Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1886-08-12
Approved March 1e, 1886.
CHAPTER LXxIv.


A Supplement to an act entitled IAN act to
regulate elections approved April eight
eeHth, one Thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six.
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That
In all incorporated cities in this state as soon
as the election shall be finished and the bal
lots, poll lists, tally papers, and oaths and
atfrmat1ons deposited in the ballot-box, and
the same sealed as now required bV law the
ballot-box shall be immediately taken in
charge by the two inspectors Of election of the
precinct, and by them forthwith carried to the
office Of the city clerk of the city in which
such election may be held, by the most direct
route, and without delay; and said inspectors
shall not stop at any place between the polls
and the city clerks office; the clerk of any
CITY IN which the election shall be held shall
attend at his said Office on election day, and
keep ms Office open from the time the polls
shall be closed until all the ballot-boxes used
at the various polls in said city at such cleo
tiOn shall have been delivered at his office:
and he shall thereupon keep such boxes con-
tanning the tickets and other documents, and
said clerk shall not open nor permit to be
taken or opened, any ballot-box deposited as
aforesaid, for the space of six months after the
same has been deposited as aforesaid except
when he shall be called upon by some court
or other tribunal authorized to try the merits
OF such election, or take testimony regarding
the same; and after such trial and inpestiga-
tion, it shall be the duty of the clerk to have
said box or boxes returned and deposited in
his Office; the city clerk shall either attend
personally at his Office, or appoint one Of the
clerks in his Office to act for him
2. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the
city in which such election may be held or
his subordinate, whom he may have appointed
to act in his stead, shall enter in a book to be
keptf for that purpose, the exact time when
each ballotrbox may be delivered at said
Office, the precinct whence it was brought. the
names of the inspectors delivering it, and the
name of the police officer or other witness
who uay accompany them and such other
particulars as he may deem important; said
book shall be fled in the Office of the city
clerk and be public record.
g. And be it enacted, That this act shall
apply to all elections hereafter held in ineor-
porated cities, whether the same be general or
special or charter elections
4 And be it enacted, That SO much Of the
act to which this is a supplement, and so
much Of any special act as conflicts with this
act, be and the same is hereby repealed.
5. And be it enacted, That any person who
shall willfully violate any Of the provisions Of
this act, or who shall obstruct or interfere
with the inspector or inspectors on the way
from the polls to the Office of the city clerk,
shall be guilty Of misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by I'M
prisonnlent at hard labor for any term not ex-
eeeding two years, or both
6. And be it enacted, That this act snail
take effect Immediately
Approved March Is, 1886.