The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-20

pe Suiity VI pregury, anu pe ioIeVeT olS'
qualified from holding any Office Of
trust or profit within this Common.
wealth.
The oath to the members of the Sen
ate and House of Representatives shal
be administered by one of the judges ol
the Supreme Court or of Court Of
Common Pleas, learned in the law, ir
he hall Of the house to which the mem
bers shall be elected.
ARTICLE VIII.
SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS.
SECTION l. Every male citizer
twenty-one years of age, possessing the
following qualifications, shall be entitled
to vote at all elections:
First. He shall have been a citizen
of the United States at least one month
Second He shall have resided in the
State one year, or if, having previously y
been a qualified elector or native borr
citizen OF the State, he shall have re-
moved therefrom and returned, then siz
months) Immediately preceding the
election.
Third. He shall have resided in the
election district where he shall offer tc
vote at least two months Immediately
preceding the election.
Fourth, Iftwenty-t@o years of age OF
upwards, he shall have paid within two
years State or county tax, which shal
have been assessed at least two months
and paid at least one month before The
election.
Sec 2 The general. election shall bt
held annually on the Tuesday next fol
lowing the first Monday of November
but the General Assembly may by Law
fix different day, two-thirds of all the
members of each house consentinf
thereto.
SEC 8 All elections Tor city, ward
borough, and township officers, for regu
lar terms Of service, shall be held ol
the third Tuesday of February.
SEC 4 All elections by the citizen,
shall be by ballot. Every ballot voted
shall be numbered in the order in which
it shall be received, and the number re
corded by the election officers on th,
list of voters, opposite the name Of th'
elector who present the ballot. An,
elector may write his name upon hi
ticket, or cause the same to be writer
thereon and attested by citizen of tn,
district. The election officers shall b,
sworn or affirmed not to disclose how am
elector shall have voted unless required
to do SO as witnesses in a judicial pro
ceeding.
Sec 5 Electors shall in all cases ex
cept treason, felony and breach or surety
of the peace, be privileged from arres
during their attendance on elections auc
iu going to and returning theretrom.
SEC 8 Whenever any Of the qualified
electors Ct this Commonwealth Shall he
in actua! military service, under requi
s,tion irpi. the Pre- s.deut Of the nited
States or by the authority Of this Com
monwealth, such electors may exercise
the right of suffrage in all elections by
the citizens, under such regulations as
are or shall be prescribed by law, as fully
as if they were present at their usuaI
places of election.
Sec 7 All laws regulating the holding
of elections by the citizens or for the
registration of electors shall be uniform
throughout the State, but no elector shall
be deprived Of the privilege of voting
by reason Of his name not being regis.
tered.
SEC 8 Any person who shall give, o.
promise or offer to give to any elector
any money, reward or other valuable
consideration for his vote at an election
or for Withholding the same, or whc
shall give or promise to give such con
sideration to any other person o.
party for such electors vote, or for the
Withholding thereof, and any elector who
shall receive or agree to receive, for him
self or for another, any money, reward
or other valuable consideration for hi
vote at an election, or for Withholding
the same, shall thereby forfeit the right
to vote at such election, and any eecto
whose right to vote shall be challenged
for such cause before the election officer
shall be required to swear or affirm tha
the matter of the challenge is untrue
before his vote shall be received.
See 8 Any person who shall, while /.
candidate for office, be guilty of bribery
fraud, or willful violation Of any election
law, shall be forever disqualified from
holding an Office of trust or profit in this
Commonwealth; and any person con
victed Of willful violation of the election
laws. shall, in addition to any penalties
provided by law, be deprived of tho
right of suffrage absolutely for a tern
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 tn,
ground that it may criminate himself OIL
subject him to public infamy; but sucl
testimony shall not afterwards be use(
against him in any judicial proceeding
except for perjury in giving such testi
mony.
SEQ II Townships and wards of cite
or boroughs shall form or be divided
into election districts Of compact ant
contiguous territory, in such manner a
the Court, of Quarter Sessions of th'
city or county in which the same are 10
Gated may direct; but districts in cite
Of over one hundred thousand inbabi
.ants shall be divided bY the Courts O