Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-28
TGENEnAL NArURE.-No. 34.l-


Az Act to amend an act approved May
thirty-one, eighteen hundred and seventy, en-
titled AN act to enforce the rights of citizens
ofthe United States to vote in the several
States ofthis Union, and FOR other purposes. y
Be 1T enacted 6u the Senate and House of Rep
ressntatiues of tie United States of Americu IN
Congress assembled, That section twenty oil
the Act to enforce the rights of citizens of the
United States TO vote in the several States OF
this Union, and for other purposes. approved
May thirty one, eighteen hundred and seventy,
shall be, and hereby is, amended so as to read
as follows:
..SEc. %. A,d be IT further enacted, That if
any registration of voters for election for
Representative or Delegate in the Congress of
the United States, any person shall knowingly
personate and register, or attempt to register,
in the name OF any other person, whether llv-
ing, dead or fictitious, or fraudulently register,
or fraudulently attempt TO register not having
a lawful right SO to do; or do any unlawful act
to secure registration for himself or any other
person; or by force, threat, menace, intimida-
ton, bribery, reward, or offer, promise
thereof, or other unlawful means, prevent or
hinder, any person having lawful right to
register from duly exercising such right; or
compel or induce by any such means, or other
unlawful means, any officer of registration to
admit to registration any person not legally en-
titled thereto, or interfere in any manner With
any officer ofregstration in the discharge Of his
duties. or by any such means, or other unlaw-
fil means, induce any officer of registration to
violate or refuse to comply with his duty or
any law regulating the same; or if any such
officer shall knowingly and willfully register as
a voter any person not entitled to be registered,
refuse to SO register any person entitled to
he registered or if any such officer or other
person whose duty it is to perform any duty in
relation to such registration or election, or to
ascertain, announce, or declare the result
thereof or give make any certificate, docu-
ment or evidence in relation thereto, shall
knowingly neglect or refuse to perform any
duty required by law, or violate any duty I'M
posed by law, or do any act unauthorized by
law relating to or affecting such registration or
election or the result thereof, any certificate.
document, or evidence in relation thereto or if
any person shall aid, counsel, procure, or ad-
wise any such voter, person, or officer TO do any
act hereby made crime, or to omit any act the
omission Of which is hereby made a crime,
every such person shall be deemed guilty ola
crime, and shall be liable to prosecution and
punishment therefor provided in section
nineteen of said act of May thirty-one, eighteen
hundred and seventy, for persons guilty of any
of the crimes therein specified: Procided That
every registration made under the laws of any
State or Territory Cor any State or other cleo
ton at which such Representative or Delegate
in Congress shall be chosen shall be deemed to
be a registration within the meaning of this act,
notwithstanding the same shall also be made
for the purposes of any State, territorial, or mu
nicipal election"
SEc 2 Ind Be 1T further enacted That
whenever in any city or town having upward
of twenty thousand inhabitants, there shall be
two citizens thereof who, prior to any regis
tration of voters for an election for Representa-
tive or Delegate in the Congress of the United
States, or prior to any election at which Re-
preventative or Delegate in Congress is to be
voted for, shall make known, IN writing, TO the
Judge of the circuit court of the United States
for the circuit wherein such city or town shall
be their desire to have saeh registration, or said
election. or both, guarded and scgutinized, it
shall be the duty of the said jadge of the circuit
court within not less than ten days prior to said
registration, if one there be, or, if no regstrs-
ton b., required, within not less than ten days
prior to said election to open the said circuit
court at the most convenient point in said cie-
cult. md the said court when opened by
said Judge. shall proceed TO appoint and
mission from day to day and from time to time
and under the hand of the said circat judge,
and under the seal of said court for each c4ec-
lion district or voting precinct III each and every
such city. er town as shall ia the manner here
in prescribed have applied therefore, and to
revoke change, or renew said appointment
from time TO time, two citizens residents of said
city or Ia gn, who shall be of different political
parties. and able to read and write the English
languag. , and who shall be known and designa-
ted s. supervisors of election. And the said
crcu court, when opened by the said circuit
iadge as required herein, shall thcrefrom and
thereafter, anahp TO and including the day fol-
lowing the day al election be always open for
the tr;ssasaet{oa Of business under this act, and
the pewers and Jurisdiction hereby granted
and conferred shah be exercised as well in va
.Aatioa as in term time; asd judge sitting at
chambers shall have the same powers and juris-
dietien, including the power Of keeping order
an of panishing any contempt of his agthori-
* As when sitting in court.
SEC. 3. 4nI Be It farther enacted. Thet when
eve~, from sickness, injury otherwise, tie
xdgc of the circuit court Of the Unje1 Sis.scs