The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-10-04

without the fact of removal, shall avail
nothing; neither shall the fact of ofrenovai
without the intention. Ninth-If a nov
son shall go into another State, and while
there exercise the right of a citizen. bv
voting, he shall be considered and held
to have lost his residence in this State.
! Section 2. That section number.four
of said act be SO amended as to read as
follows: Any person who shall willfully
vote in any township or ward in which he
has not actually resided for twenty DAYS
next preceding the election, shall on con-
viclion thereof, be imprisoned in the Jail
Of propercounty n OF more than six months
nor less than one month.
| SECTION 3. That section number five
of said act be so amended as to read as
follows: Any person being resident Of
this State, who shall go, or come, into
any county, and vote in such county, not
being resident thereof for thirty days
next preceding the election, shall, no
conviction thereof be imprisoned in the
penitentiary and kept at hard labor not
more than three years, nor less than one
year.
| SECTION t. That section thirteen of
the act to which this is an amendment,
be so amended as to read as folIows:-
Section l3. If a person offering to vote
challenged as unqualified by one of the
judges of the election. or by an elector.
one of the judges shall tender to him the
! following oath or affirmation: 'sYou do
swear Cor affirm that you will fully and
truly answer all such questions as shall
be put to you touching your place ofresi-
dence and qualifications as an electcr at
this election" First--If the person be
challenged as unqualified on the ground
that he is not citizen, the judges or one
Of them shall put the following questions:
ist. Are you acltizen ofthe United States.
2d. Are you a native or naturalzed
citizen Of the United States? If the per-
son offering TO vote claim to be a natural
lied clsized of the United States, he shall
before his vote shall be received, produce
for the inspection of The judges of the
election, certificate of his naturalization.
and also state, under oath or affirmation,
that he is the identical person named
therein, provided that the production of
said certificate shall bedispensed with, if
the person offering to vote shall state,
under cath or affirmation, when and
where he was naturalized, that he has
had certificate OF his naturalization, and
q that against his viii the same is lost, de-
stroyed, OF beyond his power to produce
p, TO the judges OF the election:-provided
further, that ii he shall state, under oath
or affirmation, that by reason of the
naturalization of his parents, or any of
them, he has become a citizen of the
United states, and Whea and where his
parents were naturalized, the certificate
of his naturalization need not be produce
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Second-If the person be challenged as
unqualihed on the ground that he has not
resided IN tits state for one year immedi-
ately preceding the election, the judges
or one Of them. shall put the following
question: 1st--Have you resided in this
State for one year Immediately preceding
this election? 2d-Have you been absent
ircm this State within the year immedi-
ately preceding this election? IF YES then
i 5d-When you left did you leave for a
temporary purpose of remaining away?
| 4th-Dld you while absent, look upon
and regard this State as your home? 5th
Did you while absent vote in any other
State? Thrd-If the person becAallenged
as unqualified, on the ground that he is
not resident of the county, township or
/ ward where he offers to vote, the judges,
Or one of them, shall put the following
question: lst.--Have you resided in this
county for thirty days last past? ed
Have you resided in this township or ward
Tor twenty days last past? 3d--Wben
did you last come into this county? 4th
when you came into this county, did
you come Tor temporary purpose merely
or Tor the purpose of making it your
home? 6th-Did you come into This coun-
ty for the purpose of voting in this cour-
ty! 6th-Are you now an actual resi-
dent OF this township or ward? Fourth
Ii the person be challenged as unqualified
on the grounds that he is not twenty on
years OF age, the judges. or one Of them,
shall put the following question: Are you
/ tWenty'one years of age, to the best of
your knowledge and belief? The Judges
OF the election. or one of them, hall put
all such other questions to the person
chal'ans Ell. under the respective heads,
aforesaid, as may be necessary to test tie
| qualifications as an elector at that elec-
ton. %
Sec. 5. That section sixteen of the
act 20 which this is an amend ment, be so
amended as to read as follows: Secti on
10. |: any person shall refuse to take
The oath OF affirmation, so rendered, his
vote shall be rejected: Provided, that
alter such oath shall have been taken
the judges shall nevertheless refuse to
permit such person to vote, if they shall
be satisfied from record evidence, or the
testimony addused before thera that he
is not legal voter; and they are hereby
authorized to administer the necessary
oaths or affirmation to all witnesses
brought before them, to testify to the
qualification Of person offering to V, te.
SETIoS 6. Nothing in this act con-
: tanned so far as the same relates to the
length OF time required of the voter to
) reside IN the township or ward where he
] oilers TO vote, shall be held, taken, o,
construed to apply to any voter who i.
the head of a family, VINO shall bona fid,
remove with his family, from one war,
. into anoibcr within the oorpor,to l;,,;t, =.