Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-11-01
OF THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS.
CONSTITUTION OF Observation-Disclosures. VI


SECTION l. Every male citizen twenty-one
years of age possessing the following qualifiea'
tiont shall be entitled to vote at all elections
First-he shall lave been a citizen Of the
United States at least one month.
Second-He shall have resided iE the State
one year Tor If having previously been a quail
fed elector or native born citizen of the State
he shall have removed there and returned. then
elk months) Immediately preceding the eec-
tion.
Third-He shall have resided in the election
district where he shall offer his vote at least tw
months Immediately preceding the election.
FOurth-1f twenty-five years or upwards, he
shall have paid within two years State or coun-
ty tax, which shall have been assessed at least
two months and paid Mt least one month before
the election,
SECTION 5. Electors shall In all cases except
treason, felony and breach or surely of the
peace, be privileged i:om arrest during their at.
tendance on elections and in going to and re-
turning therefrom.
SECTION 6. Whenever any OF the qualified
electors OF this Commonwealth shall be In act
ual military service under a requistiou from the
President of the United States, or by the author
ty OF this Commonwealth, such electors may
exercise the right of suffrage in oil elections by
the citizens, uEder such regulations MS are or
shall pc prescribed by law, as fully as If they
we've present at their usual places OF election.
SECTION z. All laws regulating tho holding
tration OF electors shall be uniform through
out the State, but no elector shall be deprived
OF the privilege by reason of Ills name not being
registered.
SECTION 13. For the purpose of voting, no
person shall be deemed to have gained resi-
dence by reason of his presence or lost II by
reason OF his absence, while employed In the
service, either civil or military, OF this State, or
of the United States, nor while engaged In the
navigation of the waters OF this State or OF the
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stndent In any institute of learning, nor while
kept In any poor house or other asylum at pub
lie expense, Dor while confined In public pri-
son. 4
Election officers will take notice that the Act
entitled "A Further Supplement- 20 the Election
Laws of the Commonwealth, disqualifying de-
serters from the army of the United States from
voting has recently been declared unconstitu-
tional by the Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania.
Ia now null and void, and that all persons for.
merry disqualified Hereunder are now lawful
voters, II otherwise qualified.
WHEREAS The fifteenth amendment OF the
Constitution Of tho United States is as follows
SEC. / The right of the citizens Of the United
States shall not be denied or abridged by the
Unit ed States on aasoppt OF race, color or pre-
vious condition OF seryitude.
SEC. 2. That Congress shall have power to sn-
force this article by appropriate Legislation:
AsD WHEREAS, The Congress Of the United
States, On the Slst March, 1874, passed an act
entitled IAN Aot TO enforce the right OF citiEens
OF the United States TO vote ip the several
States Of the Union and for other pprppses,'
the first and second sections Of which are -
follows
sEn. /. Be it enacted. ttc.. That all citizens OF
tho United States ~bo are or shall be otherwise
quslifed to vote at any election by the people Of
any State, territory district, city. parish, town.
ship school district. municipality, or other terri
toriai subdivisoR, shall be entitled and allowed
to vote at sli such elections without distinction
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any constitution, law, custom, nssGe or regula-
ton OF any State or territory or by or under its
authority to the contrary Notwithstanding.
SIC. 2. And be II further enacted, That II,