Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-09-07

Commonwealth, and that no inspector or Judge
or other officer Of any such election shall be ellgi
ble to any Office then 10 be voted for"
Also, that in the fourth section Of the Act OF
Assembly, entitled, EAn Act relating to elections
and for other purposes approved April 10, 1850
! 1t IS enacted that the aforesaid 18th section
shall not be constructed to prevent any militia
officer from serving judge, inspector clerk; at
any general or special election in this Common
wealth.
Also that in the 61st section of the said act it is
! enacted that every general and special election
| shall be opened between the hours of eight and
! ten IN the forenoon, and shalt continUe without
interruption or adjournment until seven O'Clock in
| the evening, when tie polls shall be closed.
L also make known that by an Act of As
sembly passed the twenty-eightday of April,
one thousand eight hundred and fiftv-four en-
titled can Act for the suppression of the
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating liquors
as beverage, it is provided.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly
met, and it is hereby enacted by the authori-
ty of the same,-That the qualified voters of
this Commonwealth are hereby authorized at
the places for holding the general elections in
their respective wards, boroughs and town
ships on the second Tuesday of October next,
to vote for and against law which shall en-
tirely prohibit by proper and constitutional
regulations and penalties, the manufacture
and sale of Intoxicating liquors, except for
medical, sacramental, mechanical and artist
cal purposes
SEC. 2 That the officers authorized by
law to hold elections in each ward, borough
and township, of this Commonwealth, are
hereby directed and required at the place fixed
by law, in the several districts for the hold
ing of the general elections in said Districts
on the second Tuesday Of October next, when
they shall be organized as an election board
to receive from each qualified voter of their
said districts, ticket written or printed ON
the outside, ''Prohibitory Liquor Law" and
the tickets in favor Of the proposed law shall
contain in the inside the words, Against the
Prohibitory Liquor Law" which votes shall
be counted and returned to the court house
of the counties or city, in which the said
election shall be held on the following FRI
day by the return judges, who shall cast up
and certify all the votes polled in said county
or city, to the Office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth at Harrisburg, directed and
transmitted in the same manner, the votes for
Governor are required to be directed and
transmitted in the same manner the votes for
Governor are required to be directed and
transmitted, and the said Secretary shall on
the third Friday Of January next ensuing,
communicate the said returns to the Legis-
laturs, to be opened and counted, and consi-
dered as the prayer of the voters OF this Com
..,onwe,lth relative to Prohibitory Liquor
Law
SECT. 3. That all the electro. laws - - fhe
Stateprescribing the hours of opening and clos
ing the polls, the reception of votes, the pu-
nishment for Illegal voting, the defraying the
expenses of publication, and holding of the
general elections and return of the same and
all other matters incident thereto, be and the
same are declared applicable to the election
above authorized.
Sect. 4. That it shall be the duty of the
Sherifs of the several counties of this Com
monwealth to insert copy of this act in the
proclamation for the general election to be
held on the second Tuesday of October next
The general, special, city, Incorporated district
and township elections, and all elections for cleo
tors OF president and vice president of the United
States, shall be held and conducted by the nspec-
tors and the judges elected as aforesaid, and by
clerks appointed as hereinafter provided
''No person shall be permitted to vote at any
election, as toresaid, but white freeman of the |
age OF twenty-one years or more, who shall have !
resided IN THIS State at least year, and in the
election district where he offers to vote at least ten
days Immediately preceding such election, and |
WiIlln INo years llatl q state ana county tax. |
which shall have been assessed at least ten days |
before the election But citizen of the United !
States, who has previously been a qualified voter |
Of this State, and removed therefrom and return /
ID, and who shall have resided in the election dis
rict, and paid taxes as aforesaid. shall be entitled
to vote after resiGingin this State six months. !
PrOUided. That the white f. ecnen. citizens of the
United States between the age of q and % years
md have resided in the election districts ten |
lays as aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote, alth
although they s'al not have paid taxes.
''No person shall be admitted to vote whose
name is not contained in the list of taxable inha-
htants furnished by the commissioners unless. |
First he produce receipt for the payment with
N two years, Of State county tax assessed /
lgrceab!y TO the constitution, and give satisfaC- |
tory evidence on his own oath or affirmation of |
another, that he has paid such tax, or ON fail |
ure to produce a receipt shall make oath of the
payment thereof, or Second; if be claim right to
vote by being eectOr between the age of q and |
% years, he shall depose on oath or affirmation,
that he has resided III the State at least a year
before his application and make such proof of his
residence in this district as is required by this act.
and that he does verify believe, from the accounts
given him that he is Of age aforesaid, and give |
such other evidence as is required by this act,
yvhereupon the name of the person so admitted |
to vote, shall be inserted in the alphabetical list
by the inspectors and note made opposite there
10 by writing the word ''taX, if he shall be admi-
ted to vote by reason of having paid tax, or the
if lie shall be admitted to vote by rea-
son of such age shall be called out to the clerks,
who shall make the like notes in the list of vot
kept by them.
'.In all cases where the name of the person
claiming to vote is found on the list furnished by
the commissioners and assessor. or his right to
vote whether found thereon or not, is objected to
by any qualified citizen, it shall be the duty of the
inspectors to examine such person on oath as TO