Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-10

Commissioner of Juniata county.
One person to fill the office of Jury Com
| missioner of Juniata county.
One person to fill the office of Treasurer
of Juniata caInty.
One person to ill the office of Auditor OF
Juniata county.
One person to fill the office of Coroner OF
Juniata county.
The said elections will be held through
out the county as follows.
At the Court House in the borough OF
MiffiintOwn, for the borough of Miffiintown
At the Court House in the borough OF
Mifilintown, for Fermanagh township.
At the School House in Mexico, for Walk
er township.
At Smiths School House, for Delaware
township
At the School Honse in Thompson town,
for the borough of Thompsontown.
At the Public House OF Thomas Cox, for
Greenwood township.
At the School House in Richfield, for
Monroe township.
At Frymoyer's Hotel, for Susquehanna
township.
At the School House in McAlisterville,
for Fayette township.
! At the School House in Patterson, for the
borough of Patterson.
Az the School House in Perrysville, for
the borough Of Perrysville.
At the Locust Grove School House, near
the residence of Mr.. Stewart, for Milford
township.
At Spruce Hill School House, for Spruce
| Hill township.
At the Scheol House at Academia. for
Beale township.
At the School House near McCulloch's
Mills, fol Tuscarora township, except that
| portion of it lying nOrth-westward Of the
summit Of the Shade Mountain.
| At the Lick School House, near the resi-
dence Of Benjamin Walls, decd, for Lack
township, except that portion of it lying
north-westward of the summit of the Shade
Mountain.
At the Centre School House, for so much
of the townships of Lack and Tuscarora as
lie northwest of the summit of the Shade
MoT,tain.
At the Church Hill School House, for
Turbett township.
ALSO MAKE KNOWN and Civ ro-
tice, as in and by the 43rd section of he
aforesaid act am directed, ssthat every per-
son excepting justices of the peace, who
shall hold any office of trust under the
United Safes, or this State, or any city or
Incorporated district, whether commits
stoned officer or otherwise, a subordinate
officer or agent who is or shall be employed
under the legislative, executive or judiciary
department of this State, or of the Unit I'd
States, or of any Incorporated city or dis
trict, and also that every member of Con-
grcss and of the State Legislature, and OF
the select or common council of any cityer
commissioner Of any Incorporated district,
is by law incapable of holding or exercising
at the same the office or appointment of Judge
inspector or clerk of any elections OF this
Commonwealth, and no judge, inspector or
other officer of such election shall be eligi-
bic to any office then to be voted for
Also that by the 4th section of the Act
of Assembly, entitled can Act IT lating to
executions and for other pu poses,'' appro
we'd April Is, 1910, it is enacted that the
aforesaid 18th section shall not be construed
so as to prevent any military officer or bor-
Ough officer from serving as judge, inspec-
tor or clerk Of any general or special cleo
ton of this Commonwealth"
BY the act Of Assembly of 1869, known as
the Registry Law, it is provided as follows:
l.
between the hours of six and seven "A. NJ.
on the day of the election. Before O'Clock
in tie morning Of second Tuesday of Octo-
ber they are 10 receive from the County
Commissioners the Registered List of Voters
and all necessary election blanks, and they
are to permit no man to vote whose name is
not on said list, unless he shall make proof
OF his right to vote, As follows:
n
list, claiming the right to vote must pro-
duce qualified voter OF the district to
swear in written or printed affidavit to the
residence Of the claimant in the district for
at least ten day next preceding said elec-
tion, defining clearly where the residence of
the person was.
8. The party claiming the right to , ote
shall also make an affidavit, stating to the
best of his knowledge and belief where
and when he was born, that he is a citizen
of Pennsylvania and of the United Stltes,
that ne has resided in the State one wear. |
OF, if formerly citizen therein and remov- |
ed therefrOm, that he has resided therein |
six months next preceding said election, |
that he s not moved into the district for |
the purpose OF vO.ing therein, that he has |
paid State or county tax within two years. |
which WIS assessed at least ten davs before |
the election, aId the affidavit Shall state
when and where the tax was assessed and |
paid, and the tax receipt must be p oduced
unless the affiant sb:;'l state that it has been
lost or destroyed, or that he received none.
4. If the applicant be naturalzed citi-
zen, no must, in addition to the TO .egoing
proofs, state in his affidavit when, where
and by what court he was naturallzed, and
produce his certificate of naturalization
b. Every person claiming to be a natural
zed citizen, whether on the Registry List.
Dr. producing affidavitS as aforesaid, shall be
'equirsd to produce his naturalization GER
.iticate at the election before voting, except
where he has been for ten years consecu-
lively voter in the district where he offers
% vote ; and on the vote of such person
icing received, the Election Officers are to
write or stamp the word ssvoted" on his
certificate with the month and year, and no
'ther vote can be cast that day in virtue of
aid certificate except where sons are enti-
led to vote upon the naturalization of their
ather.
q. If the person claiming to vote who is
lot Registered shall make an affidavit that
le is native born citizen OF the United
states. or, if born elsewhere, shall produce
vidence of his naturalization, or that he is
ntitled to citizenship by reason of his faith
RS naturalization, and further, that he is
etween q and p years Of age, and has
esided in the State one year, and in the :
lection district ten days next preceding
he election, he shall be entitled to vote ,
hough he shall not have paid taxes. |
Z. If any election officer shall refuse or ,
eglect to require such proof OF the right of ,
uftrage, as is described by this law or the I