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Section l. Be it enacted by the Senat
and House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General AS
sembly met, and it is hereby enacted bv tn,
authority of the same. That the qualified
| voters, of the several counties of this com
monwealth, at all general, township, borough
and special elections, are hereby hereaffe,
authorized and required to vote by ticket,
prInted or written, or partly printed ant
partly written, severally classified as follows
One ticket shall embrace the names of a |
Judges of courts voted for, and to be labelled
outside q" judiciary one ticket shall en-
brace the name of all State officers voted tol
and be labelded "State;" one ticket shal
embrace the name of all County officers vot.
ed for, including officer of Senator, member
and members of Assembly, if voted for. and
members of Congress, if voted for and be
labelled "County;" one ticket shall embrace
the name OF all township officers voted for,
and be labelled ' township ;" one ticketshal II
embrace the names of ali borough officers
voted for and be labelled thorough :" and
each class shall De deposited in separate bal
lot-boXes
ACT, April II, 1869.
Section 3: After the ass essments have
been completed on the tenth day preceding
the second Tuesday in October of each wear,
the assessor shall, on the Monday immediate
ly following, make a return to the county
Commissioners of the names of all persons
assessed by him since the return required
to be made by him by the second section of
thus act, noting opposite each name the OBJ.
serva:ions and explanations required to be
noted as aforesaid and the county Commits
sioners shall thereupon cause the same to be
added to the return required by the second
section OF this act, and a full and correct
copy thereof to be made, containing the
names OF all persons so returned as resident
taxables in said ward, borough, township or
precinct, and furnish the same together with
the necessary election blanks. 10 the officers
OF the election in said ward, borough, town.
ship or precinct, on or before six o'clock in
the morning of the second Tuesday of Oc-
tober; and no man shall be permitted to vote
at the election on that day whose name is
not on the list, unless he shall make proof
OF his right to vote, as hereinafter required
Section 4. On the day of election any
person whose name is not on the list, and
claiming the right to vote at said election,
shall produce at least one qualified voter of
the district as witness 10 the residence of
the claimant in the district in which he
claims 10 be voter, for the period of at least
ten days next preceding said election, which
witness shall take and subscribe a written,
or partly written and partly printed, affidavit
10 the facts stated by him, which affidavit
shall define clearly where The residence is
nf 10 ol
the person so ella inning the right to vote shall
also take and subscribe a written, or partly
written and partly printed affidavit stating,
TO the best of his knowledge and belief,
where and when he was born; that he is
citizen OF the commonwealth of Pennsylva-
MIA and OF the United States; that he has re-
sided In the commonwealth one year, or if
formerly a citizen therein and has moved
therefrom, that he has resided therein six
months next preceding said election that he
has not moved into the district for the pur.
pose Of voting therein that he has paid
state or county tax within two years, which
was assessed at least ten days before said
election; and, if naturalized citizen, shall
also state when, where and by what court
he was naturalized, and shall also produce
his certificate of naturalization, for examin-
alton the said affidavit shall also state when
and where the tax claimed to be paid by the
affianl was assessed, and when, where and
to whom paid !; and the tax receipt therefor
shall be produced for examination, unless the
ltfiant shall state in his affidavit that il has
been lost or destyed, or that he never re-
:elved any; but if the person so claiming
he right 10 vote shall take and subscribe an
lffidavit, that he is native born citizen of,
.he United States, Cor if born elsewhere,
shall state that fact in his affidavit, and sha!
produce evidence that he has been natural
zed. or that he is entitled to citizenship by
reason OF his fathers natura lizatlon y and
shall further state in his affidavit that he is
1t the time of taking the affidavit, between
he ages ottwenty- one and twenty-five years;
hat he has resided in the state one year and
N the election district ten days next prece-
ling such election, he shall be entitled to
vote, although he shall not have paid taxes
he said affidavits of all persons making such
aims, and the affidavits of the witnesses TO
heir residence, shall be preserved by the
election board. and at the close of the elec-
lion they shall be enclosed with the list of|
'oters, tally list and other papers required
'y law to be filed by the return Judge with
he prothonotary, and shall remain on file
herewith in the prothonotory's Office, sub. |
ect TO exa xamnation, as other election papers
ire; if the election officers shall find that
he applicant or applicants possess all the
egal qua alifications of voters, he or they shall
,e permitted to vote, and the name or names
shall be added TO the list of taxables by the
election officers, the word "tax" being added
where the claimant claims TO vote on tax,
md the word ''age" where he claims to vote
IN age; the same words being added by the
clerks in each case respectively, on the lists
If persons voting at such election.
Section 5. 1t shall be lawful for any
qualified citizen of the district, notwithstand-
ng the name of the proposed voter is con-
AIMED on the list of resident taxables, to
the vote of each person; where
Ipon the same proof of the right of suffrage
is is now required by law shall be publicly
made and acted on by the election board, and