough, or claiming a
right to vote therein, as being between the age
of twenty-one and twenty-five years and having
resided in this Commonwealth one year, enter
the name OF such person on the list of taxable
inhabitants; and said assessors shall, at least
eight days previous to the day fixed for the
election of said electors, make out duplicate
copies of the name or names so entered, and at
ter certifying and signing the same, shall deliver
one copy to the Commissioners Of their respec-
tive counties, to be filed by said Commissioners,
in their respective Office, and the other copy
said Assessor shall hold and hand over, without
alteration or addition, to one OF the Inspectors
of the proper election district, OH or before
eight O'Clock on the morning of the day fixed
/ for the election of said electors"
! Given under my hand at Lewistown, the l4th
/ day of October, in the year of our Lord one
/ thousand eight hundred and ffty-two, and the
seventy y-sixth of the independence of the United
/ States.
WILLIAM sHIMP, Sheriff.
! SHERIFF's OFFICE,
Lcwistown, October IS, 1852