Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-09-17
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1857.
GENERAL Jsl,39TaOGla
PROCLAMATION,

/ PURSUANT to an Act of the General As
| i sembiy of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania, entitled 'an act relating TO the elections
OF this Commonwealth" approved the Cd day
81 July, A. ID. 1889, |, Jacob Mutthersbougb,
Sheriff OF the county of Mifflin, PENNSYLVANIA,
| do hereby make known and give notice to the
electors of the county aforesaid, that a general
election will be held in said county Of MifIlin
on the SECOND TUESDAY Q3th) of October,
| 1857, at which time State and County officers
are to be elected, to wit:
One person as Governor Of the Commonwealth Of
| Pennsylvania.
| One person as Canal Commissioner of The Com
fnoaaceath If Pennsylvania
Ilco persons as Judges Of the Supreme Court Of
the Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania.
One person TO fill the office Of Member of the
House Of Representatives. 10 represent tie county of
nsgttn al The House Of Representatives. Of Pennsy-
raaia.
One person to fill the office of Register and Recor-
| deT.
One person 10 fill the office Of Sheriff
One person 10 fill The office Of Coroner.
One person TO fill the office Of County Treasurer.
One person to fill the office Of County Commits
Siofaer.
One person to fill the office Of County auditor
One person 10 jill the office of Director of the
Poor for the district composed ofhe borough of Le,c-
'so'cn the election Of tchom is confined TO the poters
Of SAID borough alone, as per act 18th .fpYii, 1853
p. L. 466, sect. l6.
/ also hereby make known and give notice
that the place of holding the aforesaid election
in the several districts Of the said county will
be held respectively at the places hereinafter
designated, TO wit
The electors of the borough Of Newton Ham
ilton are to meet at the new school house in
said borough.
The electors of Wayne township to meet at
the new school house in the borough Of Newton
Hamilton
The electors of the borough of McVeytown
are TO meet at the Union school house in said
borough.
The electors of Granville township are to
meet at the Court House in the borough of
Lewistown
The electors of Derry township are to meet
at the Court House III the borough of Lewis
town.
The electors of Oliver township win meet at
the school house known as the Brce kland school
house in said township.
The electors OF Bratton township will meet
at the brick school house the farm Of Will
liam Harshbarger, in sid township.
The electors of rienno township are TO meet
at the public bcase now occupied by John Ford,
in Allenv:..5, in said township.
The electors Of Union township are TO meet
at the public house occupied by Richard Brin-
die, in said township.
The electors of Brown township are to meet
at the public house occupied by William Broth
ers in said township.
The electors of Armagh township residing
east of the line commencing at the middle of
the road at the stone meeting house, in Brown
township; thence along said road TO the end of
the lane known as Jonathan Abraham's lane,
near the residence of Thomas Longwell Jr
thence running in straight line to the west end
of Cressman's knob to the Union county line,
are TO meet at the Office OF E. f. Locke, in said
township Those residing west of and not in
cuded in said limits, will meet as heretofore at
the public house now occupied by William
Swinehart, in said township.
The electors of Decatur township are 10 meet
at the house of Abraham Mutthersbaugh for
merly occupied by David Mutthersbaugh, in
said township.
And by an Act of Assembly, the borough of
Lewistown was divided into two Wards, and
each Ward to compose election district
The electors of the East Ward will meet at the
Court House, and vote at the window of the
Commissioners Office.
The electors of the West Ward will meet at
the same place, and vote at the window of the
Sherifs office, in said Court House, and in said
borough.
An act of the Legislature having changed the
manner Of voting IN mifiliD county, all officers
to be elected this year may be voted for on
single slip of paper and deposited in one ballot
box, a fact which should be particularly noted
by all entitled 10 the right OF suffrage, and by
the officers of the election.
The second section of the act declares 'that
any fraud committed by any person voting in
the manner above prescribed, shall be punished
by the existing laws of the Commonwealth. !"
Pursuant to the provisions of an act of AS
sembly, the Judges of the aforesaid districts
shall respectively take charge of the certificate
of return of the election of their respective
districts, and produce them at meeting OF one
Judge from each district, at the Court House in
the borough Of Lewistown, on the third day af-
ter the day of election, being for the present
year FRIDAY, the 10th day of October next,
then and there to do and perform the duties re-
quired by law of said Judges.
Given under my hand, at my Office in Lewis
town, the 9th day of September, 1857.
JACOB MUTTHERSBOUGH, Sheriff.
SherifI's Office, Lewistown, Sept 10, 1857.