The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-04-04

ty Commissioners. IL shall not be law
full for any Assessor to assess tax
against any person within sixty-one
days preceding the annual November
election, and any Election Officer, As.
SCISSOR or Overseer, who shall neglect |
their duty, shall be subject to fine Of |
one hundred dollars.
ASSESSORS APPOINTED.
In districts where an Assessor has
not been elected, the Court of Com
mon Pleas shall appoint reputable
person to the position.
AT the election held on the third
Tuesday of February, each district
shall elect one Judge, and two Inspec-
tors, and an Assessor.
The respective Assessors, Inspectors,
Judges and Overseers shall each have
the power to administer oaths to any
person claiming the right to be assess
ed, or the right of suffrage.
WHO CAN BE ELECTION OFFICERS.
No one can be an election officer
who holds, or has held within two
months of the election, any office, APP
pointment or employment, in or under
the Government of the United States,
or of this State, or of any municipal
board, commission or trust, in any city.
This excludes an Objectionable class of
persons who have heretofore figured
largely among the election officers.
ELECTION OFFICERS.
District Election Boards shall con.
sist of Judge, and two Inspectors
each elector may vote for one person
for Judge and one person for Inspector
the person receiving the highest
number of votes to be Judge, and the
two receiving the highest number of
votes for Inspectors to be Inspectors.
Each Inspector appoints Clerk, who
must be a qualified elector of the divi.
sion.
FILLING VACANCIES.
The manner of filing vacancies in
the Board of Election Officers on the
day of election, under the act of 1889,
is as follows: If the minority Inspec-
tor shall not attend on election day,
the defeated minority candidate for
Judge of election acts as the minority
Inspector. If the minority Inspector
shall not attend, the Judge appoints
an Inspector. If the Judge shall not
attend, the minority Inspector appoints
a Judge. If any vacancy is not filled
within an hour after the opening of the
polls, the voters of the division elect a
person to fill the vacancy. In case of
a tie vote for Judge, the majority In
spector appoints a Judge, and in the
event of a tie vote for Judge and In
spectors, a curbstone election is to be
held on the morning of election. The
Court of Common Pleas has decided
that this Act of Assembly must be fol-
lowed in filling vacancies, wherever
the counsel representing the different
political parties cannot agree as to per-
sons to be appointed. The Court rec
ommends that to avoid the confusion,
and perhaps violence, attending a curb
stone election, that the representatives
of the two parties agree upon persons
to be appointed by the Court.
ovERsEERs.
Two Overseers shall be appointed
| by the Court of Common Pleas, on the
application of five citizens of an elec.
tion division. They have a right to
supervise the proceedings of election
officers, may report to the Court, and
where the election officers differ in
opinion, the Overseers, if they agree
may decide the difference. Their pay
shall be five dollars each.
VACANCY IN ELECTION BOARDS.
| Where new district has been made
the Court of Common Pleas shall, ten
days before any general or special elec-
tion, appoint competent persons to fill
the vacancies, the Inspectors of any
election district not to be of the same
political party; but the Judge, in all
cases, must be of the party having q
majority of the votes in said district.
CUSTODY OF REGISTRY.
The Judge of the election shall des
ignate one of the Inspectors to have
the custody of the registry of voters
and make the entries therein required
by law, the other to receive and mum
Der the ballots presented at said elec
ton.
, BALLOTS SHALL BE NUMBERED.
Every ballot shall be numbered il
the order in which it shall be received
and the number recorded by the Clerl
opposite the name of the elector. Th,
several tickets so voted shall be nun
; bered with the number corresponding
with the number to the name of tn,
voter An elector may write his nam,
on his ticket, or cause it to be writer
thereon and attested by citizen o
the district.
TIE ELECTORS VOTE NOT TO BE DIS
CLOSED.
Election officers shall be sworn 20
affirmed) not to disclose how any elec
tor shall have voted; the Judge to b
sworn by the minority Inspector, ant
the Inspectors, Overseers and Clerk
by the Judge. If any election officer
!. shall act without being first sworn, o
if any officer of election shall sign tn
form of oath without being duly sworr
he shall be guilty of misdemeanol
All are to be sworn in the presence O
each other
THE RESIDENCE REQUIRED.
Any person who shall have move
from one division to another With
two month of an election, is not enti
led to vote in either.
+ TAKES.
To entitle person to vote, he sha
have paid State or county tax With
two years, which was assessed tw
months, and paid at least one montl
before the election. The tax receiI
: is the best evidence of such payment
If the receipt be lost or destroyed, til
citizens oath to the payment is sufl
). cient. The tax need not be pol
; tax any tax assessed by authority {