American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-06-20
The New Law Disfranchising De.
serters from the Draft.

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Governor Curtin has approved the fol
lowing bill, and it is now law of the
Commonwealth
SEDTIos l. Be 1t hereby enacted, ETC.,
That in all elections hereafter to be held
in this Comm onweath, it shall be unlaw-
ful for the judge or inspectors Of any
such election to receive any ballot or
ballots, from any person or persons en-
braced in the psovisions aud subj ect to
the disability imposed by said act Of Con-
gress, approved March third, one thous--
and eight hundred and sixty-fve, and it
shall be unlawful for any such person to
offer to vote any ballot or ballots.
SEC. 9. That if any such judges and
inspectors of election, or of any of them,
shall receive, or consent to receive any
such unlawful ballot or ballots from any
such disqualified person, he or they SO
offending shall be guilty of q misdemean.
or and upon conviction thereof in any
court of quarter sessions of this Common.
wealth, he shall, for each offence, be SEN
fenced to pay fine of not less than one
hundred dollars, and to undergo an i'm
prisonment in the Jail of the proper county
for not less than sixty days.
SEC. 3. That if any person deprived of
citizenship, and disqualified as aforesaid !,
shall at any election hereafter to be held
in this Commonwealth, vote or tender to
the officers thereof, and offer to vote, a
ballot or ballots, any person so offending
shall be deemed guilty ofa misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof, in any court
Of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth,
shall, for each offence, be punished in like
manner as is rovided in ne preceding
section of this act in the case of officers
of election receiving such unlawful ballot
or ballots.
SEC. 4 That if any person shall here
after persuade or advise any person or
persons, deprived of citizenship and dis
qualified as aforesaid, to offer any ballot
or ballots to the officers of any election
hereafter to be held in this Commonwealth
or shall persuade or advise any such off
Ger to receive any ballot or ballots fro1,
any person deprived of citizenship, such
person so offending shall be guilty Of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
in any court of quarter sessions of this
Commonwealth, shall be punished in like
manner as is provided in the second sec.
tion Of this act, in the case of officers Of
such election receiving such unlawful
blllot or ballots.
Sec. 5. That l. shall be the duty Of the
Adjutant General of this Commonwealth
to procure, from the proper officers of the
United States, certified copies of all rolls
and records, containing official evidence
of the fact of the desertion of all persons
who we're citizens Of this Commonwealth
and who were deprived of citizenship
and disqualified BY thu said act Of Con.
gress Of March third, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-fve, and to cause tC
be recordel and preserved, in books to be
provided and kept for that purpose, l.
J this Office, full and complete exemplifca
/ tions of such rolls and records, and cause
true copies to be made thereof, and fur
nished 10 the clerks of ths several court
! of quarter sessions of this Common wealth
, accurate duplicates or exemplifca;iops o
/ such rolls and records, embracing tn
t names Of all such disqualified persons a
, had their residence within the limits o
said counties respectively, at the time o
+ their being marked or designated as de
, sertes, and il sha' be the duty Of tn
. clerks of the several courts OF quartz
I Sc sions of this Commonwealth to preserv
in books, to be kept for that purpose,
S such copies and excmplI6cations OF sucl
! rolls and records so furnished, and to al
0 low access thereto, and furnish certifie'
Q copies therefrom, on request, in like man
ner as in case of other records Of sue
!, courts.
. SEC, 6. That certified copy or CT
tract of any such record, from the clcr
. of court eff quarter sessions Of this Con
! monwsalth, shall be prima facie evidence