Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-24
Legal Notices.

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SEC. IA. District election boards shal
| consist of a Judge and Two inspectors, who
shall be chosen annually Dy the citizens
Each eIector shall have the right to vote for
the judg, and one inspector, and eaeh III
spector shall appoint one clerk. the mrs
election board for any new district shall be
selected, and vacancies in election boards
! filed, as shall be provided BY law Elec
ton officers shall be privileged from arres
upon days of election, and while engaged II
making Up aid transmitting returns, except
upon warrant of a court of record or judge
thereof for an election fraud, Tor felony, oi
for wanton breach of the peace. In cities
they may claim exemption from jury duty
during their terms of service
SEC. Is. No person shall be qualified to
serve as an election officer who shall hold,
or shall within two months have held any
office; OF appointment or employment in OIL
under the government of the United States
or of this State, or of any city, or county
or of any municipal board, commission 81
.tust IN any city save Criy Justices OF the
peace and aldermen, notaries prcife sni
persons in the militia service Of the State
nor shall any election election officer be elli-
bic to anv civil office TO be filled at an elec
ton at which be shall serve, save only to
such subord'rs.e municipal or local offices,
below the grade - city, or county officers
as shall be designated BY general law.
And also to the following act of Assem-
biy now in force in this State, viz:
Act Of Januray 80, 1874 SEC D. At all
elections hereafter held pnder the laws oil
this Commonwealth, the polls shall be open
ed at seven O'Clock a. IN, and closed al
seven O'Clock p. III. .,.,.
SEC. Z. Whenever there shall be vdcan-
cy in an election board ON the morning, oi
an election, said vacancy shall be f1licd In
conformity with existing laws.
The said act of Assembly entitled " al
act relating to the elections of this Com-
monwea th,' passed July =, 1916, provides
as follows, viz:
s.That the inspectors and judges shall
meet at the respective places appointed Tor
holding the election in the district at which
they respectively belong, before O'Clock
in the morning Of Tuesday, November ID,
and each said inspector shall appoint one
clerk, who shall be qualified voter OF such
district.
.sIn case the person who shall have re-
ceived the second highest number of votes
for inspector shall not attend on the day of
any election, then the person who shall
have received the second highest number of
votes for judge at the next preceding cleo
zion shall act as inspector in his place. And
in case the person who shall have received
the highest hutnber OF votes for inspector
shall not attend, the person elected Judge
shall appoint an Inspector in his place and
in case the person elected judge shall not
attend, then the 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 the space of
one hour after the time fixed br law for 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. 3Oth, 1874, further pro-
vides, viz:
SEC. s. At the opening of ,iie polls a, all
elections it shall be- the duty OF the judges
of election for their respective districts to
designate one of the inspeo tors, whose
duty it shall be to have in custody the reg
istry of voters, and to make the entries
therein required BY law ard it shall be- the
duty of the other of said inspectors To re-
ceive and number the ballots presented at
said election.
SEC. 9. All elections by the citizens shall
he BY ballot; every ballot voted shall be
numbered in the order in which it shall be
received, and the number recorded BY the
clerks on the list of voters opposite the
name II 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 corresponding
with the number to the name of the voter.
ANY elector may write his name upon his
ticket, OF cause the same TO be written
thereon, and aitested by a citizen OF the
district In addition to the oath now pre-
scribed BY law to be taken and subscribed
hy election officers, they shall seyerally be
sworn or affirmed not 10 disclose hc~v eny
elector shall have voted, unless required 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, oe duly
sv0rn or affirmed in the presence of each
other. The judges shall be sworn by the
minority Inspector, il there shall be such
minority inspector, and in case there be no
minority inspector, then by justice of the
peace or alderman, and the inspectors, over
secrs and clerks shall be sworn by the
Judge. Certificates of such swearing OF
affirming shall be duly made out and signed
By the officers so worn, and attested by
the officer who administered the oath. Ii
any Judge or minority inspector refuses or
fails TO swear tho officers of election in the
manner required by this act, or if any OFF,
Ger of election shall act without being first
duly sworn, or If any officer of election
shall sign the form OF oath without being
duly sworn, or it any judge OF minority in
spector shall certify that ahy officer was
sworn when he was not. 1t shall be deemed
a misdemeanOr, and npon conviction the
officer or officers So offending shall be fined
not exceeding one thousand dollars, or i'm
prisoRment not exceeding one year, or both,
at 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
witness to the residence of the claimant in
ine OlStrlct IN WnlCn ne CldiiDS 10 De NOters
for the period of at least two months imme-
diately 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
the residence of the person 50 claiming to
be voter, and the person SO claiming the
right to vote shall also take and subscribe a
written or partly writer and partly printed
affidavit, stating to the best of his knowl-
edge ano 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
monwealth of Pennsylvania that he has
resided in the commonwealth one year, or,
if formerly a qualified eiector OF a native
born citizen thereof, and has removed there
from 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 a 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 two
years of age or upwards, paid a state or
county tax within two years, which was as