The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-10-16
ARTICLE VIII.
SUFFRAGE AND ELECTION.

SEC. l. Every male citizen twenty-one
years of age, possessing the following
qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at
all elections:
FirSt.-He shall have been a citizen OF
the United States at least one month.
SccORd.-He shall have resided in the State
one year, (or, if having previously been
qualified elector or native born citizen of
the State he shall have renewed theretorm
and returned, then six months,) immedi-
ately preceding the election.
Ihid.-Tle shall have resided in tue
election district where he offers to vote at
least two months Immediately preceding
the election.
FOurth.-If twenty-five years of age or
upwards, he shall have paid within two
years State or county tax which shall
have been assessed at least two months antf
paid at least one month before election.
SEC. 2. The General election shall be
held annually on the Tuesday next follow
ing the first Monday of November but
the General Assembly may, by law, fix q
difierOnt day, two-thirds of all tn men,
bers of each House consenting thereto.
1 also give official notice of the follow
ing provisions of an act approved the S0th
of March, 1866, entitled "An act regula-
ting the mode of voting at all the elections
of this Commonwealth"
SEC. /. BE it enacted by the Senate and
House cf 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 several 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-
siiied as follows: One ticket shall embrace
the names of alljudges of courts voted for,
and shall be labeled Judiciary - one
I'LL. - Ill
State officers voted for and be labeled
''State - 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 tor and be labelled
County - one ticket shall embrace the
names of all the township officers voted
for, and be labeled "TOwnship !" one
ticket shall embrace the names of all the
borough officers voted for and he 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 corporated district,
whether commissioned officer or other
wise, a subordinate officer or agent who
is or shall be employed under the legisla-
ture, executive or judiciary department of
vs.
porated district. aud also that every mem-
Der of Congress and of the State Legsla-
ture, or of the select or common council
of any city, or commissioners of any in
cOrpOrated district is by law incapable of
holding or exercising at the time, the
Office or appointment of judge, inspector
or clerk of any election in this Common
wealth, and that no inspector, Judge or
other officer of such election shall be eligi-
BILE to he then voted for.
Tho judges Gf the aforesaid districts
shall rcprescuto!iycly take charge of the
certificates of return of the election of
their ofIocfiVo districts, and produce
tnCm 81. the Parliamentary office in the
Borough Of TuueSta, rs follows: "Alli
judges living within twelve miles of the
ProthonotarY's office, or within twenty
four miles If their residence be in town,
village or city vpon the line of a railroad
! leading 10 the county seat. shall before two
o'clock p. M. on WEDNESDAY, No
| NEMBER SIXTH, 1889, and n all othoY
judges shall before twelve o'clock, M, on
/ THURSDAY, NOVEM BIER SEVENTH,
| loS9, deliver said returns, together with
/ the return sheets, TO the PrOthonOtnry OF
! the Court of Common Pleas OF Forest
| county, which said return shan bo 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 S0th day OF September,
in the year OF our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-nine. and in
the one hundred and fourteenth rear of
the Independence Of the United States.
GEO. w. SAWYER, Sheriff.