The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-09-18
Bribery at Elections.

AS primary and general elections will
soon be held it may not be amiss to pub
llsh the laws on the subject of bribery as
passed by the last Legislature. There are
two of them which we give. The first is
CHAPTER FOG.
A supplement to an act entitled IAN act
for the punishment of crimes (Revision Of
1899, approved June IA, 1898.
Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
l. ANY person who shall, directly or
indirectly, by himself or by any other
person in his behalf, give, lend or agree to
give or lend, or procure or agree to pro-
cure or offer or promise to procure or en-
deavor to procure, any money or other
valuable consideration or thing, or any
office, place or employment to or for any
voter or for any person, in order to induce
any voter, or TO or for any person, in order
to induce such voter to vote or refrain
from registering or voting at any election,
or shall corruptly do or commit any of the
acts in this section mentioned, on account
of any voter having voted or refrained
from voting, or having registered or
refrained from registering for any election,
shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced
to Acknowledgement for a period of five
years from the date of conviction.
2. Any person who shall give, advance
or pay, or cause to be given, advanced or
paid, any money or other valuable thing
to any person, or to the use of any other
person, with the intent that such money
or other valuable thing, or any part there
of, shall be expended, or used for bribery
of voters, or for any other unlawful pur-
pose at any election, or who shall know
ingly pay, or cause to be paid, any mouey
to any person wholly or in part expended
in bribery of a voter or voters at any cleo
ton. shall be guilty of misdemeanor and
on conviction thereof, shall be sentenced
to Acknowledgement for five years from
the date of conviction.
3. Any person who shall, directly or
indirectly, by himself or by any other
person on his behalf, receive, agree or
contract for any money, gift, loan or valu-
able consideration, office, place or employ
ment for himself or for any other person
for voting or agreeing to vote, or for re-
framing or agreeing to refrain from vot-
ing at any election, or for registering or
agreeing to register. or for refraining or
for agreeing to refrain from registering
for any election, shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall
be sentenced to Acknowledgement for
period of five years from the date of con.
viction
4. Any employer of any workmen, or
any agent, superintendent or overseer of
any company or corporation employing
workmen, or any person whatsoever, who
shall directly or indirectly, by himself or
by any other person in his behalf or by
his direction m 70 nor nf ~
make Use of any force, violence or re-
straint, or infiict or threaten to inflict by
himself or by any other person any injury
damage, harm, or loss against any person
or persons in his employ, in order to in
duce or compel such employee or en-
plOyees to vote or refrain from voting for
any particular candidate or candidates at
any election, or on account of snch en-
ployee or employees having voted or re-
Trained from voting for any particular
candidate or candidates at any election, or
who shall, by any sort of duress con-
straint or improper influence or by any
fraudulent or improper Device continuance
or scheme, impede, hinder or prevent the
free exercise of the franchise of any voter
at any election, or shall thereby compel,
induce, or prevail upon any voter to vote
for or against any particular candidate or
candidates at any election, shall be guilty |
of misdemeanor, and on conviction |
thereof shall be sentenced to disfranchise-
ment for period of five years from the |
date of conviction.
3. Any person who, having once been
convicted of violation of any of the |
provisions of this act, shall again be con-
victed of violation of any of the pro-
visions of this act, whether such convic-
ton be for the same offense or not, shall, |
on such second conviction, be sentenced to
Acknowledgement and to pay fine not ex-
ceeding one thousand dollars, or to i'm
prisonment for term not exceeding five
years, or both, at the discretion of the
court.
6. No person shall be excused from at
tending and testifying, or producing any
books, papers of other documents before
any court on any indictment for violation
of any of the provisions of this act, upon
the ground or for the reason that the testi-
mony or evidence, documentary OF other
wise, required of him may tend to convict
him of crime or to subject him to pen
atty or forfeiture, but no person shall be
prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or
forfeiture for or on account of any trans
action, matter or thing concerning which
he may so testify or produce evidence.
documentary or otherwise, and no testi-
mony so given or produced shall be re-
ceived against him upon any criminal
proceeding or action.
z. All acts and parts of acts inconsis
tent with the provisions of this act be and
the same are hereby repealed
8. This act shall take effect immediate
ly.