The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-10-06

city, or in counties, townships OF bOr-
oughs, to such person or persons as the
court of common pleas of the proper
county may designate, at the place pro-
vided, rs aforesaid, who shall then deposit
the said boxes and keep the same to an
swer the call of any court or tribunal au-
thorized to try the merits of such election.
Whenever. the election officers of
any election district shall require
the election boxes of such district 20
hold any election which, by law, they
are or shall be required to hold, they shall
keep the same securely in their possess
sion without opening, until the morning
of such election, and until they shall be
severally sworn or affirmed not to disclose
how any elector shall have voted, and af-
ter being so sworn or affirmed, they shall
open the said boxes and burn and totally
destroy all the ballots and other papers
which they shall find therein before pro
ceeding to hold such election.
SEC. Ia. That from and Immediately af-
ter the passage Of this act, the court of
common pleas in the proper county in
election districts wherein assessors have
not heretofore. been elected, shall appoint
one reputable person in each election dis
trict to be the assessor thereof, who shall
perform all the duties relating TO elections
now required to be performed by asses
sors under the provisions of this act. Such
assessors shall be appointed as nearly as
can be ascertained from the party having
a majority of the votes in their respective
districts. Ni7H
SEC. Is. That in the election to be held
on the third Tuesday OF February next,
and at the election annually thereafter,
there shall be elected in each election dis
trict in the State, as we'll in those wherein
the registration of voters has heretofore
been made by officers appointed, and not
chosen by the people to perform the duty
as in all others, one person as judge and
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eral laws of the commonwealth, to conduct
the elections for one year, and also an as
SCISSOR who shall perform the duties incl
dent to elections as required by the pro-
visions of this act, .-.
Sic. IS. That the assessors appointed
under the fourteenth section of this act
shall, ,sithin i've days after their appoint
ment, proceed to make out lists of the
electors OF their respective election dis
tricts, and deliver the same to the commits
sioners, who shall transmit a certified COPY
of the same to the judge of each election
district, at least forty-eight hours before
the election to be held, said assessors shall
also post ten copies thereof in conspicuous
places in each election district at least ten
days before said election. And the lists so
made by the assessors during the two sec
ular days preceding the day Of the delive-
ry thereof to the commissioner (of which
days public notice shall be given by hand
bill throughout the districtl shall be open
for inspection apd correction in the custo-
dy of said assessor from ten a. m. to three
p. m, and from six p. m. to nine p. m. OF
each of said days. in the manner provided
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.
SEQ. II. The respective assess RS, in
spectors and judges of the elections shall
each have the power to administer oaths to
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sed, or the right of suffrage, or In regard 10
any other matter or thing required to be
dcne or inquired into by any of said Off
GERS under this act and any willful false
swearing by any person in relation to any.
matter or thing concerning which they
shall be lawfully interrogated by any of
said officers or overseers, shall be perjury.
SEC. l8. The assessors shall each receive
the same compensation for the time neces-
sarily spent i'll performing the duties here
by enjoined, as is provided by law to as
SCISSORS making valuations, TO be paid by
the county commissioners as in other
cases and it shall not be lawful for any
assessor TO assess a lax against any person
whatever within sixty-onesdays next pre-
ceding the annual election in November:
any violation of this provision shall be q
misdemeanor, and subject the officer 80
offending to fine, on conviction, not ex
ceeding one hundred dollars or TO impris-
onment not exceeding three months, or
both, at the discretion of the court.
SEC. 10. Any assessor, election officer or
| person appointed as overseer; who shall
neglect or refuse to perform any duty on
Joined by this act, without reasonable or
legal cause, shall be subject to a penalty
of one hundred dollars and If any asses
| sOr shall knowingly assess any person as
| a voter who Is not qualified, or shall will
| fully refuse to assess anv ono who is quail
flied. he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
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fine not exceeding one thousand dollars,
or imprisonment not exceeding two years
| or both, at the discretion of the court, and
| also to be subject to an action for damages
| by the party agrievedj and II any person
shall frsudulently alter, add to, deface or
destroy any list of voters made out as di-
rected by this act, or tear down or remove
the same from the place whero it has boon
nXed, with fraudulent or mischlevious in
tent, or for any improper purpose, the per-
son so offending shall be guilty of a INSIDE
meanor, and ON conviction shall be pun
ished by fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars, or imprisonmeut not exceeding
two years, or both, at the discretion of the
| court; and If any person shall, by violence
or intimidation, drive, or attempt 10 drive
from the polls any person or persons ap-
| pointed by the court % act as Overseer OF
| an election, or in any way wilfully pre-
vent said overseers from performing any
Of the duties imposed upon them by this
act, such person shall be guilty Of Z mis-
deneanor, 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 oi the court. Any person who
shall, on the day OF any election. visit a
polling place I'm any election district in
which he is not entitled to vote. aud shall
use any intimidation or violence for the
purpose of pi eventing any officer of elee-
tion from performing the duties required
of him by law, or for the purpose of pre-
venting any qualified voter of such district
exercising his right TO vote, or from sxer-
clsing his right 10 challenge any person Of
fering TO vote, such person shall be deem
ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon