The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-04-16
EBENSBURG, PA, THURSDAY APRIL l6, 1868.

charge, of any person resident within the
said election district who shall desire to
see the same, as it shall be the duty of
said assessor to add, from time to time,
on the personal application of any one
claiming the right TO vote, the name of
such claimant, and mark opposite the
name &C W" and Immediately assess him
with tax. On the tenth day preceding
the general election in October next there
after. it shall be the duty of the assessor
to produce the list in his possession to the
inspectors and judges of the election of the
proper district at meeting to be held by
them as hereinafter directed.
3. 1t shall be the duty of the inspectors
and Judge of the election, together with the
assessor, to attend at the place of holding
the general elections for the respective
election districts on Saturday, the tenth
day next preceding the second Thursday
IN October, and on the other days herein
after mentioned, and continue in open
session at said place from nine s'clock a.
M till six o'clock p. m, of said day, TO
hJar proof of the right of the respective
| persons to vote whose names are contained
in the assessors list, as before mentioned,
or who shall apply to them to have their
names registered and all persons who
! have not previously voted in the election
district shall make due proof, in the man
ner now prescribed by the election laws, of
! their right to vote in said district, and ike
! proof shall be made in all cases by those
applying for registry whose names are not
enrolled by the assessor and marked
''voter - and it shall be the duty of the
assessor, forthwith, 10 assess said person
with a tax as requiued by law, on the
prof being made to the satisfaction of the
e. c:ion board, if not already assessed on
the list of the voters in the said district
being complete, it shall be the duty of The
election Cfficers afol esaid to cause duplicate
C pies thereof TO be made out. forthwith,
in alphabetical order, one of which shall
be pl, ced on tie door of the hot Sc VIII r
The elections are to be held and the other
r,tIined by the judge of the election, who
| shall hold the same subject to the ins, 'ec-
ton of any CT zen of g. id district until the
| day of the general election, and produce
the same thereat Provided, that the
| officers hereinbefore named, when they
! shall deem it advisable, may meet for the
purposes named in this section one or
more days (not exceedingly four) prior to
the tenth day next preceding any general
| or presidential election, of which meeting
and its purposes they shall give due public
notice by wit en- or printed handbills, post
| ed in at least six of the most public piac e
| in their respective wards, In cities, bor-
! oughe, wards in boroughs or townships !;
| And preuided ftG7ther, that any ward in a
| city, borough, ward in borough or town
ship having but one assessor, is divided
into two or more election precincts or
districts, the judges and inspectors of all
! such election districts or precincts, in each
ward in city, borough, ward in borough,
or township, respectively, shall meet at the
precinct polling the largest number of votes
at the last preceding election in their res
pective wards, boroughs or townships, and
shall give due public notice as hereinbefUre
provided, of the time and place of their
meeting, and in all cases where any ward
in the city, borough ward in the borough,
or township is SO divided into two or more
| election districts, it shall be the duty OF
the assessor to assess each voter In the
election district 10 which he belongs, and
TO furnish separate duplicate lists to the
election officers in each election district.
1t shall be the further duly of the said in-
spectors, judges and assessor, in each
! ward, borough and township, to meet
again, at the place fixed on by the third
section of this act, on the Thursday next
preceding any general election, between
the hours of nine and ten, a. M, and re-
main in session until six, p. m, for the
purpose of hearing and determining any
claims that may be presented to them by
any person or persons claiming to be enti-
tied to vote and whose name or names
have not been entered on the registry of
the election district in which he or they
claim to be entitled to vote, each person
J so claiming to be entitled to vote therein
shall produce at least one qualified voter
of the district as a witness to the residence
of the claimant in the district in which he
claims to be voter for the period Of al
least ten days next preceding the general
election then next ensuing, which witness
shall take and subscribe an affidavit to the
facts stated by him, which affidavit shall
define clearly where the residence is of the
person so claiming to be voter, and the
person so claiming the right to be registered
shall also take and subscribe an affidavit
stating where and when he was born
that he is a citizen of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and of the United States
and, if "a naturalized citizen, shall alsC
state when, where and by what court hC
was naturalized and he shall also pre-
sent his certificate of naturalization fol
examination, unless he has been a voter
in said election district for FIVE years ther
next preceding that he has resided in thi
Common wealth one year, or, if formerly I
citizen therein and has moved therefrom
that he has resided therein six month
next preceding the general election theI
next following; that he has not moved int
the district for the purpose of voting there
in that he has not been registered as