The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-09-26
ARTICLE VIII.
SUFFRAGE AND ELECTION.

SUFFRAGE AND ELECTION.
SEC. |. Every male citizen twenty-ol o
years of age, possessing the following
qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at
all elections:
First-He shall have been citizen of
the United States at least one month.
Second. II shall have resided i'm the State
one year, (or if having previously been %
qualified elector or native born citizen Of
the State he shall have renewed thereform
and returned, then six moths,) imme l.
a,ely precedidg the election.
Third.-lIe shall have resided I'm tho
election district where he oflers.to vote ar
least two months Immediately preceding
the election.
FOauh.-If twenty-five years of age "
upwards, he shall have paid within two
years n State or county tax which shall
have been assessed at least two months ana
paid at least onemonth before election.
SEC. .. The General election shall /
held annually ON the Tuesday next follow
ing the first Monday of November. but
the General Assembly may, by law, fix ~
ditferOnt day, two-thrds of all the MEM
bers of each House consenting thereto.
also give official notice of tho follow
ing provisions of an act approved the sofia
of March, 1856, entitled "An act regula-
ting the mode of voting at all the elections
OF this Commonwealth"
SEC. l. BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of The Common
wealth of Pennsylvania in General AS
sembly met, and IL is hereby enacted hy
the authority of the same. That the quail
lied voters OF the sevsral counties of this
Commonwealth, NJ all general, township.
borough and special elections are hereby
hereafter authorized and required TO vote
by tickets printed or written, or partly
printed and partly written, sevcrallv claS-
sitied as follows: One ticket shall embrace
the names of all judges OF courts voted for
and shall be labeled "Judiciary;" ono
ticket small embrace tho names of all the
state officers voted for and he labeled
'Slate;' one ticket shall embrace tho
nam' otall the county offices voted for,
including Office of Senator and nelnhrr of
Assembly. IL voted Tor, and mOnhcr OF
Congress, if voted Tor, aud be labeled
"Couuiy = one ticket shall embrace the
| names all the township officers voted
| for and he labeled Township; :" one.
ticket ahal embrace the names oi all tho
! borough officer voted for, and be labeled
| "BOr uvh,' and each class shall be dcpo,-
itcd in scperatc ballot boxes.
Nutirr i, hereby given. That any perSoIB
| excepting Justices of the Peace who shall
| hold any uiGce or appointment of profit or
| trust rn'or the United States or this
| state, on any city or corporated district,
| whether commissioned ofli ,er or Other
wise, subordinate otlirer or agent who
| is or shall be employed under tile legisla.
| tnre, executive or Judiciary department. az
| this STATE, or OF any city, or nf any incor-
| porated district, and also that every mem
| Der Of Congress and of the State Legsa-
| ture, or OF the select or common council
| of any oitr, or commissioners of any in
corporaiod district. is by law incapable of
| holding or exercising at the time, the
| office or appointment of judge, inspector
| or clerk Of any election in this Common
| wealth, and that no inspector, Judge or
| other officer of such election shall be eli
| gible 10 bo then voted for.
The Judges of the aforesaid districts
| shall representatively take charee Of tho
| certificates of return of the election of
| their respective districts. and produce
them at the ProthonOtary's office in tho
| Borough of Tionesta, as follows: "All
| Judges living within twelve miles of the
| Prothonotarv's office, or within twenty
| four miles if their residence be in a town,
village or city rpon the line of railroad
| leading to the county seat shall before two
o'clock p. M. on WEDNESDAY, NO
! VEMBER SEVENTH, 1882, and all other
judges shall before twelve O'Clock, M, on
| THURSDAY, NOVEMBER EIGHTH,
! 1888. deliver said returns together with
| the return sheets, TO the Prothonotary of
| the Court of Common Pleas of Forest
! county, which said return shall be filed,
and the day and hour of filing marked
| therein. and shall be preserved by the
| Prothonotary for public inspection.
| Given under my hand at my office in Tio-
nesta, Pa, this oath day of september
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-three, and in
the one hundred and eighth year of the
| Independence of the United States.