The Shasta courier., 1867-04-27
COURIER.
PRIMARY ELECTION LAW.

SECTION l. All elections hereafter to be
holden by any voluntary political association
or party in this State, for any delegates or
managing committee, or for the nomination
of candidates for public office, may be called
or ordered by published notice, which shall
state the purpose, time, manner, conditions,
together with the place or places of holding
such elections also the authority by which
the call or notice is published, and the per-
son shall be named therein who is to super
wise or preside at each poll where such cleo
ton is to be holden and the said person
shall be a legal voter of the township, pre-
cinct, ward, or election district for which he
is named. Said notice shall likewise declare
the qualifications of the persons to vote at such
elections provided, that such prescribed
qualifications shall not be inconsistent with
those expressed in this Act.
SEC 2 The notice required by section one
of this Act shall be published in some news
paper or newspapers printed in the district,
for which the election is called, and shall be
posted in at least three public places in the
polling precincts Of such election at least
five days prior thereto proriding, if there
be no newspaper published in the district
may be omitted.
Sec. 8. The person named as Supervisor
in the notice required by section one of this
Act, or any person, in his absence or refusal
to serve, assuming or chosen to be such Su-
pervisor Of the election aforesaid, shall first
be sworn by some officer authorized to ad-
minister oaths, or by some resident freehold
er and legally qualified voter of the pre-
cinct, ward, or district, in presencs of at
least two witnesses of like qualifications, that
he is a legal voter Of the precinct, ward, Oh
district, in which such election is to be held,
and that be will correctly and faithfully con-
duet such election, protect it against all fraud
and unfairness, carefully and truly canvass
and report all votes cast thereat in such man
ner as may be required by the authority ap-
pointing the election, and be shall appoint
such assistants as shall be necessary 70 re-
ceive and take account OF the votes cast
prorided, that such assistants shall be re-
putable citizens and legally qualified elec-
tors of the township, precinct, ward, or
district, as the case may be. And any vio-
lation of the provisions of this section shall
be deemed misdemeanor, and shall, on
conviction, subject the offender to punish
ment by fine, not less than fifty nor more
than five hundred dollars, or by imprison-
ment in the County Jail not more than six
months, or by by both such fine and i'm
prisonment.
SEC. 4. 1t shall be the duty of the Super
visor of such election to entertain objections
made by any qualified elector under said
published call or notice to any vote that may
be offered, on the ground that the person
offering it is not entitled to vote under the
terms of the said call for the said election,
or that he is not citizen of the United
States, legal resident and voter of the cleo
ton precinct, ward, township, or district, or
that he has voted before at that place or some
other on that day in the same election and
it shall be the duty of such Supervisor, if
such objection be not withdrawn, to admin
lister to the person so offering to vote an oath
or affirmation to the general effect that he
will truly testify as to all matters relating to
his said qualifications under said published
call. his residence, citizenship of the United
States, and whether he has voted at that or
other place on that day at such election. 1t
shall then be the duty of the Supervisor to
interrogate the person so objected to as to all
the matters in particular upon which such
objection was made, and generally as to all
of said qualifications. If the person so OBJ
iected to shall refuse to answer such ques-
tions after said oath shall have been admin
istered it shall be the duty of the Supervisor
to reject such vote But if such oath be
taken and such questions be answered salts
factoriy, it shall be the duty of the Super.
visor to admit the vote sworn to be qualified
according to the terms Of the call and the
provisions of this Act. And any violation of
the provisions of this section by the Supervi-
sor shall be deemed misdemeanor, and
shall, on conviction, subject him to punish
ment as prescribed in section three of this
Act And any person who shall, upon
taking such oath and under the examination
herein authorized, willfully make false
statement to a matter pertinent and material
in such examination, shall be deemed guilty
of the crime of perjury, and, on conviction.
be punished as prescribed by law.
SEC. 5. Any person who is not a citizen
of the United States and qualified to vote in
the county wherein the election is held at the
next. coming State, county, or municipal
election, who shall vote at an election held
under the provisions of this Act after OBJ.
iections made as specified in section four.
or any person who shall vote more than
once at the same or different precincts or
polls, on the same day and in the same eIec
ton, whether such objection be made or not.
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor.
and, on conviction thereof, shall punished
as provided in section three of this Act.
SEC. 6. Any voluntary political associa-
tion or party that shall elect to invoke the
protection and subject itself to the provisions
of this Act, shall at the time of the publica.
ton of notice provided for in section one.
declare that such election therein called
will be held in pursuance of and subject to
the provisions of this Act, under the title of
the Primary Election Law: and in the
event such notice last aforesaid shall be pub
lished, and not otherwise, the provisions of
this Act shall be applicable and in force in
respect to such election.
SEC. I. This Act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage, and no
expense shall be incurred to the county or
State in the conduct of elections under its
provisions.
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