The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-11-21

ARTICLE VIII.
sUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS
pEcrION l. Every male citizen twcnty-one
years OF age, possessing the following qilssiIlh-
cations, sili 6e entitled TO vote an eiec,-ons
United States at least one moHti- 60. -.
SeccS,d. He shall have reside ~ .i @ i1 t.iI
Sear Tor IL hnN ing previously oeci q''eilHtu u
electnr or native horn citizen OF the State he
s'S}t have removed ,,,cgji,r,- H.
Thir5 He shall hGve resided in the election
district where he shall offer Ia vote at asst twO
months Immediately preceding the election.
Fourth, II twenty-five years of age "F up
wards he shall have paid within two years a
state or COUNTY tax, which shall have been as
sessed at least two months and paid at least
one month before the election.
SEC. .. The general election shall he held an
nually ON the Tuesday next following the first
Monday of November, hut the General Assem-
hly may bylaw fix different day, two-thirds
of all the members of each house consentiHs
SEC, 3. All elections for city, ward, borough,
and township officers, for regular terms Oh Sur
vice, shall be held on the third TUESDAY OF
SEC. 1. An elections by the citizens shall be
by ballot. Every ballot voted snail DC mum
bered in the orierin which It SHAH be rgcG'rei' zee &
and the number recorded by the cecilon ON
GERS on the list of voters, opposite the name of
the eIector who presents the ballot. Any eicc-
cause the same to be written thereon aud at
tested by II citizen of The district. TheeiectiGn
Officers Shall be sworn affirmed not 10 dis
close how any eIcctOr shall have voted unless
required 10 do so as witnesses III judicial pro-
SEC 5. Electors snail in all cases except trea-
be privileged from arrest dUring their attend
ance on elections ana in going to and returning
SEC. &. whenever any OF the qualified electors
OF this Commonwealth shall be in actInl mill
tary service, under rcquISitiOn from the
PI csidcnt of the United states or by the au-
thortty OF this Commonwealth, such electors
may exercise the right OF suffrage in all elec-
tions by the cifizcns, under such regulations as
are or shall lac prescribed 10y law, Hs fully rs if
they were present at their usual places OF elcC-
tiOn.
SEC. :. All lnws regulating the holding of
elections by the citizens or for the registration
OF electors snail he uniform throughout the
State, but no elcctor shall hc deprived Of the
privilege OF voting by reason OF his name not
being registered,
SEC. s. Any person who shall give. or promise
ward or other valuable c0nsiderati0n FOR his
vote an election OF for Withholding the same;
alteration to any other person party for
such electors vote, or Tor the Withholding
agree receive, for himself or for another,
any money, reward or other valuable conside-
ration for mis- vote AT an election, or FOR with
holding the same, shall thereby forfeit the
whose rixht to vote shall be challenged for
such cause before the election officers shall be
reouired to swear or afirm that the matter of
the challenge is untrue before his vote shall
be received.
SEC. 9. Any person who shall. while a candi-
date for office, lie guilty of bribery, fraud. or
w!liful violation of any election law. shall be
forever disqualified from holding any Office of
trust or profit in this Commonwealth; and any
person convicted of willfnl violation of the
election laws. shall, in addition TO any peraI-
tics provided by law, be deprived of the right
or suffrage absolutely for a term Cf foIIr wears
SEC. 10 In triuls of contested cII.ctions and
In proceedings for the investigation OF clec-
tinns. no person shall be permitted TO withhold
his testimony on the ground thar it may Grim
fnute himself or subject him 10 pu6l;c infumy;
bit such testimony shall not afterwards DC
usrd against him in any judicial proceeding,
except for perjury i'm giving such testimony.
SEC. IL Townships and wards of cities OF bor-
oughs shall form be divided into election dis
tricts of compact and contiguous territory, in
such manner as the Court of Quarter Sessions
OF the city county in which the same arc To-
Gated may cirect; but districts in cities Of over
one hundred Thousand inhabitants shall he df-
vided 10y the Courts of Quarter Sessions having
jurisdiction therein whenever at the next pre-
ceding election more than two hundred and
nifty votes shall have been pOiled therein: and
other election districts whenever the court of
the proper county shall be of opinion that the
convenience OF the electors and the public in
tcrcsts viii! be promoted thereby.
SEC. u. All elections b. rprSG.,s in n rcDrc-
sentative capacity shall DC VIVA voCE
SEC l3 For the purnosc of wong, no person
rG~-',n or his presence; or lost II by reason of
his absence while employed in the service, ei-
United States, aor While engaged in nF t on sy rne
CATION of the waters Of the State OF the Uni
ted States, or on the high seas, nor while a stu
dent of any institution of learning, nor while
kept in any poor house or other asylum at pub
EctxpCnse, nor while confined in public prison.
SEC. Il. District election boards shall consist
of judge and two inspectors. who shall be
shall have the right TO vote for the Judge and
one inspector, and each inspector shall appoint
one clerk. The first election board for any nf>r
district shall be selected and vacancies i'm eIcc-
lion boards fined IS ST all be provided by law
upon days of election and while engaged in
making up and transmitting returns, except
upon warrant Of a court OF record or Judge
thereof for AN election fraud, for felony, or TOR
wanton breach of the peace. In cities they
may claim exemption from jury duty during
their terms Of service.
SEC. 10. No person shalt be qualified to serve
election officer who shall hold. or shall
within two months have held any ONCE. np-
Pointment, or employment in or under the
State or of any city or county, or of any mu-
nicipai board, commission, or trust in any city,
and at,l
notaries pubic, and persons i'm the militin SER
vice of the State; nor shall any election officer
be eligible any civil Office to be filled at an
election at which he shall serve, save only 10
such subordinate municipal or local Offices he
low the grade of city county offices as shall
be designated by general law.
SEC l6. The Courts OF Common Pleas of the
several counties OF the Commonw eaIth shall
have power within their respective jurisdic-
tinns 10 appoint ovcrsecrs of election To super
wise the proceedings Of election officers, and to
make report to the court as may be required
such appointments to he made for anv distric.
in n city or county. upon pCritiOn Of five Gift
zens, lawful voters OF such election district
setting forth that such appointment is a rC;r-
sonabie Trccaution to sccure the purity and
fairness of elections; overSecrs shall Toe two in
number FOR an election district, shall &c resi-
dents therein and hall lie persons qualified to
serve upon election boards, and in each case
ever the members of an election board shall
Girer in opinion, the oversecrs, If they shall be
difference; in appointing overseers OF cIection
all the law judges OF the proper court, able to-
act at the time, shall concur in the appoint
ments made.
SEC. Il. The trial and determination Of con-
tested elections of electors of President and
Vice President, members of the General As
semhly, and of all public officers. whether
State. judicial, municipal, or local, shall be by
the courts of law. ur by one more OF the law
Judges thereof The General Assembly shall, by
general law, designate the courts and judges
by whom the several classes of election con-
tests shall he tried, and regulate the manner of
trial aud all matters Incident thereto: hut no
such law assigning jurisdiction, or regulating
its exercise shall apply 10 any contest arisins,
out OF an eiection held before rs passagc.
ARTICLE TX
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
SECTION !. All taxes shall he uniform upon
the same class of subjects within the territorial
lintts OF the authority lcVying the tax. and
shall he levied ard collected under general
laws; hut the General Assembly may, hy gen
eTal laws exempt from taxation public pro-
pcrty Used for public purposes actual places
Of religious worship. places of burial not used
or held for priva, e or corpnrute profit, and in
s;itutions OF purely public charity
SEC. =. y II laws cXempting property from
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