Litchfield enquirer., 1877-07-12

UTAH i've uu1uIou uOIlaIS, anu lmpI1SOAOA not more than one year, nor less than three months; and any person convicted of offering, conferring, or receiving any such gift, reward, gratuity, or preferment, shall be disfranchised.
 Sec. 45s Every person who shall, atTor within sixty days prior to any such meet ing, attempt to influence the vote of sany operative in his employ, by threats of withholding employ oynaent from him. or by promises of employment, or who shall dismiss any operative from his employ ment on account of any vote he may have given at any such meeting, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or inn prisoned not less than six months, nor more than twelve months, or both. Sec. 46. Any person who shall, with out reasonable cause, neglect to perform any of the duties required of him by the laws relating to elections, or who shall be guilty of fraud in performing them; and any person who shall make any alteration in the lists specified in said laws, except as provided therein: and any person in charge of ballot-box who shall neglect to receive and deposit therein any vote duly offered, or shall receive and deposit. or suffer the voter to deposit. any vote not duly offered, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year Tn the county jail, or both; and any selectman, town clerk, reg istrar, deputy registrar, assistant registrar. moderator, box-tender, checker or counter of votes, who shall be convicted of fraud in performing any of the duties required of him by this act, shall be disfranchised. 2 An hn hoD md ulently prevent any vote from being de- posted in ballot-box, at an electors. town or city meeting, which is presented and intended to be deposited therein by any person entitled to deposit the same shall be imprisoned not more than one year nor less than six months; and on such conviction of such offense, shall be disfranchised.
 Sec. AS. Every person who shall fraud ulently abstract any vote from the ballot box used at any electors, town. or city meeting within six months thereafter, or who shall, at such meeting, or within six months thereafter, fraudulently inter- mingle any vote or votes with the votes legally deposited in any such box, shall be fined not more than five hundred dol lars and imprisoned not more than two years in the State prison, nor less than six months in the county jail;'and on convic- tion of such offense, shall be disfranchis- ed.
 Sec. 49. Every person who shall fraud ulently procure himsef or another to be registered as an elector, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars and inn prisoned not more than one year, or by such fine and imprisonment both.
 mh 10 attempt to vote, at any meeting by as- stunning the name of another, who is re. gistered, shall be fined five hundred dol ars, and be imprisoned one year. and on conviction of such ofense, shall be dis franchised.
 Sec 51. Every person, not legally quali- fled. who shall fraudulently vote in any town meeting, or at any electors meeting in any town in which he is not qualified to vote; and every legally qualified person who shall at such town or electors. meet ting, fraudulently put into the same bal lot-box more than one vote. at the same tune, for any person for the same office, or who shall fraudulentlY vote more than once at the same balloting, shall be fined not more than.five hundred dollars, nor less than three hundred dollars, and shall be imprisoned not more than two years, nor less than one year. and shall be dIs- franchised.
 Sec 52. Every person. who shall keep 8 place resorted to for the purpose of selling and buying pools upon the result of any election, or who shall, any place sell or buy and pools upon the result of any cleo. ton, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year or both.
 Sec. B. Every person who shall upon oath or affirmation, legally administered to him by any person authorized by th1s act to administer oaths, wilfully and cor ruptly testify or affirm, before any regis trar or registrars of voters, moderator of any electors, town or city meeting, or board for the admission of electors, falsely to any maternal fact concerning the ident- ity, age, residence or other qualifications of any person whose right to be registered or admitted as an elector. or whose right to receive an electors check or to vote at any electors or town or city meeting shall be before such registrar, moderator or board for the purpose of being passed upon and decided; shall be imprisoned in jail not more than two years, and any person convicted of any such offense shall be disfranchised.
 Sec. 54. Chapters two and three of title five of the General Statutes; sections one, two, three, four, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fiji. teen. sixteen and seventeen, of chapter four. title five of the General Statutes; sections two and three of chapter one, title two of the General Statutes; sections twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty eight. twenty-nine, thirty. thirty-one. thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty four, thirty-fve, of chapter nine, title twenty of the General Statutes; and all acts and parts of acts re- lating to the registration or admission of electors and the conduct of electors' town or city tmeetings, inconsistent herewith. are hereby repealed. N 8e s
 MOTE by the Secretary of State. The foregoing Act-was returned by the Gov. ernor to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, without his approval, and subsequently passed both Houses by a yea and nay vote
 se-zE House Bill No. 296.
 CHAPTER CXLvII,
 An Act providing for the Care of the In-
 sane Poor.
 Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of
 Representatives in General Assembly
 convened:
 SECTION l. There is hereby created a board pf trustees of the insane poor hos pital at Mansfield. It shall be compos. ed of five persons. who shall be appointed by the General Assembly for the term et five years and one shall be appointed each year for the term of five years. The trustees appointed in 1877 shall be ap. pointed for the term respectively of one. two. three. fous and five years.
 Sec. 2. The sum of five thousand dol. lars IS hereby appropriated for the pur- chase of the land and buildings at Mans. field, heretofore used as the Soldiers Or phan's Home, to be used as an insane poor hospital
 Sec. 3. There is hereby appropriated tor the proper furnishing of said hospital at Mansfield, the sum of one thousand dollars.
 Sec 4. It shall be the duty of the Gov. ernor to cause to be transferred from time to time. end it shall be the duty of the trustees of the Connecticut hospital for the insane, from time to time to transfer from said hospital to the hospital at Mansfield, all cases of chronic insane pan pers that are considered incurable. or not needing special medical treatment. frr-F . A~.-