The Shasta courier., 1863-10-17
ELECTION LAWS.
Extracts from an Act toRegulate Elections

SEC. 10. Every Nnlle male citlLeu OF tnt
United States, and every white male citizen o.
Mexico who shall have been elected to become
citizen OF the United States under the treaty
of peace exchanged and ratified at Queretaro
on the 30th of May, l54S, 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 he claim;
his vote. thirty days, shall be entitled to vote
a. all elections which now or hereafter may
be authorized by law.
SEC. IL. 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 thi:
State or the United States, or of the high seas
nor while student Of seminary of learning
nor while kept at an almshouse other asy-
lum, 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 A crime shall be deemed infamous
which is punishable by death or by imprison-
ment in the State Prison.
Ofthe Place Of Holding Elections, and also Of In
spectors, Judges, and Clerks Of Election.
SEC. IL 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 e1nnL In tne morning uutii suusel oH
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 49, The Board of Inspectors for each
precinct SHALL before the time of opening the
polls, oppoint two suitable persons as TO act
Clerks.
Sec 10. 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 oatbs, 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. 30. 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,
OF 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 o. Atall 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 %. 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. %. 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 eector,
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. 26. The name of each eector whose bal
lot has thus been received shall be immediate
ly 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. 27. Any person offering to vote may be
challenged as unqualified, by the Inspector. oil
either of the Judges, or by any legal voter; and
1t shall, in all cases, be the duty of the Inspec-
tor and each of the Judges to challenge any
person offering TO vote whom he shall know OIL
suspect not to be duly qualified elector.
Sec. 2s When any person offering to vote is
challenged, it shall be the duty of the Board o
Judges TO declare to him the qualifications of an
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
istered by the Inspector or one of the Judges
viz:
"You do swear Tor affirm, as the case may
bel that YOU are citizen of the United States
that you are of the age of twenty-one years, ac
cording to the best of your knowledge and be
lief, that you have resided in this State 81!
months next preceding this election, and tina
you have not voted this day."
Upon taking which oath, ne shall be entitled
TO vote for all State officers, and if he offer Il
vote for any district, county or township officer
he shall, in addition thereto, make oath that h,
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 conyc-
ted of an infamous crime, or disfranchised by
any Court ofcompetentj jurisdic ion, he shall moi
be required to answer any questions respecting
such alleged conviction; and in the absence OF
any 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 vo-
ting, and no votes shall be afterwards received.
Of Counting and Reeeiring the Votes, Declaring
Tie Rssuit 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
balot-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
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
feach person contained therein, and the Of
zee 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, such
part of the ticket shall not be counted for any
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 reaG
off and counted, a certificate shall be drawn uE
on each of the papers containing the poll lis
and tallieS, or attached thereto, stating the nun