The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29

! by said act of Congress, approved
March third one thousand eight
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 or 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 tnaD
sixty days.
SECTION 3 That if any person de-
privcd of citizenship, and disqualified as
aforesaid. shall at any election, here
after to be held in this commonwealth,
vote or tender to the officer there, and
offer to vote, a ballot, or ballots any
person SO offending, shall be deemed
guilty of misdeamor, and on convict
ion thereof, in any court Of quarter ses
sons of this commonwealth, shall, ior
each offence, be punished in a like
manner as is provided in the proceed
ing section of this act, in the case OF
officers of election receiving such unlaw-
iul ballot or ballots.
SECTION 4 That if any person shall
shall bereaaltcr persuade, or ad-
wise, any person or persons deprived of
citizenship, aud disqualified as aforesaid,
to offer any ballot, or ballots, to the Of
fcers 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, aud 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 he punished 10 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.
also make know the following sec
tons of an act approved the 30:h day OF
January, A. d. 1871, entitled "a
further supplement to the act regulating
elections in this Gem 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 Nj and closed at seven
o'clock = NJ.
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 aud to
conduct the election in said new dis
trcts; and in the appointment Of in
spectors in any election district both
shall not be OF the same polltical party;
and the judge Of elections shall, in all
cases, be of the political party having
the majority 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
jorty 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 10 an election board Oh the
morning OF an election, said vacancy
shall he filed in conformity with ex,
isting laws
SECTION st 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
iu custody the registry Of voters, and tc
make the entries therein required By
law; and it shall be the duty Of the othcl
OF said inspectors to receive and num.
Der the ballots presented at said cleo
ticn.
SECTION 8 All elections by the cit
zcns shall be by ballot; every bo.lo
voted shall be numbered in the ordel
in which it shall be received, and tht
number recorded by the clerks on thC
list Of voters opposite the name Of th'
elector from whom received. And an,
voter voting two or more tickets, th,
several tickets so voted shall each b'
Numbered with the number correspond
ing with the number to the name of tht
voter. Any elector may write his nam
upon his ticket, or cause the same TO b
written thereon, and attestcd by citi
zen of the district Il x
SECTION 10 On the day Of election
any person whose name shall not appea
on the registry Of voters, and who claims
the right to vote at said election, shal
produce at least one qualified voter o
the district as a witness to the residenc
of the claimant in the district in whicl
he claims to be a voter, for the perioC
OF at least two months immediately pre-
ceedlng said election, which witnes
shall be sworn or affirmed and subscrib
written or par,ly written and partl.
printed affidavit to the facts stated b.
him, which affidavit shall define elearl
where the residence is of the person S
claiming to be voter; and the perso
so claiming the right to vote shall ais
take and subscribe written or partl.