The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-05-07
. 1851 AN ACT

mo, 1884, AN ACT
Further to amend the act entitled "An
act to preserve the purity of elections, y
passed March 90, l841.
SECTION l. BE IL enacted 5y the Gene
raj assembly Of The State Of Ohio, That
Section number two of the act entitled
= An act to preserve the purity of cleo
tions," passed March go, 1841, be and
the same is hereby amended so as to read
as follows: Section 2. No person shall
be permitted to vote at any election un-
til be shall have been an actual resident
of the State for one year next preceding
the election, and an actual resident of the
county for thirty days next preceding the
election, and an actual resident of the
township or ward twenty days next pre-
cedipg the election. and the Judges of the
election. in determining the residence of
q person offering to vote, shall be gov
erned by the following rules, so far as
the same may be applicable: First-T That
place shall be considered and held to be
the residence of a person in which his
habitation is fixed, without any present
intention of removing therefrom, and to
which, whenever he is absent, he has the
intention of returning Second--A per-
son shall not be considered or held to
have lost his residence, who shall leave
bis home and go into another State, or
county Of this State, for temporary pur-
poses merely, with an intention of return
ing: Third-A person shall not be con-
sidered or held to have gained residence
in any county of this State into which he
shall come for temporary purposes mere
ly, without the intention of making such
county his home, but with the intention
of leaving the same when he shall have
gotten through with the business that
brought him into it: Fourth-If person
remove to another State, with an inten-
ton to make it his permanent residence,
he shall be considered and held to have
lost his residence in this State: Fifth
If person remove to another State with
an Intention of remaining there for an in
definite time, and as place of present
residence, he shall be considered and held
to have lost his residence in this State,
Notwithstanding he may entertain an in
tention to return at some future period :
Sixth-The place where q married mans
family reside. shall. generally, be consid-
cred and held to be his residence but if
it is place or temporary establishment
for his family, or for transient objects, it
shall be Otherwise: Seventh-If mar
ried man has his sfamily fixed in one place,
and he does his business in another, the
former shall be considered and held to
be the place of his residence Eighth
The mere intention to aequiIe new res
idence without the fact of removal, shall
avail nothing; neither shall the fact of re
moyal without the intention Ninth-If
aperson shall go into another State and
while there exercise the right of citizen
by voting, he shall be considered and
held to have lost his residence in this
State.
sSEc. 2. That section number four OF
said act be so amended as TO read as fol-
lows: Any person who shall wilfully vote
in any township or ward in which he has
not actually resided for twenty days next
preceding the election, shall, on convic-
ton thereof, be imprisoned in the Jail Of
the proper county not more than six
months nor less than one month.
SEC. 8. That section number five of
said act be so amended as to read as fol-
lows Any person being a resident of
this State who shall 60 or come into any
county, and vote in such county, not be-
ing an actual resident thereof for thirty
days next preceding the election, shall,
on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in
the Penitentiary and kept at hard labor