Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-10-25
OF TIE QUALIFIED ELECTORS.
CONSTITUTION OF rrSNsYLvAN1A--ART. VII

CONSTITUTION OF pESNSYLYANIA--ART. VIII.
SECTION l. Every male citizen twenty one
years of age possessing the following qualitica-
lions, shall be entitled to vote at all elections
First-He shall Lave been citizen of the
| United States at least one month
Sc Gnd-He shall have resided IL the state
one year (or If having previously been quail
fed e,ector or native born citizen of the State
he shall have removed there and returned. tlen
six months) Immediately preceding the cleo
tion
Third-He shall have resided in tie election
district where he shall offer his vote at least wv
months immcdiaiel, receding the election.
! Fourtli-lf twenty two 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 at least one month before
the election.
SECTION 5. Electors shall in all cases except
! treason, felony and breach or surety of the
| peace, be privileged fom 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 uuder a reGu;sition from the
President of the United States or by the author
ity OF this Commonwe nth, such electors may
exercise the right of suffrage in II elections by
the citizens, urder such regulations rs are or
shall pc prescribed by law, rs fully if they
weIe present at their usual places of election.
SECTION Z. All laws regulating t! e holding
of the elections by the citizens or for the regis
tration OF electors shall be uniform through
out tie State, but no eectOr shall be deprived
OF the privilege by reason of his name not being
re gistcred.
SECTION 49, For the purpose of voting, no
person shall be deemed to have gained q resi-
dcnce by reason of his presence or lost it by
reason of his absence, vhilc employed in the
service, either civil or military, OF this State or
OF The United States, while engaged in the
navigation of the waters Of this State or of the
United States, or on the high seas, nor while a
stndcnt in any institute of learning, nor while
kept in any poor house or other asylum at pub
lie expense, nor while confined in a public pri-
son.
Election officers will take notice that the Act |
entitled IA Further Supplement 20 the Election |
Laws of the Commonwealth" disqulliiyng de- |
tiers from the army of the United States from |
voting has recently been declared urconstitI- |
tional by the Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania, |
is now Lull and void, and that all persons for |
merry disqualified hereunder are now lawful |
voters, if otherwise qualified.
WHEREAS The fifteenth amendment of the
Constitution of the United States is as follows
SIC. l. The right of the citizens of the United |
States shall not be denied or abridged by the
Unit ed States on account of race color or pre-
vious condition of servitude.
SEC. 2. That Congress shall have power to en-
force this article by appropriate legislation
AND WHEREAS, The Congress of tho United
States, On the 3ist March, 1874, passed an act
entitled IAN Act to enforce the right OF citizens
of the United StGtes to vote III the several
States Of the Union and for other purposes
the first and second sections of which are rs
follows:
Sic i. Be it enacted, &c, That all citizens of
the United States WHO are shall be otherwise
qualified to vote at any election by the people Of
any State Territory, district, city. parish, town
chip scLoo. district. municipality, or other terri
toIal subdivision, shall be entitled and allowed
to vote at all such elections, without distinction
of color, race previous condition Of servitude,
any constitution law, custom. usage or rfgua-
tion of any State or territory or by or under its
authority 10 the contrary Notwithstanding.
;. Sic. 2. And be it further enacted. That if,