North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-09-28
THE ARMY VOTE.

/ we would secure our part of the army
vote, every father, mother, sister and broth.
er and friend Of soldiers in the army, who
will vote our ticket, should immediately
! forward The IN tic kets by letter together with
cert fcate of assessment and tax receipt.
Ed. JEM.
Tickets should be sent to s,ldcrs both.in
| the State and National service, and to all
hospitals, in short, to all persons in the mill
tary sorvce absent from their homes.
We call your special attention & the
following sections Of the late act of As,em-
| bly,:
Section 40. 1t shall be th duty Of every assessor
within this Commonwealth, annually, to assess anl
return, in the manner now required by law coun-
ty tax Of ten cents upon each and every commits
stoned officer AMI private and the usual taxes upon
every commissioned officer known by them to be in
the military service of the United States or Of tls
State in the army, and when any omission shall occur
the mittcd shall be added by such assessors to
!
of any citizen of the electoral district or precinct
wherein such soldier mi ght, or would have a light
to vote if in such service as aforesaid ana such
non commissioned officers and prgates shall be ex-
empt from all other personal taxes during their con-
tnuance in such service ani said assess)rs Shall in
each anl every of such assessed sol Gicrs or off
GERS without fee reward therefor give certificate
of such regular or addl"nal sSessmcat to any cit
Of the election districts OF pre- ncts who may at
any time demand the same and upon the prcsenta-
ton thereof to the tax cole to of said district or
the of the said county it shall be the duty
of such officer to receive said assessed of and from
any person oerng pay the for tho soldier or
officer therein named aud to endoyse upo. such GER
tfcate a receipt thereof and it shall also be the
duty Of said olector county treasurer to receive
said assessed taxfrom any person who may offer to
pay the for any Of said officers soldiers with
out requiring certificate of assessments when the
name OF such person shall have been duly entered
upon the assessments books and tax duplicates and
give rceIpt therefor to such person. specially stat
ing therein the of the so der or officer whose
is thus paid the year for which it was assessed
and the date of the payment thereof which said
certificate and receipt receipt only, shall be pri-
ma fdcie evidence to any elec teu board proYi led
for by this act, before which the may be offer
ed of the due assessment Of the said tax against
and the payment thereof, by the soldier or officer
therein named Offering the Aforesaid but
said election board shall not be thereby precludei
from requiring other proof Of the right to vote as
specified by this act the general election laws of
his Commonwealth; AMI if any OF said assessors
collectors treasurers shall neglect or refuse to
comply with the provisions of this section or to
perform any of the duties therein enjoined upon
them, or either of them, he they so offending
shall be consi Tered and sdjulged guilty of msde-
meanor in office, and shall conviction, be fined
in any sum not less than twenty or more than two
hundred dollars PrOrided, that the additional as
sessments required to be made by the above section
in the city of Philadelphia shall be made on appli.
cation of citizen of the election di strict or pre-
cinct wherein sech assessment is required by such
citizen to be made"
II any assessor refuses to perform his duty
apply to him the penalties herein pointed
out.
There is class Of soldiers who are away
IRON their companies and regiments on de-
tached service, In hospitals, in the Veteran
Reserve corps, &c, and rhe election law rro-
yides that rhererer there IS less number
than Ten soldiers at any one place they may
SEND a proxy to any friend at nome to vote
for them. The mcde is pointed out by law
SEc'3l. When any of the electors mentioned in
the first section of this act less than ten in number
shall be members of companies of another State or
Territory, or for any sufficient AMI legal cause
shall be separated from their proper compauy, or
shtll be in any hospital, navy yard vessel! or on
recruiting provost, or other duty, whether with in
or without this State under such circumstances as
shall renderii probable that he or they will he una
ble to reoin their proper company, to be present
at his proper place of election before the day
of elections theNin mentioned, said elector or cec-
tors shall have ri ght 10 vote in ne following man
der:
SEC 80. The voter at r,s,i1 5 hereby author |
lied, before the day Of election, to deposit his
ballot or ballots properly folded, as required by |
the general election law this State or otherwise
as the voter may choose in n ssaled envelope. to-
gether with written or pri nted or partly written
or partly printed statement containing the name of
the voter, the county, township borough or ward of
which he is resident, and written or printed au-
dority ts some qualified voter in the election dis
trct of which said voter is resident to cast the
ballot contained in said envelope for him on the day
of said election Said statement and authority to be
signed by the said voter, AID attsstel by the COM
manding or some commissioned officer Of the COM
pany Of which he is member in the case of an
officer, if any of such officers conveniently ao-
eessible and if otherwise, then by scmc other wit
ness; and there shllI also accomptnv stid ballots
an affidavit of said voter taken before some one
OF the officers aforesaid and in the absence of such
officers, before ther person duly authorized to
administer oahs, by any law Of this State, that ho
is qualified voter in the e.ction district in which
he proposes to vote tina he is in the ac tua military