The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-03-24
NUMBER 4S.

entitled to vote at that poll; and on
such challenge being made, the inspec-
tors shall, if on inspection they find his
name not so written in the proper reg
lister, refuse the vote. But nothing in
this act contained shall be held or con-
strued in any way to effect or impair
the right of any inspector or elector to
challenge any person offering to vote,
nor the effect of such challenge, as now
established by law, or such right and
such effect may hereafter be establish
ed: Provided, hoacerer, That the vote
OF no person shall be received whose
name is not so registered. M aai
Sec. 16. Any person knowing that
his name is not so registered, who shall
vote or offer to vote at any such elec-
ton, either in q city or township, and
every inspector, knowing such name
not to be registered, willfnlly and COR
ruptly consenting to receive such vote.
shall, if the vote be received by reason
of such consent be, for every such
offence, punished as above provided i'm
section thirteen of this act; and on the
trial of the person so voting or offering
to vote, the presumption shall be that
he knew that his name was not SO reg
istered.
Sec. II. The name of no person
shall be registered in any township or
ward where he does not actually reside
at the time of the registration and
every person who shall wilfully regis
ter, or cause or procure by enticements
or other means, the name of any per-
son to be registered contrary to the
provisions of this act, shall, upon con-
viction of any such offence, be also
punished as above provided in section
thirteenth of this act.
DEATH AND REMOVAL OF ELECTORS.
Sec. Is. AT every session of the
board of registration of any township
or ward after the year one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine, it shall be
their duty to review the list of names
in their register, and if it shall have
come to their knowledge that any per-
son whose name has been registered
has died or has removed therefrom and
ceased to reside therein, they shall
place the letter ID against the name of
the deceased person, and the letter r
against the name of the person who
has so removed, with the date of the
entry and the initials of the name of
the member making it, so as to show
by whom and when made, and there
after such name shall be considered and
treated as no longer in the list, and
shall be omitted in the copies above
provided for. But if it shall happen
that such entry was erroneonsly made
and such person shall thereafter appear
at any election and claim the right to
vote thereat, this name may, on his ap-
plication, be again registered, but upon
the following terms: he shall, upon his
oath or affirmation, which any member.
of the board of inspectors or the board
of registration maysadminister, declare
that he has not removed from, but is
still resident of the township or ward,
and is otherwise a qualified elector,
and entitled to vote. And on making
such oath or affirmation, his name may
be registered in the manner above de-
scribed, either by the board of regis
tration or the board of inspectors. And
it such applicant shall swear or affirm
falsely, he shall be liable to the pains
and penalties of perjury. But in case.
such entry shall be made falsely or
maliciously, and without credible in
formation, the member of the board
making it shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor, and be punished as such,
and the party agrieved shall be entitled
to recover of him in an action on the.
case treble damages for the injury and
treble costs of suit in any court having
jurisdiction of the case, and the record
of the defendants conviction of the
criminal offence. duly authenticated,
shall be primo .facie evidence of his
liability. ~ - sfa - hafiii
Sec. 10. 1t shall be the duty of any
city or township clerk, except during
the session of the board or on DAYS of
election, on the demand of any quail
fed elector of the ward in such city,
or such township, on payment or tender
of his legal fees, TO make ont, certify
and at his effice deliver to such elector
a true copy of the contents of the
register of election of such ward or
township; for which he shall be enti-
tied to receive at the rate of fifty cents
for every one hundred names.
Sec. 20. Whoever shall wiIfully cut.
burn, mutilate or destroy any such
register of electors, or copy thereof
filed for preservation, or shall unlaw-
fully take and carry away the same, or.
unlawfully conceal or refuse or neglect
to surrender the same, with intent to
prevent its being used as authorized by
law, shall be deemed guilty. of larceny ;.
and whoever shall falsify any such
register or copy, by unlawfully eraising
or obliterating any name or entry law
fully made therein, or by unlawfully
inserting therein any name, note or
memorandum, with intent thereby to
influence or affect the result of any
election, or to defraud any person of
an election to Office, shall be deemed
guilty of forgery; and the person so
offending shall, for every such offence
be punished by imprisonment in the
State Prison not more than five years,
or by fine not exceeding five handred
dollars, and imprisonment in theeounty
jail not more than one year, her lesss
than ninety days.
Sec. 81. To the end that the con-