The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-06
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ENERAL ELECTION PROCTA.

Z III MAIlON.-N HEHEAS, III anu DY an act OF
General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Penn
syIvania entitled ''An Act to regulate the Cen
eral Elections within this Commonwealth " it is
eniained upon me to give public notice Of said E.
Iections and to enumerate IN said notice what Off
GERS are to be elected, |, ROBERT STECKMAN
Sheriff of the county of Bedford, do hereby make
known and give this public notice to the electors
of the county of Bedford that General Election
! will be held in said county, on the
| SECOND TUESDAY (Sth) OF OCTOBER,
1867. Mt the several election districts viz
The electors of the Borough of Bedford and
township of Bedford, to meet at the Court House
in said borough
The electors of Broad Top township and Coal
Dale borough to meet at the school house in said
borough.
The electors of the borough of Bloody Run to
meet at the House of Daniel B. OFT in said bor-
ough.
The electors of Coerain township to meet at the
house of And Pennel in Rainsburg in said town
ship.
The electors of Cumberland Valley township to
meet Mt the new school house erected on the land
owned by John Whips heirs in said township.
The electors of Harrison township to meet at
the house of Jacob Feightner, in said township.
The electors of Juniata township to meet at Key
ser's school house in said township.
The electors of Hopewell township to meet at
the school house near the house of John Dasher in
said township.
The electors of Londonderry township to meet
at the house now occupied by VIM H. Hill as a
shop in Bridgeport in said township.
The electors of Liberty township to meet at the
school house in Stonerstown in said township.
The electors of Monroe township to meet at the
house lately occupied by james Carnell in Clear
Vile in said township.
The electors of Schelsburg borough to meet at
the brick school house in said borough
The electors Of Napier township to meet a the
brick school house in the borough of Schel sburg.
The electors of East Providence township to
meet at the house lately occupied by John Nycum,
jr., in said township.
The electors of Snake Spring township to meet
at the school house near the Methodist church on
the land of ohm g. Hartley.
The electors of West Providence township to
meet at the house of Philip Hollar in said town
ship.
The electors of ST. Clair township to meet at the
school house near the residence of Joseph Griffith
in said township.
The electors of Union township to meet at the
school house near Mowry's mill in said township.
The electors of South WOodberry township to
meet at the house of Samuel Oster near Mobiles
mill in said township.
The electors of Southampton township to meet
at the house of VIM. Adams in said township.
The electors of SaxtOn Borough to meet at the
schoolhouse in slid borough.
The electors of Middle Woodberry township to
meet at the house Henry Fluke in the village Of
Woodberry.
At which time and place the qualified electors
will elect by ballot
ONE PERSON for the office of Judge of the Su-
preme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsyva-
mia.
TWO PERSONS, in conjunction with the coun-
ties of Somerset and Fulton, for the Office of Mem
bers of the House of Representa- ives of Pennsyl-
Vania.
ONE PERSON for the office of District Attorney
for said county.
ONE PERSON for the office of County Treasurer
for said county.
ONE PERSON for the Office of Commissioner for
said county
ONE PERSON for the office of Poor Director for
said county.
TWO PERSONS for the Office of Jury Commits
sioner for said county.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That every person
excepting Justices of the Peace who shall hold any
office or appon tment Of profit or trust under the
United States or of this State, or any city or cor
pOrated district, whether a commissioned officer
or otherwise, a subordinate officer agent who is
or shall be employed under the legislative, execu-
tive or judiciary department OF this State, or of
any city, of any incorporated district, and Also
that every member of Congress and of the State
Legislature, and of the select or common council
of any city, or commissioners of any incorporated
district is by law incapable of holding excrcis
ing at the time, the office or appointment of Judge,
Inspector or Clerk of any election of this Common
wealth, and that no Inspector, Judge or other Of
fcer of such election shall be eligible to be then
voted for.
And the said act of assembly entitled IAN act
relating to elections of this Commonwealth, -
passed July 2, 1919, further provides as follows,
nat the inspector ana Judges shall meet at
the respective places appointed for holding the
election in the district at which they respectively
belong, before 8 o'clock in the morning of the
SECOND TUESDAY OF OCTOBER, and each
said inspector shall appoint one clerk, who shall
be qualified voter Ofsuch district.
''In case the person who shall have received
the highest number of votes for inspector shall not
attend on the day of any election, then the per-
son who shall have received the second highest
number of votes for Judge at the next preceding
election shall act as Inspector in his place. And
in case the person who has received the second
highest number of votes for Inspector shall not at
tend, the person elected Judge shall appoint
Inspector in his place, and if ally vacancy still
continue in the board for the space of hour
after the time fixed by law for the opening of the
election the qualified voters of the township, ward
or district for which such officer shall have been
elected, present at the election, shall elect one of
their number to fill such vacancy,
ut shall be the duty of the several assessors
spectiyely to attend at the place of holding every
general, special or township election, during the
whole time such election is kept open, for the pur-
pose of giving information to the Inspectors and
Judge, when called on, in relation to the light of
any person assessed by them to vote at such elec-
ton, and on such other matters in relation to the
assessment of voters, the said Inspectors or
ether of them shall from time to time require
No person shall be permitted to vote at any
election as aforesaid, than white citizen of the
in this State at least year. and in the election
district where he offers to vote, ten days mmedi-
ately preceding such election, and within two
years paid a State County tax, which shall
have been assessed at least ten days before the e.
lection But citizen of the United States who
has previously been qualified voter of this State
and removed therefrOm and returned, and who
shall have resided in the election district and
paid taxes aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote at
ter residing in this State six months. Pr0rided.
That the white freemen, citizens of the United
States, between the age of twenty-one and twen-
ty two years who have residedin the election dis
rict ten days aforesaid shall be entitled to vote,
although they shall not have paid tax.
mo person shall be permitted to vote whose
name is not contained in the list of taxable inhab-
itants, furnished by the Commissioners, unless
First, he produce n receipt Of payment within
two years of State or County tax assessed agreea-
bly, to the Constitution, and give satisfactory evil
dence on his oath affirmation of another
that he has paid such tax, or in failure to pro-
duce a receipt shall make oath to tho payment
thereof; or second. if he claim right to vote by
being an elector between the age Of twenty-O
and twenty-five years shall depOse on oath or at
rmations that he has resided in the State at least
one year before his application, and make such
proof of residence in the district is required by
this act. and that he does verify believe from the
account given him that he is of the age aforesaid,
and gives such other evidence as is required by
this act, whereupon the name of the person so aG
mitted to vote shall be inserted in the alphabet
ical lit by the inspector, anda note made oppo-
site thereto by writing the word 'taX if he shall
be admitted to vote by reason of having paid tax,
and the word age if he shall be admitted vote
by reason of age, and in either the reason of
such n vote shall be called out to the clerks. who
shall make like note in the list of voters kept by
them.
''In all cases where the name of the person
claiming to vote is not found on the list furnished
by the Commissioners or his right to vote wheth-