The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-12-09

by the authority of this Commonwealth,
such electors may exercise the right OF
suffrage in all elections by the citizens, un-
der such regulations as are or shall be pre-
scribed by law, as fully as if they we're
present, at their usual places of,election. y
Sec. z. All laws regulating the holding
of elections by the citizens or for the regis
tration of electors shall be uniform through
out the State, but no elector shall be de-
prived of the privilege of voting by reason
of his name not being registofrd.
Sec. s. Any person who shall give, or
promise or offer to give, to an elector, any
money, reward or other valuable,consider-
alton for his vote at an election, or for
withholding the same, or who shall give or
promise to give such consideration 10 any
other person or party for such electors
vote or for the withholding thereof, and
any eector who shall receive or agree to
receive, for himself or for another, any
money, reward or other valuable consider
alton for his vote at an election, or for
Withholding the same shall thereby forfeit
the right to vote at such election and any
elector whose right to vote shall be chal-
lenged for such cause before the election
officers, shall be required to swear or affirm
that the matter of the challenge is untrue
before his vote shall be received. 8tF q.
Sec. 0. Any person who shall, while a
candidate for office, be guilty of bribery
fraud, or willful violation of any election
law, shall be forever disqualified from hold
ing an office of trust or profit in this Com
monwealth; and any person convicted of
willful violation of the election laws shall,
in addition to any penalties provided by law
be deprived of the right of suffrage abso-
lutely for term of four years.
Sec. 10. In trials of contested elections
and in proceedings for the investigation of
elections, no person shall be permitted to
withhold his testimony upon the ground
that it may crimiDate himself or subject
him to public infamy but such testimony
shall not afterwards be used against him
in any judicial proceeding except for per-
jury in giving such testimony. mo
Sec. IL. Townships, and wards of cities
or boroughs, shall form or be divided into
election districts of compact and contigu-
GUS territory, in such manner as the court
of Quarter Sessions of the city or county
in which the same are located may direct /:
but districts in cities of over one hundred
thousand inhabitants shall be divided by
courts of Quarter Sessions, having tjuris-
diction therein, whenever at the next pre-
cediug election more than two hundred and
fifty votes shall have been polled therein
and other election districts whenever the
court OF the proper county shall be of opin-
ion that the convenience of the electors and
the public interests will be promoted there
by.
Sec. 10. All elections by persons in
representative capacity shall be 9igG U0ce.
Sec. 13. For the purpose of voting no
person shall be deemed to have gained a
residence 10y reason of his presence, or lost
it by reason of his absence, while employed
| in the service, either civil or military, of
this State or of the United States, nor
while engaged in the navigation of the
waters of the State or of the United States,
or on the high SEAS nor while student of
any institution of learning, nor while kept
in any poor house or other asylum at pub
lie expense, nor while confined in public
prison.
Sec. IA. District election boards shall
consist of judge and two inspectors, who
shall be chosen annually by the citizens.
Each elector 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 new district
shall be selected, and vacancies in election
boards filled, as shall be provided by law.
Election officers shall be privileged from
arrest upon days of election, and while en-
gagged in making up and transmitting re-
turns, except upon warrant of court of
record or judge thereof for an election
fraud, for felony, or for wanton breach of
the peace. In cities they may claim ex-
emption from jury duty during their terms
of service.
Sec. 10. No person shall be qualified to
serve as an election officer who shall hold,
or within two months have held any office,
appointment OF employment in or under
the government of the United States OF of
this State, or of any city, or county, or of
any municipal board, commission or trust
in any city, save only justices of the peace
and aldermen, notaries public and persons
| in the militia service of the State nor
shall any election officer be eligible to any
civil Office to be filed at an election at
which he shall serve, save only to such sub
ordinate municipal or local offices, below the
grade of city or county offices, as shall be
designated by general law
Sec. 10. The courts of Common Pleas
of the several counties of the Common
wealth shall have power, within their re-
spective Jurisdictions, to appoint overseers
of election to supervise the proceedings of
election officers and to make report to the
court as may be required such appoint
ments to be made for any district in city
A OF county upon petition OF five citizens,
lawful voters of such election district, set
ting forth that such appointment is a rea-
sonable precaution to secure the purity and
fairness Of elections oyerseers shall be
two in number for an election district,
shall be residents therein, and shall be per-
sons qualified to serve upon election
boards, and in each case members of differ
ent political parties whenever the men,
bers of an election board shall differ in
opinion the oyerseers, if they shall be
agreed thereon, shall decide the question
! of difference; in appointing overseers of