The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-07-26
CHAPTER s27
Az ACT Providing foT the Election Of Electors
ot President and Vice-Presisent Of the United
StateS

States.
(Passed March l2, 1901
il is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
Section 1. The people Of this state qualified by
law 10 vote for general officers shall elect by bal
lot 80 many electors Of president and vice pres-
dent OF the United States the state is or shah
be entitled to, at town, ward, and district meet
ings the Tuesday next after the first Monday
in November In every fourta year, commencing
A ID. 1904; and the several candidates having a
plurality Of the legal votes given in at such el.t-
tion shall be electors.
Sec. 2. The ballots given in at such elect;.s.
after having been counted and declared in open
meeting by the moderators or wsrdens and clerks
shall be sealed up and certified in the manner
provided by law and be delivered in person. by
the respective clerks OF the meetings where they
given in TO the state returning board within
forty eight hours after such sealing is done: Pro-
vided, that any such clerk may appoint in writ-
ing, some officer OF the town or city where he re-
sides TO deliver said ballots in his stead in a.e Of
his sickness or ABSOLUTE inability to deliver them
IN person.
Sec. 3. The names o, tic persons voted for ~
electors shall be numbered upon the ballots and
in counting the ballots cast for them the places
numbered shall be considered separate places.
Sec. T. The state returning board shall count
and tabulate all such ballots and declare the
sult thereof in the manner provided 10y law, and
shall give certificates OF their election 10 the per-
tons shown TO have been elected
Sec. 5. II such count, tsbulstion, and declara-
tion shall show that there has been election
of any OF more Of the electors TO which the
state is or shall be entitled. the general assembly
at its session commencing the first Tuesday
In January next succeeding shall elect many
electors in grant committee as may be necessary
20 complete the number to which the state is or
shall be entitled, and the secretary OF state shall
give certificates OF their election to the persons
80 elected.
Sec O. Electors elected pursuant to this chapter
shall meet in the state house in the city Of ProT-
dence on the second Monday in January in the
year 1905 and in every fourth year thereafter and
there vote Tor president and vic" president q
the United States agreeably to the laws Of the
United States
Sec T. II any elector elected as hereinhefore
provided in this set shall decline his Office or
from any cause not be present at four O'Clock in
the afternoon Of the day and at the place where
II is provided by law that such electors shall
meet and vote for a president and vice president
oi the United States, or il at that time the gen
eral assembly shall not have elected any ecCtor
or electors required to be elected by it by the
provisions Of section Of this act, the elector or
electors at that time elected according to the pro-
visions OF this act and present at such time and
place shall elect such number OF electors may
be required to complete the number Of electors TO
which the state is OF at that time shall be en-
titled. and shall Immediately, upon the same day,
elected by him or them in the office of the seer
fsry OF state which certificate shall also state the
reasons for such election.
Sec. s. II shall be the duty NJ the governor ard
the secretary Of state TO he present at the state
house IN Providence, on the day OF the meeting
OF said electors. to make and furnish 10 the
electors any certificates required by the laws -
the United States to be forwarded to the seat ~
government with the votes Of said electors which
are made necessary by any election made pursuant
TO the provisions Of section Of this act.
Sec. Q. Wherever in this act the word ballots
or the word votes is used IL shall be construed
to include the evidence OF the intent Of the elect.
ors as shown by the tally sheets records made
upon paper by any voting machine used in the
elections to VIII h this act refers
Sec. 10. Chapter l3 Of the General Laws is here.
by repealed. aud all provisions Of the General
Laws and ot the Public Laws and OF any special
laws nconsist.. herewith hereby repealed. e.,
far as they affect the holding Of elections 10,
electors Of president and vice e-presdent of the
United States, and this act shall take effect upon
its passage.