The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-10-12

Be it Enacted By the Erscuirs aud Id
risory Councils Of The RspuJlic Of
HGwaii.
Provisions FOR PRESERVING THE PURITY
OF ELECTIONS.
SECTION l. OffenSes against the cleo
ton laws and against the Rules and Re
gulations concerning the administering
of oaths and the holding of elections.
promulgated by the President, are divid-
ed into two classes, Wiz Election
Frauds" and Misdemeanors." as herein
after defined.
ELECTION FRAUDS.
SECTION ?. The following persons
shall be deemed guilty of All election
fraud:
l. Every person who shall directly or
indirectly, personally or through another,
give, procure or lend, or agree or offer to
give, procure or lend. or who shall en-
deavor to procure, any money or Office or
place of employment of valuable consider
alton to or for any elector, or TO or for
any person for an elector, or to or for
any person in order to induce any elector
to vote or refrain from voting, or to vote
or refrain from voting for any particular
person or party, or who shall do any
such act on account of any person hav-
ing voted or refrained from voting for
any particular person at any election.
, Every person who shall directly or
indirectly, personally or through an
other, make any such gift, loan, offer,
promise, procurement or agreement as
aforesaid, to any person. except to such
assistants as are permitted by law, or by
the Rules and Regulations issued by the
President in accordance with the Consti-
tuition. IN order to induce such person TO
procure or endeavor TO procure the cleo
ton Of any person to the Legislature; or
to procure the vote of any elector at any
election.
3. Every person who shall advance or
pay, or cause to be paid, any money to,
or to the use of, any other person. with
the'intent that such money. or any part
thereof, shall be expended in bribery at
any election. or for any purpose connected
with or incidental to any election other
than the objects and purposes for which
money is by law or the said Rules and
Regulations allowed to be expended. ex-
cepting only reasonable expenses for
conveying voters to the polling places on
election days; or who shall knowingly
pay or cause to be paid any money to
any person in the discharge or repay
ment of any money wholly or partly ex-
pended in bribery at any election, or for
any purpose connected with or incidental
to any election, other than the objects
and purposes for which money is by law
or the said Rules and Regulations allow
ed to be expended.
f. Every elector who shall. before.
during or after any election, directly or
indirectly, personally or through another,
receive, agree or contract for any money,
gift, loan or valuable consideration, office,
place or employment for himself or any
other person, for voting or agreeing to
vote, or for refraining to vote or agreeing
to refrain from voting, or for voting or
refraining TO vote for any particular per-
son or party.
D. Every person who shall at any
election, personally or through another,
or by any ways or means on his behalf,
directly or indirectly, give or provide, or
cause to be given or provided, or shall
be accessory to the giving or providing,
or shall pay wholly or in part any ex-
penses incurred for any meat, drink, en-
tertainment or provision to or for any
person in order to be elected, or for being
elected, or for procuring the election of
any candidate, or for the purpose of in
fuencing such person or any other per-
son to vote or refrain from voting; or for
voting or refraining from voting for any
particular person or party, at such cleo
ton. or on account of such person having
voted OF refrained from voting. or voted
or refrained from voting for any particu-
lar person or party.
6. Every person who shall directly or
indirectly, personally or through an
other, make use of, or threaten to make
use of, any force, violence or restraint;
or infiict or threaten to infict any injury,
damage or loss in any manner, or in any
way practice intimidation upon OF against
any person In order to induce or compel
such person to vote or refrain from vot-
ing or to vote or refrain from voting
for any particular person or party, at
any election, or on account of such per-
son having voted or refrained from vot-
ing, or voted or refrained from vot- |
ing for any particular person or party; !
Or who shall by abduction, distress or !
any device or continuance impede, pre-
vent OF otherwise interfere with the free |
exercise of the elective franchise.