Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-09-27
AIFFLlNTOWN. JUNlATA COUNTY, PENN A.. SEPTEKB

selected and appointed, every convenience
and facility for the discharge of their du-
ties; and if said election officers shall re-
fuse to permit said overteers to be present
and perform their duties as aforesaid, OF if
they shall be driven away from the polls by
violence or intimidation, all the votes
polled at such An election district may be
rejected by any tribunal trying = contest
under said election: Provided That no
person signing the petition shal be ap-
pointed an orerseer.
Sec. II. II any prothonotary. clerk, or
the deputy Of either. or any other person,
| shall afiix the seal Of office to any naturali-
cation paper, or permit the same to be af
| fixed. or give out. or cause or permit the
same to be given out. in blank, whereby it
may be fraudulently used, or furnish
naturalization certificate to any person who
shall not have been duly examined and
sworn in open court, in the presence Of
some of the judges thereof, according to
| the act Of Congress. or shall aid in, con-
nive at, or in any way permit the issue Of
any fraudulent naturalization certificate,
he snail be guilty Of high misdemeanor;
or if any one shall fraudulenily use any
such certificate Of naturalization knowing
that it was fraudulently issued or shall
vote, or attempt TO vote thereon, or if any
, one shall vote, or attempt to vote on any
certificate of naturalization not issued to
HIM, he shall be guilty Of a high misde-
mennor and either or any of the persons,
or their siders or abettors. guilty of either
of the misdemeanors aforesaid, shall on
conviction be fined in sum not exceeding
one thousand dollars, and Imprisonment in
the proper penitentiary for period not
exceeding three years.
SEC. IL. ANY person who on oath or af-
| frmation. in or before any court in this
State, or officer authorized 10 administer
oatbs. snail, to procure q certificate Of nat
uralization. for himself or any other per-
SON. wiifully depose. declare or affirm any
matter to he fact, knowing the same 10 be
false. or shall in like manner deny any
matter to be fact. knowing the same to be
true. shall be deemed guilty of perjury
and any certificate of naturalization issued
in pursuance of any such deposition, de
claration or affirmation shall be null and
void and it shall be the duty Of the court
issuing the same. upon proof being made
before il that it was fraudulently obtained.
! to take immediate measures for recalling
the same for cancellation. and any person
who shall vote or attempt TO vote, on any
paper so obtained. or who shall in any way
aid in, connive At. or have any agency
whatever in the issue, circulation or use of
any fraudulent naturalization certificate,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, shall undergo
an Imprisonment in the pen'teutisry for
not more than two years, and pay fine
/ not more than Que thousand dollars, for
every such offence. or either or both, ut the
discretion os the court.
I SIC. II. ANY assessor. election officer or
/ person appointed as an overseer. who shall
neg cct refuse TO perform any duty en-
! joined by this act. without reasonable or
I legal cause, shall be subject to penalty of
one hundred dollars.
| SEC Is At all elections hereafter held,
under the laws Of this Commonwealth, the
polls shall be opened between the hours of
six md seven o'clock a. NJ, and closed ut
, seven o'clock p. NJ.
! SEE. Il. IL shall he the duty of the Sec
retary of the Commonwealth to prepare
form for all the blanks made necessary by
/ ihi. act and furnish copies of the same 10
the county commissioners of the several
counties Of the Commonwealth; and the
3
rs Soon rs may lee necessary after receipt
OF the same, at the proper expense of thu
couaty. procure and furnish AL the eec-
I tiou off ;crs Of the election districts of
their respective counties copies of such
! blanks. in such quantities a. may be rem
iered necessary tor the discnarg. OF their
! duties under tins act.
/ SEC 10 That citizens of this State tenn
Z a.. - ror
the United States government, on clerical
or other duty. and who do not vote where
thus employed. shall not be thereby de-
prived of the rigit 10 vote in their several
election district if otherwise duly quail
| fed
/ SEC 81. The act entitled ~ further sup
J pcment 10 the act relating to the elections
I of thus Commonwealth" approved April
fourth, Ammo Domini one thousand eight
hundred and sixty eight and other laws
altered or supplied by this act, be and the
same are here by repealed
! Whereas. The fifteenth amendment Of the
Constitution of the United States is as fol-
lows:
"SEcrroS l. The right of citizens of the
| United States TO vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States, or by any
State, on account of race, color or previous
! condition of servitude.
SEC =. That Congress shall have power
to enforce this article by appropriate legis-
lation."
AND WHEREAS. The Congress of the
United States on the 31st day of March,
! 1870. passed an act entitled An act TO en-
force the right Of citizens Of the United States
10 rote IN the secera! States Of the Union. and
for other purpose, :" the first and second
sections of which are as follows:
"SECrioN l. BE it enacted by the Senate
and House Of Representatives. Of the United
States of america. in Congress assembled,
That all citizens of the United States who
are or shall be otherwise qualified to vote
at any election by ,he people in any State,
territory, district, county. city, parish,
township, school district. municipality, or
other territorial subdivision, shall be en-
titled and allowed to vots at all such elcc-
ti,ns. without distinction of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude ; any Gen.
stituiion. law, custom usage, or regulation
of any State. or by or under its authority,
TO the contrary notwithstanding.
SEC 2. lind be 1t further enacted That if
by or under the authority of the constitu-
ton or laws of any State, or the laws Of
any Territory, any act is or shall be re
quired to DE done rs n prerequisite or
qualification for voting, and by such con-
stitution or laws persons or officers are or
shall he charged with the performance Of
duties in furnishing to citizens an opportu-
nifty to perform such prerequisite. or to
become qualified to vote, it shall be the
duty of every such person and officer to
give all citizens of the United States the
same and equal opportunity to perform such
prerequisite, and to become qualified to
vote without distinction of race, color. or
previous condition of servitude; and if
any such person or officer shall refuse or
knowingly omit to give fall effect to this
section. he shall, for every such offence.
forfeit and pay the sum Of FIVE hundred
dollars to the person aggrieved thereby,
to be recovered by an action in the case,
with full costs and such allowance for
counsel fees rs the court shall 1eem jdst,
and shall also. for every such offence. be
dee med guilty of a misdemcauor, and shall.
| on conviction thereof be fined not less than