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

Commonwealth" as | am required by th'
second section of said act:
| SECTION 1. BE IL enacted By the Senate
and the House of Representatives, &c., ina
the qualified voters of the several counties
of this Commonwealth, at all general town
ship and special elections are hereby mere
| after authorized and required to vote ocy
| ticket, printed or written, or partly writ.
| ten aud partly printed, severally CLASSIFIED
| as follows: One ticket shall embrace the
names of all the Judges of the
| Courts to be voted for and to be
labelled on the outside, "Judiciary;" one
ticket shall embrace the names of all State
officers TO be voted for and labelled State, ~
ore ticket shall embrace the names of all
county offices to be voted for, including the
office of Senator, member or members of
Assembly, if voted for, members of Con-
gress, if voted for and labelled "County;"
one ticket shall embrace names of all the
tow nshlp officers voted for and be labelled
Borough" or "Township;" and each shall
be deposited in separate ballot boxes.
also make known and give notice, as in
and by the 10Th section OF aforesaid act,
am directed that every peron except
Justices of the Peace, who shall hold any
Office appointment of trust or profit under
the Government Of the United States, or
this State, or any city or incorporated dis
trict whether commissioned officer or
otherwise subordinate officer or agent who
is or shall be employed under the legisla.
tive or judiciary or executive department
of this State or of the United States, of any
city or Incorporated district and also every
member of Congress and State Legislature,
and the select and common council of any
city. Commissioner, ,of inco' porate district, is
by law incapable of holdingor exercising at
the same time the office or appointment of
Judge, Inspector or Clerk, of any election
of this Commonwealth, and that no In
spector or Judge, shall be elegible to any
office then to be voted for.
Also in the 4th section of the Act of AS
sembly, entitled "An act relating to elect
ions and for other purposes" approved
April 10th 1869, it is enacted that the l4th
section shall be SO construed as to prevent
any militia or borough officer from serving
as Judge, Inspector, or Clerk, at any gem
eral or special election in this Commen-
wealth.
WHEREAS, The Fifteenth Amendment of
the Constitution of the United States is as
follows
SECTION l. The right of citizens OF the
ged by the United States on account ocrace
color, or previous condition of servitude,
SECTION 2. That Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appro'
pirate legislation.
And mhereas, The Congress of the
United States, on lie thirty first day Of
March 1870, passed an act entitled, can
act to enforce the right of citizens of the
United States to vote i'll the several States
of the Union, and for other purposes the
first and second sections of which are as
follows.
BE it enacted, &C., That all citizens of
the United States who are or shall be
otherwise qualified to vote at any election by
the people Of any State, Territory, district.
city county, parish, township, school dist
riot, municipality, or other territorial sub
division shall be entitled and allowed to vote
at all such elections, without distinction of
color race, or previous condition Of servi-
tude; any constitution, law, CUSTOM usage,
or regulation Of any State or Territory, or
by or under its authority, to the contrary,
Notwithstanding.
SECTION .. And be ii further enacted,
That if by or under the constitution or
laws Of ahy State or the laws Of any Terri.
tory, any act is or shall be required to be
done as a Prerequisite or qualification for
voting, and by such constitution or laws
persons or officers ave or shall be charged
with TIE performance of duties in furnish =
ing to citizens an opportunity TO pretorm
such prerequisites, or to become qualified
to vote it shall be the duty of every such
person and officers to give all citizens o.
the United States. the same and equal op-
portulity to perform such prerequisite and
to become qualified to vote without distinct
ion of race, color or previous condition of
servitude; and if any such persons or Of
fcers shall refuse or knowingly omit to
give full effect to this section, he shall for
every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum
Of five hundred dollars; to the person agrie'
we'd thereby, to be recovered by an action
on the case, with full costs and such allow
ance for council fees as the court shall
deem just, and shall also for every such Of
fence be deemed guilty of q msdemeanort
and shall on conviction thereof be fined not
less than five hundred dollars or to be i'm
prisoned not less than one mont and not
more than one year, or both, at the discre
tion of the court.
And Whereas, 1t is declared by the
seconc section of the VI article of the Con-
stitution of the U, S. that This Constitu-
tion Of the United States which shall be
made in pursuance thereof shall be the
supreme law of the land X :; anything in
the Constitution or lars Of any State, TO the
contrary, not withstGnding.
And aohereas, The Legislature of
this Commonwealth, on the 9th OF
April 1870, passed an act entitled ga
further supplement to the act relating
to elections in this Commonwealth" the
tenth section provides as follows:
SECTION 10. That SO much of every
act OF Assembly as provides that only
white freeman shall be entitled to vote,
or to be registered as voters, or as
claiming to vote at any general or
special election of this Commonwealth,
be and the sulne is hereby repealed,
and that hereafter all freeman without
distinction OF color, shall be enrolled
and registered Fccording to the provis-
ions OF the first section of the act ap-
proved the II OF April 1869, entitled
San act further supplemented to an act
relative to the elections of this Com
mon wealth." sud shall when otherwise
qualified under existing laws, be entitled
to vote at all general and special elect
ions in this Commonwealth.
WHEREAS, by the act of the Con-
gress of the United States entitled San
Act to amend the several acts hereto
fore passed, to provide for the enrolling
and calling out the national forces, and
Tor other nnrnnsns y and annrnuan