The weekly Butte record., 1863-08-29

Attention is called to the following portion OF the
election laws Q. this State relating to the quaca-
ton of Electors and The proceedings to be observed
in conducting the elections and making the returns
Section 10 of the law regulating elections (Eooi's
digest) says:
Before any election shall lie opened, the inspector
Judges and Clerks. shall each, before any oficer
authorized to administer oaths. take an oath that
he will faithfully aud mpartially discharge the du-
ties assigned him by law II there is no person
present authorized to administer oaths the Inspect
or shall administer the same to the Judges and
Clerks, and one Of the Judges shall then administer
the oath TO the Inspector.
SEc- -. When any person Offering to vote is
challenged, 1t shall be the duty Of the Board Of
judges to declare TO him the qualifications of an
elector.
SEC. % If such person shall iusis; that he i EN-
titled IL vote. and the challenge shall not be with
drawn he shall not be entitled to unless he take
the following oath 10 be administered by the In
spector. or one of the Jud ges. viz
You do swear Tor affirm. the case NAV be,)
that you citizen of the United States that yon
areof the age oftwenty-one years. according TO the
best of yonr knowledge and belief that YOU have
resided in this State six months rext preceding
this election, and that you have not voted this dav
Upon taking which oath he shall be entitled to
vote tor State officers and if he offer to vote for any
district. county, or township officer he shall in adj
such district, county township (as the case may
be thirty davs.
SEC. 80. II the person thus challenged shall take
the oath thus rendered to him by the board of
JUDGES, he shall he admitted to vote and it shall
not he lawful, after he has taken such oath or az
frfnation, for said Board 10 examine anv witnesses
touching his want of qualifications; but il he shall
refuse to take the oath or affirmation so rendered
him. his vote shall be rejected.
Section s. of an Act entitled An Act t. Reru-
late Elections, passed March 23rd 1850, approved
April 10th, 1868, reads As follows:
A. soon all the votes are read off and counted,
certificate shall he drawn up on each of the pa
pers containing the poll list and taes or attached
thereto stating the number of votes each person
voted for has received. and designating the Office 10
I'LL which he WIS voted for. which number shall be
written in words at full length. Each certificate
shall be signed by the Clerks the Judges and In
pector one of said certificates with the poll list
and tally paper to which it is attached shall be re-
tanned the Inspector, and preserved by him al
least six months The ballots Shall be strung upnn
cord or thread by the Inspector during the count
lng of the ballots, in the order in which thev are
entered upon the tally list by the Clerks and said
ballots together with the other of said certificates
with the poll list and tally paper to which it is at
tached, shall be sealed up by the Inspector in pres
ence of the Judges and Clerks and endorsed Flee.
ton Returns, and be directed and delivered or
sent by the Inspector to the County Clerk of the
county in which the election is held, aud the said
ballots shall be kept for at least six months by said
Clerk; and if any person Ire of the opinion that the
vote of any precinct shall not have been correctly
counted he may appear on the day appointed for
the Board of Supervisors to open the returns and
demand recount Of the vote OF said precinct and
the Board Of Supervisors shall proceed to recount
the vote of the precinct that is claimed to have
been incorrectly counted.