Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20


other. which they are hereby fully author-
lied to do
In case of the absence>of any one or two
of said Judges at nine o'clock A. III. the
vacancy shall be filed by the Judge or
Judges who shall attend. and if any vacan-
cy shall occur after the Judges have been
sworn it shall be filed In the same man-
ner. In case none of the Judges appoin-
ted shall attend at nine o'clock A. NJ. the
voters on the ground may by tellers select
persons to act In then stead. The Judg-
es will keep two corresponding lists Of the
names Of persons who shall vote, number
ing each name. They must be satisfied of
the qualifications of every person offering
to vote, and may examine the voter or any
other person under oath, upon the subject.
The Polls will be kept open until six o'clock
P. M. and then closed unless voters are
present offering to vote. and IN that case
shall be closed as soon thereafter as votes
cease to be offered.
When the Polls are closed the Judges
will proceed to open and count the votes
and will keep two corresponding tally lists
on which they will simult aneously tally
each ticket as it is called by the Judge who
viii open and call out the tickets. which
must De done without handling or interfe-
renee by any other person. When the
votes are thus counted off and the tauy lists
shall agree, the Judges shall publicly pro-
claim the result and shall fiji up and sign
the duplicate certificates of return which
will be furnished them. They will then
carefully replace the said tickets in one or
| both of the ballot boxes together with one
copy of the oath, one of the lists of voters
and one of the certificates of return, and
will seal up and preserve the same to he
produced if called for. The remaining
copies ofthe oath-list of voters-tally list,
and certificate Will be sealed up, directed
to the Governor of the Territory, and de-
livered by one of the Judges in person, to
the Governor at his Office at the Shawnee
Methodist Mission, on or before the Fourth
day of April A. d. 1855.
| In the Fifth district the several return
Judges viii meet on the day after the cleo
ton at the house of Hy. Sherman, on Pot
tawattomie creek, and select one of theil
number who shall take charge of and de.
liver the returns of all the precincts. The
return Judges of the Tenth will meet at the
house of Robert Wilson on rock creek
and those ofthe Fourteenth at the house O
M. E. Bryant, and will make their return:
In the same manner
All persons are absolutely forbidden tc
bring, seell, or deal out in the immediate
vicinity OF the election ground any intoxi
eating liquors, and Judges Of election
, whenever they shall deem this regulation
violated SO as to interfere with the prope
conducting of the election may order ths
same to be removed, and if the owne
shall fail to comply with such order ma.
direct the constables or other proper per
sons to take charge of such liquor till til,
polls are closed, or in case of resistance t.
destroy the same at once. The constable
of the Territory, will attend at their re
spective polls, and will hold themselve
subject to the orders of the Judges for tn,
preservation of order at the polls and Sc
curing free access for the voters, and fo
this purpose may call upon any citizen
f present to aid them in the performance Q
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