Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-10-26
PROCLAMATION.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

tions for President and Vice President Of the
United States, enacted the I'd day of Febru.
ary. A. D. 1920, and the supplements thereto,
/ it is required of the Sheriff TO give due no
tice Of such election: Therefore |, DAVIS
/ NJ. CONTNER, Sheriff Of Mif1in county, DC
hereby make known and give this public no
tiee 10 the citizens of sad county, who are
qualified to vote for members Of the General
Assembly. that on
TUESDAY, the Sth day Of November, 1864,
an election will be held at the same places at
which members of Congress Senators and
members Of the Assembly shall have been
voted for at the last preceding election, as
follows:
The electors of the Borough of Newton
Hamilton are to meet in the new schouIhouse
in said borough.
The electors of Wayne township a-e to
meet at the new schoolhouse in the Borough
of Newton Hamilton.
The electors of the Borough of McVeytown
are ro meet at the Union schoolhouse in 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
/ Prothnnntary'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 BIZ 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 Brn,
! die
| The electors Of Brown township are to
meet at the public house now occupied by
John G. mclaughlin, in said township.
The electors of Armagh township residing
| east of the line commencing Mt 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 8
lane. near the residence of Thomas Lopgwell.
Jr., thence running in a straight line to Cress
mans Knob to the Union county line, are to
meet at E. f. Locke's Office, in said township.
Those residing west of and not included in
said limits, will meet as heretofore at the
public house now occupied by VIM. Swine
hart in said township.
The electors of Decatur township are Ia
meet at the house of Joseph Stumpff, now
occupied BY Israel Spigelmire.
The electors for the East Ward of the Bo
rough Of Lewistnwn will meet at the Court
| House, and vote at the window of the Com
missioner's Office.
The electors of the West Ward of said
borough will meet at the same place, and
vote at the window of the Sheriff's Office
For the purpose Vt electing TWENTY, SIX
persons If this Commonwealth as Electors
for the election of President and Vice Presi
dent of the United States and the several
Judges, Inspectors and Clerks who attended
| the general election on the ID Tuesday of DC.
tober, are hereby eDjoined to attend and per
form at the said election of electors to be held
as aforesaid, the like duties subject to the
like penalties for misconduct. as they are liza
bic to at the election of members of the As
sembly. &c and one Judge from each district
is enioined to attend at the Court House in
| Lewistown. on FRIDAY, llth November, be,
ing the third day after the election for cleo
tors, for the purpose of making out the re
turns of said election.
| also make known that, by an act entitled
al Act relating TO the elections of this Com
monweath.' approved the llth day of April
1852 it is provided that Every year in which
the citizens of this Commonwealth shall vote
for Electors for President and Vice Presiden
of the United States. the Assessors of the
several wards. townships, incorporated dis
tricts and horoughs within this Common
wealth, except within the city and county ot
Philadelphia. shall. at all reasonable times
after the ID Tuesday of October in said years
and until within ten days of the time fxeC
by law for the election of Electors of Presi
dent and Vice President of the United States
on the personal application of any white free
man claiming to be assessed within the prop
er ward. township, incorporated district O.
borough, or claiming right to vote therein
as being between the age of twenty ont
and twenty two years, and having resided il
this Commonwealth one year, enter the mann
OF such person on the list of the taxable in
habtante; and said Assessors shall at leas
eight days previous to the day fixed for tn
election, make out duplicate copies of th
name or names so entered, and after certify
lug and signing the same, shall deliver on
copy to the Commissioners of their respec-
tive counties to be filed by said Commission
ers in their respective Office; and the othe
copy said Assessor shall hold and haGd over
without alteration or addition, to one of tn
Inspectors Of the proper election district, a
or before o'clock on the morning of the da
fixed for the election of said Electors
Given under my hand at Lewistown th
18th day of October. in the year of our Lor,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty four
and the eighty eighth of the United States.
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