The Sierra citizen., 1854-08-19
ELECTION LAW,
Published by order of Court Of SESSIONS.
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Published BY order of Court Of SESSIONS.
ARTICLE II.
Of tie Qualifications and Disabilities of
!, Electors.
/. Sec. 10. Every white male citizen of
the, United States, and every white male
citizen of Mexico who shall have elected
to become citizen of the United States
under the treaty of peace exchanged and
ratified at Queretaro, on the 30th day OF
May, l848, Oft the age of twensy-one years,
who shall have been resident of the
state six months next preceding the elec-
ton, and the county or district in which
he claims his vote thirty days, shall be en-
titled to vote at all elections which are
now or hereafter may be authorized by
law. =
Sec. IL. For the purpose OF voting, no
person shall be deemed to have gained or
lost a residence by reason of his presence
or absence on the service of the United
States, nor while engaged in the naviga-
tion of the waters of this state or of the
United States, or Of the high seas; nor
| while a student of any seminary of learn
ing; nor while kept at any almshouse or
| other asylum, nor while confined in any
public prison.
Sec. II. No idiot or insane person, or
person convicted of any infamous crime,
shall be entitled to the privileges of an
electOr.
Sec. 13. Absence from this state on
business of the state, or of the United
States, shall not affect the question ofresi-
dence of any person.
| Sec. IA. A crime shall be deemed infa-
nous which is punishable by death or by
imprisonment in the state prison.
ARTICLE III.
Of the Place of holding Elections, and also
of Inspectors, Judges and Clerks Of
Elections.
Sec. II. 1t shall be the duty of each
inspector to be at the place where the
polls are to be opened in the precinct fol
which he is appointed, from eight o'clock
in the morning until sunset on the day o
| the election. Should such Inspector not
appear at eight o'clock in the morning
the electors present at the place where the
polls are to be opened, may appoint an Ia
spector for the precinct.
Sec. l8. The board of inspectors for
each precinct shall, before the time Of
opening the polls, appoint two suitable
persons to act as clerks. Il;
Sec. 19. Before any election shall be
opened, the inspector, judges, and clerks
shall each, before any officer authorized to
administer oaths, take an oath that he will
faithfully and impartially discharge the
duties assigned by law. If there is no
person present authorized to administer
oaths, the Inspector shall administer the
same TO the judges and clerks. and one Of
the Judges she'll then administer the oath
to the inspector.
/ Sec. 20. The inspector. shall be chair
man of the board, and after its organiza-
ton, shall have power to administer all
necessary oaths which may be required in
the progress of the election. He shall al.
so have power to fill any vacancy that
may occurr in the board of judges, or by
absence or refusal to serve of either Of the
clerks, after the polls have been opened.
| ARTICLE w
Of Opening the Polls; of Voting, and
/ y Challenges.
Sec. 22 At all elections the polls shall
be openedsat eight o'clock in the morning
and shall continue open until sunset, at
which time the judges shall close the polls
Provided, that the judges of the election
may take recess of one Eour at any time
they may think proper, during the day, be
fore three o'clock in the afternoon.
Sec. 23., The board of judges, before
they commence receiving ballots, shall
cause it to be proclaimed aloud at the
place of voting that the polls are opened
| Sec. a., The voting shall be bJ ballot
| The ballot shall be a paper ticket con.
taining the names of the persons for whom
the elector intends to vote, and designa.
ting the Office to which each person SO
named is intended by him to be chosen.
Sec. 25. Whenever any person offers to
vote, the inspector shall pronounce his
name in an audible voice, and if there be
no objection to the qualification of such
person as an elector, shall receive his bal
lot, and in the presence of the other judges
put the same, without being opened OF
examined, into the ballot box.
Sec. 26. The name of each elector
whose ballot has been thus received, shall
be Immediately entered by each clerk, in
the column of his poll list, headed names
of voters" numbering each name In the
additional column, as it is taken down, Sc
that it may be seen at any time whether
| the two lists agree.
Sec. q. Any person offering to vote
may be challenged as unqualified by the
inspector, or either Of the Judges, or by
legal voter, and it shall, in all cases, be
the duty of the inspector and each of the
judges to challenge any person offering to
vote whom he shall know or suspect not to
be duly qualified as an elector.
Sec. %. When any person Offering to
vote is challenged, it shall be the duty Of
the board of judges to declare to him the
qualifications Of an elector