The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09

paid State or County tax, which shall
have been assessed at least ten days |
before the election. But a citizen OF |
the United States, who bas previously |
been a qualified voter OF this State, but
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 iu this
State six months. Provided, That the
freemen, citizens of the United States,
who are between the ages of tweuty-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 citizens Of
the United States shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States on ac.
count Of race, color, or. previous .con-
dition Of servitude.
| SECTION 2. That Congress shall
have power to enforce this article by
appropropriate legislation.
And whereus, The Congress of the
United States, on the thirty-frst day
of March 1870, passed an act entitled,
"An act to enforce the right Of citizens
of the United States to yote in the sew
eral States of the Union, and for other
purposes" the first aud second sections
Of which are as follows:
| Be IL enacted, de-, That all citizens
of the United States who are or shall b
otherwise qualified to vote at any elec-
tion by the people Of any State, Terri
tory, district, city, county, parish, town.
ship, school district, municipality, or
other territorial subvision shall be en-
titled and allowed to vote at all such
elections, without distinction of color
race, or previous condition of servitude /;
any constitution, law, custom, usage, or
= regulation of any State or Territory, or
by or under its authority, to the contrary,
Notwithstanding.
SECTION g And be IL further en-
f acted, That if, 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 dune as prerequisite or
: qualification for voting, aud by such
constitution or. laws persons or officers
are or shall be charged with the per-
f 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
e the United States, the same and equal
opportunity to perform such prerequisite
+ and to become qualified to vote without
distiction Of race, color or previous con-
e dition Of serviture; and il any such per.
sons or officers shall refuse or knowingly
t omit to give full effect to this section
he shall for every such offence, forfeit
n and pay the sum OF five hundred dollars
to the persons agrieved thereby. to be
e recovered by an action on the case, with
full costs aud such allowance for coun
d sci fees as the court shall deem just, ant
shall also for every such offence b'
!. deemed guilty of misdemeanor, anC
l. shall on conviction thereof be fined no
less than five hundred dollars or to b,
# imprisoned not less than one monthiant
not more than one year, Or both, at tn
It discretion OF the court.
# And 1chereas, 1t is declared by tn
ii second section of the vi article OF tn
| Constitution of the United States, tha
y! "This Constitution of the United State
which shall be made in pursuanc
- thereof, shall be the supreme law ofth'
=, land x * anything in the Con
,f stitution or la,cs Of aay State, 10 the con
J.. trary, Notwithstanding"
, And ohereas, The Legislature Q
r this Commonwealth, on the 9th @
t, April 1870, passed an act entitled 81
d further supplement to the act reatin
/ to elections in this Commonwealth,
e the tenth section provides as follows:
IS SECTION 10. That so much of ever
e act of Assembly as provides that onl
II white freeman shall be entitled to vote
rs or be registered as voters, or as claim
- ing to vote at any general or specla
ot election OF this Commonwealth, be an
l. the same is hereby repealed, and tha
'r hereafter all freeman without distinct
D. tion Of color, shall be enrolled and regis
a tered according to the provisions OF tn
J. first section OF the act approved tn
rs IL Of April 1869, entitled IAN act Jul
'r ther supplemental to an act relativ
s. to the elections of this Commonwealth,
and shall when otherwise qualife
e, under existing laws, be entitled to vot
= at all general and special elections in thi
r Commonwealth.
% No person shall be permitted to vot
u whose name is not contained on the lis
u of taxable inhabitants furnished by tn
y Commissioners, unless he first produce
d receipt for the payment within tw
a years, Of State or County tax, assesse
'r agreeably to the Constitution, and Civ
e satisfactory evidence either on his ow
d oath or affirmation Of another ths
u he has paid such tax, or on failure
q produce such receipt shall make oat
q OF the payment thereof; If he claims t
u vote by being an elector between tA
i ages OF twenty-one and twenty-tw
=" yeare he shall depose on oath or afhmi
e ton that he has resided in the Sta:
u at least one year before his application
J. and make proof of his residence With
10 his district as required by the act, an
% that he does verlally believe from az