The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-01-03
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MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
SEC. SO. The county clerk shall provide at the ex-
pense OF the county, proper ballot-boxes, blanks, poll
books, and other necessary election blanks, also the
election laws of Wyoming Territory, for each precinct
and district in his county, and cause a suitable number
thereof to be delivered to the Judges of election of each
precinct at least ten q0) days before any election is to be
held within has county, except as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 70. Any constable attending such election may
call to his aid a sufficient number of citizens to arrest any
disorderly person or suppress any riot or disorder during
the election. Whoever conducts himself in a riotous or
~disorderly manner at any election, and persists in such
conduct after being warned to desist, may be arrested
without warrant
Sec. II. a special election to fill n vacancy OCCURRING
i'll the council or house of representatives NAV be held
upon five () days notice, given by the board of county
such vacancy exists. Prorded, That upon such notice only
no particular form, color or texture of ballots shall be
adhered to. Prorided further, That in all cases where
notice is given by authority OF law for an election to be
holden in less than ten Q0) days from the notice thereof,
the county clerk shall perform the duties prescribed in
section ~sixty-eight (6s) of this act, before the time fixed
by law for the opening of the polls at such election.
SEC. y. Each clerk of the election shall keep Il poll
list, which shall contain a column headed number, and
another headed Z" names of voters The name of each
elector voting shall be entered upon each of the poll
books by the clerks, in regular succession, under the
proper headings, and the number of such voter placed
opposite his or her name in the column headed number
SEC. 70. The names of all candidates for which the
electors intend to vote, shall be written or printed upon
the same ballot, and the office to which he desires each to
be elected shall be designated upon the ballot.
SEC. "a. All the ballots counted by the Judges of cleo
ton shall, after being read, be strung upon a strong thread
or twlne, II, the order IN which they have been read, and
shall then be carefully enveloped and sealed up BY the
judges, who shall direct the same TO the officer to whom by
law they are required to return the poll books, and shall
be delivered, together with the poll books, to such officer.
who shall carefully preserve said ballots for six (6l
months, and at the expiration of that time shall destroy
them by burning, without the package being previously
opened. Prorfded, If any contest Of election shall be
pending at such time, in which such ballots may be
required in evidence, the same shall not be DESTROYED till
such contest is finally determined,
SEC. 10. The judges and clerks Of election shall re-
ceive five (5) dollars each per day for their services in
attending such election, and the Judge or clerk who
carries the said returns TO the county clerk, shall also
receive fifteen Q5( cents per mile each way by the nearest
travelled route unless he has to traYel in another way than
by railroad then fifteen Q5l cents per nile and five (5)
dollars per day each, actually and necessarily employed
in such service. The judges of election Shall retain
duplicates of their returns, and hold the same until after
the canvassing of the votes by the canvassers, and such
duplicates shall be sworn TO.