Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-09-14
General Election Proclamation.

H. Assembly of the Commonwealth of
| Pennsylvania. entitled An act relating to the
Elections of this Commonwealth approved
the I'd day of July, A d. 1889. l. Davis VI
Contner, Sheriff of the County of Mitfiin, do
hereby make known and give notice TO the
electors of the county oresaid. that u genei
raj election will he held in the said county of
Mifiiin on the second Tuesday being the lth)
of October. ls64 at which the following otli
GERS are tn be elected. to wit:
One person t. fill the office of Member Of
Congress for the district composed of the
counties of Cambria. Blair, Huntingdon and
Mitfiln in the National Congress of the Uni.
ted States.
Two persons TO fill the office of Senators
from the district composed of the counties of
Blair, Huntingdon, Centre. Mitln Juniata
and Perry, in the Senate of Pennsylvania
+ Two persons as Members Of Assembly, to
! represent the counties of Huntingdon, Mif
fin and Juniata, in the House of Represen.
tatives of Pennsylvania
| One person tn fill the office of County
Commissioners for three wears
One person To fill the office of County Au
| ditor.
he electors of the Borough of Newton
| Hamilton to meet in the new schoolhouse
| in said borough
The electors of Wayne township a-e to
! meet at the new schoulheuse in the Borough
of Newton Hamilton
The electors of the Borough of McVevtown
are 10 meet 1T the Union srhuohouse Ia said
borough.
The electors of Granville township are to
meet at the Court House in the Borough of
| Lewistown, and vote at the window of the
! Prnthonotary's office.
| The electors Of Derry township will meet
at the Court House in the Borough of Lew.
istown, and vote at the window of the Judges
Office.
The electors of Oliver township are to meet
at the Union schoolhouse in the Borough of
McVeytown.
The electors of Bratton township are to
meet at the brick schoolhouse on the farm of
| William Harshbarger. in said township.
The electors of Menno township are to
meet at the house now occupied by the fam
| lily of William Semple, deceased, in Allen
vile, in said township.
The electors of Union township are to meet
AT the house now occupied by Richard Brin
die.
The electors of Brown township are to
meet at the public house now occupied by
John G. McGaughlin in said township
| The electors of Armagh TOWNSHIP residing
| east of the line commencing at the middle Of
| the road at the stone meeting house in Brown
township, thence along said road to the end
of the lane known as Jonathan Abraham's
| lane, near the residence Of Thomas Lnngwel
| lr., thence running in a Straieh ht line t. Cress
mans Knob to the Union county line. are to
meet at K E Locke's office in said township
Those residing west of and not included in
said limits, will meet as heretofore at the
IL
hart in said township.
The electors of Decatur township are to
meet at the house of Joseph Stumpff, now
occupied by Israel Spigelmire
The electors for the East Ward of the Bo
rough Of Lewistown will meet at the Court
| House, and vote at the window of the Com
mIssiUner's Office.
The electors of the West Ward of said
borough will meet at the same place, and
vote at the window of the Sherif's office
An Act If the Legislature having changed
the manner of voting IN Miflln county all
officers to be elected at a general election may
be voted for on a single slip of paper. and
deposited in one ballot box. Any fraud cum
mitted by any person voting under this Act
shall be punished by existing laws of this
| Commonwealth.
Pursuant to the provisions of an Act of
! Assembly. the Judges of the aforesaid dis
tricts shall respectively take charge of the
certificate of return of the election of their
respective districts, and produce them at a
meeting of one Judge from each district. at
the Court House. in Lewistown. on the third
day after the day of election. being for the
present year Friday, the 18th day of October
next then and there to do and perform the
duties required by law of said Judges
Also, that where Judge by sickness or
unavoidable accident, is unable to attend at
such meeting of Judges, then the certificate
or return, as aforesaid, shall be taken charge
of by one OF the inspectors or Clerks of the
election of said District who shall do and
perform the duties required of said Judge
unable to attend.
Also. by the 18th section of said Act it is
enacted that when the qualified voters of
more than one Ward, Township, or District
meet at the same place to hold their election,
it shall be the duty of the respective Judges
of said election districts, in addition to the
| certificates required in the 10th section of
this Act, to make ont fair statement and Ger
tifcate of all the votes which shall have been
then and there given for each candidate, dis
tinguishing the Office or station he shall have
voted for, and one of said Judges shall take
charge of said certificate, and also of the sew
eral certificates made out for each election
district as before directed, and produce the
same at a meeting of all the return Judges in
the county, in the manner prescribed in the
18th section Of this Act.
The Congressional Return Judges will
meet at the Court House in Hollidaysburg
on Tuesday, October 18th.
The Senatorial and Representive Return
Judges will meet at Lewistown on Tuesday,
October 18th.
Also, that an act of Assembly, entitled an
Act relating to the elections of this Common
wealth, passed July I'd, 1889, further pro,
vides as foil to wit:
That the Inspectors and Judges shall
meet at the respective places annninted flr