The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1866-09-06


zens, and are deprived of exercising any
rights of citizens thereof:
And UheredS, Persons, not citizens of the
United States, are not, under the constitu-
tion and laws OF Pennsylvania, qualified elec-
tors OF the commonwealth:
SECTION l. BE IL enacted Jy the Senate
and House Of Representatives of the Com
monweGlth Of Pennsylvania in General As
sem6Iy met, and 1t is hereby enacted by au-
thOrity of the same, That in all elections
hereafter to be held in this commonwealth,
it shall be unlawful for the judge or inspec.
tors of any such election TO receive any bal
! lot, or ballots, from any person, or persons
embraced in the provisions, and subject to
he disability, imposed by said act of Con-
gress. approved March third, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-fve, and it shall be
unlawful for any such person to vote any
ballot, or ballots.
SECTION ,. That if any such judge or in
speciors OF election, or any one OF them shall
receive, or consent to receive, any such un-
lawful ballot, or ballots, from any such dis
qualified person, he, or they, so offending,
shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon
| conviction thereof, in any court of quarter
sessions of this commonwealth, he SHALL for
each offence, be sentenced 10 pay a fine of
not less than one hundred dollars, and to un-
dergo an Imprisonment. in the Jail of the
proper county, for not less than sixty days
SECTION 3. That if any person deprived
of citizenship, and disqualified as aforesaid,
shall, at any election, hereafter TO be held
f in this commonwealth, vote, or tender to the
officers thereof, and offer TO vote, ballot, or
ballots, any person, so offending, shall be
guilty Of misdemeanor, and OF conviction
thereof, in any court of quarter sessions Of
this commonwealth, shall, for each offence,
! be punished in like manner as is provided in
the preceding section of this act, in the case
of officers OF election receiving such unlaw-
ful ballot. or ballots.
G SECTION i. That il any person shall here
after persuade, or advise, any person, or per-
sons, deprived Of citizenship, and disqualified
as oresaid, to offer any bIIlot or ballots. to
f the officers OF any election, hereafter TO be
held in this commonwealth, or shall persuade,
or advise, any such officer to receive any bal
lot, or ballots from any person deprived of
: citizenship, and disqualified as aforesaid
such person, so offending, shall be guilty o;
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction hereof
: in any court o. quarter sessions o. this CON-
noonwealth, shall be punished in like man
ner as is provided IN the second section OF
this act, in the c-s OF officers OF such cleo
i ton receiving such unlawful ballot, or bal
lots.
SECTION 8 That it shall be the duty of the
sheritiS, in the several counties OF this COM
= monwealth, 10 insert in their proclamatons
| of elections, Hereafter to tie held, the first
four sections Of this act, with the preamble
: thereof, and upon conviction Of any violation
u OF the requirement Of this section, any sher-
iff shall be guilty of -misIemea nor in Office,
: and be punished in like manner as the o.
e fences prohibited by the second, third and
fourth sections of this act are punishable.
II The law regulating the election of Prcsi-
l. dental electors, provides as follows:
I40aicc Is Hereby Given,
. That every person, excepting Justices of
the Peace, who shall hold an office or ap-
pointment of profit or trust under the United
: States or of this State or any city or corpo-
rated district, whethera commissioned officer
or otherwise, subordinate officer, or agents
,r who is or shall be employed under the legis-
lative, executive or judiciary department of
II this State or the United States, or Of any
i incorporated district; and also that every
member of Congress, and of the state legis-
II lature and of the select or common council
: Of any city, or commissioner of any incorpo-
rated district is by law incapable Of holding
or exercising at the same time, the appoint
; ment Of Judge, inspector, or clerk OF any e.
lection of this commonwealth, and that 10
nj inspector, Judge or other officer of such cleo
tion shall be eligible to be then voted for.
And the said act of Assembly, entitled
! .'an act relating to elections of this common
I wealth, passed July ID 1889, further provides
That the Inspectors and Judges shall meet
4 at the respective places appointed fer hold
I ing the election in the district to which they
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II the morning of the second Tuesday of De-
! tober, and each of said inspectors shall ap-
point one clerk, who shall be qualified vo-
ter.
# at shall be the duty of said assessors re-
spectively TO attend at the places of holding
every general, special or towship election
: during the whole time said election is kept
open, for the purpose of giving information
to the inspectors and judges, when called on
% in relation TO the right OF any person assess
ed by them to vote at such election, and
such other matters in relation to the assess
, ments OF votes as the said inspectors or iudg-
" es, or either of them, shall from time TO time
require.
Agreeably to the provisions of the sixty
first section Of said act every General and
Special election shall be opened between
! the hours Of eight and ten in the forenoon.
and shall continue without interruption or
q adjournment until seven In the evening
!. when the polls shall be closed.
y mo person shall be admitted to vote
q whose name is not contained in the list Of
u taxable inhabitants furnished by the Com
= missioners, unless first he produce receipt
u for payment within two years, of State OF
: county tax assessed agreeably TO the Consti-
:, tuition, and give satisfactory evidence either
- on his own oath or the affirmation of another
;, that he has paid such tax, or on failure to
= produce receipt, shall make oath to the
= payment thereof; or, second il he claims
: right to vote by being an elector between
), the ages of 2l and % years he shall depose
! on oath or affirmation that he has resided IN