The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-10-22

tfNlhluN Nv Nuc Nltno, ino oIlCo or appoint
| mont of judge, inspector or clerk of any
election IN this Commonwealth, and that
no inspector, judge or other officer of such
| election shall bo eligible to be then voted
| for.
Also, that in tho 4th section of the act of
| Assembly entitled can act relating to
elections and for other purposes" approv-
ed April 10th, 1869, It Is enacted that the
| 18th section shall not be so construed as to
| prevent any militia or borough officer
nom serving as judge, inspector or clerk
ut any general or special election in this
Commonwealth.
A further supplement TO the election
| laws of this Commonwealth
Whereas, by an act of the Congress of
the United States, entitled "An net to
amend the several acts heretofore passed
to provide for the enrolling and calling out
of the national forces, and for other pur-
poses" and approved March Sd, 1895, All
persons who have deserted the military or
naval services of the United States and
who have been discharged or relieved
from the penalty or disability therein pro-
vided, are deemed and taken to have vol
UNFAIRLY relinquished and forfeited their
right TO become citizens, and are deprived
Of exercising the rights of citizenship
hereof:
And whereas, persons not citizens Of the
United States, are not under the constitu-
ton and laws of Pennsylvrnia qualified
SEC. /. BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of this Common
wealth of Pennsylvania i'm General Assem-
bly, met, and IL is hereby enacted by the
same and in all elections hereafter 10 be
held in this Commonwealth IL shall be
unlawful for the judges or inspectors of
any such election TO receive any ballot or
ballots from any persons embraced in the
provisions, and subject To the disabilities
imposed by said act of Congress, approved
March Sd, 1865. And it shall be unlawful
for any such person to offer TO vote any
such ballot or ballots.
SEC. 2. That if any such Judge or inspcc-
tor of election, or any of them shall re-
ceive or consent to receive any such un-
lawful ballot or ballots from any such dis
qualified person, he or they so offending
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upOn
conviction thereof in any Court of Quarter
Sessions of this Commonwealth, he shall
for each offence be sentenced to pay a fine
of not less than one hundred dollars, and
to undergo Imprisonment in the Jail Of
the proper county for not less than sixty
days.
SEC. 3. That if any person deprived of
citizenship, and disqualified as aforesaid
shall at any election hereafter TO be held
in this commonwealth vote or tender TO
the officers thereof, and offer to vote n bal
lot or ballots, any person so offending
shall be guilty of misdomeanor, and on
ter Sessions Of this Commonwealth, shall
for each offence be punished in q like man
ner as provided in the preceding section
of this act, in the case of officers of cleo
tions receiving such unlawful ballot or
ballots.
SEC. 4. That IL any person shall hereaf>
ter persuade or advise any person or per-
sons deprived of citizenship and disquali-
fled as aforesaid to offer any ballot or bal
lots to the officers of any election hereafter
to be held in this Commonwealth, or shall
persuade or advise any such officer to re-
ceive any ballot or ballots from any per-
son deprived of citizenship and disquali-
fed as aforesaid, such persons so offending
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and up
on conviction thereof in any Court of
Quarter Sessions of this Commonwealth,
shall be punished in like manner as pro-
Vided in the second section of this act in
the case of officers of such election receiv-
ing such unlawful ballot or ballots.
also give official notice of the following
provisions of an act approved the 30th OF
March, 1866, entitled ''An act regulating
the mode of voting at all the elections of
this Commonwealth"
SEC. l. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem-
bly, met, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the same. That the qualified
voters of the several counties of this Com
AiiOh"Stitii1 ~ OH GCliNidl, lOMuSlllD, Dor
ough' and special elections are hereby
hereafter authorized and required to vote
by tickets printed or written, or partly
printed and partly written, seVerally clas-
sitied as follows: Ono ticket shall em mbrace
the names of all judges of courts voted for
and shall be labeled Judiciary :" one
ticket shall embrace the names of all the
State officers voted for aud be labeled
"State;' one tickets shall embrace the names
OF all the county officers voted for, includ-
ing Office of Senator and member of As
sembly, if voted for, and member of Con-
gress, if voted for, and he labeled "Coun-
ty;" one ticket Shall embrace the names of
all the township officers voted for, and be
labeled "Township; - one ticket shall en-
brace the names of all the borough officers
voted for, and be labeled thorough" and
each class shall be deposited in separate
ballot boxes.
The Judges of the aforesaid districts
shall representatively take charge of the
certificates of return of the election of their
respective districts, and produce them at
the ProthonOtary's Office in the Borough
of Tionesta, as follows: "All judges liv-
ing within twelve miles of the prothono-
tary's Office, or within twenty-fOur miles
if their residence be in a town, village or
city upon the line of railroad leading to
the county seat, shall before two O'clock,
p. M, on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
FIFTH, 1879, and all other judges shall
DeIore IWelYeo o CLOCK, M, on I'll u RSDA1
NOVEMBER SIXTH, 1879, deliver
said returns, together with the return
sheets, to the prothonotary of the court of
common pleas of Forest county, which
said return shall be filed, and the day and
hour of filing marked therein, and shall be
preserved by the prothonotary for public
Inspection"
Gixen under my hand at my Office in Tio-
nesta, this Both day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seVcnty-nine, and in the
nnn hnndrnd and fnmrth .rnn1 Of tEn In