The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-08
THE DAILY REGISTER.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1863.
OCTOBER ELECTION

. UU1UBER aELEUIlUN.a %
CHAP. 44-An ACT to provide for the Election to b
held on the fourth Thursday of October, in the yea
eighteen hundred and sixty-three. N 20 s..
ai Passed September "a, 1863 mon tsa1
Be Rat enacted by The Legislature of .Wes
o. Virginia, ,.r
L. An election shall be held on the fourtl
Thursday of October, in the year eighteer
hundred and sixty-three, for the election o
delegates to the legislature for the severa
counties and delegate districts; one or more
assessors for every county; a senator fol
each senatorial district, and representa-
tive in the Congress of the United States
for each congressional district, and to fill
any vacancies in state or county offices
which may have heretofore occurred.
2. II, owing the occupation of any coun.
ty by persons in rebellion or any other
cause, the said election is not held in any
county on the day herein appointed the
same shall be held for county officers and
delegates to the legislature on such day as
may be designated by the superintendents
appointed by this act to hold the election
for their said county, who shall cause no.
tice to be given of the time of holding
such election, by notices posted at three
public places within such county, at least
ten days before the day so designated.
3. The said election shall be held at the
several places of voting established in each
county BY the laws in force on the nine
teenth day of June, eighteen hundred and
sixty three, Notwithstanding any act passed
at the present session abolishlng the for
mer election precincts and the places for
holding elections therein.
4. The persons named in the schedule
hereto annexed, being three for each coun-
ty, shall act as superintendents OF the said
election for their respective counties. Any
two of the superintendent for county
may act, and they may FIJI vacancies In
their own body; but if there be no superln-
tendents for any county or not more than
one willing to act, the sheriff OF such coun-
ty shall appoint the number necessary to
fill the vacancies.
). Tue superintendents for the county
SHALL for everys place of voting therein, ap-
point three commissioners, any two OF whom
may act, and conductor, to superintend
and conduct the election at the place for
which they are appointed, and shall pro-
cure and furnish to them proper ballot
boxes, poll books and forms.
q. IF at the time the polls should be
opened, there be, at any place OF voting,
but one commissioner willing to act, he
shall associate with himself as commits
sioner some freeholder of the county then
present; and if there be no commissioner
willing to act, any two treehoiders OF the
county may act as commissioners. Ii there
be no conductor present willing to act, the
commissioners may appoint one. The com
missioners may appoint the necessary clerks
or writer's.
7. Every superintendent, commissioner,
conductor, aud clerk, before entering on the
discharge of his duties, shall make oath
that he will support the constitution OF the
United States and the constitution OF this
State. and that in the election about to be
held, he will faithfully and im partially dis
charge tho duties of his Office according TO
law. The commissioners may administer
the oath to each other and any one OF them
NAV administer it to the conductor and
clerks.
s. The polls shall not be opened before
sunrise and shall be closed az sunset.
9. The commissioner shall admit al. per-
sons to vote who are entitled to vote under
the first section Of tho third article OF the
constitution; but each person present aud
Offering to vote, shall, if required by any
voter, produce. to the commissioner the GER
| ti6cate of an officer authorized to admins
ter oaths, that he has taken and subscribed
before him the oath to support the consti-
tuition of the United States and the constitu-
ton of the state of West Virginia, And
anv person who is so entitled, who Is neces-
sarily absent from the county on the day
of the election, by reason of his duties In
the service of the United States or of this
state, may within twenty FIVE days preced-
ing the day of the election, ensose his ballot
in an envelope, which he shall seal up, and
write his signature in his own proper hand
on the outside of the said envelope, and
address the same to the superiutendents OF
the election for the county OF which he Is
resident, either by their names or otnclal
designation, and transmit the same 70 theul
or one of them by mail or otherwise. And
if such envelope and enclosure be received
bv the said superintendents or any one OF
them. on or before tho day OF the election,
it shall be produced at the poles held at the
court house of the county, aud delivered
unopened to the commissioners acting al
the said court house, if a poll be held at the
court house, if not so held, then at any pre-
clnct holding the same, who, if satisfied thai
the signature on the outside OF the envelope
is genuine, and that the person whose sig
nature is so endorsed thereon wosld be, Il
| ~ ha
shall open the envelope, and the ballot tounc
therein be single, shall deposit the same
without unfolding or unrolling il so as t
disclose its contents, in the ballot-box IL
like manner as if the person SO transmittin:
: his vote, were personally present and otfeC
{ ing to vote. And if such ballot be so re
ceived and deposited in the box, the clerk
shall record the name of the voter on tn
poll book adding thereto the word absent
The envelopes In such cases shall be pre-