Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-08
THE CITY ELECTION.
Information of Value to the
Voter To-Day.
WHERE HE is TO GO TO VOTE.
Provisions Of The New Australian Ballot Law
Thai Ought TO be Carefully Studied.
Vote oil The City at The
April Election.
WHERE HE is TO GO TO VOTE.

AT Ailt fitNAlpu " ~ utlu III lillN civ
to day the voters will ballot under a
species Of Australian ballot system, and
only those who have registered can vote
In the city.
Voting under this new law, is compll-
Gated, and TO aid the voters as far as
possible these
INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS.
are printed:
"The officers Of election will furnish
each person entitled to vote with one
ballot of the kind to be voted with the
words "OfIicial Ballot" stamped thereon
with a rubber stamp.
The voter will then retire alone TO
one of the stalls or booths provided for
the purpose and mark out the names Of
all the candidates except the ones for
whom he wishes to vote, and shall not
remain in or occupy any such compart-
mont longer than may be necessary to
prepare his ballot.
Any voter who cannot read or write,
or that by blindness or physical dlsabil,
ity is unable TO prepare his bnllOt, shall
upon request to the presiding officer
receive the assistance of two of the
judges in the preparation of his bollot
HE will then fold his ballot in such
a way rs to conceal the face of it and
hand the same to one of the receiving
judges who will pronounce the name
OF such voter IN an audible voice and
pass said ticket TO the other receiving
judge, who shall number the same and
deposit it in the ballot box The voter
will then retire from the voting place,
Voters are not permitted to remove
any of the ballots from the voting
place.
ANY person Offering to vote shall
present n certificate of registration, or
in case he has lost or mislaid his certi-
I... .n...I a 4 l.
shall appear on the registered list. and
he is known to the judges to be the per-
son, or can furnish satisfactory evidence
that he is the person whose name Is
ON the said list. then he shall be emit
tied to vote, and one of the judges shall
stamp or write opposite his name, on
the registered list, the words "Voted.
Certificate Lost"
During the election and counting of
ballots no person other than the judges
and clerks of the election. and the cleo
tors, admitted for the purpose of provid-
ing their ballots and voting shall be
admitted or permitted to be within the
guard rail.
ANY election officer who shall disclose
to any person the name of any candidate
for whom any elector has voted, or gives
any information by which It can he
ascertained for whom any elector has
voted, or any judge or clerk of election
or other officer about the polls who shall
do any electioneering on election day,
or any person who shall do any election
ecring on election day within any polling
place or within thirty feet of any poll
ing place, or any person who shall
knowingly apply or receive any ballot
in any polling place other than that which
he is entitled to vote, or any person who
shall show his ballot after il is marked
to any person in such away as to reveal
tho contents thereof or the name of the
! candidate or candidates for whom he
has marked his ballot, or any person
who shall, contrary 10 law, examine hi,
| ballot or solicit the voter to show tn,
| same, or person other than an officer o
| election who shall deliver q ballot 4
| an elector. or any electOr who shall de
J liver ballot to the presiding officer 4
| be voted except the one he received iron
| the election officer, or any elector O
any one who shall contrary to law
| place any mark upon or do anything
to his ballot by which It may afterwards
be identified as the one voted by am
particular individual, upon conviction
| shall be punished by fine not less than
! $50 dollars and not more than 5000, O
| by Imprisonment in tile county jail no
less than three months nor more thai
one year. or both, in the discretion o
the court.
VOTING WHEN CERTIFICATES ARE LOST
Some opinion is existent that il tn
registration certificate is lost the ciuze
is deprived of his vote. This is not tn
case.
Section 20, chapter 13, of the registrn
ton law provides ANY person oferln
to vote at any election for which regis
tration has been had of all the voter
of such city, shall not vote unless b
presents a certificate of registrato
Or in case he has lost or mislai
his certificate he shall so state, ana
his name shall appear on the registere
list, and he Is known to the judges
be the person whose name there appear
ON the registered list or can turnls
satisfactory evidence that he is the pc
son whose name appears on SAID list, L
then shall be entitled to vote, provide
the certificate has been previously vote
in which case he shall not vote; un'
provided further, that when any perso
does vote without presenting his ccrtil
cate of registration one OF u
judges shall write or stamp opposite
name, Voted; certificate lost
1t is felony to vote other than yol
own name.
VOTING PLACES AND ELECTION OFFICERS
First ward.-Southeas corner Run
and Weatherford streets Jesse Jone
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w. II. Parker, John Il. Swayne,, stqa
Harrison, w. ii. ingalls,. w. J.. Go
Henry Jackson, William KERRY.
Second ward Southwest corner Hou
ton and Second streets; Henry Field
presiding officer. Judges and clerks
ID. S. Brown, Joe Adams, james Fam
III. O. Caswell, Sam Rosenfeld, j.
Aialetfe. James Vaughn. 4,
Third ward-Maddox building'ea cas-, 81
of Main, near Fifteenth street w
Rail, presiding officer. Judges a.
, clerks .,, ~,
Fourth -Hirshfeld building W.
side OF Houston between Seventh y
Eighth streets, L. A. Trimble' presldi
/ Judges and clerks II. p. Shlels6 81,
! II. steele. j. Il. Cummings, $ y. ~
Lane. and the Third party people IA
moi vet handed in the names Oh III
officers. a,. h,
Fiftb wnrd-Locomotlye iiremans ~
South Rusk street. William Barr ,
siding officer ,,.N-..o 4,
Judges and Clerks-J, Mcnamara, y
E' Mics. Joe Mcclure. l.. J. folk OF
/ s. Essex. Chas. G. Burnett A H. III
q aud James Harrington. Ut.
r sixth ward--Doray store, Jell aii
/. ave Jno. A. Thornton, presiding ONO