The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-03
would be entitled to vote if not In service

would be entitled to vote if not in service
as aforesaid.
Sec. "A. The proceedings for conduct
ing such elections shall be, as far as prac
ticable, in all respects the same as are
herein directed in the case of general
elections, except that the captain or CON-
Inanding officer of each company or troop
shall act as judge, and that the first lieu
tenant, or officer secend in command,
shall act as Inspector of such electioD, SO
far as shall relate to such company or
troop; and in case Of the neglect or refu-
sal of such officers, or either of them to
serve 10 suoh capacity, the officer or off
GERS next in command in such company
or troop shall act as judge or inspector,
as The case may be.
SEC. 45 The officer authorized to per-
form the duties Of judge shall administer
the proper oath or affirm alton to the Off
Ger who shall act as inspector, and as soon
as such officer shall have been sworn or
affirmed, he shall administer the proper
oath of affirm alton to the officer whose
duty it shall be to act as judge; and such
officer acting as judge shall appoint two
persons to act as clerks, and shall admin
ister to them the proper oaths or affirm a.
tions.
Sec. 46. The several officers authori-
lied to conduct suoh election, shall take
the like oaths or affirm atiops. shall haze
the like powers, and they, as we'll as 9th
er persons who may attend, vote, or offer
to vote at such election, shall be subject
to the like penalties and restrictions as
are declared or provided in this act, IN
the case of elections By the citizens at the
usual place of election.
SEC Al. Within three days after such
election, the judges thereof shall re-pec-
lively transmit through the nearest post
office, return thereof, together With the
tickets, tall y-list AMI list of votes, to the
ProthouotsrJ of the county in which such
electors would have voted if not in mill.
tary service. And the said Judge shall
transmit another return of such election
to the commanding officer of the gime ut
or battalion, as the case may be, who
shall make general return. under bis
hand and seal, of the votes Of all the
companies or troops under his command,
and shall transmit the same through the
nearest post Office, to the Secretary of the
Con- pmonwealth.
Sec. 4S. 1t shall lie the duty of the
Prothonotary OF the county to whom such
returns shall be made, to deliver to the
return judges of the said county. a copy,
certified under his hand aud SEAL of the
return of votes SO trsusEitte to him by
the judges of the election in the compa
MES or troops aforesaid.
SEC AZ. Tie return judges Of the
proper county or counties in which the
volunteers or militamen aforesaid may
have resided at the time of being called
into actual service as aforesaid, shall
meet on the second Tuesday in Noyem Der
next after the election. And when two
election, the meeting Of the judges FROM
each couoty shall be postponed in such
case until the Friday following tie sec
ond Tuesday in Noveaber.
SEC. so. The return judges so met
shall include 10 their enumeration the
votes so returned. aud tbereupon shall
proceed in all respects in the like manner
as is provided in this act in cases where
all the votes shall have been given at the
usual places of election.