The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-10-03

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vote after residing in this State six
months. ProUided, 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
1 ment-of the Constitution of the -United
States is as follows:
SECTION 1. The right of citizens of
the United States shall not be denied o.
abridged by the United States on ac-
count of lace, color, or previous condi-
ton Of servitude.
SEC. 2. That Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appropri-
ate legislation.
Amt 1hereds, The Congress of the
United States, on the 31st of March
1870, passed an act entitled, "An act
to enforce the right of citizens of the
United States to vote in the Sc yeral
States of the Union, and for other
purposes" the first and second sections
of which are as follows:
Be 1t enacted, de-, That all citizens
OF the United 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 subvision shall be entitled
and allowed to vote at all such elections,
without distinction of color, race, or
previous condition Of servitude; any con-
stitusion, law, custom, usage, or rcgula-
ton Of any State or territory, or by or
under its authority, to the contrary,
Notwithstanding.
Sec. =. and be It fwther enactc I
That if, 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 are or shall be
i 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 person aud officer to give ali
i citizens Of the United States, the same
aud equa! opportunity to perform such
c prerequisite and to become qualified tc
vote without distinction of race, color on
t previous condition OF servitude; and il
any such persons or officers shall refuse
or knowingly omit to give full effect t.
e this section, he shall for every such of
fence, forfeit and pay the sum OF iv,
u hundred dollars, to the persons aggrieveC
thereby, to be recovered by an action OIL
J. the case, with full costs and such low
(, ance for counsel fees as the court shall
'f deem just, and shall also for every sucI
offence be deemed guilty OF misdemean
ct or, ana shall on conviction thereof b.
Of fined not less than five hundred dollar
al or to be imprisoned not less than on
N month aud not more than one year, 0
id both. at the discretion of the court
And Whereas, 1t is declared by tn
jo seemed section OF the VI article Of I'll
40 Constitution Of the United States, tina
~ This Constitution of the United State
h which shall be made in pursuance therec
~ shall be the supreme law of the land
ID = x anything iu the Constitution 0
or lars Of any State, to the contrary, nov
" pithstundilg."
IS: And'chcrcos, The Legislature of th
of Commonwealth, On the 9th day of A pr
ed 1870 passed an act entitled "a furtht
lie supplement to the act relating to ele,
he tions IN this Commonwealth" tie lot
ed section provides as follows:
n SECTION 10 That so much of even
eu act of Assembly as provides that on
OF white freemen shall be entitled to vot
.et or be registered as voters, or as claimir
u, to vote at any general or special electic
ca of this Commonwealth, be aud the san
all is hereby repealed, and that hereaft
all freemcn without distinction of colo
&C, shall be enrolled aud registered accOr
aid ing to the provisions Of the first sectic
ION of the act approved the 17th of Apr
all 1869, entitled "An act further supp
or mental to an act relative to the electio
.he of this Commonwealth" and snail VIII
ity otherwise qualified under existing Law
m, be entitled to vote at all general al
in special elections in this Commonwealth
be No person shall be permitted to y,
di- whose name ls not contained 10 the
his OF taxable inhabitants furnished by t
my Commissioners, unless he first produc
llso receipt for the payment within t
ate years, of State or County tax, assess
non agreeably to the Constitution, aud gi
any satisfactory evidence either on bis o
BILE oath or affirmation of another that
me has paid such tax, or on failure to p
ln- duce such receipt shall make oath Of I
this payment thereof; il he claims to vote
,tor being an elector between the ages
hce twenty-one and twenty-five years
shall depose on oath or affirmation t
of he has resided in the State at least
to year before his application, and IN,
an proof of his residence within his dist
ted as required by the act, and that he d
,on- verify believe from accounts given h
or that he is OF the age aforesaid and g
loo such other evidence as is required
/ or tie act whereupon the name of the !
n son so admitted to vote shall be re
tered in the alphabetical list by the
sand spector, and a note made opposite tn
or 20 by the word "tax," if he shall b
Ieen been admitted to vote by reason of |