The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-10-09

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In order that eyeryqFoter may
know for himself W hat. are tine quail
Ffcationssof an eIector at next Tues
days election, we publish from the
Ohio State Journal, an abstract of
the Constitution and laws on this SUBJ
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L. Every whites male citizen Of
the United States, twenty-one years
old, who shall have been, next pre-
ceeding the election. +'''f , 81 'l''.i .
I; 1. An actual resident of the State i
for one year;;' ;'na0-i iiiAI.''i'E 15t'r 7i1
2.oAn actual resident Of the coun--i
'ty for thirty days and, ID u g 3....
g. An actual resident of the town
ship, incorporated village or ward
for twenty days..o II the person Of
fering to vote in any township, IN
|eorporated village or ward, is The,
head Of a family, and has actually re
sided in the State one year, and id
the county where he. offers to vote
for thirty days, and shall in good
faith, remove with his famfly from
Zone ward to another in the SAME City
or village, or from a ward in the city
or village to a township. or incorpo?
rated village, or from q township or
incorporated village to a ward of a
city or village in the same county,
such person is entitled to vote with
out having resided the twenty days
in the ward, incorporated village or
township Except that, to vote at
municipal elections, tie person offer!
ing to vote must have resided in the
ward of the city or village the twenty
days. Sd s'li '''i 't.IS'l !" SCI - %
4. In determining the residence of
e person offering to vote, the, judges
of the election are to be governed by
the rules prescribed in the Statute Of
April II, 1851, except, the provisoI
that judges and clerks of. elections
shalt not BE fable for damages
for rejecting the Q votes I OF per:
sons having a visible admixture
of African blood, has been held by
the Supreme Court to be unconstitu-
tional and 9ofds 2 @9''Hl 10 IL
Asst the right of Students to vote.
The District Court Of Champaign
county, t6 witch was reserved, for
decision, tlic visible admixture case
from Greene county, is understood to
have held unanimously that the Act
of Ap-il 16, 1865, SO far rs it relates
to the residence of a vorer, Is not es-
sentfally different from the previous
statute, and that under either act, it
is sufficient IL the voter, whether
student or not, has actually resided
in the State one year, IN the comfy |
thirty days, and in the ward or town
ship twenty days, and has no, other
place of residence. - -
THE TfsIBLE ADMlxTuRE STATUTE. q
The act known BY this name, pass:
ed by the Legislature, April 16, 1868,
(vol IS Ohio Laws, pages, 81, 9S,
SO, leo, J has been declared, by the
Supreme Court, to be une INSTITUTIONAL
and.void. The question Of the val
idity Of. the act was, passed TO the
Supreme Court for decision In May
last, in the case Of lMo,sroe and Others
Us. Collins, reported in, Vol. II Ohio
State Reports, page 665. Appended
below is copy of the syllabus as it
Is published in The official volume.
This syllabus contains the points de
-cided BY tie Court, and . t course the
decision, being maize ttyg tks. highest
Judicial stribGnal in tbe State, Is TO 1
be taken a as tiis lay by ans az officers nee and
citizens. = ',,'-'.ID .9' 80 ''''''
James B. Monroe, roe David Martin ana George
A. Lanrnan.s as Ge0rge'w W. Collins? Motion |
for leave 70. fiiesx petition in error to re-,I
gsFss the sS IsSg2spt Of ting DistrlGt Court
d. Copy of thtiPOints Dsefded. y 1'''i'
al. Male citizens iavinga visible I
admfxture Of Afritkh Blood, bit IN
whom The White Blood pfed6minates, |
are white male citizens within the
meaning Of the Constitution Of Ohio,
and have the same right to vote as
as citizens of pure wh1te blood. '@-
'"2. The Legislature has no power,
directly or indirectly, to deny or
abridge the constitutional right or
citizens to vote, or unnecessarily to
impede its exercise; and laws passed
professedly to regulate its exercise /
or prevent its abnse, must be reason
able. uniform and impartial. '"''f1
"3. The Act of April l6, 1868, (65t
o. L. 81 "supplementay to the act
entitled IAN act to preserve the purity
of elections passed March 90, fs41, I
and to protect the judges of elections
in the discharge of their duties;' and I
also, the last clause in tile proviso +
In section 8, of the act Of April II, |
1868, t65 o. L..100 104) 40 amend
sections g. a, S. and d24, of the act
entitled 'an act topreserve the purity
OF elections passed March2 20, l84f, M
&c providing that clerks ssd Judges
of elections shall net be'liable for
the votes ofpcrsons having
a visible adnixtare of African blood,
are in their spirit, scope and effect I
to impede, and in a great
measure to defeat the@exercise of the
right of suffrage by legarvoters, hay
ing such visible sdmixture of Africarft
blood, by imposing on them unrea
sonable burdens of proof, and limits-il
tons as TO kind and amouht OF evi-I
ience required Of them, by implicitly /
the unconditional rejec-t
ton of their votes;- by denying 10
them the same right of action which I
is accorded to others for the viola-f
ton of their rights; and'by discrim9
mating against them, and in favor of
other classes OF voters, as t6ipdnish-
ment and penalties for violation of
the election laws, and are, therefore,
unconstitutional and void. d."'s a1i d'''
~ - TICKETS. 7.9i'I'i@ a.J 4
By The Act Of May S, 1868, (vol. |
65 06io Laws, pages lSS, 1S9, } it, is
unlawful TO mark the ticket of any
slec.or 20 ascertain how he votes. or