Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-30
TO VOTERS

TO VOTERS
BeHsvinss the approaching Election viii call
out every vote, and with view Of showing to
an the privileges they enjoy, and the penalties
ehsy arc liable to- We have prepared the follow
iaz synopsis of the laws affecting the elective
franchise.
WLe aay Vsle.
The Grst section of the Sd article of the Con-
slituiiOn of Virginia, as adopted August /, 1851,
4 N me following words:
..Eyery white male citizen Of tho Common
wealth Of the age OF 81 years, who has been
ssstE3saf eT tbs State tao gears and of the Coun
n, civ or town where he offers to vote FOR
fsseies ss0s.ts next preceding an election-and
no other peson-shaH be qualified TO vote for
members Of the General Assembly, and all on
oSTs elected By the people, but no person in the
military, naval or maIine service Of the United
States, stall he deemed u resident OF this State
by reason Of being stationed therein. And no
person shall have the right to vote who is of I'M
soand mind, or pauper, or a noncommissioned
officer, soldier, seaman or marine in the service
OF the United States, or who has been convicted
OF bribery in an election, OF of any infamous
offence
The third section of the same article exempts
voter from military service except in time of
var, from work on public roads or to attend
Court as sutton, witness juror. and from ar
rest under any civil process during his attend
anoe at elections or in going to returning from
them. -.g. -...t
The fourth section of the same article is as
follows:
or riEG roee, and not by ballot; but dumb per-
sons entitled TO suffrage may vote by ballot"
The second section of an Act, passed April 8,
E..Y1
''-z"In all elections for members of the General
Assembly, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, At.
torney General, Commissioners of Public Works,
Tor Representatives in Congress, and for ELee-
tors Of Presi1eHt and Vie Precedent Of the
Uaitea States, the persons qualified as prescr-
bed IN the third rticle OF the Constitution shall
identified to vote - ses.s,..
where 10 Vote.
AN act passed April ., 1852, for districting
counties, imposed on certain Commissioners
therein named, the duty of dividing their res
pectiye counties into districts, and establishing
places for voting therein; the concluding part
of the fourth section of that act is in the follow
ing words: i.tl/ - 4 g7i'it
"But nothing herein contained shall be so
construed as to ProeLWds any rotor from votiag
at GRg one Of the zlaccs cstdblished An9er this
oct FOR cps6tHq a poll IN his county, except IN
the election OF h0se officers Soho required tn
be chosen by The coters Of the district FOR ,chich
they are elected n
The eighth section of the act to provide for
the registration of voters passed April 8, 1858,
is in the following words: '-
'And if at any such general election, any per-
son shall offer to vote in district other than
that in which he resides, and in which his name
IS required TO be listed as aforesaid the Com
misslonefs of elections shall require satisfactory
0f he Of
vote at such election" -rr.--r
How TO vote. y
The ninth section of the act passed April 6,
1853, among other provisions, contains the fol-
lowing
And in an election for Electors of President
and Vice. President, the said officer (appointed
70 conduct the election) shall receive of each
ter paper or ticket containing the names of as
many persons for electors as the State may be
entitled TO for the time being The name of the
voter shall be written on the back of the paper;
and he shall also declare viva voce, for whom he
votes as electors, either by repeating the name
OF each person voted for, or by any other dis
tnct designation of them collectively"
Penalties.
Section fifth of the before recited act, passed
April 8, 1858, concerning elections, is in the fol-
lowing words: .se.-
rssf7-4NO person VoLe more Cnan once IN the
same election, and whether one or several cleo
mons be held at the same time, he shall not be
polled the second time, though he may not,
when first poled, have voted in all the elections
then held, or for as many persons as he then
might" F
The sixth section of the same act, as amend
cd by the act of March Is, 1856, is in the fol.
lowing words: .-on1sa
tiffany person knowingly shall vote, when
not legally entitled, or shall vote more than once
in the same election, he shall forfeit fifty dollars
In case any person shall vote more than once in
the same election, all his votes except one shall
he stricken from the poll" --a. z-s7s 1FE
Section second of the third article of the Con-
stitntion, reads as follows:' ny 80 :, zs.' if j..
"The General Assembly, at its first session,
after the adoption of this Constitution, and af.
forwards as occasion may require, shall cause
every city or town, the white population of
which exceeds five thousand, to be laid off into
convenient wards, and separate place of voting,
to be established in each; and thereafter no an
hGbitGNt OF such city tom &hGlk be aLowei to
U0te except IN tie trdr1 ilitolticlt he resides"
The Commissioners for districting the county
of-ohio, under the provisions of the act of the
General Assembly, passed April I'd, 1852 page
49, acts 1852, established the following places
for voting in the city of Wheeling, to wit: The
First Ward Hose House for that part of the
city embraced in the Fifth District; the Court
House for that part Of the city embraced in the
Sixth District; the Fourth Ward Hose House
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