The daily gazette., 1882-05-06
uNIr,taNt RALLoTLAW.
Claim Made That IL Applies to the school
EIectiOn-AH Interesting Test Probable
The Candidates..

| School are as follows, being now complete:
First ward-Harry Emmons, Esq.
Second ward--David A. Powell.
Third ward-Edmund Mitchell, Jr.
Fourth ward-Henry ID. Hickman.
Fifth ward-Nathaniel r. Benson, Jr.
Sixth ward-Stansbury j. Wiley.
Seventh ward-sJas. II. Hoffecker, Jr., ESQ.
Eighth ward-Thomas A. Keables, NJ. ID.
Ninth ward-Pancoast Allen.
Tenth ward-Read j. Mckay, M. D.
Eleventh ward--Jacob Pusey.
Other candidates are as follows, 1t being
seen that there is, so far, no contest likely in
the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Seventh and Tenth
| wards
First ward-Frank W. Reeve.
Second ward-Col. r. X. Heisler.
Third ward-J. T. Theodore FeukeI.
Eighth ward-Hickman Sparks.
Ninth ward-John Brooks.
Eleventh ward--Newton G. Sample.
An interesting question is likely to be
raised over the election upon the uniform
ballot law, it being claimed by so many that
the new law will apply to the school election
to-day, Il it ia shown that it comes under
the head of municipal elections" For the
information of readers the salient points of
| the new law are published.
SEC. /. All the ballots voted at any
general election, special election, or cleo
be held in this State, or at any municipal
election hereafter to be held in the city of
| Wilmington, shall be written or printed
upon white paper, to be procured as herein
| after provided, of the same kind and
quality, and each ballot shall be six inches
| long and three inches wide. Upon the in
side of the ballot shall be written or printed
the names of the persons for whom the
| elector intends to vote, with a designation
Of the office to which each person so named
| is intended by him to be chosen, and upon
the inside and at the head Of the ballot shall
be written or printed the name of the
political party to which a majority of the
persons voted for belong. No name, mark,
design, device, or imprint whatsoever, other
than those mentioned above, shall be made,
| written or printed upon the inside
of any ballot, and no ballot shall
he cut, indented, nichcd or folded
in manner intended to designate
or impart knowledge of the person who
voted such ballot. In reading out the bal
lots at any election hereinbeiore mentioned,
Il ballot upon the outside of which any
name, mark, design, device or imprint what
soever shall have been made, written or
printed, contrary to the above provisions /;
or ballot upon the inside of which any
name, mark, design, device or imprint what
| sOver, other than those named above, shall
have been made, written or printed contrary
| to the above provisions or ballot which
shall have been cut, indented, niched or
folded in manner intended TO designate or
| impart knowledge of the person who voted
| such ballot, contrary to the above provisions;
or a ballot of different length, or of a
different width from the length and width
prescribed above. br a ballot written oil
printed upon paper of n color, kind ol
quality different from those prescribed above
or upon PAPER procured from any other per
son than the Secretary of State, or of a
Clerk of the Peace, as herein provided. shall
not nor shall any or either of the said ballots
be counted or Tailed, but shall be rejected:
Sec. 2. The Secretary of State shall pro-
vide the pape upon which all the ballots
voted at any of the elections mentioned in
Section l Of this act, shall be written OF
printed. The paper shall be white and OF
such kind and quality as he shall deem best
fitted for the purpose, and shall be provided
in sufficient quantities to supply all the bal
lots for the entire State. 1t shall be paid
for by an order drawn by the Secretary OF
State upon the State Treasurer The Secre-
tary of State, shall at least thirty days
before each of said elections, place the said
paper in sufficient quantities, In the hands
Of the clerks of the peace of the several
counties of this State, who shall sell it to
any reliable person applying for 1t for the
to be voted at any of said
elections, at an advance of 10 pei
centum ON its cost price. One-half of said
advance shall belong to the clerks of the
peace, and the other half to the Secretary o.
State, but the cost price shall be paid back
into the State treasury. ProOided, hOaeeyer
that any reliable person may procure the
paper directly from the Secretary of Statt
upon paying him the said advance, which
shall in that case belong wholly to him. Tht
Secretary of State and the clerks of the
peace shall hand over to their several and re
spective successors all of the said paper so al
aforesaid provided for election purposes
which may be In their hands at the expira
ton of their several and respective terms O
office and shall take receipts from their re
spective successors for the same. y
Now comes the interesting part. A num-
ber of the candidates not being aware of the
new law or not considering that it would
apply to the school election had tickets
printed in the same form and manner as in
former years. The candidates endorsed 10y
the Alumni had tickets printed on paper
secured from the Secretary of State or on al
order procured fiom him. No paper was
sent to the Office of the clerk of the peace
here, and this morning when the other can
didates awoke to the fact that they were
running risk in not having the regulation
paper, they were unable to get any.
Whether any contest will be raised re
mains to be seen. Attorney-General Gray
when questioned by GAZETTE reporter to
day, said he was not prepared tosay whether
it was absolutely necessary to get the pape
prescribed by law at the school election. Il
was his opinion that the election was mu
nieipal election, but he hoped no contes
would be raised.