The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-09-29

TIRE and SAFE Of Intoxicating Liquors
bererage.
+ WHEREAS, All laws TO be efficient should have
the appreciation and sanction of tn, people:
And whereas, 1t is represented that a large
number, il not a majority of the citizens Of this
/ Commonwealth, are deeply impressed with the
necessity OF the passage OF a prohi5itory Liquor
/ Law:
And whereas, 1t is impossible to obtain
certain indication of popular sentiment relative
thereto by means of petitions and Temonstran-
| ces; therefore,
| SEcToN |. BE it enacted by the Senate and
! House OF Representatives Of the Commonwealth
4 of Pennsylvania il General Assembly met, and
! ii is hereby enacted by the authority ofthe same,
+ That the qualified voters OF this Commonwealth
/ are hereby authorized at :he places for holding
! the general elections in their respective wards,
/ boroughs and townships, on the second Tuesday
/ of October next, to vote for and against Iaw
which shall entirely prohibit by proper or con-
stIiutional regulations the manufacture and sale
/ Of intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal,
sacramental, mechanical and artStical purposes.
SECTION ,. That the officers authorized by
! law TO held elections in each ward borough
township Of this Commonwealth, are hereby di-
rected and required at the place fixed BY law,
in The several districts for the holding Of tie
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 out side; sPro-
hibitory Liquor Law, and the tickets in favor
of the proposed law shall contain in the inside
the words, StFor Prohibltory Liquor Law,
and those opposed 10 the proposed law shall con-
tain III the inside the words, "a gaInst a Prohlbi-
tory Liquor Law which votes shall be counted
and returned to the court house of the county
or city, in which the said election shall be held,
on the following Friday by the return Judges,
" no shall cast up and certify all the votes pol
led in said county or city, to the Office of The
Secretary of the Commonwealth at Harrisburg,
directed and transmitted in the same manner as
the votes foI Governor are required to be- diroc
ted and transmitted and the said Secretary shall
on the third Friday OF January next ensuing,
communicate the SAID returns to the Legislature, !
to be opened and counted in the same manner /
the votes for Governor are opened and counted, /
and considered as the prayer Of the voters of
this Commonwealth relative to a prohibjtory /
liquor law.
SEcTIoy g. That all reelection laws Of the 7
state prescribing the hours Of opening and clos /
ing The polls, the reception of votes, the punish /
ment for illegal voting, the detraying the eXpen- /
Ses Of publication, and holding Of the general f. |
lecionS and return of the same and all other
matters incident thereto, be and the same are
hereby declared applicable to the election above
authorized.
SEcEIoN 4. That it shall be the duty of the
Sheriff ofthr several counties OF this Common
wealth, to insert copy Of this act in the pro-
Gamation for the general election to be hrid on
the second Tuesday of October next.
E. B. CHASE,
Speaker of the House OF Representatives.
NJ. MCASLIN,
Speaker of the Senate
'Approved-tbe twenty-righth day OF April,
one thousand eight hundred and filty-iour
WM. BIGLER.
make known that BY an act of Assembly,
passed the 18th day Of April, A. D. 1852, en-
titled can act to provide for the election of
Judges Of the several Courts OF this Common
wealth, and to regulate certain Judicial Dis
trictS,'' it is provided
That the qualified electors Of each ofthe sew
eral counties ofthis Commonwealth shall at the
next general election at the times and places Of
eIecting representatives, and whenever it shall
hereafter be necessary under the provisions here
OF to serve as Judges Of the Supreme Court Of
this Commonwealth.
SEcrIo. +. That ;he election for Judges shall
be held and conducted in the several election
districts in the same manner in all respects e
lrcti0ns Tor representatives are or shall be held
and conducted, and by the judges, inspectors and
other officers and the provisions oi~the act oi
the general assembly, entitled 'EAn act relating
to the elections Of this Commonwealth passed
July 30, 1916, and It's several supplements, and
all other like laws as far as the same shall BE- In
force and applicable, shall be deemed and taken
to apply to the election for Judge, Provided,
That the aforesaid electors shall vote for Judges
Of the Supreme Court on a separate piece Of pa
per and for all other Judges required to be learn
ed in the law on another separate piece Of pa
per-
Also, that in The fourth section ofthe act Of As
sembIy, ''An act relating to executions, and
for other purposes" approved april l6, 1910, it
is enacted that the aforesaid l3th section ''shal
aot be construed 50 as to prevent any militia Of
fcer or Borough officer from serving as Judge, in
spectors or clerks, at any general or special {
lection in this Commonwealth.
IL All officers, except for Supreme Judge,
viii be voted for on single slip OF paper. The
tickets for Supreme Judge must be voted on a
separate piece Of paper, as by law provided.
The election TO BE- opened between the hours4
of and O'Clock in the forenoon. by public
proclamation, and TO keep open until seven o.
clock in the evening, when the polls shall be
closed
NOTICE rs HEREBY GUEN:
That every person, excepting Justices OF the
Peace who shall hold any Office or anpoint-