Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-10-23

any poor house or other asylum at public ex. |
Election Officers viii take notice that the act
entitled Further Supplement- TO the Eiec-
tion Laws of the Commonwealth,n disqualify.
ing deserters from the army ofthe United states
from voting has recently been declared uncon.
MIA i now null and void, and That all persons
formerly disqualified hereunder are now law.
ful voters, II otherwise qualined,
OF ELECTION OFFICERS.
CONSTITUTION OF PESNsYLvANIA-ARr. WI.
SECTION Il District election boards shall con.
sist of Judge and two inspectors, who shall be
chosen annually hy the citizens; Each slector
inspector and each inspector shall appoint one
clerk, election officers shall be privileged from
in making up ana transmitting returns. except
upon warrant OF court OF record or Judge
wanton breach of the peace. No person shall
te qualiaed to serve as an election officer who
any once, appointment OF, employment in or
under the government Of the United states or
municipal board, commission or trust in any
city, save only justices OF tho peace, and alder
vice OF the state; nor Shall any election of,icer
be ineligible to any civi office to be filed by an
such subordinate municipal or local offices as
shall be designated by general law.
ACT 90 JANUARY, 1874.
SECTION 7-whenever there shall be vacancy
in an election otrd on the morning of an cleo
tion 1t shall be hlled in conformity with exist.
ing laws.
ACT JULY 1850
SECTION lG In case the person who shall have
received the second highC-t number of votes for
Inspector shall not attend On the day of any
election then the person who shall have re.
Judge at the next preceding election shall act Ms
Inspector in his place And in case the person
votes for inspector shall not attend, the person
elected Judge shall appoint an inspector IN hts
place; aud in case the person elected judge
Shall not attend, then the inspector who re.
ty11 n I'M a IN ia aFtv vaOa
Shall continue in the bo,rd for the space OF one
hour after the time fixed by law for the open
township, ward or district for which such oflicer
shall have been elected, present at the place Of
election, shall select one OF their number TO fll
such vacancy.
ACT 30 JANUARY, 1874.
SECTION 9-In addition to the oath now pre-
scriUed by Law TO be taken ana subscribed by
election officers, they shall severally be sworn
or affirmed not to disclose how any elec;or shall
have voted unless required to do 50 as witnesses
IL II Judicial proceeding. Ijudges inspectors,
clerks overseers of any election held under this
duiv sworn or affirmed in the presence OF each
other. The Judge shall be sworn by the minority
tor and in case there be no minority inspector.
the by a justice of the peace or alderman, and
the inspectors, overseers and clerks shall be
sworn by the Judge. certificates of such swear
Ing or GtiiTmins shall be y duly IN, made out and
the officer who administered the oath.
ACT 81 JANUARY, 1874.
SECTION s--At the opening OF the polls at the
cleo tons II sltlll ne Tue uuly Oh JNuScS OF
election for their respective districts TO desg.
nate one of the inspectors, whose duty it shall
and TO make the entries therein required by
law and it shall be the duty of the other OF
| said inspectors TO receive and number the bal
lots presented at said election.
| szEyMODE OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS.
j@A ACT 30 JANUARY, ls7L
| srcr1oy j.-At all elections hereafter held
| under the laws OF this Commonwealth, the polls
| shall be opened at O'Clock II. IN, and closed at
| o'clock p. IN.
| CONSTITUTION OF PESEsYLvANIA-ART. VIII.
SECTION All elections hy the citizens shal
| bered in the order in which it was received, and
| the number recorded by The election officers on
toS tGS who who presents the ballot Any elector may
write his name upon his ticket or cause the
same to be written thereon and attested by II
| citizen OF the district.
