The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-12

months. Provided, That the freemen,
citizens of the United States, who are
between the ages of twenty.one and
twenty-five years, and who have resided
in the election district ten days as afore
said, shall be entitled to vote, although
they have not paid taxes.
WHEREAS, The Fifteenth Amend
ment of the Constitution of the United
States is as follows:
SECTION /. The right of citizens of
the United States shall not be denied OF |
abridged by the United States on ac-
count of race, color, or previous condi-
ton Of servitude
Sec 2. That Congress shall have |
power to enforce this article by appropri-
ate legislation.
And echereas, The Congress of the
United States, on the 31st df March
1870, passed an act entitled, "An act
to enforce the right Of citizens of the
| United States to vote in the several
States Of the Union, and Tor other
purposes" the first and second sections
of which are as followsi
Be 1t enacted, &C., That all citizens
of the Unie States who are or
shall be otherwise qualified to vote at
any election by the people of any State,
Territory, district, city, county, parish,
township, school district, municipality, or
other territorial subvison shall be entitled
and allowed to vote at all such elections,
without distinction of color, race, or
previous condition Of servitude; any con-
stitution, law, custom, usage, or regula-
ton of any State or territory, or by or
under lis authority, to the contrary,
notwithstanding.
SEC. 2. And be 1t further eaactc
That it, by or under the constitution or
laws of any State or the laws of any ter
ritory, any act is or shall be required to
be done as prerequisite or qualification
, for voting, and by euch constitution or
laws persons or officers arc or shall be
charged with the performance cf duties
in furnishing to citizens an opportunity to
perform such prerequisites, or to become
qualified to vote it shall be the duty OF
every such rerson .aud officer to give all
f citizens Of the United States, the same
and equal portunity to perform such
, prerequisite and to become qualified to
vote without distinction Of race, color or
T previous condition of serSitude; and il
any such persons or officers shall refuse,
or knowingly omit to give full effect tc
e this section, he shall for every such of.
fence, forfeit aud pay the sum OF five
4 hundred dollars, to the persons aggrieveo
thereby, to be recofered by an action OF
g the case. with full costs and such a low
ance for counsel fees as the court shal
# deem just, and shall also for every suci
offence be deemed guilty OF misdcnean
j.. or, ana shall on conviction thereof b'
,f fined not less than FIVE hundred dollar
n or to be imprisoned not less than on
- month and not more than one year, o
= both. at the discretion Of the court
And Whereas, 1t is declared by th
secnod section OF the Vi article OF th
I" Constitution of the United States, tha
eH This Constitution Of the United State
'e which shall he malie in pursuance thereC
- shall be the supreme law of the land
!, * # anything in He Constellation 0
~ ~ loscs IF anV iState, to the contrary, no
or u. 'cithstnding."
s: And whcreas, The Legislature of tn
O! Commonwealth, Gu the 9th day of Apr
cd 1870, passed an act entitled "a turtle
De supplement to the act relating to ele
he tioDs IN this Commonwealth" the 10,
ed section provides as follows:
NJ SECTION 10. That so much of evel
ed act of Assembly as provides that on
or white freemen shall be entitled to vot
,et or be registered as voters, or as claimir
n to vote at any general or special eecti'
cd Of this Commonwealth, be and the san
all is hereby repealed, and that hcreaft
all freennen without distinction of cole
m shall he enrolled aud registered accor
id ing to the provisions of the first secti
ON of the act approved the 18th of a pi
oil 1869, entitled, AN act further supp
~, mental to an act relative to the elcctio
.bo OF this Commonwealth and snail VIII
ity otherwise qualified under existing las
~, be entitled to vote at all general a
in special elections in this Uomnonweal
be No person shall be permitted to VI
Gi- whose name ls not contained in the
bis OF taxable inhabitants ulnshed by t
my Commissioners, unless he FIRST produ,
llso receipt for the payment within t
ate years, of State or County tax, assess
lon agreeaby to the Constitution, aud g
any satisfactory evidence either on his o
bile oath or affirmation of another that
ime has paid such taz, or on failure to p
In duce such receipt shall make oath Of
this payment thereof; il he claims to vote
,tor being an eector between the ages
lice tweDty-one and twenty-five years
shall depcse on oath or affirmation t
p he has resided in the State at least
y. | year before his application, and nj
" proof Of his residence within his dist
aPS as required by the act, and that he d
'.o' verify believe from accounts given h
'o"- that he is OF the age aforesaid and g
u such other evidence as is required
-, tie act whereupon the name of the |
y y, VI son so admitted to vote shall be re
W. tered in the alphabetical list by the
said spector, and note made opposite tn
or 20 by the word "tax," if he shall h
Geen been admitted to vote by reason of |
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