The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-09-24

II theieoi: anu upon CONVICTION OF any violation
of the requirement of this section, any sher-
lift shall be guilty of a misdemeanor in office,
and be punished in like manner as the of
fences prohibited by the second, third and
4 fourth sections of this act are punishable.
| The law regulating the, lection of Presi-
dental electors, provides as follows:
Notice is Hereby Given,
That every person, excepting Justices of
the Peace, who shall hold an Office or ap-
pointment of profit or trust under the United
States or of this State or any city or corpor-
ated district, whether commissioned officer
or otherwise, a subordinate officer, or agents
who is or shall be employed under the legis-
latve, executive or judiciary department of
this State or the United States, or of any
incorporate district; and also, that every
member of Congress, aud of the State legis-
lature and of the select or common council
OF any city, or commissioner or any incorpor-
atcd district is by law incapable of holding
or exercising ut the same time, the appoint
ment Of Judge, Inspector, or clerk of any
election of this Commonwealth. and that no
Inspector, Judge or other officer of such elec-
tion shall be eligible to be then voted for.
| And the said act of Assembly, entitled ian
act relating to elections of this Common
wealth, passed July I'd, 1889, further provides
That the Inspectors and Judges shall meet
at the respective places appointed for hold
ing the election in the distric, to which they
respectively belong, before nine o'clock in
the morning of the second Tuesday OF Octo-
Der, and each of said inspectors shall appoint
one clerk. who shall be a qualified voter.
alt shall be the duty of said assessors re-
spectively 10 attend at the places of holding
every general, special or township election
during the whole time said election is kept
open, for the purpose Of giving information
to the Inspectors and Judges, when called on
in relation to the right of any person assess
ed by them TO vote at such election, and
such other matters in relation 10 the assess
ments of votes as the said inspectors or judg-
es, or either of them, shall from time to time
require.
| Agreeably 10 The provisions of the sixty.
frat section of said act every General and
Special election shall be opened between
the hours Of eight and ten in the forenoon,
and shall continue without interruption or
adjournment until in the evening, when
the polls shall be closed.
! "No person shall be admitted to vote
whose name is not contained in The list of
taxable inhabitants furnished by rhe Com
missioncrs, unless first he produces a receipt
| for payment within two years, of State or
| County tax assessed agreeably to the Consti-
tuition, and give satisfactory evidence either
on his own oath or the affirma ton of another
that he has paid such tax, or on failure to
produce a receipt, shall make oath TO the
naYment thereof; or, second If he claims
right 10 vote hv being an elector between
the ages of 81 and % years he shall dePose
on oath or affirmation that he has resided IN
the Slate at least one year next before has
application and make such proof of residence
in the district as is required by this act, and
that he does verify believe, from the accounts
given him, that he is of the age aforesaid,
and gives such other evidence as is required
by this act, yhereupon the name of the per-
son so admitted 10 vote shall be inserted in
the alphabetical list by the inspectors and a
note made opposite thereto, by writing the
word tax he should be admitted to vote by
reason of having paid tax, or the word age
if he shall be admitted 10 vote by reason of
such age; shall be called out to the clerks,
| who shall make The like notes in the list of
vcters kept by them.
"In all cases where the name ofa person
claiming 10 vote is found on the list furnish
right to vote whether thereon or not is OBJ
jected to by any qualified citizen it shall be
the duty of the inspector to examine such
person on oath as to his qualifications, and if
be claims to have resided within the district
for one year or more his oath shall be suffi-
cient proof thereof. but shali make proof at
least by one competent witness who shall be
a qualified elecror that he has resided within
the district for more than ten days next pre-
ceding such election and shall also himself
swear, that his bona fde residence in pur-
,uance of his lawful calling is within the
district, and that ne did not remove In said
district for the purpose of voting therein.
Every person qualified sforesald, and who
shall make due proof, if required of his resi-
dence and payment of taxes aforesaid, shall
be admitted TO vote in the tow nship, ward or
district in which he shall reside.
"If any person not qualified to vote in this
Commonwealth, agreeably to law except the
sons ofqualifed citizens), shall appear at any
place of election for the purpose of issuing
tickets or influencing the citizens qualified
to vote, he shall on conviction forfeit and pay
any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars,
for every such offence, and be imprisoned for
any term not exceeding three months.
Pursuant to the provision contained in the
9Th section of the act aforesaid, the Judges
of the aforesaid district shall take charge of
the certificate or return of the election Of
their respective districts and produce them a
a meeting of the judges from each district at
the Court House in the Borough Of S,rouds-
burg, on the third day after the day of elec-
tion, being for the presentyear on FRIDA Y