Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-07-31
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| 10 opreserve the purity of elections ,, an act
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the ero,,.-,
1LlSSe"Soty 1 y t1e State Of Ohio, That If sho1i
9., t'iiit wi " llI lof any person who is n con
qiudte IoF any office of trust or nrofit ~
der the constitution or laws of tkie So IN
or of the United States, to loan. 60 S'a5e y;
rectly or indirectly, offer, or promise to
| give, any money or other thing of vaIna
to any elector within the district in which
he is candidate, for the purpose of in
huencing or retaining the vote of such
elector, or give or promise to give to any
person or persons, to influence the vote OF
an Individual elector, or electors gener-
ally, or to influence him or them to vote.
or to refrain from voting; provided that
nothing shall be construed to apply to
hospitality at his own residence.
SEC. 2. Any person found guilty of any
the acts named in section 1 shall be DEEM
ed guilty of bribery, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum not less
than $500 nor more than $1,000. or be inn
prisoned in the penitentfary not exceed
ing three years; and if such offender
shall have been elected to the Office for
which he was a candidate, his office shall
be made vacant by conviction, and filled
as in other cases of vacancy; and such
persons shall, moreover, be forever ineli-
glDle to any office of trust or profit with
in this State.
office, who shall disburse, or give or
promise to give any money or other thing
OF value, OF gives, or treats to any spirit
GUS, malt, or other liquors, either direct
ly or indirectly, to influence any voter in
giving, or withholding his vote, or seeks
by violence or threats of violence. or
threatens to enforce the payment of a
debt, or to begin a criminal prosucution,
or to injure the business or trade of anY
eIector, or if any employer of laborers, or
agent of such employer, threatens to
withhold or reduce the wages, or to dis
miss from service, or refuses to allow the
necessary time to employees to attend
at the place of election and vote, as
an Inducement to such elector to vote coz
trary to his inclination, or any person
selling or offering to sell his influence
with other voters, or who, for or with
any consideration of any value enumer-
ated in Sec. l., shall seek to influence the
vote of any elector, or to influence him to
vote, or to refrain from voting, shall be
deemed guilty of felony, and upon con-
viction thereof, shall be fined in any sum
not less than 800 nor more than So 900
or be imprisoned in the penitentiary not
more than three years, at the discretion
of the court.
SEC. 4. Any candidate for nomination
by any political party in the State. for
any office of trust or profit, who shall
commit any of the acts named in section
one of this act, for the purpose of sec1r-
ing the influence of any person in his be-
half, or to influence any delegate voting
upon the question of his nomination, shall
pc deemed guilty of bribery, and shall be
fined not less than 800, and shall be dis
qualified from holding the office, though
he be thereafter elected according to law.
The commission of any. one of the acts
named in section one, during the candi-
daey of such person for nomination for
office as aforesaid, shall be prima facia ev-
idence of intent to influence the votes of
delegates.
SEC. 3. That whoever asks, demands
or receives from a candidate for the NOM
ination, by any political party or conVen-
ton to any office, or from any candidate
for any Office, under any law, any money
or other thing of value, not then due and
| owing, or makes application to any such
candidate to purchase any ticket to, or to
give any money or other thing of value,
| for any pretended ball, picnic. fair.en-
tertainment, or charitable enterprise,
with the expectation or belief that such
| demand, request receipt viii ififitIeT,tse
any vote, shall be fined not less than $50
nor more than $500, or imprisoned sixty
days in the county Jail, or work-house, ii
| there be such an institution in the coun-
| ty, or both, and such demand or request
of any candidate shall be deemed prima
| facia proof of such expectation or belief
NO prosecution snail be instituted under
any provisions of this act unless the same
shall be commenced within six months
after the commission of the offense
SEC. g. The prosecuting attorney NAV
| frame his Indictment with any number of
counts for different offenses against this
| act, that may be committed to effect any
one election, by any one candidate, and
may offer evidence tending to support
any or all of the counts, and the Jury shall
take into consideration all the evidence
| offered on each of said counts, for the pur-
pose of establishing the guilt of the ac-
eused on all or any of said counts.
Sec. z. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Passed May. 1, 1879.