The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1891-05-14

q Gives, offers or procuTeS, 0T promises to
procure, or endeavcrs to procure, any office,
place or employment, to or for any elector,
or to or for any OF her person in order to in
duce any elector to register. or refrain
from registering for any election, or to vote
or refrain from voting at any election, or
to vote or refrain from voting at such cleo
tion for any particular person or persons,
or question or proposition; or
3. Advances or pays, or causes to be paid
any money or other valuable thing to or
for the use OF any other person, with the
intent that the same or any part thereof
shall be used in bribery at any election,
shall be fired not more than five hundred
dollars, Or imprisoned in the penitentiary
not more than three years, or both.
Sec. 25 Whoever, being an elector, d.
rectly or indirectly, by himself or through
any other person, receives, agrees or CON-
tracts for, before, during or after an cleo.
able consideration, office, place or employ
ment, for himself or any other person, for
registering or agreeing to register, or for
refraining, or agreeing to refrain from
registering for any election, or for voting
or agreeing to vote, or for retrainfng or
agreeing TO refrain from voting at any
election, or for voting or agreeing to vote,
or refraining or agreeing to refrain from
voting for any particular person or persons,
or proposition or question, st any election,
shall be fined not more than five hundred
dollars or imprisoned not more than one
year, or both.
Sec 60. Whoever, directly or indirectly,
by himself or through any other person,
makes use Of, or threatens to make use of,
any force, violence or restraint, Or infIcts,
OF threatens TO inflict, any injury, damage,
harm or loss, Or threatens to enforce the
payment of a debt against, or to begin q
criminal prosecution against, or to injure
the business or trade of, or in any manner
practices intiihi5 alton upon or against any
person, In order to induce or compsl such
person to vote or refrain from voting, or to
vote OF refrain from voting for any partic-
ular candidate or candidates; or if any
employer Of laborers, or an agent of such
employer, whether a corporation or
otherwise, does any of the acts
aforesaid, or threatens to withhold or re-
duce the wages of, or to dismiss from serv-
ice any employe, in order to induce Or com.
pei such emplOye to vote or refrain from
voting for any particular candidate or can
didates at any election; ard whoever, by
any sort Of duress, constraint or improper
influence, or by any fraudu :ent or improper
device or contrivance, impedes or pre-
vents, or otherwise interferes with the free
exercise of tie elective franchise of any
elector, shall be fined not more than two
thousand dollars or imrrisoned in the peni-
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Sec. "a. Prosecutions under all the penal
sections of this act and the revised statutes
eppertaining to the conduct OF elections,
must be commenced within six months af-
ter the commission Of the act complained
of. A person offending against any pro-
vision Of sections "a, 25 or 26 Ct this act, is a
competent witness against another person
SO offending, and may be compelled to at
tend and testify upon any trial, hearing or
investigation, in the same manner as any
other person. But the testimony so given
shall not be used in any prosecution or pro-
ceedirg, civil or criminal, against the
person SO testifying. A person so tes-
tifying shall not be liable thereafter
ishment for the offense with ref
erence to which his testimony may
be given and may plead or prove the Civ
ing of testimony accordingly, in bar of such
an Indictment CT prosecution. When q
person is convicted OF any offense de-
scribed in section "a Of this act, he shall, in
addition to the punishment therein pre-
scribed, forfeit any office to which be may
have been elected at the election with ref
erence to which such offense was COM
mitted, and when person is convicted Of
any oiTense mentioned III section 25 of this
ect. 10 siinii. in addition To tho n':=.zi,.nent
Inerein prescribed, be excluded from the
right Of suffrage for period of five years
after such conviction.
REPEALs AND AMENDMENTS.
Sec 2S That section of an act entitled
ian act to provide board of elections for
certain specified countless passed April 10,
1889 (S6 o. L., 25S), be and the same is here
by amended so as TO read as follows:
Sec. l. That in any county having within
its territory city of the first class, the
board of elections heretofore established in
such city shall be the county board of elec-
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ties and requirements contained in section
two thousand nine hundred and twenty six
Of the revised statutes and supplemental
sections as heretofore amended shall apply,
and be in full force as to all elections held in
such county, as well as such city, except as
herein specified; and the members, secre-
tary, deputy secretary, clerks and assistants
of such board shall be electors of the county;
and not of the city merely.
Sec. 80. That sections 1873 as amended
April Goth, 1885 (S2 o. L. 1867, 1889, 1880,
1891, 1893 as amended March 14th, 1889 (So
o. L. 93), 1895, 1885, 1899, 1400. 14OI. 1909,
l632a as amendeded February 9TH, 1885 (S2
o. L., 1e. 2s), 1928, 2s2S, 293O, 1892 as
amended March 18th, 1889 (S6 o. L., 93),
gS), 1888 rs re- eenacted April goth, 1898, (S7
o. L., 33D, 2935, 1885, 294S as amended
April 12th, 1889 S6 o. L., 245), s98) as
amended February 1th, 1885 (So o. L., 16,
2o), g953 as amended March 2lst, 1857 lS4 O. |
l., 217), 1864, 1855, 1869, $3.50 as amended |
February 7th. 1885 (S2 o. L., is, 30), |
29Sl, 29S2, 29S3, 29s9, 1884 as amended |
February 9TH, 1885 63 o. L., 16,
30), and 7O46 of the Revised Stat |
utes of Ohio and section Of an act en-
titled ian act to provide a board of elec-
tions for certain specified counties" passed |
April 18th. 1889 (SS o. L.. 25S), and an act |
entitled IAN act to provide for the appoint
ment of distributors of ballots, the printing |
of ballots, and the distribution thereof at |
polling places, of cities of the second grade |
IN the first class" passed April 18th, 1889 |
(S6 o. L., 329i he and the same are hereby |
repealed; and all acts or parts of acts, end !
all sections or parts of sections in conflict |
with the provisions of this act, are to the |
extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
Sec 30 This act shall take effect and be
Ia force from and after its passage.
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