American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-04-04
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Of this Com nistoaDedtth
WHEREAS, BY the act of Congress
Of the United States, entitled, . An act
10 amend the several acts heretofore pas
sed TO provide for the eurolling aud call
inc cut the national forces. and for other
! uurposes." and approved March third,
/ one thousand eight hundred and sixty
five, al persons who have deserted the
military or naval service of the the Uni
ted States, and who have not been DIS
charged or relieved from the penalty or
disability therein provided, are deemed
and taken to have voluntarily relinquish-
ed and forfeited their rights to become
citizens, and are deprived of exercising
any rights of citizens thereof and
WHEREAS, Persons not citizens of
the United States are not, under the
constitution and laws of Pennsylvania
qualified electors Of this commonwealth
SIC | BE it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in Cen
eral Assembly met. and it ia hereby en-
acted By the authority of the same, that
in all elections hereafter to be held in
this Commonwealth, it shall be unlawful
for the judge or inspectors of any such
elections to receive any ballot or ballots
from any person or persons embraced in
the provisions and subject to the dissbil-
ity impo.edsby said act OF Congress, ap-
proved March third, one thousand eight
hundred aud sixty-fve, and it shall be
unlawful for any such person to offer to
vote any ballot or ballots
SEC. 2. That if any such judge and
inspectors of election, or any one OF
them, shsll 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 misde-
meanor and upon conviction thereof in
any Court of Of Quarter Sessions of this
Commonwealth, he shall, for each offense,
be sentenced to pay fine of not less than
one hundred dollars, and to undergo an
imprisonment in the Jail of the proper
county for not less than sixty days.
SIC. 8. That if auy person deprived
of citizenship be edisqualified as aforesaid
shall at any election hereafter to be held
in this Commonwealth, vote, or tender
to the officers thereof, and offer to vote,
ballot or ballots, any person so offending
rhsll be deemed guilty Of . misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof in any Court
Of Quarter Sessions of this Common
wealth shall for each offerse be punished
in like manner as provided in the proceed
ing section Of this act in the case of of
fcers of election receiving such unlaw
full ballot or ballots.
SEC 4 That if any person shall here.
sfter persuade or advise any person OF
persons, deprived of citizenship and dis
qualified as aforesaid, to offer any ballot
or ballots to the officers of any election
hereafter to bo held in this commonwealth
such person so offending shall be guilt y
Of = misdsueanor, and upon conviction
thereof in any Court of Quarter Sessions
of this commonwealth, shall be punished
in like manner as is provided in the sec
ood section of this act in the case of of.
iicers of such election receiving such
unlawful ballot or ballots
SEC. s. That it shall be the duty ol
the Adjutant General of this common
wealth to procure from the proper officers
of the United States, certified copies o.
all rolls AMI records containing oficia
evidence of the fact of the dcsertion OF
of all persons who were citizens of this
Commonwealth, and who were deprived
of citizenship and disqualified by the
said act of Congress of March third, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-fve
and to cause to be recorded and preserv
ed in the books to be provided aud KEEP
for that purpose in his Office, full and
complete e1emplifcations ofsuch rolls ant
records, and to cause true copies to be
! made thereof and furnished to the clerk,
of the several Courts of Quarter Sessions
OF this Commonwealth, accurate dupli
Gates or exemplifcation rolls and records
embracing the names Of all such dis
qualified peasons as had their residence
within the limits of said counties respec
lively at the time of their being marked
or designated as deserters; and it shall be
the duty of the clerks of the severa
Courts of Quarter Sessions of this Com
nonwealth to preserve in books to b,
kept for that purpose all such copies and
exemplfcatons of such rolls and records
80 furnished, and to allow access thereto
and furnish certified copies thercfrom OF
request, in like manner as in the case o.
ether records Of such courts.
SIC. 6. That certified copy or extract
of any such record from the Clerk of {
Court of Quarter Sessions of this COM
monwealth, shall be prima faoia evidence
before any election board of the fact ,oi
desertion and consequent disability and
disqualification as an elector, Provided
that if any person shall wilfully use OF
present any false, fraudulent or forged
paper purporting to be certified copy OIL
extract IS aforesaid, he shall be deemed
guilty of q misdemeanor, aud on convic-
tion thereof shall be punished as misde
meanors are now by law punishable. And
provided, however, that if by the pro
duction of certificate Of his honorable
discharge it shall appear that such person
so offering to vote was in the military
service of the United States before and a
the time Of his being drafted into such
service, and therenpon failing to report
or in case of the fact of dssertion appear
ing by certified copy of his company roll
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