Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-05-19
AN ACT

No. 1873. AN ACT
Further to amend the act entitled can act
to preserve the purity of Elections
passed March 90, 1841.
SECTION J. Be 1t enacted By the Cen
eral assembly Of the State of Ohio, That
Section number two of the act entitled
"An act to preserve the purity of cleo
TONS" passed March 90, 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 unless
he Shall have been an actual resident OF the
State for one year next preceding the cleo
ton, and an actual resident of the town
ship or ward twenty days next preceding
the election, and the Judges of the cleo
ton, in determining the residence of per-
son offering to vote, shall be governed by
the following rules, so far as the same may
be applicable: First-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 person shall not be considered
or held to have lost his residence, who
shall leave his home and go into another
State, or county of this State, for tempo
rary purposes merely, with an intention OF
returning: Third-A person shall not be
considered or held to have gained a resi-
dence in any county of this State in to which
he shall come for temporary purposes
merely, without the intention of making
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ton of leaving the same when ne shall
have gotten through with the business that
brought him into it: Fourth-lt aperson
remove to another State, with an intention
of making it his permanent residence, he
shall be considered and held to have lost
his residence in this State; Fifth-lfap per-
son remove to another State with an inten-
l ton of remaining 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, notw,th-
standing he may entertain an intention tc
return at some future period; Sixth-Tht
Mace where a married mans family re-
=. sides shall, generally, be considered anc
held to be his residence; but if 1t is place
, for temporary establishment for his family
, or for transient objects it shall be otherwise
Seventh-If a married man has his family
J 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
g Eighth-The mere intention to acquire
D residence without the fact of removal, shal
t avail nothing; neither shall the fact OF re
moval without the intention Ninth
! a person shall go into another State ant
while there exercise the right OF cltlzel
s by voting, he shall be considered and hell
: to have lost his residence in this State.
SEC. Q. That section number four @
said act be so amended as to read as fol
!. lows: Any person who shall willfull
vote in any township or ward In which
has not actually resided for twenty day
next preceding the election, shall, on con
viction thereof, be imprisoned in the Jal
of the proper county not more than 81
= months nor less than one month.
Sec. 3. That section number five
: said act be so amended as to read as To-
# lows: Any person being resident of thl
,r State who shall goor come into any county
% and vote in such county, not being an ac
;S tual resident thereof thirty days next prect
! ding the election shall on conviction there
~ of, be imprisoned IN the Penltentlary an
!, kept at hard labor, not more than thre
- years, nor less than one year.
g. SEC. a. That section thirteen of tt
act to which this an amendment be
,. amended as to read as follows: SectIo
G. 13. If person Offering to vote IS cha
" lenged as unqualified by one of the Judge
ar of the election, or by an elector, one OF tt
IS Judges shall tender to him the followin
s, oath or affirmation: ''you do swear {
ne, affirm that you viii fully and truly al
s.. swer all such questions as shall be put
Of you touching your place Of residence, an
De qualifications as an elector at this ele
ne ton" First, If the person be challenge
b. as unqualified on the ground that he
ut not citizen, the Judges or one Of the
il shall put the following questions: Is
n; Are You. citizen Of the United State
e.. end. Are you native or naturaliz'
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