The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28

fu"' 'Oi SesslOuS OF tDls COh"OnWe hc
shall. for each offence, be sentenced TO pay
line of not less than one hundred dollars,
AMI to undergo an Imprisonment, in the
jan oil the proper county, for not less than
sixty days.
SECTION 8. That If any person deprived
OF citizenship, and disquaiified as aforesaid,
shall at any election hereafter to be held in
this commonwealth, vote or tender to the
officer there, and offer TO vote, ballot or
ballots, any person so offending, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof, in any court of quarter
sessions of this commonwealth, shall, for
each offence, be punished in a like manner
ms is provided in the proceeding section of
| this act, in the case of officers of election
receiving such unlawful ballot or ballots.
SECTION 4. That if any person shall
hereafter persuade, or advise, any person
or persons deprived of citizenship, and dis
| qualified rs aforesaid. TO offer any ballot,
| or ballots, TO the officers Of any election
| hereafter to be held in this commonwealth,
! or shall persuade, or advise, nny such Utli-
Ger to receive any ballot, or ballots, from
any person deprived of citizenship, aud dis
| qualified rs aforesaid, such person, 80 Of
Tending, shall be guilty Of a misdcmeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, in any court
| of quarter sessions of this commonwealth
shall be punished in q like manner as is
| provided in the second section of this act,
in the case of officers of such election re.
ceiving such unlawful ballot or ballots.
l also make known the following sections
OF an act approved the 30th day of Jan
uary, A. ID. 1874, entitled "a further sup
plement to the act regulating elections in
| this Commonwealth"
| SEcTIoE s. At all elections hereafter
held under the laws of this commonwealth
the polls shall be opened at seven o'clock
| A. NJ. and closed at seven o'clock 2. NJ.
SECTION o. In all election districts
where vacancy exists by reason of the
disqualification of the officer or otherwise
in All election board heretofore appointed
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 general or special election, app
| point competent persons to fill said vacan-
cies and to conduct the election in said new
districts; and in the appointment of IN.
| spectors in any election dis rict both shall
not be of the sane political 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
il case of the disagreement of the judges
as o the selection of inspectors, the polti.
cal majority of the judges shall select one
| of such inspectors. and the majority judge
| or judges shall select the other.
| SECTION Whenever there shall be a
vacancy in an election board on the morn
ing of an election, said vacancy shall be
| filed in conformity with existing laws.
SEcrIo. At the opening of the polls at
all elections it shall be the duty of the
judges OF election for their respective dis
tricts to designate one Of the inspectors,
whose duty it shall be to have in custody
| the registry of voters, and TO make the en-
tries therein required by law; and It shall
be the duty of the other Of said inspectors
10 receive and number the ballots presented
ut said election.
SECTION 0 All elections by the citizens
shall be by ballot every ballot voted shall
e numbered in the order in which it shall
! be received, and the number recorded by
the clerks on the list of voters opposite the
name of the elector from whom received.
And any voter voting two or more tickets,
he several tickets so voted shall each be
numbeI cd with the number corresponding
| with the number to the name of the voter.
Any elector may write his name upon his
ticket, or cause the same to be written
thereon, and attested by citizen of the
district
SECTION 10 On the oos. Il election any
person whose name sbGA y appear on the
registry of voters, andwSo claims the right
Sn g. qe sna sSsr !, 'h he aEsssr REGaaes as
witness to the residence of the claimant in
the district in which he claims to be a otter,
for the period of at least two months i'm
meIiately prece eding said election, which
witness shall be sworn or affirmed and sub
scribe written or partly written and partly
printed affidavit to the facts stated by him
which affidavit shall define clearly where
the residence is of the person 80 claim
ing to be voter; and the person so claim
ing the right to vote shall also take and
subscribe a written or partly written and
partly printed affidavit, stating to the
best OF his knowledge and belief, when
and where he was born; that he has
been a citizen of the United States Tor
one month, aud OF the commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania; that he has resided in the
commonwealth one year, or, il formerly
a qualified elector or a native born citl.
zen thereof, and has removed thercirom
and returned, that he has resided therein
six months next preceding said elec-
tiou; that he has resided in the district
In which he claims to be voter for the
period OF at least two months inmedi-
ately preceding said election; that he
has not moved into the district for the
purpose of voting thereiD; that he has,
II twenty-five years OF aye or upwards;
paid state or county tax within two
years, which was assessed at least two
months and paid at least one, month be-
fore the election. The said affidavit
shall also state when and where the
tax claimed to be paid by the afiant
was assessed, and when anu where and
TO whom paid; and the tax receipt
therefor shall be produced for examina-
ton, unless the afiant shal. state in his
affidavit that it has been lost or de-
stroyed, or that he never received any;
and if a naturalized citizen, shall also
state when, where aud by what court he
Was naturalized, and shall also produce
his certificate of naturalization for ex-
animation. But if the person so claim.
iIg the right to vote shall take aud
subscribe an aft 6davit that he Is a ma
tive born citizen of the United States,
ii bora elsew here, shall state the fact in
his affidavit, and shall produce evidence
that lie has been uaturalized or that he
is eutitled to citizenship by reason OF
/ \.