The Placer herald., 1872-09-07
THE NEW ELECTION LAW.

For the benefit of our readers we give be-
low condensed statement of the most i'm
portant provisions of the new election law.
Every voter should keep a copy of this sum
mary for his enlightenment and guidance.
Hereafter, in every election proclamation the
Governor must offer reward of S1OO for the
arrest and conviction of any and every per-
son who violates Section 60 of the Penal
Code, which reads as follows:
Every person who makes, offers or ac-
cepts any bet or wager upon the result of any
election, or upon the succession of any per-
son or candidate, or upon the number OF
votes to be cast, either in the aggregate or
for any particular candidate, or upon the
vote to be cast by any person, is guilty of a
| IN Sdemeanor.
QUALIFIED VOTER,
Is one who is male citizen of the United
| Siu.es. who has been a resident Of the State
for six months and Of the precinct IN wh ch
he claims to vote thirty days, and whose
name is enrolled on the Great Register Of
the county.
THE POLLS
Must be open at eight clock in the morn
me, and continue open uuiii sunset except
hat the Board of Election Judges may close
the polls for one hour at any time during the
day before 3 o oclock p NJ.
UNIFORM BALLOTS.
Every ticket must be paper, uniform in
size, color, weight, texture and appearance.
The paper must te furnished by the Seere-
tarv of State at ten per cent. profit, which
ten per cent must be paid into the State
Treasury, and credited to the fund to be
called the "Election Reward Fund. ;"
Every ticket must be four inches in width
and eight inches in length. 1t may be writ
ten or printed. If printed, the names must
be in black ink, and in long primer capitals
name of office in small capitals and OF per-
son in large capitals. If written, no sign
thereof must appear when the ticket is
folded
THE SACRED CIRCLE.
No person can give or take from another
anv ticket or ballot within one hundred feet
of the polls.
No person can foil or unfold any ticket or
ballot which he intends to use in voting,
within one hundred feet of the polls,
No person shall, within one hundred feet
of the polls, exhibit to another any ticket he
intends to vote; nor request any other per-
son to exhibit or disclose his ticket.
EVERY TICKET,
Must be, when voted, folded across-w wise
four times from the center, and must be
pressed fiat. No ticket shall be folded in
manner to Indicate its contents. II two
tickets are found together in the ballot"boX
both shall be rejected.
NITRATE OF SILVER,
And kindred substances are thus guarded
against by provision that only lead pencil
and common writing ink shall be used in
eras,ng names from tickets. If any other
substance is used, the substituted name
must be rejected and the erased name
counted.
Whenever ticket is found in the ballot
box bearing any mark, impression, device,
color or thing, or is folded in any way to in,
dicate it's contents or the person who voted
it, it must be rejected. Voters must, in
voting, announce not only their names but
their numbers on the Great Register.
A PARIS paper says that Miss Nellie
Grant purchased at one shop alone in that
city 40, 900 francs worth of lace. They
will probably be run through the custom