ACT BOTH MARCH lsG3.
| SECTION BE it enacted by the Senate and
| Of Pcnnsyivnnfa, in General Assembly met and
| IL is hereby enacted by the authority OF the
same. That the qualified voters OF the several
| counties of this commonwealth, ut all general,
| township, borough and special elections are
| vote hv tickets, printed written, or partly
printed and partly written, severally classified
one ticket shall contain the names of all per-
sons voted for for the Electors OF President and
| Vice President of the United States, and sh all
be labelled on the outside with the word " Elec.
one ticket shall contain the names of all per-
United states, all persons voted for for Member
Pennsylvnnia, ali persons voted for for Member
| of the House OF Representatives, OF the Com.
| onwealth of PENNSYLVANIA, and all persons
votsd for for county ofices of said county of
| Lancaster, and TO be lgbeied on the outside
| with the word " County,
one ticket shall contain he names of all per-
| sons voted for for Judge OF any OF the courts OF
said county or OF this Common wealth, and be
| labelled on the outside with the word "Judic'
One ticket shall contain the names Of all per
| fal Il offices the "a q n
OF Pennsylvania, other than Judges of the Su
Court OF sd nor veal n ana pc
| The several classes OF tickets, labelled as afore
said, shall when voted by the qualified elector:
eral election districts deposited in ballot boxes
OF THE ELECTION RETURNS.
| ACT so JAsUARY, 1874.
SECTION l3-As soon the polls shall close
the Officers of the election shall! proceed to count
| all the votes cast tor each candidate voted for
and make "A full return of the same in triplicate
with return sheet in addition, in all of which
given after his name, tirst I'm words and again IN
| figures, and shall be signed by all the said ON
ned, the oSerseers ana any ofIicer refusing e
| sign or certify, or either OF them, shall wlitI
not signing or certifying them. The vote, a
soon a. counted shat also be publicly and full,
declared from the window TO the citizens pres
ent and a brief statement showing the votes re
ceived by each candidate shall he made AM
signed by the election officers as soon AS III
, | votes are counted. aud the same shall be imm,
, | diItely posted upon the door of the elecuo
| house for information OF the public. Ih
| triplicate returns shall be enclosed in eI
| velopes and be sealed in tine presence Of tn
officers, and one envelope, with the unsehed n
turn sheet given to the judge, which shall col
| tain one list OF voters, tally papers, and oath
4 | officers, and another OF said envelopes shall
a | given TO the minority inspector. An judges liz
| Ing within twelve miles Of prot Monetary : ofic
f or within twenty-fuur mlIes, IL their residenc
a | ue in town, city or village upon the line OF
\ railroad leading to the county seat, shall befor
| two O'Clock past meridian OF the day after IN
10 | election, and all other judges shall before lively
= | O'clock meridian Of the second day after tn
10 election, deliver said return, toge her with II
" | turn sheet to the Prothonotary OF the Court q
| Common Pleas of the county, whlch shlu Ietul
y, | shall b tle1 and the day ami the hour OF MIN
s MAJ ked thereon, ana shan be pIeserNeu py IN
| PIoIaOuotary for public inspection. Attwelv
p' | o'clock o. the second day following any elet
IA | tinn The ProthonOtary OF the Court OF Commo
, | pleas shall present the said returns 20 The sat
a. | court. In counties where there Is no residen
= | president Judge, The associate Judge shall pei
p inrm the du les imposed upon the Court of Con
=, | mon Pleas, " hiCn shall convene for said pu
~ | pose the returns presented by tho frothonS
~ ttry shall be opened by said court and com Jute
Il by such ut lts ON GERS and such sworn .stan
~ | the court shall appoint; Ia the presence
| the Judge OF judges of said court, Tho returI
, | certified and certificates of election issued u
l. | der the seal OF the court rs Is now required
be done by return judges, aud the vote
4, | computed and certified shall be made a matt
a. | OF record in said court. The sessions OF sa
~ court shall be opened 10 the public. And In ca
H. | the returns OF any election district shall
| missing when the returns are presented, or
n any case OF complaint OF qualified elect
,e under oath, charging palpaDe fraud or mistal
ana particularly specifying the alleged fraud
- mistake, or where fraud or mistake IL appare
~ | on the return, the court shall examine the
q, | turn, and II, in the Judgment OF the court,
AZ shall be necessary TO just return, said cou