The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08

and the House Of Representatives., NC, That
the qualified voters of the several counties
| of this Commonwealth, at all general town.
ship and special elections are hereby here
after authorized and required to vote by
| ticket, printed or written, or partly writ
ten and partly printed, severally classified
| as follows: One ticket shall embrace the
names of oil 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 10 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 a commissioned officer or
u
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 incorporate 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 eligible to any
office then to be voted for.
Also in the 4th section of the Act of As.
sembly, entitled can 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 gen.
eral or special election in this Common
wealth.
WHEREAS, The Fifteenth Amendment 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 abrid-
ged by the United States on account otrace,
color, or previous condition of servitude,
SECTION 2. That Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appro.
pirate legislation.
14nd whereds, The Congress of the
United States. on he 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 ii enacted, &C., That all citizens of
the United States who are or shall be
otherwise qualified to vote ut 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 2. And be ii further enacted,
That if by or under the constitution or
laws of any 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 are or shall be charged
with the performance of duties in furnish =
ing to citizens an opportunity to preform
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
tcers shall refuse or knowingly omit to
give full effect to this section, he shall for
every such offence, forfeit aud 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 all ow.
ance for council fees rs the court shall
deem just, and shall also for every such Of
fence be deemed guilty OF misdemeahort
and shall on conviction thereof be fined not
less than five hundred dollars or to be i'm
prisoned not less than one mont h and not
more than one year, or both, at the discre.
ton of the court.
-And arhereGs, 1t is declared by the
seconc section of the VI article of the Con-
srtution 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 \ anything in
the Constitution or lars Of any State, to the
contrary, not withstdnding.
And achercaS, The Legislature of
this Commonwealth, on the 9th OF
April 1870, passed an act entitled "a
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 same is hereby repealed,
and that hereafter all freeman without
distinction of color, shall be enrolled
and registered according to the provis-
ions OF the first section of the act ap-
proved the II of April 1869, entitled
"An act furthe: supplemented to an act
relative to the elections of this Com
monwealth," 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
for other purposes" and approved
March third one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-fve all persons who have
deserted the military or naval service o.
the United States, and who have no