The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-05-14

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| Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
, H.5 THOMAS Ii. FORD, #
d President of the Senate.
April Is, 1857. ara. .-4
No. l28. AN ACT. " r'.ssr.H
Further to amend the act entitled "An act to
preserve the purity of Elections passed
March 10, 1S4l s- y
SECTION l. BE it enacted Jv Gie General
assembly cf'tle State Of Ohio, That section
number two Of the act entitled "An act to
preserve the purity of elections" passed
March 20, 194I, 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 unless he shall have been an ae-
tual resident of the State for one year next
preceding the election, and an act ual resident
of the county forthirty days next proceeding
the election, and an actual resident of the
township, or ward twenty daysnext proceed
ing the election, and the Judges Of the cleo
tonin determining the residence of person
Offering to vote, shall be governed by the fol-
living rules, so far as the same may be APP
plicable; First-That place Shall be consid-n
cred and held to be the residence Of person
in which his habitation is fixed, without any
present intention of removing therefrom, and
10 which, whenever he is absent, he has the
intention of returning: Second--A person
Shall not be considered or held to have lost
his residence who shall leave his home and
so into another State, or county of this State
for tenn porary purposes merely with an inten-
ton of returning; Third-A person shall
not be considered or held TO have gained
residence in any county Of this State into
which he Shall come for temporary purposes
merely, 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-lf person remove to
another State, " tn an intention to make it
his permanent residence, he Shall lie consid-
cred and held to have lost his residence in
this State; Fifth-Ifa q person remove to an
other State with an intention of removing
there for an indefinite 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 inten-
ton TO return at some future period Sixth
The place where married mans family
resides shall generally, be considered and
held to be his residence; but if it is o place
for the temporary establishment for his fam-
ly, or for transient objects it Shall be other
wise; Seyenth-Ifa a married man has his
family fixed in one place, and he does his bu-
siness in another, the former shall be consid-
cred and held to be the place ofhis residence;
mere intention to acquire a new
residence without the fact Of removal, shall
avail nothing; neither shall the fact OF remoy-
al ttr;th p,,tf t,a iY,ta r.,
shall go into another State and while there
exercise the right ofa citizen by voting, he
shall be considered and held to have lost his
residence in this State.
Sec. 2. That section number four Of said
act be SO amended as TO read as follows: ANY
person who shall wlfully vote in any town
ship ward in which he has not actually re-
sided for twenty days next preceding the
election, shall, on conviction thereof, be i'm
prisoned in tie Jail Of the proper county not
more than six months nor less than one
month.
SEc. 3. That section number five Of said
act be so amended as to read as follows; ANY
person being a resident of this State who shall
90 or come into any county, and vote in such
county, not being an actual resident thereof
for thirty days next preceding the election
shall on conviction thereof be imprisoned in
the Fenitentiary and kept at hard labor, not
more than three years. nor less than one
year. q, .
! SEC. d. That section thirteen ofthe act to
which this isan amendment be so amended
rs to read as follows: Section IS. Ifany
person offering to vote is challenged as un-
qualified by one Of the judges ofthe election,
Or by an elector, one of the judges shall ten
der to bim the following oath or affirmation:
youd do swear Cor affilm) that you will and
truly answer all such questions as shall DO
put toyou touching your place Of residence,
md qualifications an eioctor at thisele
tion.1 First Tt ne person be challenged
rs unqualified on tie ground that he is not
citizen, the Judgesor one, shall put the fol- p
owing questions: 1st, Are you citizen ofthe
United States? End, Are You native orr
citizcn?s If the person offering
% vote claim to be nattnalized citizen Of
he United States, he shall before his vote
shall be received, produce for the inspection
II the Judges Of the election a certificate OF
lis naturalization and also state under oath
II affirmation that he is the identical person
lamed therein, provided that the production g
If said certificate shall be dispensed with. if
he person Offering tovote shall state under j.
,ath or affirmation wien and where he was
that he has had q certificate Of
lis naturalization, and that against his will
be same is lost, destroyed or beyond his
'ower to produce TO the judges oi the cleo
ion; provided further, that ifhe shall state
nder oath or affirmation that BY reason Of b
he naturalization Of his parents or one Of NJ
hem ha hae hecOtna a citiypne nffha fIT,,stnAb y,