The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-02

| lug SUN eIectiOu, ana WITHIN TWO years
paid State or County tag, which shall
have been assessed at least ten days
before the election. But a citizen of
the United States, who bas previously
been qualified voter Of this State, bat
removed therefrom and returned, and
shall have resided in the election dis
[ tirct and paid taxes as aforesaid, shall
be entitled to 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 aforesaid, 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 ciiiznns Of
the United States shall not be denied
or abridged By the United States on ac.
count of race, color, or previous icon
dition of servitude
SECTION 2. That Congress shall
have power to enforce this article by
approprepriate legislation.
And whereus, The Congress of the
United States, on the thirty-frst day
of March 1870, passed an act entitled,
Gan act to enforce the right of citizens
of the United States to yote in the sew.
eral States of the Union, ana for other
purposes" the FIST and second sections
Of which are as follows:
BE ii enacted, de-, That all citizens
of the United States who re or shall b
otherwise qualified to vote at any eec-
ton by the people Of any State, Terri
tory, district, city, county, parish, town
ship, school district municipality, or
other territorial subvisiou shall be en-
titled and allowed to vote at all such
elections, without distinction of color
race, or previous condition of servitude I;
any constitution, law, custom, usage, or
regulation of any State or Territory, or
by or under its authority, to the contrary,
Notwithstanding.
SECTION 2. And be 1t further en-
acted, That il, by or under the consti-
tuition or laws OF any State or the laws
OF any Territory, any act is or shall be
required to be done as a prerequisite or
qualification for voting, aud by such
constitution or, laws persons or officers
are or shall be charged with the per-
formance OF duties in furnishing to citi-
zens an opportunity to perform such
prerequisites, or to become qualified to
vote it shall be the duty Of every such
person and officers to give all citizens OF
the United States, the same and equal
opportunity to perform such prerequisite
and to become qualified to vote without
dlstiction Of race, color or previous con-
dition of serviture; and if any such per-
sons or officers shall refuse or knowingly
omit to give full effect to this section,
he shall tor every such offence, forfeit
and pay the sum of FIVE hundred dollars,
to the persons agrieved thereby. to be
recovered by an action on the case, with
full costs aud such allowance for couu-
sci fees as the court shall deem just, and
shall also for every such offence be
deemed guilty Of misdemeanor, aud
shall on conviction thereof be fined not
less than five hundred dollars or to be
imprisuned not less than one month and
not more than one year, or both, at the
discretion of the court.
And tchereas, 1t is declared BY the
second section of the VI article OF the
Constitution of the United States, that
"Ihis Constitution of the United States
which shall be made in pursuance
thereof, shall be the supreme law ofth e
land y X anything in the Con-
stttutton or laps of any State, TO the con.
tro'y, Notwithstanding"
And ,ohereas, The Legislature Of
this Commonwealth, on the 9th OF
April 1870, passed an act entitled "a
further supplement to the act relating
to elections in this Commonwealth"
the tenth section provides as follows:
SECTION 10. That so much of every
act of Assembly as provides that only
white freeman shall be entitled to vote,
or be registered as voters, or as claim
Ing to vote at any general or special
election OF this Commonwealth, be and
the same is hereby repealed, and that
hereafter all freeman without distinct
tion Of color, shall be enrolled and regis.
tered according to the provisions of the
hrst section OF the act approved the
IL OF April 1869, entitled IAN act fur
ther supplemental to an act relative
to the elections Of this Common wealth"
and shall when otherwise qualified
under existing laws, be entitled to vote
at all general and special elections in this
Commonwealth.
No person shall be permitted to vote
whose name is not contained on the list
OF taxable inhabitants furnished by the
Commissioners, unless he first produces
a receipt for the payment within two
years, OF State or County tax, assessed
agreeably to the Constitution, and give
evidence either on his own
oath or affirmation of another that
he has paid such tax, or on failure to
produce such receipt shall make oath
OF the payment thereof; If he claims to
vote by being an elector between the
ages Of twenty-one and twenty-five
yeare he shall depose on oath or afima-
tion that he has resided in the STATE
at least one year before his application,
and make proof Of his residence within
his district as required by the act, and
that he does verbally believe from ac-