The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-10-08

bly, met, and IL is hereby enacted by tho
samo and in all elections hereafter TO be
| held in this Commonwealth it 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 IL shall be unlawful
| for any such person to offer to vote any
such ballot or ballots.
SEC. 2. That if any such Judge or inspec-
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 ofa misdemeanor, aud upon
conviction thereof i'm any Court of Quarter
Sessions of this Commonwealth, he shall
for each offence be sentenced to pay fine
of not lees than one hundred dollars, and
TO undergo imprisonment in the Jail of
the proper county for not less than sixty
days.
SEC. 8. 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 bal
lot or ballots, any person so offending
shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof in any Court of Quar-
ter Sessions of this Commonwealth, shall
for each offence bo punished in like man
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 n 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 tho Both of
March, 1866, entitled "An act regulating
the mode of voting nc all the elections of
this Commonwealth"
SEC. l. Be it enacted by tho Senate and
House of Representatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem-
bly, met and it is hereby enacted by tho
authority of the same. That the qualified
voters of the several counties of this Com
monwealth, at all general, township bor-
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: One ticket shall embrace
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 ticketshall 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 be labeled "Coun-
ty;" one ticket shall embrace tho 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 Mt
the PrOthOnotary'S Office in tho 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 town, village or
city upon the line of a railroad leading to
the county seat, shall before two O'clock,
p. M, on WEDNESDAY, NOVEM BER
FIFTH, 1879, and all other Judges shall
before twelve o. clock, M, on THURSDAY
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 30th day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy nine, and in the
one hundred and fourth year of the In
dependence of the United States.
C., A RANDALL. Sheriff