Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-08-31
WEAVERVILLE CALIFORNIA, AUGUST 81, 1867

49, IT any person, not having the legal quail
lhchtIons OF any elector, shall fraudulenly vote,
or shall fraudulentv attempt to vote at any cleo
tlon, such person on conviction thereof shall be
hned IN any sum not less than twenty nor more
than two hundred dollars. ISame Act, Sl0l1
1888. If any elector shall vote more than
at any election, or shall knowingly hand in two
or more tickets folded together, or shall attempt
to vote more than once at the same election, he
shall on conviction thereof be fined in any sum
not exceeding five hundred dollars. TSame Act,
II02
lS9. If any inspector, judge or clerk of any
election while acting such, shall induce,
attempt to induce, any elcctor, either by menace
or reward, or promise thereof to vote differently
from what such elcctor shall intend or desire to
vote, such person SO offending shall, upon con-
viction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than
fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. Same
Act. l03
100. If any inspector, judge or clerk of an
election shall, previous to putting the ballot OF
any elrctor in the balot-box, attempt to pry into
or find out any name or names on such ballot
which shall have been handed in by said elect"r
in folded form or if any inspector, judge or
clerk of any election shall open or suffer the
folded ballot of an elector, which has been hand
ed in the Board of Judges, to be opened or
examined into previous to putting the same INTO
the ballot box or if any inspector, judge or
clerk of an election shall make or place any
mark or devise on any folded ballot which has
been handed in to the Board of Judges by any
elector, with the view to ascertaining the name
Of any person or persons for whom such elector
shall have voted at any such election; or if any
! inspector. Judge clerk of an election. withou:
the consent of the elector, shall disclose the
name of any person persons which such in
spector, Judge or clerk shall have fraudulently
or illegally discovered to have been voted for by
such tector at any election, every such inspec-
tor Judge or clerk of an election so offending,
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined IN any
sum not less than fifty nor more than five hun
dred dollars. Every person who shall forge OF
counterfeit returns Of an election purporting tc
have been held at n precinct, town or ward
where no election was in fact held, or shall will
fully substitute forged or counterfeit returns o
election in the place of the true returns for
precinct. town ward where an election wa
actually held, snail, upon conviction, be punish
ed ny imprisonment in the State Prison for
term not less than two years aud not more thar
ten years. Every person who shall witully ad,
to subtract from the votes actually cast ut NJ
election in any returns of such election, wheth
er such person be officer such election or not
every officer of elections who shall wilfuIy make
false and fraudulent returns, in any manner
Whatever of an election held in any precinct
town or ward; and every person whomsoevcr
whether officer not TO whom or through whom
any such returns required by law to be made
whether such person he County Clerk, Messen-
ger Secretary of State, or other person, who
shall alter such election returns, shall upon con-
victon be punished by Imprisonment in the
State Prison for term not less than one nor
more than five years. Every person who shall
aid abet in the commission of any of the of
fences mentioned in this section, who being
present at or cognizant of the commission of
+ either of said offences, and shall not give inor-
nation thereof us soon AS practicable to the
! District Attorney or Grand Jury of the proper
county, or to some Justice Of the Peace of such
couuty shall, for every such offence. be punish
ed upon conviction thereof by Imprisonment in
the comfy jill Tor the period of six months, or
in the State Prison for a term of not more than
two years. Amendment of April %, 1868. p.
| 398.