The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-10-26


selected and appointed, every convenience and
facility for the discharge of their duties; and
If said election officers shall refuse to permit
said overseers TO be present, and gerform their
duties as aforesaid, such officer officers shall
| be guilty of Il misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be fined not exceeding one thous-
and dallarS or imprisonment not exceeding
one year, or both, in the discretion of the court
or if the overseers shall be driven away from
the polls by violence or intimidation, all the
votes polled in such election district NAV be
rejected by the proper tribunal trying contest
under said election, or a part portion o
such votes aforesaid may be counted, as such
tribunal may deem necessary to a ust and
proper dispoition of the case.
AT all elections hereafter held under the
laws of this commonwealth, the polls shall be
opened at seven o'clock a. IN. and closed at
seven o'clock, p. m.
"Whernever there shall be a vacancy in an
election board on the morning of an election
said vacancy shall be filled in conformity with
existing laws.
AT the opening of the polls at all elections
it shall he the duty of the judges of election
for their respective districts to designate one
of the inspectors, whose duty it shall be To
have in custody the registry of voters, and to
make the entries therein required by law and
it shall be the duty of the other of said inspec-
tors to receive and number the ballots presented
ut said election.
"All elections by the citizens shall be bv
ballot every ballot voted shall be numbered
in the order in which it shall perceived, 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, the several tickets so voted shall
each be numbered with the number correspond
ing with the number to the name Of the voter.
Any clector may write his name upon his ticket
or cause the same to be written thereon, and
attested by a citizen of the district. In addition
to the oath now prescribed by law to be taken
and subscribed by election officers, they shall
scveraIly be sworn or affirmed not to disclose
how any elector shall have voted, unles re-
qulred To do SO as witnesses in judicial
proceeding All judges, inspectors, clerks, and
overseers of any election held under this act,
shall, before entering upon their duties, be duly
sworn or affirmed III the presence of each other.
The Judge shall be sworn by the minority in
spector, ii there shall be such minority inspec-
tor, and in case there be no minority inspector.
then by justice ofthe peace or alderman, and
the inspectors Overseers and clerks shall be
sworn by the judge. Certificates of such
swearing or affirming shall be duly made out
by the officer who administered the OATH If
any judge or minority inspector refuses or fails
to swear the officers of election in the manner
required by this act, or if any officer of elec-
ton shall act without being first duly sworn
or If any officer of election shall sign the form
OF oath without being duly sworn or if anv
Judge or minority inspector shall certify that
any officer was sworn when he was not, it shall
be deemed misdemcanor, and upon convic-
tlon, the officer officers 50 offending shall be
fined not exceeding one thousand dollars. or
imprisoned noi exceeding one year, or both,
IN the discretion of the court.
"On the day of election any person whose
name is not on the registry of voters and
claiming the right to vote at. said election,
shall produce at least one qualified voter of
the district as IA witness 10 The residence OIL
the claimant in The district in which he
cIalms TO be a vo'er, for the period OF at lcas
two months, Immediately preceding said
election, which witness shall be sworn
or affirmed and subscribe Il written or part
Iy written and partly printed affidavit
10 the facts stated by hun, which affidavit
shall define clearly where :he residence is
Of The person 81 claiming TO be voter and
he person 50 claiming the right to vote shall
also take and subscribe written, or partly
and partly printed affidavit. stating.
TO the best of his knowledge and belief.
" hen and where he was born; that he been
citizen OF the United Stlres for one month.
and o. the commonwealth of Pennsvlvani,;
that he has resided in the commpnwCal one /
year, or, It formerly quilted clector or Il
native born citizen thereof, and has remov |
ed iheretIom and retured, that he has resi- |
led therein six months next preceding said |
election; that he has resided in the district
IN witch he claims TO be Il voter for the pc
rod OF at least TWO months Immediately pre- |
ccdlng said election; that he has not mo cd |
INTO The district for the purpose of voting
herein that he has, if twenty-five years OF
lge or upwards, paid a state or county tax
within tN0 years, which was assessed at
east TWO months and paid at lcas, one month |
before the election. The said affidavit shall |
llso state when and where the tax claimed
% be pIId by the afiIint was assessed, and
when and where and to whom paid; and the
AK receipt there or shall be produced for eX-
lmInatlUn, unless the affianI sha state IN his
lttldavt that it has been lost or DESTROYED, nr
hat he never received any; and If natur
lliZed citizen, shall also state when, where
md by whut court he was natura,ized. and
shall also produce h certificate of naturali-
!atlon for examination But if the person So
,'aIming the right 10 vote shall take and sub
scribe an affidavit, that he is a native born
'ItIzen ofthe u. States, or if born elsewhere,
haI state the fact in his affidavit, and shall
produce evidence that he has been natural
Zed, or that he is entitled 10 citizenship by
eason OF his fathers allzation y and
hall further state In his affidavit th,t he is
L the time of making the ffidavt, of the ge
# twenty one and under TWENTY-FIVE wears:
hat he his been IA citizen of the United
States one month, and has resided i'm the
state one year; or, if a native born citizen
II the slate and removed thorefrom and re.
eturned, that he has resided therein six
months mex: preceding such election, he shall
e entitled toVOte. although he shall not
ave paid taxes. The said affidavits of the
TO their residence, shall be preser-
ed by The election board, and at the close of
he election they shall be enclosed with the
Ist OF voters, tally list and other papers re.
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