The Shasta courier., 1863-10-03
ELECTION LAWS.
Extracts from an Act toRegulate elections
Of Qualifications and Disabilities of Electors.

SEC. 10. Eyery white male citizen OF the
United States. and every white male citizen of
Mexico who shall have been elected to become
a citizen OF the United States under the treaty
Of peace exchanged and ratified at Queretaro,
on the 30th of May. ls48, of the age of twenty
one years, who shall have been resident of the
State six months next proceeding the election,
and the county or district in which be claims
his vote, thirty days, shall be entitled to vote
a. all elections which are now or hereafter may
be authorized by law.
SEC. II. For the purpose of voting, no per-
son shall be deemed to have gained or lost
residence by reason OF his presence or absence
on the service Of the United States, nor while
engaged in the navigation of the waters of this
State or the United States or of the high seas;
nor while student of seminary of learning;
nor while kept at an almshouse or other asy-
lum, nor while confined in any public prison.
SEC. r. No idiot or insane person, or per-
sons convicted of any infamous crime, shall be
entitled to the privileges of an elector.
SEC. l3. A crime shall be deemed infamous
which is punishable by death or by imprison-
ment in the State Prison.
Ofte Place Of Holding Elections, and also Of In
speetors, Judges, and Clerks Of Election.
SEC II. 1t shall be the duty of each Inspec-
tor to be at the place where the polls are to be
opened in the precinct for which he is appoint
ed, from eight in the morning until sunset on
the day of the election. Should such Inspector
not appear at eight o'clock in the morning, the
electors present at the place where the polls are
to be opened may appoint an Inspector for the
precinct.
SEC. 1s. The Board of Inspectors for each
precinct shall, before the time of opening the
polls, oppoint two suitable persons as to act
Clerks.
SEC 49, Before any election shall be open
ed the Inspector Judges and Clerks shall each
before any officer authorized to administer oaths
take an oath that he will faithfully and Impair
TALLY discharge the duties assigned him by law
If there is no person present authorized to ad-
minister oaths, the Inspector shall administer
the same to the Judges and Clerks, and one OF
the Judges shall then administer the oath to the
Inspector.
SEC 90 The Inspector shall be Chairman
of the Board, and after its organization shall
have power to administer all necessary oaths,
which may be required in the progress of the
election. He shall also have power to fill any
vacancy that may occur in the Board OF Judges,
or by absence or by refusal to serve of either of
the Clerks, after the polls have been opened.
On opening the Polls: Of Voting and Challenges.
SEC. % At all elections, the polls shall be
open at eight o'clock in the morning, and shall
continue open until sunset, at which time
the Judges shall close the polls; prorided,
that the Judges of the election may take re-
cess of one hour at any time they may think
proper during the day before three o'clock in
the afternoon.
SEC. 23 The Board eff Judges, before they
commence receiving ballots, shall cause it to
be proclaimed aloud at the place of voting that
the polls are open.
SEC. AZ. Whenever any person offers to vote,
the Inspector shall pronounce his name in an
audible voice, and if there be no objection to
the qualification of such person as an elector,
shall receive his ballot, and in the presence of
the other Judges pus the same, without being
opened or examined, into the ballot box
SIC. %. The name of each eector whose bal
lot has thus been received, shall be immediate
~ entered by each Clerk in the column of his
poll list beaded names of voters numbering
each name in the additional column, as it is te-
ken down. so that it may be seen at any time
whether the two lists agree.
SEC 81. Any person offering to vote may be
challenged as unqualified, by the Inspector. or
either of the Judges, or by any legal voter and
it shall, in all cases, be the duty of the lnspcc-
tor and each of the Judges to challenge any
person offering to vote whom he shall know or
suspect not to be duly qualified as an elector
Sec 2S When any person offering to vote is
challenged it shall be the duty of the Board OF
Judges to declare to him the qualifications ofa
elector
Sec 90 If such person shall insist that he
is entitled to vote, and the challenge shall not
be withdrawn, he shall not be entitled TO vote
unless he take the following oath, to be admin
is,ered by the Inspector or one Of the Judges
viz
lyon do swear (or affirm, as the case may
be) that You are "A citizen of the United States
that YOU are of the age of twenty -one years, ac-
bart IF Lodi nd he
lief, that you have resided in this State six
months next preceding this election, and that
you have not voted this day
Upon taking which OATH he shall be entitled
to vote for all State officers and if he offer to
vote for any district county or township officer
he shall, in addition thereto, make oath that he
has resided in such district. county or town.
ship, las the case may be- thirty days.
Sec. 81. If the vote of any person be chal-
lenged on the ground that he has been convic-
ted of an Infamous crime, or disfranehised by
any Court ofcompetent jurisdc ion, he shall not
be required to answer any questions respecting
such alleged conviction; and in the absence Of
anv authenticated record of such facts, it may
be competent for two disinterested witnesses
upon oath to prove the same.
Sec 80. When the polls are closed, procla-
nation thereof shall be made at the place of yo-
ting, and no votes shall be afterwards received
Of Counting and Rsceiriag the Votes, Declaring
hs Rss,.lf Of Elsctioas, and Of Certificates o
Elseiion.
Sec. SO. As soon as the polls are closed or
the afternoon of the day of the election the
Judges shall open the ballot box and commence
counting the votes, and in no case shall the
ballot-box be removed from the room in which
the election may be held, until all the ballot;
are counted the counting ofballots shall in al
cases be public.
by one By the Inspector OF one of the Judges
who shall open them, and read aloud the nam
If each person contained therein, and the of
..se for which every such person is voted for.
Each Clerk shall write down each Office TO b.
filed. aud the name of each person voted TO
such office, aud shall keep the number Of vote
by talles, as they are read aloud by the In
spector Judge The counting of the votes shall
be continued without adjournment until al
are counted.
Sec 81. Ii two tickets are folded together
they shall both be rejected and if more per
sons are designated on any ticket for any offic'
than are to be elected for such office, sucl
part of the ticket shall not be counted for an,
of them: but no ticket shall be lost from wan
Of form, if the Board of Judges can determine
to their satisfaction.
Sec 35. As soon as all the votes are reaC
off and counted a certificate shall be drawn VI
on each of the papers containing the poll lis