Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-11-02
PROCLAMATION.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,

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the manner, time and place of holding Elec
tons 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 Mifflin county. dc
| hereby make known and give this public no
tice to the citizens of said county, who are
| qualified to vote for members of the General
| Assembly, that on
TUESDAY, the 8th 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 tor at the last preceding election, as
| follows:
| The electors of the Borough of Newton
| Hamilton are TO meet in the new schoolhouse
| in said borough
| The electors of Wayne township are TO
meet at the new schoolhouse in the Borough
| Of Newton Hamilton.
The electors of the Borough of McVevtown
are to meet 1T the Union schoolhouse in said
borough.
The electors of Granville township are to
meet at the Court House in the Borouph of
Lewlstown, and vote at the window of the
Prothonotary's Office
The electors of Derry township will meet
at the Court House in the Borough of Lew
lstown, 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
ny 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 bv
John 6. Mclaughlin, in said township.
The electors of Armagh township residing
east of the line commencing at the middle of
the road at tho 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 Lopgwell.
Jr, thence running IN a straight line to Cress
mans Knob to the Union county line, are TO
meet at +. l.. 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 to
meet at the house of Joseph Summit 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.
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 Sberiff7s Office
For the purpose of electing TWENTY SIX
persons of 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 Cd Tuesday of DC.
tober, are hereby enjoined 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
Bile to at the election of members of the AS
sembly, &c; and one judge from each district
is enjoined 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
az "Act relating to the elections of this Com
monwealth,' approved the | lth dav of April,
1852, it is provided that Every year in which
the citizens Of this Commonwealth shall vote
for Electors for President and Vice President
of the United States, the Assessors of the
several wards, townships, incorporated dis
tricts and bOroughs within this Common
wealth, except within the city and county of
Philadelphia, shall, at all reasonable times
after the "a Tuesday of October in said years.
and until within ten days of the time fixed
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 or
borough, or claiming a right to vote therein,
as beng between the age of twentY-one
and twenty two years, and having resided in
this Commonwealth one year, enter the name
of such person on the list of the taxable in
habitante; and said Assessors shall, at least
eight days previous to the day fixed for the
election, make out duplicate copies of the
name or names so entered, and after certify
ing and signing the same, shall deliver one
copy to the Commissioners of their respec-
tive counties. to be filed by said Commission,
ers In their respective Office; and the other
copy said Assessor shall hold and hand over.
without alteration or addition, to one of the
Inspectors of the proper election district, at
or before s O'Clock on the morning of the day
fixed for the election of said Electors
Given under my hand at Lewistown the !
18th day of October, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty four,
and the eighty eighth of the United States.
D. NJ. CONTNER,
octl2 Sheriff.