The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-08
THE REGISTRY Law.
Qualification of VOters-HOw Per-
sons Not Registered Can VOfe-Ail
Voters Must Give Their Street and
Number-NO Adjournment OF Board
Penalty for Illegal Voting
Tickets to be Plain White Paper.

As the Registry Law, under which
the election to-day will be held, is a
new one, we publish such portions of
it as bear upon the rightsand duties of
electors. Every voter should read
them before going to the polls.
QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS.
The Constitution of Indiana pro-
vides that every white male citizen of
the United States, of the age of
twenty-one years, who has resided in
| the State six months, and such of
foreign birth as have resided in the
| United States one year and in this
State six months, and have declared
their intentions, shall be entitled to
vote in this State The first section
of the Registry Law requires Arrest
dence in the township. of twenty days;
IL reads as folloWs:l rexR.g q
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted By The
General assembly OF. the State Of In
diana, That no person shall be
deemed to have acquired a ISsidence
in any township. city, or ward, so as
to entitle him to vote therein, until
/ he shall have become a boaG tide in
habitant of such township, city, or
ward at least twenty (2O days before
the day of election at, which such per-
son shall offer to vote ~s'l
HOW PERSONS NOT REGISTERED CAN
VOTE
The law contemplates that all
voters should register their names
previous to the day of election, Bbut
it provides for any legal voters who
may have been omitted or neglec ted
to register. The following extract
from Section 10 shows how such may
vote:
No vote shall be received at any
election in this State if the name Of
the person offering to vote be not on
said register made on the Tuesday or
Wednesday preceding the election,
unless the person altering to vote fur
nish the judge of the election his aft
davit, in writing, stating therein that
he is an inhabitant of said precinct
and entitled to vote therein, at such
election, and prove by oath of free
holder and registered voter of the
precinct in which he offers to vote,
that he knows such person to be an
inhabitant of the precinct, and if in
the city, giving the residence of such !.
person within said precinct"
By which it appears that all legal
voters whose names are not on the
Registry List, must go to the polls
with the written or printed affidavit
required by law. If such voters will
provide the afidayits in advance,
there will be little delay occasioned
by them.
ALL VOTERS MUST GIVE THEIR
STREET AND NUMBER
BY the following clause OF Section
IL, it will be seen that every voter,
when he goes up to the polls to de-
posit his ballot must give to the Elec-
ton Board the name Of the street
upon which he resides, and the num-
Der of the house. (if numbered.)
SECTION IL In
cities every elector, at the time of of
fering his vote, shall truly state the
street in which he resides, and if the
house, lodging or tenement in which
he resides is numbered, the number
thereof ~ Any person
who shall wilfully make any false
statement IN relation thereto, SshaH be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall upon convictions, be punished
by.a fine of fifty dollars, orr by i'm
prisonment in the county jail IA the
county for, period Of sixty, days, or
by both such fine and Imprisonment. 1
NO ADJOURNMENT OF .gERLECTIoN
BOARDS. -
SEC. fS. After the opening of any
polls, at any election in this State, no
adjournment shall be had, nor any
recess taken. until all the votes cast |
at such election shall have been
counted and the result publicly an
nounced f'f7i s1-sfsFV 50
PENALTY FOR ILLEGAL REGISTRY OR
VOTING. /
SEC. 49, Any person who shall |
cause his name to be registered in |
more than one election precinct, or
who. by false statements, shall cause |
the Board to have mis- name put on |
said register when he is not legal |
voter, or would not be at the next |
election, or who shall knowingly |
and falsely procure, by false state
ments, the name of any other |
person who is not or would not be a
legal voter at the next election, or