The Shasta courier., 1865-09-02
SHASTA COURIER.
ELECTION LAWS.
0fQualifcations and Disabilities Of Ezectc

On tHe JUN OF MAY. lo4c, oi 'it aec W t"e"t'
one years, who shall have been aresident OF the
State six months next preceding the election
and the county district in which he claims
his vote, thirty DAYS shall be entitled to a vote
a. all elections which are now or hereafter may
be authorized by law
SEC. H. For the purpose of voting, no per-
son shall be deemed to have gained or lost a
residence by reason of his presence or absence
on the service of the United States, nor while
engaged in the navigation of the waters OF this
State or the United States, or Of the high seas
nor while student Of seminary OF learning
nor while kept at an almshouse or other asy
lum, nor while confined in any public prison.
SEC. II No IDIOT or insane person. or per
sons convicted of ANY irfamous crime. shall /.
entitled TO the privil. ges of an eleclor.
SEC. l3. A ci;n,.. shan be deemed nfrou.
Which is punishable bv dra,.l oE by imprison-
inent in the S,ait Prison.
OfAe Place Of Holassq E''-e.icns cni also Of IL
spectors. Judges, and C'~ris cf E,ect'ln.
SEC. II. II shall he the duty of each I,spec
tor to be AT the place where the polls are to he
opened in the precinct for which he is appoint
ed. from eight in the morning until sunset on
the day of the election. Should such Inspector
not appear at eight o'clock in the morning, the
electors present at the place where the polls are
to be opened, may appoint an Inspector for the
precinct.
SEC. ls. The Board OF Inspectors for each
precinct SHALL before the time Of opening the
polls, oppoint two suitable persons to act as
Clerks.
SEC. 10. Before any election shall be open
ed, the Inspector, Judges and Clerks shall each.
before any officer authorized to administer oaths,
take an oath that he will faithfully and impair
italy discharge the duties assigned him by law.
If there is no person present authorized TO ad-
minister oaths, the Inspector shall administer
the same 10 the Judges and Clerks, and one OF
the Judges shall then administer the oath to the
Inspector.
SEC 20. The Inspector shall be Chairman
of the Board, and after its organization shall
have power to administer all necessary oaths,
which may be required in the progress of the
election. He shall also have power to fill any
vacancy that NAV occur in the Board of Judges
or by absence or by refusal to serve of either Of
the Clerks, after the polls have been opened.
On opening the Polls: of Voting and Challenges
SEC % At all elections, the polls shall be
open at eight o'clock in the morning. and shall
continue open until sunset, at which time
the Judges shall close the polls proUtded,
that the Judges of the election may take a re-
cess of one hour at any time they may think
proper during the day before three o'clock in
the afternoon.
SEC 23 The Board of Judges. before they
commence receiving ballots, shall cause it to
be proclaimed aloud at the place of voting that
the polls are open.
SEC 2s. Whenever any person offers to vote,
the Inspector shall pronounce his name in an
audible voice, and if there be no objection to
the qualification of such person elector,
shall receive his ballot, and in the presence OF
the other Judges put the same without being
opened or examined, into the ballot box.
SEC Z6 The name of each elector whose bal
lot has thus been received, shall be immediate
" entered by each Clerk in the column of his
poll list headed names of voters, numbering
each name In the additional column, as it is t..
ken down. so that it may be seen at any time
whether the two lists agree.
SEC. 81 ANY person offering to vote may be
challenged as unqualified, by the Inspector. or
either of the Judges, by any legal voter; and
it SHALL in all cases, be the duty of the lnspcc-
tor and each of the Judges to challenge any
person offering to vote whom he shall know or
suspect not to be duly qualified as an elector1
Proceedings on Challenge.
Section l. Section twenty eight of said Act is
amended so as to read as follows:
Section 2S If any person offering to vote at
any election shall be challenged in relation to his
right to vote at that election, the Board of Judges
shall declare To MN tne qualncatonS o an elector
and the Inspector or one OF the Judges shall tender
to him the following preliminary oath:
"You do affirm, that you will
fully and truly answer all such questions shall
be put to you touching your place of residence and
qualifications an eector?
The Inspector or one of the Judges shall then
proceed to question the person challenged in rea-
tion to his name, his then place of residence, bow
long he has resided in the township and county,
where his last place of residence also to his
citizenship, and whether native naturaized
citizen, and if the latter, when, where, and in what
Court. or before what officer he naturalzed. and
all such other questions shall tend to test hi
qualifications as to citizenship and right To veie.
See. ,. Il aav por--a = a. refuse 10 taae thC
saiG preliminary on II whel tel'durvd, or TO an
swcT any and all pertinent questions to his quail
ifcations. his vote shall be rejected and if the
Board of Judges satisfied, from his answers q:
aforesaid that such person is not legal voter
they shall reject his vote.
Sec. g. If such person shall still insist that he il
entitled to vote, and the Board Of Judges find NJ
cause to reject his vote under the preliminary ex
animation, and the challenge shall not be with
drawn, be shall not be entitled to vote unless ht
take the following oath, to be administered by tbs
Inspector one ofthe Judges, viz:
You do swear Tor atfirm, as the may be
that you are q citizen of the United States. that you
of the age of twenty-one years according to the
best of your knowledge and belief, that you have
resided IN tllS Ctale SIX m0utnS next preceding
this election, and in this county, township, OF
ward, as the case may be) thirty days, and that
you have not voted this dayP'
And in case the person offering to vote produce q
certified transcript of the records of Court of
petent jurisdiction, admitting him to citizenship,
duly attested by the Clerk thereof as evidence OF
his right to vote, and the person so producing the
same is unknown to the Board of Judges, he shall
make oath that he is the person therein named.
Sec 4. If any person challenged as unqualified
shall be guilty Of wlful and corrupt false swearing
or affirming in taking any oath or affirmation pre-
scrbed by this Act, such person shall be sdjudged
guilty OF wilful and corrupt perjury.
sec. D. Every person who shall wilfully and
sorrupuy procure any person to swear or affirm
faisely as aforesaid shall be adudged guilty of SUBJ
ornauon OF perjury, and shall upon conviction
thereof suffer the punishment directed bv law in
cases Of wilful and corrupt perjury.
Sec. 6. Every person who shall procure. aid 90.
sist counsel or advise another to give or offer his
vote at any general special election. KNOWN,
that the person is not duly qualified to vote sbs II
on conviction be adjudged guilty of misdemesnor
and punished hy fine Of not less than fffr M,
more than i've hundred dollars, or inpr;sonmen,
not less then two nor more than six months or bv
both such fine and imprisonment, IS the Court ma.
direct
Sec. z. The Board Of Judges of Election shall
keep q minute of their proceedings in respect to th,
challenging ana administering of oaths to person,
Offering to vote, in which shall be entered by one a
them the name of every person who shah have ia
ken the oa:hs prescribed by this Act, either o