The Shasta courier., 1863-10-10
ELECTION LAWS.
Extracts from an Act toRegulate Election

SEC TO- Every 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, 1913, of the age of twenty
one years who shall have been aresident of the
State six months next proceeding the election.
and the county or district in which he claims
his vote, thirty days, shall be entitled to vote
at 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 a student Of seminary of learning
nor while kept at an almshouse or other asy-
lum, nor while confined in any public prison.
SEC l2 No idiot or insane person, or per-
sons convicted of any infamous crime, shall be
entitled to the privileges of an elector.
Sec. l3. crime shall be deemed Infamous
which is punishable by death or by imprison-
ment in the State Prison.
OfAe Place Of Holding Elections, and also Of In
spectors 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. lS. The Board of Inspectors for each
precinct shall, before the time of opening the
polls, oppoint two suitable persons as to act
Clerks.
SEc. l9 Before any election shall be open
ed, the Inspector, Judges and Clerks shall eaeh
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 shah 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 %. The Board ef Judges, before they
commence receiving ballots, shall cause it TO
be proclaimed aloud at the place of voting that
the polls are open.
SEC. 2g. 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 put the same, without being
opened or examined, into the ballot box.
SEc &c. The name of each elector whose bal
lot has thus been received, shall be Immediate
" entered by each Clerk in the column of his
poll list, headed 'names of voters, numbering
each name in the additional column, as it is ts-
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 be 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 ofan
elector.
Sec. 90 II such person shall insist that he
is entitled to vote, and the challenge shall not
be withdrawn, he shall not be entitled 10 vote
unless he take the following oath, to be admin
istered by the Inspector or one of the Judges,
viz:
"You do swear Tor affirm, as the case may
be) that YOU are a citizen of the United States,
that YOU are of the age of twcnty-o years, ac-
cordine to the best of your knowledge and be-
lief. that YOU have resided in this State six
months next preceding this election, and that
you have not voted this day."
i Upon taking which oath, he shall be entitled
10 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, (as the case may be- thirty days.
Sec 81. If the vote ANY person be chal-
lenged on the ground that he has been conyic-
ted Of an infamous crime, or disfranchised by
any Court ofcompetent jurisdic ion, he shall not
be required to answer any questions respecting
such alleged conviction; and in the absence OF
any authenticated record of such facts, 1t 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 vo-
ting, and no votes shall be afterwards received.
Of Counting and Receirng the Fotes, Declaring
The Result Of Elections, and Of Certificates Of
Election.
Sec. 33. As soon as the polls are closed on
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 ballots
are counted the counting of ballots shall in all
cases be public.
The ballots shall be taken out carefully, one
by one by the Inspector one of the Judges,
who shall open them, and read aloud the name
If each person contained therein,s and the Of
..ce for which every such person is voted for.
Each Clerk shall write down each Office 10 be
filed, and the name of each person voted for
such office, and shall keep the number of votes
by tallies, as they read aloud by the In
spector Judge The counting of the votes shall
be continued without adjournment until all
are counted.
Sec. 81. If two tickets are folded together
they shall both be rejected: and if more per
sons are designated on any ticket for any Office
than are to be elected tor such Office, sucl
part of the ticket shall not be counted for any
of them; but no ticket shall be lost from want
p of form, if the Board of Judges can determine
TO their satisfaction.
Sec 50. As soon as all the votes are read
of and counted, a certificate shall be drawn up
IN each of the naners containing the poll list