The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-15

py salu acC Vi OongreSS, approved
March third one thousand eieh,
hundred and sixty five, and it shall be
unlawful for any such person to offer to
vote any ballot, or ballots.
SECTION 2 That if any such Judge
and inspector of election, or any one of
them shall receive or consent to receive,
any such unlawful ballot,o ballots, from
any such disqualified person, he, OR they
so offending, shall be guilty of mis-
deamor, and upon conviction thereof, in
any court of quarter sessions of this
commonwealth, he shall, for each
offence, be sentenced to pay fine of
not less than one hundred dollars, and
to undergo an Imprisonment, in the Jail
of the proper county, for not less than
sixty days.
SECTION 3 That if any person de-
prived Of citizenship, and disqualified as
aforesaid. shall at any election, here
alter to be held in this commonwealth,
vote or tender to the officer there, and
offer to vote, ballot, or ballots any
person so offending, shall be deemed
guilty of misdeamor, and on convict
ion thereof, in any court Of quarter ses
sions of this commonwealth, shall, for
each offence, be punished in like
manner as is provided in the proceed
ing section of this act, in the case OF
officers of election receiving such unlaw-
tul ballot or ballots.
SECTION 4 That if any person shall
shall hereafter persuade, or ad-
wise, any person or persons deprived of
citizenship, and disqualified as aforesaid,
to offer any ballot, or ballots, to the Of
6cers of any election hereafter to be
held in this commonwealth, or shall
persuade, or advise, any such officer to
receive any ballot, or ballots, from any
person deprived of citizenship, and dis
qualified as aforesaid, such person, so Of
Tending, shall be guilty, Of a misdeamor,
and upon conviction thereof, in any
court or quarter sessions of this COM
monwealth shall be punished in q like
manner as is provided in the second
section of this act, in the case OF officers
of such election receiving such unlaw
full ballot, or ballots.
l also make know the following Sec
tions of gu act approved the 30:h day OF
January, A. d. 1874, entitled "a
further supplement to the act regulating
elections in this Com nonwealth:"
SECTION 5. At all elections hereafter
held under the laws Of this common
wealth, the polls shall be opened at
seven O'Clock A M and closed at seven
o'clock p M.
SECTION 6 In all election districts
where vacancy exists by reason Of the
disqualification of the officer or other
wise IN an election board heretofore ap-
pointed, or where any new district shall
be formed, the judge or judges of the
court of common pleas Of the proper
county shall, ten days before any gen
eral or special election, appoint compe-
tent persons to fill said vacancies and to
conduct the election in said new dis
tricts; and in the appointment Of in-
spectors in any election district both
shall not be Of the same political party;
and the judge Of elections shall, in all
cases, be of the political party having
the aiority Of votes in said district, as
nearly as the said judge or judges can
ascertain the fact; and in case Of the
disagreement, of the judges as to the Sc
lection of inspectors, the political ma
ority OF the judges shall select one of
such inspectors, and the minority judge
or judges shall select the other.
SECTION 7 Whenever there shall be
vacancy in an election board on the
morning OF an election, said vacancy
shall be filled in conformity with ex-
isting laws.
SECTION s At the opening of the
polls at all elections it shall be the duty
Of the judges of election Tor their re.
spective districts to designate one Of the
inspectors, whose duty it shall be to have
in custody the registry of voters, and to
make the entries therein required by
law; and it shall be the duty Of the other
OF said inspectors to receive and num-
Der the ballots presented at said cleo
ton.
SECTION 8 All elections by the citi-
zens shall be by ballot every ballot
voted shall be numbered in the order
in which it shall be received, and the
number recorded by the clerks on the
list Of voters opposite the name Of the
elector from whom received. And any
voter voting two or more tickets, the
several tickets so voted shall each be
numbered with the number correspond
ing with the number to the name of the
voter. Any elector may write his name
upon his ticket, or cause the same to be
written thereon, and attested by citi-
zen of the district
SECTION 10 On the day of election
any person whose name shall not appear
on the registry of voters, and who claims
the right to vote at said election, shall
produce at least one qualified voter of
the district as witness to the residence
of the claimant in the district in which
he claims to be voter, for the period
OF at least two months immediately pre-
ceedlng said election, which witness
shall be sworn or affirmed and subscribe
written or partly written and partly
printed affidavit to the facts stated by
him, which affidavit shall define clearly
where the residence is of the person SO
claiming TO be a voter; and the person
so claiming the right to vote shall also
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