The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30

such disposition to be made OF said lists as
will render them convenient Tor reference
at subsequent elections.
SECTION s. If any register shall fail to
perform any duty herein required, he shall
be liable to a penalty of one hundred
dollars, to be recovered on complaint of any
person, before any court of competent
jurisdiction; and if any register or judge of
election shall willfully neglect or disregard
any duty herein required, or make or per-
nit to be made, any registration, statement
or list, except at the time and place and in
the manner prescribed in this act, or shall
knowingly make or permit any person to
make any false statement, as aforesaid, every
such register or judge of election shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof, shall be fined or i'm
prisoned, or both, as provided in section six.
SECTION 9. Registers shall be allowed, by
their respective townships, cities and
villages, for their services under this act,
such compensation as is allowed by law to
judges of election.
SECTION 10. The word " ward " as used in
the preceding sections for the purposes of
this act, means and shall be held to mean,
any municipal ward not subdivided as
hereinafter provided, and in any subdivision
of a municipal ward so subdivided.
SECTION II. In every city of fifteen thou
sand or more inhabitants at the preceding
census, having any ward in which more
than six hundred ballots are cast at any
election, the council thereof shall, imme-
diately after the taking effect of this act, and
whenever, thereafter, occasion may arise,
divide by ordinance every such ward into
subdivisions of compact territory, for elec-
ton purposes only, bounded by streets or
alleys, or both, so that each subdivision
shall contain as practicable three hundred
electors resident therein, and shall designate
in such ordinance, as wards, such subdivis-
ions by letters of the alphabet in their or
der, with the number of such municipal
ward added, as, for illustration: ward A, L:
ward B, 1 ward G, 1 ward A, 2: ward b, 2:
and so on. If the council of any such city
shall fail, for sixty days, to divide any such
wards so divisible for election purposes un-
der this act, the mayor of such city shall
thereupon divide the same in accordance
herewith, and give notice thereof by procla-
nation, containing the boundaries and
designation of every subdivision, and the
places of holding elections therein, which
proclamation shall be published forthwith
in some newspaper published and of gen.
eral circulation in such city, and shall be
recorded in the ordinance record thereof.
SECTION II. In every municipal ward so
subdivided, all elections shall be held by
and in the subdivisions thereof. And the
judges of election for such municipal ward,
as now provided by law, shall be judges of
election for ward A thereof, and such judges
shall meet at the mayors Office on the first
Monday of September of each year, at ten
O'Clock, a. M, and shall there select and ap-
point two judges of election of opposite
politics for each of the other subdivisions
or wards of such municipal ward. The per-
sons so appointed shall be freehold elect
ors, and residents for at least three hun
dred and sixty days in the ward for which
appointed. The mayor shall forthwith cause
notice to be given to each person so ap-
int lon a-1 10 ha do
and kept in his Office of such appointments.
The persons appointed shall act as judge
of election in their proper subdivisions or
wards during the period of one year. They
shall take the same oath of office, be subject
to the same requirements, penalties, liabili-
ties, and disqualifcations, and entitled to
| the same compensation as other judges of
election. They shall designate and appoint
two clerks of election of opposite politics,
who shall take an oath of office, and shall
| perform all the duties and be subject to
all the liabilities as other clerks of elections.
If any such judges or clerks shall fail to at
tend at the proper time and place, such
| judges and clerks, shall be chosen and
| qualified as now provided by law.
SECTION 13. The place of holding elec-
| tions in every such subdivision or ward of
| any such municipal ward subdivided,
shall be designated and published by the
| city council, as provided by law in other
| cases.
| SECTION IA. That during the receiving of
the ballots at any voting precinct, it shall
be unlawful for persons to congregate to-
gether in or about such place, SO as to him
der or delay any elector in casting his bal
lot; and it is the duty of the judges OF
election, upon complaint being made OF
such hinderance or delay, and being salts.
fed that substantial ground of complaint
| does exist, to order all such persons to dis.
perse, and upon refusal SO to disperse, they
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor
and shall be punished as provided in section
six in this act.
SECTION Is. That the judges of election
shall if requested by any elector, permit the
respective candidates, or one or more, moi
exceeding three of their friends, to bt
present in the room or place where tn,
judges are during the time of receiving an(
counting out the ballots.
SECTION 16. Section one of the act en-
titled can act to preserve the purity o
elections" as amended April 18th, 1868, ant
! April Sd, 1876 and all acts and parts of act
inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed
SECTION II. This act shall take effec
from and after its passage.
c. H. GRosvENoR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
H. w. CURTIss,
President of the Senate.
Passed May 4 1877