The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1866-10-04

of citizenship. and their rights to become ci,i-
zens, and are deprived of exercising any
rights of citizens thereof:
And achereaS, Persons. not citizens of the
United States, are not, under the cons,itu.
tion and laws of Pennsylvania, qualified elec-
tors OF the commonwealth:
SECTION l. BE ii enacted 6y the Senate
and House Of Representatives. of the Com
'nonUedIth Of Pennsylvania in General As
sembty met, and it as hereby enacted by au-
thortty Of the same, That in all elections
hereafter to be held in this commonwealth.
1T 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
the 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 2. 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 qua rter
sessions of this commonwealth. he shall, for
each offence, be sentenced to pay 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 B. 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 10 vote, a ballot or
ballots, any person, so offending, shall be
guilty Of a misdemeanor, and OF conviction
thereof, in any court of quarter sessions o.
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-
iul ballot. or ballots.
SECTION 4. That il any person shall here
after persuade, or advise, any person, or per-
sons deprived Of citizenship. md disqualified
as Aforesaid, to offer any ballot, or ballots. to
the officers of any election, hereafter 10 he
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 OF
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof,
in any court Of quarter sessions Of this COM
monwealth, shall be punished in like man.
ner as is provided in the second section of
this act, in the case of officers of such elec-
ton receiving such unlawful ballot, or bal
| lots.
SECTION s. That il shall be the duty of the
sherifis, in the several counties of this CON-
monwealth, TO insert in their proclamatons
of elections, hereafter to be held, the first
four sections of this act, with the preamble
thereof, and upon conviction OF any violation
OF the requirement of this section, any sher-
iff shall be guilty of misdemeanor in office,
and be punished in like manner as the Of
fences prohibited by the second, third and
fourth sections Of this act are punishable.
The law regulating the election of Presi.
dental electors, provides as follows:
Notice is Hereby Given,
That every person, excepting Justices O
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 officel
or otherwise, subordinate officer, or agents
E who is or shall be employed under the legis
lative, executive or judiciary department o
, this State or the United States, or of am
! Incorporated district; and also, that ever
member of Congress, and of the state legis
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 C
lection of this commonwealth, and that NJ
! inspector, Judge or other officer of such elec
tion shall be eligible to be then voted for.
And the said act of Assembly, entities
san act relating to elections of this common
wealth, passed July I'd. 1889, further provide
That the Inspectors and Judges shall NEE
! at the respective places appointed for hold
J ing the election in the district to which the
respectively belong, before nine o'clock i
Il the morning of the second Tuesday of DC
tober, and each of said inspectors shall az
point one clerk, who shall be a qualified vc
ter.
8 at shall be the duty of said assessors re
spectively to attend at the places of holdin
every general, special or towship electio
: during the whole time said election is keI
open, for the purpose of giving informatio
to the inspectors and Judges, when called o
. in relation to the right of any person asses:
ed by them to vote at such election, an
such other matters in relation to the asses
ments of votes as the said inspectors or judg
= = es, or either of them, shall from time to tim
require.
Agreeably to the provisions of the sixty
first section of said act every General an
Special election shall be opened betwee
J. the hours of eight and ten in the forenoon
and shall continue without interruption {
e adjournment until seven in the evening
L when the polls shall be closed.
s. mo person shall be admitted to vot
Ie whose name is not contained in the list
"a taxable inhabitants furnished by the Con
J. missioners, unless first he produce a receiI
u for payment within two years, of State {
T. county tax assessed agreeably to the Const
:, tuition, and give satisfactory evidence eith'
10 OH his own oath or the affirmation of anoth'
;; that he has paid such tax, or on failure
~ !, produce receipt, shall make oath to Il