The Shasta courier., 1868-10-17
ELECTION LAWS.
OfQualifcations and Disabilities of Ezecto,

OfQudlifcdtions and DISABILITIES Of Electors.
SEC. 10. Every white male citizen of the
United States, and every white male citizen of
Mexico who shall have elected to become
a citizen OF the United States under the treaty
of peace exchanged and ratified at Queretaro,
on the 30th Of May, l64S, of the age of twenty
one years, who shall have been resident of the
State six months next preceding the election,
and the county or district in which he claims
his vote, thirty days, shall be entitled to vote
a. all elections which now hereafter may
be authorized by law
SEC. IL. For the purpose of voting, per-
son shall be deemed to have gained or lost a
residence by reason Of his presence or absence
on the service of the United States, nor while
engaged in the navigation of the waters of this
State or the United States, or of the high seas
nor while student of seminary of learning;
nor while kept at an almshouse or other asy-
lum, nor while confined in any public prison.
SEC. IL. No idiot or insane person, or per-
sons convicted of any Infamous crime. shall be
entitled to the privileges of an elector.
Sec. l3. A crime shall be deemed infamous
which is punishable by death by ilnprison-
ment in the State Prison.
Ofhe Place Of Holding Elections, and also Of In
spectors, Judges, and Clerks Of Election
: Sec II. It shall he the duty of each Iuspec-
lOT 10 De dI Tue pitCe WHeTe Tue pOilS are " ut
opened in the precinct for which he is appoint
ed, from eight in the morning until sunset
the day of the election. Should snch Inspector
not appear at eight o'clock in the morning. the
electors present at the place where the polls are
to be opened, may appoint an Inspector for the
precinct.
Sec. IS. The Board of Inspectors for each
precinct shall, before the time of opening the
polls, oppont two suitable persons to act
Clerks.
= Sec. 49, Before any election shall be open
ed, the Inspector, Judges and Clerks shall each,
before any officer authorized to administer oaths,
take oath that he will faithfully and impair
TALLY discharge the duties assigned him by law.
If there is no person present authorized to ad
minister oaths, the Inspector shall administer
the same to the Judges and Clerks, and one OF
the Judges shall then administer the oath to the
Inspector
SEC 20. The Inspector shall be Chairman
of the Board, and after its organization shall
have power to administer all necessary oaths,.
which may be required in the progress of the
election. He shall also have power to fill any
vacancy that may occur in the Board of Judges,
OF by absence or by refusal to serve of either of
the Clerks, after the polls have been opened.
On opening the Polls: Of Voting and Challenges
SEC 22 At all elections, the polls shall be
open at eight o'clock in the morning, and shall
continue open until sunset, at which time
the Judges shall close the polls; prorided
that the Judges of the election may take n re-
cess of one hour at any time they may think
proper during the day before three o'clock in
the afternoon
Sec 23 The Board of Judges, before they
commence receiving ballots, shall cause it to
be proclaimed aloud at the place of voting that
tlfe polls are open.
SEC. 2E. Whenever any person offers to vote,
the Inspector shall pronounce his name in an
audible voice, and if there be no objection to
the qualification of such person as an elector,
shall receive his ballot, and in the presence of
the other Judges put the same, without being
opened or examined, into the ballot box.
SEC. 90. The name of each elector whose bal
lot has thus been received, shall be Immediate
ly entered by each Clerk in the column of his
poll list, headed names of voters, numbering
each name in the additional column, as it is ta-
ken down, so that it may be seen at any time
whether the two lists agree
Sec. 27. Any person offering to vote may be
challenged as unqualified, by the Inspector. or
either of the Judges, or by any legal voter; and
it shall, in all cases, be the duty of the Inspcc-
tor and each of the Judges to challenge any
person Offering to vote whom be shall know or
suspect not to be duly qualified as an elector.
Proceedings on Challenge.
Section L. Section twenty-eight of said Act is
amended as to read as follows:
Section 2S. If any person offering to vote at
any election shall be challenged in relation to his
right to at that election, the Board of Judges
shall declare to him the qualifications of an eiector
and the Inspector of the Judges shall tender
to him the following preliminary oath;
"You do affirm, that you Will |
fully and truly answer all such questions as shall
be put to you touching your place Of residence and
qualifications as an eeetor?"
The Inspector or one of the Judges shall then
proceed to question the person challenged in rela-
ton to his name, his then place of residence, how
long he has resided in the township and county,
where his last place of residence also as to his
citizenship, and whether native or naturalized
citizen and if the latter, when, where, and In what