The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-02-11

least ten days before said election.
And the lists 50 made by the asses
sors during the two secular days pre-.
ceeding the day Of the delivery there
Of to the commissioners (of which
days public notice shall be given by
haud-bills throughout said district),
shall be opened for inspection and
correction, in the custody Of the said
assessor, from ten A. W. to three p. N.
and from six p. VI. TO nine p. VI. Of
each of said days, in the manner pro-
vided in section second of this act,
and all Of the remedies privileges
and powers secured and provided
thereby are hereby made applicable
to the lists herein named.
SEC. II. The respective assessor,
inspectors and judges Of the eIee-
tions shall each have the power to
administer oaths to any person
claiming to be assessed. or the right
OF suffrage, or in regard to any mat
ter or thing required to be done or
inquired into by any Of said officers,
under this act, and any willful false
swearing by any person in relation
to any matter or thing, concerning
which they shall be lawfully intsrro-
gated by any Of said officers or over
seers, shall be perjury.
DUTIES OF ASSESSORS AND OTHER
ELECTION OFFICERS.
SEC. I8. The assessors shall each
receive the same compensation
for the time necessarily spent in
performing the duties hereby en-
Joined as is provided by law to as
SCISSORS for making valuations, to be
paid by the county commissioners as
in other cases; and it shall not be
lawful for any assessors to assess
tax against any person whatever
within sixty-one days next proceed
ing the annual election Of NOvem-
Der; any violation Of this provision
shall be q misdemeanor, and subject
the officer so offending to fine, on
conviction, not exceeding one hun
dred dollars, or to Imprisonment not
exceeding three months, or both at
the discretion Of the court.
SEC. 10. ANY assessor, election
officer, or person appointed as an
oyerseer, who shall neglect or refuse
to perform any duty enjoined by this
act without reasonable or legal cause,
shall be subjected to penalty of one
hundred dollars; and if any assessor
shall knowingly assess any person as
a voter who is not qualified, or shall
willfully refuse to assess any one
who is qualified, be shall be guilty Of
a mdemeanor in Office, and on con-
viction be punished by fine not ex-
eeeding one thousand dollars, or i'm
prisonment not exceeding two years,
or both, at the discretion of the
court, and also be subjected to an ac-
ton for damages by the party sg-
grieved and if any person shall
fraudulently alter, add TO, deface or
destroy any list of voters made out
as directed by this act, or tear down
or remove the same from the place
where it has been fixed, with fradu-
lent or misehievous intent, or for any
improper purpose, the person so Of
Tending shall be guilty of misde-
meanor, and, on conviction, shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding FIVE
hundred dollars, or Imprisonment not
exceeding two years, or both, at the
discretion of the court. And if any
person shall, by violence or intimida-
tion, drive or attempt to drive from
the polls any person or persons ap-
pointed by the court to act as over
seers of an election, or in any way
willfully prevent said overseers from
performing the duties eDjoined upon
them by this act, such persons shall
be guilty of a misdemesnor, and up
on conviction thereof shall be punish
ed by fine not exceeding one thou
sand dollars, OF by Imprisonment not
exceeding two years, or both at the
discretion of the court ANY person
who shall, on the day Of any election,
visit polling place in any election
district at which be is not entitled to
vote, and shall use any intimidation
or violence for the purpose of pre-
venting any officer of election from
performing the duties required of him
by law, or for the purpose of prevent
ing any quilted voter of such district
exercising bis right TO vote. or from
exercising his right to challenge any
parsOn offering to vote, such person
shall be deemed guilty of misue-
and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by fine not ex
ceeding one thousand dollars, or by
not exceeding two
years, or both, at the discretion of the
court. Any clerk, oyerseer or elec-
ton officer who shall disclose how any
eleetor shall have voted, unless re-
quired to do so as witness in q ju-
dicial proceeding, shall be gully Of
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine
not exceeding one thousand dollars,
Or by Imprisonment not exceeding
two years, or both, at the discretion
Of the court.
ISSUE OF FRAUDULENT NATURALIZA-
ZATION PAPERS.
SEC. 30. II any prothonotary,
clerk or the deputy of either, or any
other person, shall affix the seal of
any court to any naturalization pa
per, or permit the same 10 be affixed,
or give out, or cause or permit such
paper to be given out
ia blank, whereby it may be fraudu-
lently used, or furnish q naturaliza-
ton certificate to any person who
shall not have been duly examined
and sworn in open court in the pres
ence of some of the judges thereof,
according TO the act of Congress, or
shall aid in, eonniv at, or in any
way permit the issue of any fraudu-
lent naturalization certificate, he shall
be guilty of n misdemeanor or if
anv one shall fraudulently use any
such certificate of naturalization,
knowing that it was fraudulently is
sued, or shall vote or attempt to vote
thereon, or if any one snail vote or
attempt TO vote on any certificate Of
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