The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-26

months. Provided, That the freemen.
citizens of the United States, who are |
between the ages of twenty.one and
twenty-five years, aHd 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 l. The right of citizens of
the United States shall not be denied or
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 aohereas, The Congress of the
United States, on the 31st of March
1870, passed an act entitled, can act
to enforce the right Of citizens Of the
United States to vote in the several
States of the Union, end for other
purposes" the first and second sections
of which are as follows:
Be It enacted, de-, That all citizens
of the Uni'ed 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 di.trict, 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-
stltution, law, custom, usage, or regua-
tion of any State or territory, or by or
under its authority, to the contrary,
Notwithstanding.
SEC. 2. And be It further enacte
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
charged with the performance of duties
in furnishing to citizens au opportunity to
perform such prerequisites, 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 persons or officers shall refuse,
or knowingly omit to give full effect to
this section, he shall for every such of.
fence, forfeit and pay the sum of five
hundred dollars, to the persons aggrieved
thereby, to be recovered by an action on
the case, with full costs and such allow
ance for counsel fees as the court shall
deem just, and shall also for every such
offence be deemed guilty OF misdemean.
or, ana shall on conviction thereof be
fined not less than FIVE hundred dollars
or to be imprisoned not less than one
month and not more than one year, or
both. at the discretion of the court.
And Whereas, 1t i, declared by the
secnod section of the vi article of the
Constitution OF the Uuited States, tina,
This Constitution of the United States
which shall be made in pursuance thereof
shall be the supreme law of the land =
anything in the Constitution 0,
laws o any State, to tie contrary, not
withstunding."
And vhereas, The Legislature of this
Commonwealth, On the 9th day of Apri
1870, passed an act entitled "a further
supplement to the act relating to elec
tiUns ln this Commonwealth" tie l0tl
section provides as follows:
SECTION 10. That so much of every
act Of Assembly as provides that only
white freemen shall be entitled to vote
or be registered as voters, or as clamiu!
to vote at any general or special election
of this Commonwealth, be aud the same
is hereby repealed, and that hereafte
all freemen without distinction of color
shall be enrolled and registered accord
ing to the provisions of the first section
of the act approved the 17th of april
1869, entitled, Gan act further supple
r mental to an act relative to the election
, Of this Commonwealth" and snail whe
, otherwise qualified under existing laws
be entitled to vote at all general an,
special elections in this Commonwealth
? No person shall be permitted to vot
= whose name is not contained in the lis
5 Of taxable inhabitants furnished by tn
' Commissioners, unless he first produce
D a receipt for the payment within tw
e years, of State or County tax, assesse
D agreeably to the Constitution, and Civ
y satisfactory evidence either on his ow
e oath or affirmation Of another that h
e has paid such tax, or on failure to prC
: duce such receipt shall make oath of tn
S payment thereof; if he claims to vote b
r being an elector between the ages {
e twenty-one and twenty-five years h
shall depcse on oath or affirmation tn,
e he has resided in the State at least OIL
o year before his application, aud MAX
!. proof of his residence within his distrn
4 as required by the act, and that he do
verify believe from accounts given hin
" that he is of the age aforesaid and giV
. such other evidence as is required |
" tie act whereupon the name OF the pc
son so admitted to vote shall be regi
tered in the alphabetical list by the i
d spector, and note made opposite ther
'r 20 by the word "tax," it he shall ha'
N been admitted to vote by reason Of hs