The weekly ledger., 1857-08-29
The Election Law.

Below will be found most Of the material
provisions of the Election Law, copied from
the Statutes of the State. inspectors and
Judges of Election, and voters generally, will
do well to examine the law carefully:
SECTION 10. Every white male citizen of
the United States, and every white male citi-
zen of Mexico who shall have elected to be-
come a citizen of the United States under the
treaty of peace exchanged and ratified at
Oueretaro on the 30th day Of May 1s4S,
of the age of twenty-one years who shall have
been resident of the State six months next
preceding the election and the county or dis
trict in which he claims his vote, thirty days,
shall be entitled to vote at all elections which
are now or hereafter may be authorized 10y
law
SEC. IS. The board Of inspectors for each
precinct shall, before the time of opening the
polls, appoint two suitable persons to act as
clerks
SEC 49, Before any election shall be open
ed, the Inspector, judges, and clerks shall
each, before any officer authorized to admins
ter oaths, axe an oath that he will faithfully
aud mpartially discharge the duties assigned
him by law If there is no person present
authorized to administer oaths, the inspector
shall administer the same to the judges and
clerks, and one of the judges shall then ad-
minister the oath to the inspector.
SEC. 90 The inspector shall be chairman
of the board, and after its organization, shall
have power to administer all necessary oaths
which may be required in the progress of the
election. He shall also have power to fill
any vacancy that may occur in the board Of
judges, or by absence or refusal to serve of
either of the clerks, after the polls have been
opened.
SEC. % At all elections the polls shall be
opened at eight o'clock i'll the morning. and
shall continue open until sunset at which
time the Judges shall close the pols Provi
ded, that the judges of the election may take
recess of one hour at any time they may
think proper during the day, before three
o'clock in the afternoon.
SEC. 23 The board of judges, before they
commence receiving ballots, shall cause it to
be proclaimed aloud at the place of voting
that the polls are opened
SEC. 25. Whenever any person offers to
vote, the Inspector shall pronounce his name
in an audible voice, and if there be no objec-
ton to the qualification of such person as an
elector, shall receive his ballot, and in the
presence of the other Judges put the same,
without being opened or examined, into the
ballot box.
SEC 26. The name of each elector whose
ballot has been thus received, shall be imme
dately entered by each clerk, in the column
of bis poll list, headed names of voters"
numbering each name in the additional col
umn, as it is taken down. so that it may be
seen at any time whether the two lists agree.
SEC. 81 Any person offering to vote may
be challenged as unqualified by the Inspector,
or either of the judges, or by any legal voter,
and it shall, in all cases, be the duty of the
Inspector and each of the judges to challenge
any person offering to vote whom he shall
know or suspect not to be duly qualified as
an elector.
SEC 2S When any person Offering to vote
is challenged it shall be the duty of the
board of judges to declare to him the qualifi-
cations as an elector
SEC. 80 If such person shall still insist
that he is entitled to vote and the challenge
shall not be withdrawn, the board of judges,
in their discretion, may administer an oath
or affirmation to the voter; " Iou do swear
or affirm that you are a citizen of the Uni
ted States; that you are of the age of twenty
one years, according to .he best of your infor-
nation and belief; that you have resided in
this State six moaths next preceding this elec-
tion, and in this county (or district, or town
ship, as the case may be) thirty days, and
that you have not before voted this day"
SEC. 80 If the person thus challenged
shall take the oath as rendered to him by
the board of judges, he shall be admitted to
vote, and it shall not be lawful, after he has
taken such oath or affirmation, for said board
to examine any witnesses touching his want
of qualifications; but if he shall refuse to
take the oath or affirmation SO rendered to
him, his vote shall be rejected.
Sec 32 When the polls are closed proca-
nation thereof shall be made at the place of
voting, and no votes shall be afterwards re-
ceyed