Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-04-30


The undersigned, a minority Of the
Standing Committee on the judiciary, /,
being unable to concur with the MAJOR
ity OF said committee in their action
and Recommendation respecting III. B.
No. Al, entitled g A bill to amend sec
tions ?, 4, 3 and "a of an act entitled
An act to preserve the purity of cleo
tions,' &C., as amended April II, 1868, -
submit the following report:
The bill proposes to. amend SO much
of said ameudatOry act of the first ses-
sion of this. General Assembly as ap-
plies to students in attendance upon
our colleges and institutions of learn
ing. by repeal thereof The said sec
tions and provisions of said act thus
proposed to be repealed by this bill are
ssSECTIoN .. Fifth-A per-.
son shall not be considered or held to
have gained residence in any town
ship, city, or incorporated village Of
this state, who may. now be in attend
ance upon, or who shall hereafter come
into such township, city, or incorpo-
rated village to attend any school, SEM
mary, academy, college, university, or
other institution of learning located
or established therein, as q pupil ,schol-
ar, or student, unless the person in at
tendance on such school, seminary,
academy, college, university, or other
institution of learning, as such pupil,
scholar, or student, was legally Quali-
fed elector of the townships citv. or in
corporated village in which the same
is located or established, or unless the
pupil, scholar, or student shall, upon
oath, declare that he has no other place
of residence, and that it is his inten-
tion to make such township, city, or in
cOrpOrated village his permanent resi-
dence, or. unless the parent or parents
of such pupil, scholar, or student had
actual residence. therein, in accordance
with the foregoing provisions of this
section, or had removed thereto with
the intention of making the same such
residence, before, at the time, or since
such attendance commenced
If a person offering to vote at any such
| election shall be challenged as unquali-
fed, on the ground that he is IN attend
anee upon, or that he came into the
township, incorporated Village, or ward
of a city or village in which he offers to
vote, to attend any school, seminary,
/ academy, college, university, or other
/ institution Of learning, located or es=
tablished therein, as pupil, scholar,
| or student, the judges of the election,
/ or one of them, shall put to the person
| so offering to vote the following ques-
I tions, in addition to the questions pre-
scribed IN section thirteen of the act to
/ which this is amendatory:
:" i. Were YOU a qualified elector of
! this township, incorporated village, OF
| ward, at the time you commenced at
tending such school, seminary, acade-
4 my, college, university, or other inSti-
tuition of learning, as a pupil, scholar,
or student
I So. Did YOU come into this township.
4 Incorporated village, or ward, to attend
any such school, seminary, academy,
4 EcOllege, university, or other institution
of learning, as a pupil, scholar, or stu
-tdent
IS. Did your parents actually reside
in this township, incorporated village,
u or ward at the time YOU commenced
4attending such school, seminary, acad-
/ emy, college, university, or other in
stitution of learning, as pupil, scholar
or student?
4" 4. Did your parents actually lyremove
to this township, incorporated village,
4 or ward, with the intention of making
the same their place of residence, be-
fore or at the time you commenced at
4 tending such school, seminary, acade-
my, college, university, or other insti-
4 tuition of learning, as pupil, scholar
or student?
4 " 8. Have you no other place of resi-,
7 dence than this township, ward, or in
cOrpOrated village?
4 SO. Is it your Intention to make this
i township, ward, or incorporated vii
4 lage, your place of permanent resi-
denee?
t'SEC. 4. ANY person who shall vote
in any township, incorporated village
, or ward of a city or village, in thi
State, in which he has not actually re
sided twenty days next preceding th'
election, or into which he shall hav'
come for temporary purposes merely
or for the purpose of attending an!
school, seminary, academy, college
university or other institution of learn
Fl ing, except as provided for, shall, 3ol
conviction thereof, be fined in any sun
not exceeding five hundred dollars, no
less than two hundred dollars, and b
imprisoned in the Jail of the prOpe
county not more than six months, no
less than three months"
The etwenty-fourth section, as amend
ed, provides, if any judge of election
shall knowingly receive, or sanction
1 the reception of, vote from persol
a who shall refuse to answer any ques
: tion which shall be put to him in &C
\ cordance with the above provisions O
3 this act, he shall, on conviction thereof
4 oe hned in any sum not exceeding on
: Ihousand dollars, nor less than thre
7 hundred dollars.
The Constitution of our State ma
- prescribed the qualifications of elector
IN these words: g Every white NAL
citizen of the United States, of the az
z OF tWenty-one years, who shall haYt
4 been resident of the State one Yea
81 next preceding the election, and of tn
IS county, towship and ward an which b
s resides, such time as may be provide
3 by law, shall have the qualifications {
: an elector, and be entitled to vote at a
!, elections.-( Article v, Section /, U1