The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-10-31
ARTICLE VIII.
SUFFRAGE AND ELECTION.

SEC. /. Every mHle citizen twenty-on.
years of age, possessing tho iollowfi.l
qualifications, shall be entitled to vote 81
all elections:
FirSt.-He shall have been a citizen b
the United States at least one month.
SccOnd.-B c shall have resided In the Stan
one year, Tor, If having previously beeu {
qualitied elector or native born citizen 81
the state he shall have renewed thereforfI|
and returned, then six months) immedk
ately preceding the election.
Thtrd-He shall have resided I'm tus
election district where he offers To vote +.
least two months Immediately precedIhH
the election.
FoUrh.-If twenty-five years of aqo S|
upwards, he shall have paid within ~
years State or county tax which slaaH
have been assessed at least two months ana
paid mt least one month before election.
SEC. =. The General election shall fI
held annually on the Tuesday next follct.
ing the first Monday of November, I'D
the General Assembly may, by law. fix n
difioront day, twO-thirCls OF all tn . rns.I,.'
bers of each House consenting therefo.
also give official notico of the folluI
ing provisions of an act approved the H|1*
of March, 1865, entitled "An act reg,t'3
ting the mode of voting ut all tho electiols
OF this Commonwealth
SEC. |. BE IL enacted by the Senate nt1
House CT Representatives of the COnnio&1
wealth of Pennsylvania in General An
sembly met, and II is hcroby enacted Ia
the authority of the same. That the qtte<{,|
itied voters OF the several counties Of 1,XI
Commonwealth, at all general, towusl +
borough and special elections are hertl<
hereafter authorized and required to tt<'
by tickets printed or written, or p>fi{
printed and partly written, scvorallv cIi.6
siticd as follows One ticket shall einIf.2
the names of alljudges Of courts voted
and shall be labeled Judiciary - |@
ticket shalt embrace the names OF al 4{||
State officers voted for and be lai1
"State;' one ticket shall embrac1
names of all the county officers voted III
including Office of Senator and mcnit|N| -
Assembly, II voted for, and mcmllr1
Congress, IL voted Tor, ana be lal,l
County = one ticket shall embrace
names nf all the township officers r.
for, and be labeled "1ownsiisp n, I'll.
ticket shall embrace the names OF aiI
borough officers voted Tor and he l1| !.
Borough" and each class shall be- l..I|. e.
tied In separate ballot boxes.
Notice is hereby given, That ans (. ~
excepting Justices of the Pcace uli|7a
hold any Office or appointmentof pfI..|
trust under the United States, or
State, or any city or corporaled dnI1
whether commissioned officer or IA
wise, subordinate officer or agclst
is or shall be employed undcr the i813
ture, executive or Judiciary departu1
this State, or in any city, or of anv
porated district, and also that oyefy
b"r of Congress and of tho State ~
ture, or of the select or common ~
of any city, or commissioners of Ia.
corporated district. is by law incaYa
holding or exercising at the IH|@
office or appointment Of judge. i4<
or clerk OF any election in Ibis C11
wealth. and that no Inspector, I.|
other officer of such election shall ~
ble to he then votcd'f for. y
The Judges of the Aforesaid .|{.. -
shall representatives, take csiartr~ or
certificates of return of tho eier| IN :
their respective districts, aud rE|f3 4
them ut the Prothonotary's oflicn Il
Borough of Tiouesta, a. Follows
Judges living within Twelve mild.
Prothonotarv's office, or within
four miles IL their re..idoi.ce he IL T.
village or city rpon the line of a IN
leading To the county seat. shall ilfI
O'Clock p, M. on WEDNESn f
NEMBER SEVENTH, lSss. aud u ID
Judges shall before twelve o'clock, Ni,.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER EIUff| f.
loss deliver said returns. to'sethcr = Il
the return sheets. To the ProthonutaS. :. 4
the Court of Common Pleas OF N|.4
county, which said return shall Id N4
and the day and hour OF filing ll'
therein. and shall be preserved ~ 4
PrOthonOtarY for public inspc,:tiMf
Given under my hand nc my ufiico Ii"
nesta, Pa, this 2ith day of Serfti
In the year of our Lord one thH,
eight hundred and eighlY-eight, ilt[=
the one hundredau thirteenth FL
the Independence of the United 81
GEO. w. SAWY Err Shff