The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-29
ARTICLE VIII.
SUFFRAGE AND ELECTION.

SEC. l. Every male citizen twenty-oi G |
years of age, possessing the following |
qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at |
all elections:
FirSt.-He shall have been n citizen of |
the United States ut least one month.
Second Il c shall have resided in the State |
one year, Tor, if having previously been
qualified elector or native born citizen of
the State he shall have renewed thereiorm
and returned, then six months,) imme IL
ately preceding the election.
TRird.-He shall have resided in the
election district where he offers to vote at
leest two months Immediately preceding
the election.
FOurth.-If twenty-five years of age or
upwards, he shall have paid within two
wears q State or county tax which shall
have been assessed at least two months and
paid ut least one month before election.
SEC. 9. The General election shall l.
held annually on tho Tuesday next follow
ing the first Monday of November, but
the General Assembly may, by law, fix a
differont day, two-thirds of all the MEM
bers of each House consenting thereto,
also give official notice of the follow
ing provisions of an act approved the 30th
of March, 1866, entitled IAN act regula-
ting the mode of voting at all the elections
of this Commonwealth
SEC. |. BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania in General AS
semblY met, and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same. That the quail
flied voters OF the sevsral counties of this
Commonwealth, at 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, severally clas-
sified as follows One ticket shall embrace
the names of alliudges of courts voted for
and shall be labeled Judiciary )" one
ticket shall embrace the names of all the
| State officers voted for and be labeled
| Estate - one ticket shall embrace the
names of all the county officers voted for,
including office of Senator and member of
! Assembly, if voted for, and member of
| Congress, if voted for, and be labeled
County - one ticket shall embrace the
names Hf all the township officers voted
| for, and be labeled "Township - one
ticket shall embrace the names of all the
borough officers voted for and be labeled
Borough" )" and each class shall be depos-
| tied in separate ballot boxes.
Notice is hereby given, That any person
excepting Justices of the Peace who shall
! hold any Office or appointment ofprofit or
trust under the United States, or this
State. or any city or corporatod district,
whether commissioned officer or other
| wise, subordinate officer or agent who
| is or shall be employed under the legisla
ture, executive or Judiciary department of
this STATE or in any city, or OF any incor-
porated district. and also that every menu
Der of Congress and of the State Legisla-
ture, or OF the select or common council
of any city, or commissioners of any in
cOrpnrated district, is by law incapable of
holding or exercising at the time, the
office or appointment of judge, inspector
or clerk ot any election in this Common
wealth. and that no inspector, Judge or
other officer of such elecIion shall be eligi-
ble to be then voted for.
The Judges of the aforesaid districts
shall representatiVely take charge of the
certificates of return of the election of
their respective districts, and produce
them at the PrOthOnotarys office i'm the
Borough Of TiOnesta, as follows: "All
judges living within twelve miles of the
PrOthonOtarvs office, or within twenty
four miles if their residence be in a town,
village or city vpOn the line of Il railroad
leading to the county seat. shall before two
O'Clock p. M. ON WEDNESDAY,, NO
VEMBER THIRD, 1856, and all other
judges shall before twelve O'clock, M, on
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER FOURTH
1886, 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 9th day of september
in the year of our Lord one thousand
3 eight hundred and eighty-six and in
the one hundred and eleventh year of the
Independence Of the United States.
81 i. AGNEW, Sheriff.