Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-11

now gixen to and required from Su
pervisors in towns and cities of 20,OOl
inhabitants or upward. All Supervi
sors OF Elections within any Congress
sional district may hereafter be appoin
ted from the Congressional district; and
the judge of the Circuit Court of the
United States within whose circuit such
district may be situate shall appoint
suce Supervisors on petition as now
provided by law at least thirty days
prior to the registration of election in
which they are to act; and one of saio
supervisors SO appointed by said Judge
shall be by him denominated as Chiet
Supervisor of said Congressional dis.
srict, and shall possess the powers and
perform the duties now required BY
law of a Chief Supervisor.
SEC. 8. That the provisions of exist.
ing laws as to the appointment, powers
and duties of Special Deputy Marshals
Tor cities and towns of 10000 inhabi.
tants and upward, in elections for Re-
presentatives to Congress, are hereby
extended to the several counties, parish.
es, and voting precincts in each Con-
gressional District, and such Special
Deputies may be selected from any
portion of such Congressional District.
SEC. 10. That at all elections for Re
presentatives in Congress hereafter
held, the managers of such elections or
board of officers charged with the con-
duct of the said election, by whatever
title denOminated at the severalpolIing
places, shall, Immediately after the
closing of the polls,and before separat-
ing or adjoining to any other time or
place, count and declare, in the pres
ence of the Supervisor and Deputy
Marshal, if any shall have been ap-
pointed and shall be present at said
polling place, the result of the vote
polled at said place of election, and
shall thereupOn Immediately certify
the same so far as relates to Represen-
tatives in Congress or Presidential
electors, if laws of the State, and shall
deliver such certificate to said super
visor or deputy marshal, which ever
may be present; and such supervisor or
deputy marshal, as the case may be
shall at once transmit such certificate
of the Congressional District, who
shall, as soon as practicable, forward
the same to the Clerk of the House of
Representatives. And the officer or
officers charged with the canvassing or
consolidation of the vote of any county.
city, or parish shall in like manner
perform such duty in the presence of
such supervisor, if present, who shall,
if appointed, attend in each county,
| city or parish at the time and place
provided by law for such canvass and
consolidation.
SEC. IL. That no officer, whose Office
is created by this act, shall receive any
compensation whatever from the Uni
ted States for his services, nor shall the
compensation heretofore allowed by
law to any officer allowed existing be
| in any manner increased by reason of
anything in this act contained.
SEC. u. That the ballots, poII-lists,
tally-sheets, or other papers which by
| the law of any State are evidence of
an election, and which have been used
in elections for Representatives to Con-
gress, shall hereafter be preserved and
safely kept by the custodian provided
by the laws of the several States until
the close of the first session of the Con-
gress to he affected by such election,
that either party to an election contest
in the House of Representatives of the
United States, in which an allegation
of fraudulent count or change of ballots
is made, may have subpoena directed
to such custodian, who shall. if so re-
quired by said subpoena, produce such
original ballots, lists, and other papers
connected with such election, and the
same, after the usual notice to the con-
testant or contestee, may be examined
and compared before any person in the
county or parish authorized to take
depOsitiOns in contested elections, and
such person shall certify under his
hand and seal, and forward in the man.
ner provided Dy law, said examination
and comparison, to be used as evidence
in the case. After said examination
and comparison shall be completed,
said ballots, lists of voters, and other
papers shall be returned to their lawful
custodian in the same condition as
when by him produced before said ex-
anining officer.
SEC. Ii. That whenever in any State
or part of a State the unla Rful COM
bination named in section 5,299 of the
revised statutes and in the first and
second sections of this act shall be or
ganiZed and armed, and so numerous
and powerful as to.be able by violence
to either overthrow or set at defiance
the constituted authorities of said State
and of the United States within said
State, or when the constituted author
tiles are in completely with or shall con-
nive at the unlawful purpose of such
powerful and armed combinations; and
whenever, by reason of either or all
the causes aforesaid, the conviction of
such offenders and the preservation of
the public safety shall become in such
districts impracticable, in every such
case combinations shall be deemed q
rebellion against the Government of
the United States, and during the con-
tinuance of such rebellion, and within
the limits of the district shall be so
under the sway thereof, such limits to
be lawful for President of the United
States, when in his judgement the
public safety shall require it, to sus-
pend the privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus in such insurrectiOnary district
or districts wherin the President deems
such powerful and armed combinations
to exist, withinl the State: Louisiana,
Arkansas, Mississippi, or Alabama, to
the end that such rebellion may be
overthrown Provided. That all, the
provisions of the second section of the
act entitled IAN act relating to hd6eds
corpus, and regulating judicial proceed
ings in certain cases." approved March
3, 1868, which relates to the discharge
of prisoners other than prisoners of
war, and to the peualty for refusing to
obey the order of the court, shall be in
full force so far as,the same are applica-
BILE to the provisions of this section
And proUided further, That the Presi-
dentsshall first have made prOclama-
tion, as provided by law, commanding
such insurgents to disperse.
SEC. II. The provision of section Is
of this act shall continue to be in
force for and during the term of two,
years, and from thence until the end of
the next session of Congress therafther,