Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-09-18
WHO ARE LEGAL vOTERs.


Io amend an act entitled san act supplementary
and amendatory OF the act entitled act to
amend sections two. four, and twenty -four of an
act entitled an act to purity Of elections, passed
May !, 1877 VOLTA, page 2lll and to repeal GER
tain sections thereof.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted bg the General |
Assembly Of the State of Ohio, That section |
one, of said act, shall be amended so as to |
read as follows:
No person shall be PERMITTED to vote at
any election, unless he shall have been an
actual resident of the state for one year
next preceding the election, an actual
resident of the county for thirty days
next preceding the election and an act
ual resident of the township, ineorpora-
| ted village, or ward of a city or a village
for twenty days next preceding the cleo
| ton at which such person shall offer to
vote, except where the person offering TO
vote in any township, incorporated vii
| lage, or ward of city or village, is the
| head of family, and has actually resided
| in the state, and in the county i'll which
| such township, incorporated village, or
| ward of city or village is situate, the
length of time required to entitle per-
son to vote under the provisions of this
act, and shall, bona nde, remove with his
family from one ward to any other in
such city or village, or from a ward of
such city or village to q township or in
corported village in the same country, or
from township or incorporated village to
/ q
county, in which cases such person shall
have the right to vote in such township,
incorporated village, or ward of a city or
J village, without having resided therein
. the length of time above described to
entitle person to vote; provided, that
such voter SO removing with his family
from township to an incorporated viii
: lage or ward of city or village in the
t same county, shall not have the right to
vote at any municipal election held in
such city or incorporated village, unless
he shall have resided therein twenty days
t prior to such municipal election. In de-
: termining the residence of a person offer
ing to vote, the judges of the election
shall be governed by the following rules
i. That place shall be considered and
I held to be the residence of person in
D which his habitatiOn is fixed, without
any present intention of removing there
from, and to which, whenever he is alb
:, sent, he has the intention of returning.
2. a person shall not be considered or
held to have lost his residence, who shall
leave his home and go into another state,
S or county of this state, for temporary
e purposes merely, with an intention OF
returning.
8. The place where the family of a
married man resides, shall be considered
and held to be his place of residence, ex-
Y cept where husband and wife have sepa-
rated and live apart, then the place
= where they resided at the time ofthe sepa
= ton, shall be considered and held to be
4 his place of residence, unless he shall af
: terWar(s, and during the time of such
q seDaration, remove from such place, il
which case the county, township, city, Oh
i Incorporated village, in this state, il
/ which he shall resede the length of time
: required by the provisions of this sec
ton to entitle person to vote, shall b.
considered and held to be his place o
lie residence.
n f. A person shall not be considered o
le held to have gained residence in an!
county, township, city, or incorporated
! village in the state, into which he shal
al come for temporary purposes mereley
le without the intention of making sucl
10 county, city, or incorporated village hi
home.
- ). If a person remove to another state
Is with the intention of making it his per
,r manent residence, he shall be eonsidere
al and held to have lost his residence in tn
state.
u 6. If person remove to another stat
n with the intention of remaining theT
of for an indefinite time, and as place {
to present residence, he shall be considere
and held to have lost his residence i
W this state, notwithstanding he may Ell
no tertain an intention to return at SON
IS future period.
no 7. The mere intention to acquire
- new residence, without the fact of r.
CT removal, shall avail nothing neither sha
of avoid the fact of removal without tt
ne intention.
al If person shall go into anoth'
state, and while there exercise the rigl
as of citizen by voting, he shall be eonsi'
ic cred and held to have lost his residen'
10 in the. state.
.o' SECTION 2 That sections one, two, thre
:, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and te
Gu of said act, be and the same are herel
is repealed.
ho SEcTIoN 8. This act shall be in for
IL and take effect from and after its pa
ce JAMES A. NORTON,
.ir Speaker pro TEN. of the House of Re
IT. resentaives.
- JABEZ w. FITCH,
President of the Senate.
ne Passed Feb. u, 1873.