The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-22
ARTICLE VIII.
SUFFRAGE AND ELECTION,

SIC. 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 citizen OF
the United States at least one month.
SccOnd.-H G shall have resided i'm the State
one year, Tor, if having previously been
qualified elector or native born citizen OF
the State he shall have removed thereform
and returned, then six months,) immedi-
ately preceding the election,
ThHd.-Iie 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 ago or
upwards, he shall have paid within two
years State or county tax which shall
! have been assessed at least two months and
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 a
differont day, two-thirds of all tn , mem
bers of each House consenting thereto.
also give official notice of the follow
ing provisions of am act approved the 30th
of March, 1866, entitled "An act regula-
ting the mode of voting at all the elections
of this Commonwealth"
SEC. /. BE ii enacted by the Senate and
House CT Representatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania in General AS
semblv met, and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same. That the quail
| itied 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-
| siied rs follows One ticket shall embrace
! the names of alliudges of courts voted for.
| and shall be labeled Judiciary - one
] l-t. ltsaH .f oil
! State officers voted for and be labeled
"State;' - one ticket shall embrace the
| names ofall the county officers voted for,
! including Office of Senator and member of
| Assembly, if voted for, and member of
Congress, if voted lor, and be labeled
County J. one ticket shall embrace the
names df all the township officers voted
| for, and be labeled "Township - one
ticket shall embrace the names of all tho
borough officers voted for and be labeled
! Borough" and each class shall be dopos-
! 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 corporatcd 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
| this Stale, or in any city, or of any incOr-
porated district and also that every mem-
| ber of Congress and of the State Legisla-
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, tho
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-
| ble 10 he then voted for.
Tho 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 Parliamentary office in the
/ Borough of Tionesta, as follows: "All
| judges living within twelve miles of the
I PrOthonotary's office, or within twenty
I four miles IL their residence be in town,
village or city rpon the limo of railroad
leading To the county seat. shall before two
/ NEMBER FIFTH, 1890, and all other
Judges shall before twelve o'clock, M,
on THURSDAY, NOVEM BIER SIXTH,
1870, 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
Pruthonotary for public inspection.
Given under my hand at my office in riO-
nosta, Pa, this 29th day of September,
in the year OF our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety, and in the
one hundred and fifteenth year of the
independence of the United States,
GEO. W. SAWHER, Sherin.