The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-10-04

.. !" "nen you lett, QlQ you leaYe IOr
temporary purpose, with the design
OF returning, or for the purpose of
remaining away? Add you, while
absent, look upon and regard this
State as your home? 5. Did you,
while absent, vote in any other State2
Third-If the persons be challenged
as unqualified on the ground that
he is not a resident OF the county,
township or ward where he offers to
vote, the Judges, or one OF them,
shall put the following questions l..
Have you resided in this county for
thirty days last past? 2. Have you
resided in this township for ward
for twenty days last past? 8. When
did you last come into this county !?
4. When You came into this county,
did you come for temporary purpose
merely or for the purpose Of making
it your home? 5. Did You come in
TO this county for the purpose OF
voting in this county? 6. Are you
now an actual resident of this town.
ship or ward'
Fourh-If the person be chslleng-
ed SIS unqusliied Oh the ground that
he is not twenty-one years Of age,
the Judges, or one Of them shall put
the following questions: Are you
twenty one years Of age to the best
of your knowledge and belief?
The testimony of other witnesses
may be required by the judges if
they are still not satisfied that the
challenged party has right to vote.
Should his right be established and
the challenge not withdrs wn, they
may then permit him to vote after
rendering him the following oath /:
"You do solemnly swear for ofilrm)
that you are citizen of the United
States, OF the age OF twenty-one years;
that you have been an inhabitant Of
this Stste for one year next preceding
this election; that you are now an
actual resident OF this township or
ward, and that you have not voted at
this election
Section 10 and 20 OF an act to pre-
serve the purity of elections, were
amended July IA, 1870, to read as
follows:
(SS.) SEC. XIX. 1t shall be the
duty of the judge of the election Or
one of them, Immediately before
proclamation is made of the opening
of the polls, to open the ballot boxes
in the presence of the people there
assembled, and turn them upside
down, so as to empty them Of every
thing that may be in them, and then
lock them and they shall not be
reopenei until for the purpose of
counting the ballots therein, at the
close of the polls.
(s9.) SEC. Xxx. Any person vino
shall, after proclamation made, of the
opening OF the polls, fraudulently
put ballot or ticket into the ballot
box, shall, on conviction thereof, be
imprisoned in the penitentiary, and
kept at hard labor, not more than
three years nor less than one year.
Agsin, Sec. 5 of an amendment to
San act to preserve the purity Of cleo
tion' passed May l, 1857, reads as
follows:
(74) SEC. v. Any person being
q resident of this state, who shall GO
or come into any county, and vote
in such county, not being an actual
resident thereof for thirty days NEXT
preceding the election, shall on con-
viction thereof, be imprisoned in the
penitentlary and kept at hand labor,
not more than three years, nor less
than one year.
1t will thus be seen that the penalty
for fraudulent voting is heavy one,
and, in this connection we desire to
call attention to the fact that no man
who is now in this county for "tem-
porary purposes and "with the in
tention Of leaving the same as soon as
he shall have gotten through with the
business that brought hun into it, is
q legal voter, and inasmuch as it Is
c-edibly reported that there are such
persons in this county who will offer
their votes next Tuesday, it may not
be Improbable to them to look the
penalty squarely in the face, as tssy
wM surely not escape it if they offer
Their JOies
Nor is it much more tolersble for
those who connive at illegal voting,
as will be seen by Sections 9 and 10
of the came act, which reads as fol-
lows:
7S.) SEC. IN. Any person who
shall procure, aid, assist, counsel or
advise another to give his vote, know
ing that such other person has not
been resident of this state for one
year Immediately preceding the cleo
tion; or that, at the time OF the elec-
ton he is not twenty. one years Of age;
or that he is not a citizen of the
United States; or that he is not duly
qualified from other disability to vote
at the place where, and the time when
the vote is to he given, shall, on con-
viction thereof, be find in any sum
not exceeding five hundred dollars
nor less than one hundred dollars,
and be imprisoned in the county Jail
OF the proper county, not more than
six months nor less than one month.
GS.) SEC. X Any person who
shall procure, aid, assist, counsel or
advise another to 60 or come into any
county, for the purpose Of giving his
vote in such county, knowing that
the person is not duly qualified to
vote in such county, shall, on con.
viction thereof, be imprisoned in the
peuitentisry and kept 81 hard labor,
not more than five years nor less
than one year.
From the FIncastle Cva.) Herald-I
A WHOLE TOWN UNDER BONDS.
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