The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-11-22


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p.tsluln.. mIccruf lhp election.
frC iH. lhc election .oiums slnl!
net bc orpnd hy ilc officer ~ whom
tlry are returned before return day,
which shall DO ten dny4 nlicr the clcc-
lion, Sundays excluded; at tic cNpim-
ton Of that time he shall open them
and estimate the result, recording tho
state Of the polls Of each precinct, in n
book to be kept by him for thar pur-
pose; AMI, nflcr making such estimate,
he shall deliver TO the candidate or
candida cs for whom the greatest num-
her Of votes have been pollcd for county
and precinct officers, II certificate OF
election, naming therein the office to
which he has been elected, henumber
of votes p0llcd for him, and the day ON
which the election was held, and
shall sign the same, and cause
the seal of the County Court to be
thereon impressed, and shall, also, at
the same time, make an estimate ofthe
votes pollCd for members of the LcgiS-
lature, and shall, If his county consti-
tute senatorial or representative dis
trict, give like certificate of election
to the person or persons receiving the
highest number of votes for Represent
alive or Senator.
Sec. 10. When an election shall
have been held for members of the
Legislature, in district composed of
more counties than one, the presiding
justice, or other officer to whom the
returns in each county are made, who
is not authorized to give certificates of
election to such members of the Legis-
laturc, shall make out and send COM
plcte returns of such election for mem
bers of the Legislature in their rcspec-
tive counties, Immediately after exam
lining and recording the same, to the
presiding justice of the county who may
he so authorized, which returns shall
be sealed up, and the name of the
officer forwarding the same written
across the seal, and the package mark
edon thcin[out] side "Election returns"
which package may be sent by mail.
The presiding justice to whom the re-
turns are so forwarded SHALL upon the
twentieth day after the election, which
shall be the return day for such elcc-
ton, open and examine such returns,
and, after estimating the result and re-
cording the same, give a certificate of
election to the person or persons receiv-
ing the highest number of votes for
Representatives or Senator in that dis
trict.
Sec. 20. In elections for district at
torncys the votes shall he counted, and
returns made to the returning officer of
the district, as is provided for members
of the Legislature, whose districts are
composed OF more counties than one,
and like certificates of election given.
See. 81. In all elections of Comp
troller of Public Accounts, Treasurer
of the State, Commissioner of the Gen
cral Land Office, and Superintendent
of Public Instruction, and for Repre-.
sentatives in the Congress of the
United States, the presiding justice or
other officer to whom the returns in
each county are made, shall, on the
tenth day after the election, and not
before, make out duplicate returns, one
of which shall be transmitted by such
officer to the scat of government,
end ,rsed objection returns of -
county, for -" the other shall
he deposited III the Office of the district
clerk; and on the fortieth day after the
election, and not before, the Secretary
of State, in the presence of the Gov
ernor and Attorney General, or in case
Of vacancy or inability of either OF
tn Use officers to act, then any two OF
said officers, shall open and count the
returns. And the Governor shall i'm
mediately make out, sign and deliver,
Il certificate of election, with the seal
of the State thereto affixed. to the per-
son or persons who shall have received
the highest number of votes for each
or any of said offices. The presiding
justices of the several counties of the
State shall promptly make duplicate
returns of the election for Governor
and Lieutenant Governor, carefully
sealed up; one of which shall be trans.
mitted to the seat of government, and
directed to the Speaker of the House
of Representatives, endorsed, "Elec-
ton returns of - county, for -
and the other shall be deposited in the
office of the District Court. The trans
mitted returns, directed to the care OF
the Secretary of the State, shall be
taken charge Of by him, and preserved
In his Office, the package and seal
thereon to remain unbroken until the
organization of the next Legislature,
when he shall, on the first day thereof,
deliver the said returns to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
Sec. %. That the judges of the cleo
ton, while in the discharge of their
duties, shall have the power of dis.
trict judge to preserve order and keep
the peace. They may appoint special
cODstables to act during the election,
and they, or either of them, may issue
writs of arrest for felony or breach of
the peace, TO the sheriff or constable,
WHO shall forthwith execute such writ,
and may commit the party arrested to
Jail during the election, if so ordered by
the judges of election; but he shall first
be permitted to vote, if entitled to do
so; and rs soon as practicable, after the
close of the polls, he shall be taken
before The proper magistrate for exam
nation, as the law directs in such
cases.
Sec. %. If any judge of an election
shall knowingly receive or deposit a
ballot of a person in the box, whose
name does not appear on the lists of
registered voters furnished them, or
sail willfully refuse the ballot of any
person whose name appears on the list,
unless authorized by this act, he shall
be deemed guilty of an oflense, for
which he shall be fined not less than
fifty nor more than one hundred dol
lars.
Sec. "a. That any person offering to
vote, may be required by the judges to
make oath in writing, and to sign. and
swear to the same, that he is the iden-
Teal person claimed to be registered,
and that he has not voted at any other
poll or voting place, or that he has not
voted elsewhere at that election; and
he Secretary of State shall he required
TO furnish TO the presiding judge of
election, in each voting precinct in this |
State, sufficient number of blanks, !
which shall be in form as follows: 81
A. ~, do solemnly swear that am
he identical person claimed to he reg
stored, and that ] have not voted at
my other poll or voting place, and that
have not voted elsewhere at this cleo.
ion;" and the judge of election shall