Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-03-13

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dollars, and adjudged to pay the costs of
prosecution.
SEC. IS. As soon as the poll of the
election shall be finally closed, the in
spectors shall proceed Immediately to
canvass publicly, in the presence of all
persons desiring to attend the same, the
votes received at such poll, and continue
without adjournment until the canvass
is completed, and the statements herein
after required are made. They shall
commence by a comparison of the poll
lists, and the correction of any mistakes
therein, until they shall be found or
made to agree. The box shall then be
opened and the ballots therein taken out
and counted by the inspectors, unopened,
except so far as to ascertain whether
each ballot is single; and if two or more
ballots be found SO folded together as to
present the appearance of a single ballot,
they shall be laid aside until the count
of the ballot is completed; and if, upon
a comparison of the count and the ap-
pearance of such ballot, a majority of the
inspectors shall be of opinion hat the
ballots thus folded together were voted
by one ~elector, they shall be destroyed.
If the ballots in the box shall be found
to exceed in number, after any such bal
lots folded together are destroyed, the
whole number of votes on the poll lists,
they shall be replaced in the box, and
one of the inspectors shall publicly draw
therefrom by chance, and without exam
nation thereof, and destroy so many bal
lots UNOPENED as shall be equal to such
excess. The number of ballots agreeing,
or SO as aforesaid being made to agree,
with the poll lists, the inspectors shall
then proceed to open and count and as
certain the number of votes.
Sec. 36. The canvass being completed,
the inspectors shall then publicly an
nounce the result thereof, specifying the
whole number of votes cast for zach Of
flee and each person to fill the same re-
spectively, and for and against each
proposition voted for at such election,
and shall Immediately draw up a state
ting forth therein, in words at length
and in figures, the whole number of
votes given for each office at such cleo
ton, the names of all the persons for
whom such votes were given, as shown
upon the ballots, and the number of
votes so given for each person, and the
number of votes given for and against
each proposition voted for, if any at such
election, which statements they shalt
certify to be correct, and subscribe with
their names.
SEC. 81. The inspector of election, or
one of the judges appointed by him,
shall forthwith deliver to the clerk of
the town, city or village, one of said
statements and one of said poll lists, to-
gether with the stamp, to be filed and
preserved in his Office, and shall with all
convenient dispatch and within three
days after the election deliver the other
statement to the auditor, it having been
by the judges carefully sealed up, to-
gether with the other poll list with the
oaths of inspectors and clerks affixed,
under cover, properly directed to the au-
ditor, and the person delivering such re-
turns to the auditor shall be entitled to
receive as compensation therefor the
sum of two (2) dollars, and mileage at
the rate of five % cents per mile for each
mile necessarily travelled in going to and
returning from such auditors office, to
be paid out of the county treasury, on
the warrant of the auditor. The inspec-
tor of elections shall lock the ballot box
after the ballots have been replaced
therein in the presence of all the judges,
and shall send the key properly labelled
with the name or number of the polling
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the poll books and statements, to the
county auditor, but shall retain. in safe
custody, the ballot box used at the cleo
ton. sealed, with all the ballots cast at
the same, replaced therein, during sixty
days next after election. And it shall be
his duty to cause the said box to be
safely delivered to the county auditor
upon the written request of the board of
canvassers at any time during said sixty
days. In organized townships. within
thirty days after said date, or in cities Or
villages, the inspector of elections shall
deliver, if he be not himself the officer in
question, the boxes to the chairman of
the board of supervisors of the civil town.
ship, or mayor of the city, or president
of the village, in which the election pre-
cinct is situated, as the case may be: and
this officer shall keep in safe custody the
said boxes until the next election or
hand them over to his successor in Office
to be by him safely kept until such time.
At the following general election it shall
be the duty of these officers to hand the
ballot boxes over to the inspector of cleo
tions, ant. in the case that they have lost
or destroyed them, then they shall re-
place them each at his own cost. In un-
organized townships the inspectors of
elections shall cause the ballot boxes to
be safely delivered to the county audi
tors. between the sixtieth and ninetieth
day following the election. And the
same compensation shall be allowed for
such delivery as is allowed in this sec
ton Of this act for returning the poll
book and statement to the auditor.
SEC. 3S. For the first election held
under the provisions of this act. the pur-
chase and supplying of the ballot boxes
shall be a county charge, and it shall be
the duty of the county auditor to send
said ballot boxes to the different pre-
cincts, at the same time that he delivers
or causes to be delivered the official bal
lots and poll books. And at all elections
subsequent he shall cause the keys of
the different boxes to be delivered to the
different precincts at a like time and
manner.
Sec. 80. It shall be the duty of the
Secretary of State to cause to be pub
lished, in pamphlet form, and distributed
through the auditors of the respective
counties, a sufficient number OF COPIES of