Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-11-02
OF ELECTION OFFICERS.

CONSTITUTION OF PgNNsYLvANIA-ART. VIII.
SEC IA. District election boards shall consist
OF judge and two inspectors, who shall be cho-
sen annually by the citizens. Each elector shall
have the right 70 vote for the judge and one in
spector, and each insl ectoY shall appoint one
clerk. Election officers shall be privileged from
arrest upon days OF election and while engaged
In making up and transmitting returns, except
upon warrant OF court of record or Judge
thereof. for an election fraud, for felony, or for
wanton breach Of the peace.
Is. No person shall be quaicd TO serve as an
election officer who shall hold, o. shall wInnI
two months have held an Office appointment
or emplOyms ip or qndsY thu government OF
the United States or of this State. or of any city
or county, or OF any municipal board, commits
sion or trust in any city, save only justices OF
the peace. and alderman, nctaries public and
persons In militia services OF the State; nor
shall any election officer be eligible to any civil
Office 10 be filed by an election at which he
shall serve, save only to such subordinate mu-
nicipal or local Offices as shall be designated by
general law.
ACT JANUARY 90, 1874.
SEC. 2. Whenever there shall be vacancy in
an election board, on the morning of an elec
existing laws.
ACT JANUARY 80, 1874.
SEC. Q. In addition TO the oath now prescrib-
tion Officers. thes shall be severally sworn or
affirmed not to disclose how any electoV shall
have voted unless required to do SO as witness
es In Judicial proceeding. All judges, inspec-
tors. clerks and overseers of any election held
under this act. shall before entering upon their
duties. be duly sworn or affirmed in the pres
ence OF each other. The Judge shall be sworn
by the minority inspector, II there shall he such
minority Inspector, and I'm case there be no mi
nority inspector, then by justice OF the peace
or alderman, and the Inspectors, oyerseers and
clerks shall be sworn by the Judge. certificate of
such swearing or affirming shall be duly made
out and signed by the officers SO sworn. and at
tested by the officer who administered the oath.
ACT JANUARY 30, 1874.
SEC. 9. At the opening of the polls at the
elections IL shall he the duty OF the judges OF
election for their respective districts todesig-
nate one OF the inspectors, whose duty IL shall
be to have In custody the registry OF voters and
TO make the entries therein required by law
and II shall be the duty Of the other Of said In
spectors to receive and number the ballots pre-
sented at said election.
MODE OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS.
ACT JANUARY 30, 1874.
SEC. 5. All the elections hereafter held under
the laws VI this Commonwealth, the polls shall
be orened ut 7 O'Clock, A. NJ, and closed at z
o'clock, P.h.
CONSTlTUTlON OF PkNNbrLVANJA-AHT. VIII.
Sec. f. All elections by the citizens shall be
by ballot Every ballot voted shall be number
ed I'D the order ib which II was received, and
the number recorded by the election officers on
the list Of voters, opposite the of the cleo
tor who presents the ballot. Any elector may
write bis pane upon bis ticket, or cause the
same to be written thereon and attested by
citizen Of the district.
ACT MARCH 80, 1853.
ARC. L. he IL puartpd the mai N and TI0uqa
OF Representatives CT the Commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania In General Assembly met, and II
IL hereby enacted by the authority Of the same,
That the qualified voters OF the several counties
OF this Commonwealth at all general, township,
borough and special elections are hereby here
after authorized and required 10 vote by tickets
printed or written. or aitly printed and partly
written, sevrrally classified az follows:
One ticket shall contain the names Of all per-
sors voted for the Electors of President and
Vice President OF the United States. and shall
be labelled on the outside with the word "Elec-
tors"
One ticket shall contain the names Of all per-
sons voted tor for Men bcr OF Congress OF the
United States all pei sons voted for for Member
OF the state Senate OF the Commonwealth Of
Pennsylvania, ali persons voted for for Memter
OF the House OF Representatives OF the Common
wealth OF Pennsylvania, and all persons voted
for for county offices Of said county of Butler,
aud 10 be labelled on the outside with the word
"Couuty"
One ticket shall contain the names of all per-
sons voted Tor for Judge of any of the courts OF
said county or OF this Common eath, and he Ia
bclied ON the outside with the word Judiciary'
One ticket shall contain the names OF all per.
sons voted for for officers of the Commonwealth
Of Pennsylvania, other than Judges OF the gu
preme Court OF said Commonwealth, and I've Ia
belled on the outside with the w0sd estate"