The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-10-03
ARTICLE VIII.
SUFFRAGE Ann ELECTION.

SEC. L. Every male citizen twenty-oi q
years of age, possessing the following
quail fications, shall be entitled to vote AZ
all elections: -
b, First He shall have been citlzen 81
the United States at least one month.
SecoHd.-lIe @ shall have resided i'm the Stufa
one year, Tor, If having previously been d
gualitied elector or native born citizen Of
tho state he shall have renewed thereforin|
ana returned, then six months,) imme ~
ately preceding the election.
Third.-Iie shall have resided In thn
election district where he offers TO vote al
least two months immediately preceding
the election.
FOurth.-If twenty-five years of npe III
upwards, he shall have paid within t,f{
years State or county tax which sfn|I
have been assessed Mt least two months and {
paid at least one month before election.
SEC. 2. The General election shall b0
held annually on the Tuesday next follow~.
ing the first Monday of November, fut
tho General Assembly may, by law, fix 4
diheront day, two-thirds of all the moilsH
bers OF each House consenting thereto.
| also give official notice of the follot
ing provisions of an act approved the aH|t|
of March, 1866, entitled "An act reR,iI,.|
ting the mode of voting at all the electiof+
of this Commonwealth"
SEC. |, BE it enacted by the Senate aI,u
House CT Representatives of the Comnlof.|
wealth of Pennsylvania in General Al.
scmbly met, and IL is hereby enacted ~
the authority Of the same. That the qu4|<
lhed voters of the several counties of tii[&
Commonwealth, at all general, TOWNSHIP
borough and special elections are hcro3@|
hereafter authorized and required TO vo{@
by tickets printed or written, or pafli X
printed and partly written, severaIly cia;1'
siiied as follows: One ticket shall cmbr4I
the names of alliudges of courts voted HI<
and shall be labeled Judiciary - III
ticket shall embrace the names of all
state officers voted for and be lai,1i*
'Stato;' ono ticket shall embrace &<
names OF all the county officers voted M
including Office of Senator and memhtI r
Assembly, il voted for, and member
Congress, If voted for, and be lal1|.
County = one ticket shall embrace
names nf all the township officers vol4.
for, and he labeled "Township - 0l
ticket shall embrace the names of alt n.
borough officers voted for and he laii..
Borough and each class shall be dc{
tied in separate ballot boxes.
Notice is hereby given, That any lf,2l Il -
excepting Justices of the Peace who Il Z
hold any Office or appointment of pro[ ~
trust under the United States, of
state, or any city or corporated a1i<[| ~.
whether commissioned officer or 6il*3
wise, subordinate officer or agert
is or shall be employed under the lc4I ~
ture, executive or judiciary departtnt5
TINS State, or in any city, or of any i0f Il
porated district. and also that every I0{
ber of Congress and of the State Io4I
ture, or of the select or common tt>uf
OF any city, or commissioners of ann
corporated district, is by law incapni}I
holding or exercising at the tinsci
Office or appointment of Judge, iu2IH
or clerk of any election in this Coni1|
wealth. and that no inspector, juU ~ s.
other officer of such election shall he N
hle To he then voted for.
The Judges of the aforesaid di@t|
shall representatively take charge IL
certificates of return of the electio,I T.
their respective districts. and proIj|
them ut the Prothonutary's office in I|s|x
Borough of TiOnesta, rs follows:
Judges living within twelve miles of |1|.
Prothono;ary's Office, or within tN{I>|
four miles il their resdoLce be In d E,
village or city rpon the line of t,.,l IN.
leading to the county scat. shall bef0fl' |u. =
o'clock p. M. on WEDN ESDAI ~ .3
VEMBER SEVENTH, 1888, and al "a:
Judges shall before twelve o'clock, u1 . Il
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER EI,ilII|| (
loss, deliver said returns. together H|9t
the return sheets, to the Prothonctart
the Court of Common Pleas of Fof.
county, which said return shall DO Hf
and the day and hour of filing mad F..
therein. and shall be preserved by
Prothonotary for public inspection.
Given under my hand at my Office iu 1I" E
nesta, Pa, this 2tth day of Sep,cluu*
in the year of our Lord one thou<&
eight hundred and eighty eight, and
the one hundred and thirteenth Yc1f
the Independence of the United St1|3
GEO. ", SAWYER Chalit