The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-03-30
ONO LkcIsLATIoN.
A Supplementary soIdIers' Vet
ing Law.

Tho following ~ copy OF tho IaM Just /
passed by the Ohio Legislature. to give sol.
diers from this State tho right to vote for
city and township otiioers' gnrt
AN ACT To enable the qualified voters NJ cities
and Incorporated villages, which are divided into
election districts or wards Of this state, who may
be in the military service Of this State, or Of the
United States to exercise the right Of suffrage.
SEcrrox l. BE Il enacsNi by tie General
Assembly of State Of Ohio, That when
ever any Of tho qualified electors Of any
city or Incorporated village, which are
divided into election districts or wards in
this State, shall be in the military or naval
service of the United States, or of ihis State
and as such absent from the respective
cities or Incorporated villages, as aforesaid,
of their residence, other within or beyond
the limits of this State, on the days provided
by law for elscting the municipal officers
thereof, they shall bo entitled to exercise
the right of voting for such officers, "a
fully as if present at their respective places
of voting, in said cities or Incorporated viii
lagos.
SEC. 2. A poll shall bo opened at any
place. post, hospital or station at which
i've or more of said voters shall be or
near to, rs they may select and the cleo
ticu held thereat, shall be conducted in all
State in force at the time, to enable the
qualified voters of this State, in the mil
itary service of this State, or Of the United
States, to exercise the right of suffrage, as
far as the provisions thereof are spplica-
blo and substituting the words city, or in.
cofporated villages which are divided into
elective districts or wards, for the word
"county" in said act, as far as necessary to
the proper construction of this act.
SEC. 3. Separate poll books shall be kept
for each city, or Incorporated village as
aforesaid, instead of each county, and the
ward or election district shall be iudorsed
opposite his name on the poll books.
SEC. 4. The poll books of the election,
together with tho ballots, shall be sealed
up, and shall DO returned to the city clerk
or recorder of the proper city, or incorpor-
ated village aforesaid, and copy thcreoffor-
warded to the clerk of tho Court of Common
Pleas of the proper county, in which said city
or incorporated village is located, by any
safe means of conveyance, within five days
after said election.
SRc. 5. The returns so made shall be in-
cluded in, and counted with the returns of
votes cast within the wards or election dis
trict OF the cities, or incorporated village,
to which they properly belong, aud are re.
turned as aforesaid, aud shall have the same
effect aud force as votes in the respective
wards and cities and Incorporated villages
as aforesaid, as if actually cast in said wards
or election districts.
SEC. 6. The clerk, recorder, mayor, or
justice of the peace, as the case may be, in
making out the abstract of votes, and ascer-
tanning the candidates elected under the
sec, C (7O0)" Of the act to provide for the
organization Of cities and incorporated
villages, passed May 5, 1852, lSwan Il
Critchfeld's statutes, page l524,) shall not
decide on the validity of the returns aforo-
said, but shall be governed by the number
of votes stated in the poll books.
SEC. I. That if for any cause there shall
be no city clerk, recorder or mayor, CON-
pctent to receive the returns of municipal
elections in cities or incorporated villages,
which ere divided into election districts
and wards; or if they shall neglect or re-
fuse TO act, then the clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas of the county, in which said
city or incorporated village is located, shall
call to his assistance any Justice of the peace
of the county, and shall in his presence
mako out tho abstract of votes, and ascer-
tain the candidates elected, in all respects
as required by law, and shall in like man
ner make out Il certificate to each candi-
late so elected, aud cause the same to be
delivered to him.
SEC. s. That if any officer charged with
any duty under this act shall neglect or re-
fuse to perform, the same, such officer, upon
conviction thereof, on indictment therefor,
shall be fined in any sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars, at the discretion OF
the Court, with costs. s
SEC. 8. Any person charged with the de.
livery of poll books under this act, who
shall knowingly deliver any false, forged or
fraudulent poll book, such person shall
upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned in
the penitentiary of the State, and kept al
hard labor for any time not less than one
or more than two years. -
SEC. 10. Any person charged with the
receipt of tho poll books of any municipal
election as aforesaid, who shall suppress
destroy, alter or procure or permit TO be
suppressed, destroyed or altered, any poll
booN as aforesaid, such person shall, upon
conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the
peniteutiary of the State, and kept at hard
labor for any time not less than one, or
more than two years.
SEC IL. That SO much of the act en-
titled . an act to provide for the organiza-
ton of cities and Incorporated villages
passed May ., 1852, and the acts amenda-
tory thereto, as required the poll books to
be opened, and the trustees elected for
each, city to assemble and organize the city
council on tho Monday after the election, be
suspended during the existence of this act;
and the returns of election shall be held
twenty days counting from and excluding
the day of election, to receive returns un.
der this act, when they shall be opened, and
the trustees elected shall proceed 10 or
ganize under said acts.
SEC. IL. This act shall take effect from
its passage.