Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-17
Legal Notices.

this State of ,ke United States, nor while
engaged in the navigation of waters Of this
State or the United States, or on the high
seas, nor while a student ~ any Institution
Of learning, nor while kept in any poor
house or other asylum at public expense,
nor while confined in public prison.
SEC. IA. District election Boards shall
consist of a judge and Two inspectors, who
shall be chosen annually Dy the citizens.
Each elector shall have the right to vote for
the judg, and one inspector, and each in
spector shall appoint one clerk. The first
election board for any new district shall be
selected, and vacancies in election boards
hlled, as shall be provided by law. Elec-
lion officers shall be privileged from arrest
upon dal ; of election, and while engaged IN
making up and transmitting returns, except
upon warrant of court of record or jUdg &c
thereof for an election fraud, Tor felony, or
for wanton breach of the peace. In cities
they may Claim exemption from jury duty
during their terms of service.
Sic. l5. No person shall be qualified to
serve as an election officer who shall hold,
or shall within two months have held any
office, or appointment or employment in or
under the government of the United States
or Of this State, or of any city, OF county,
or Of any municipal board, commission or
trust IN any city save only justices Of the
peace and aldermen, nOtaries public and
persons in the militia service of the State
nor shall any election election officer be elli-
b;e to ANY civil office to be flied at an elec- =
tiOn at which he shall serve, save only 10
such subordinate municipal or local Offices,
below the grade OF city or county officers
as shall be designated by general law.
And also to the following act of Assem-
bly, now in force in this State, viz,
Act Of Januray 80, 1874 SEC. 3. At all
elections hereafter held under the laws Of
this Commonwealth, the polls shall be OPEN
ed at seven O'Clock a. H., and closed at
seven o'cIucl, p. m.
SIC. 4. Whenever there shall be a yacan-
cy in an election board on the morning of
an election, said vacancy shall! be filed in
conformity with existing laws.
The said act Of Assembly entitled al
act relating TO the elections of this Com
monwea- )" passed July ., 1916, provides
as follows, viz:
..That the inspectors and judges shall
meet at the respective places appointed for
holding the election in the district at which
they respectively belong, before o'clock
in the morning Of TUESDAY, November Sd,
and each said Inspector shall appoint one
clerk, who shall b. a qualified voter OF such
district.
''In case the person who shall have res
ceiyed the second highest number of votes
for inspector shall not attend on the day o.
any election, then the person who shall
have received the second highest number of
tion shall act as Inspector in his place. And
in case the person who shall have received
the highest number OF votes for inspector
shall not attend, the person elected Judge
shall appoint an inspector in his place , and
in case tEe person elected judge shall not
attend, then ,he inspector who received the
highest number of votes shall appoint a
judge in his place; and if any vacancy
shall continue in The board for tine space of
one hour after the time fixed by law Tor the
opening of the election, the qualified voters
OF the township, ward or district Tor which
such officer shall have been elected, present
at the place of election, shall elect one Of
their number to fill such vacancy.
The Act of Jan. 30th, 1874, further pro-
vides, viz:
SEC. 8. At the opening of the polls at all
elections il shall be the duty of the Judges
OF election for their respective districts TO
designate one OF the Inspectors, whose
duty it shall be 10 have in custody the reg
istry of voters, and to make the entries
therein required By law; aud it shall b. the
duty Of the other of said inspectors To re-
ceive and number the ballots presented at
said election.
SEC. .. All elections by the citizens shall
be by ballot; every ballot voted shall be
numbered in the order in which il shall be
received, and the number recorded BY the
cle.kS ON the list OF voters opposite the
name of the elcct0r from whom received.
And any voter voting two OF more ticLDts,
the several tickets 50 voted shall each be
numbered with the number corresponding
" iih the number to the name of the voter.
ANY electOr NAV write his n;me upon his
ticket, or cause the same TO b. written
and attcsted by citizen Of the
district u addition to the oath now pre-
scrlbed by Law to be taken and subscribed
by election officers, they shall scvrrllly be
sworn or affirmed not to disclose how any
eieciOr shall hJvc voted, unless required 10
do 80 as witnesses in a judiciIl proceeding.
All Judges, inspectors, clerks, and OverseerS
Of any election held under this act, shall,
before entering upon their duties, DC duly
sworn or affirmed in the presence OF each
other. The judges shall be sworn 10y the
minority Inspector, if there shall be such
inspector, and in case there oe no
minority Inspector, then by justice of the
peace or alderman, and the inspectors, over
seers and clerks shall be sworn BY the
Judge Certificates Of such swearing or
II, a
by the officers so sworn, and attested by
the officer who administered the oath. II
any judge or minority inspector refuses OF
lails 10 swear tho officers OF election in the
manner required by tins act, or if any Off
GER OF election shall act without being first
luly sworn, or if any officer of election
shall sign the form OF oath without being
July sworn, or ii any judge or minority in
spectOr shall certify that any officer was
sworn when he was not. il shall be deemed
l rnisdemeanor, and upon conviction the
officer or officers SO offending shall be fined
rot exceeding one thousand dollars, or i'm
prisoRment not exceeding one year, or both,
1t the discretion of the court.
SEC. 10. On the day Of election any per-
son whose name shall not appear on the
registry of voters, and who claims the right
to vote at said election, shall produce at
least one qualified voter OF the district as a
witness to the residence of the claimant in
he district in which he claims to he a voter,
ror the period of at least two months imme-
lately preceding said election, which wit
ness 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
he residence of the person SO claiming to
be a voter, and the person so claiming the
right to vote shall also take and subscribe a
written or partly written and partly ur.nted
affidavit, stating to the best of his knowl-
edge ana belief, when and where he was
born; that he has been a citizen of the Uni
ted States for one month and of the com
of Pennsylvania; that he has
resided in the commonwealth one year, or,
Il formerly a qualified elector or a native
born citizen thereof, and has removed there
rom and returned, that he has resided
therein six months next preceding said
election, that he has resided in the district
in which he claims TO be voter for the
period OF at least two months Immediately
preceding said election that he did not
move into the district for the purpose of
voting therein; that he has, if twenty-five
years of age or upwards, paid Il state or
comfy tax within two wears. which WAS as