Year: 1865

oi eo,h oYMay. ls4s, of the age of twenty


-sa-s who shall have been aresident OF the
S,a,e air months next preceding the election


ii ~ connty or district in which he claims
~. -o,e thirty davs shall be entitled to vote
ii, eIectious which are now or hereafter may
be authorized BY law.


Src IL. For the purpose Of voting, no per-
son shall be deemed to have gained or lost a
residence BY reason OF his presence or absence
on the service of the United States, nor while
engaged in the navigation of the waters of this
State or the United States, or Of the high seas ;
nor while student of a seminary of learning !;
nor while kept at an alnshouse or other asy
lum, nor while confined in any public prison.


SEC. IL. No idiot or insane person, or per-
sons convicted of any infamous crime. shall be
entitled to the privileges of an elector.


SEC l3. A crime shall be deemed Infamous
which is punishable by death or by imprison-
ment in the State Prison.


Ofhe Place of Holding Elections, and also Of In


sDectors, Judges, and Clerks Of Election.


SEC. II. 1t shall be the duty of each I;,spec-
tor to be at the place where the polls are to be
opened in the precinct for which he is appoint
ed from eight in the morning until sunset on
the day of the election Should such Inspector
not appear at eight o'clock in the morning, the

to be opened, may appoint an Inspector for the
precinct.


SEC 49, The Board of Inspectors for each
precinct shall, before the time Of opening the
polls, oppoint two suitable persons to act as
Clerks,


SEC 49, Before any election shall be open
ed, the Inspector, Judges and Clerks shall each.
before any officer authorized to administer oaths,
take an oath that he will faithfully and impair
TALLY discharge the duties assigned him by law
If there is no person present authorized 10 ad-
minister oaths, the Inspector shall administer
the same to the Judges and Clerks, and one OF
the Judges shall then administer the oath to the
Inspector.


SEC 90. The Inspector shall be Chairman
of the Board and after its organization Snail
have power to administer all necessary oaths,
which NAV be required in the progress of the
election. He shall also have power to fill any
vacancy that NAV occur in the Board OF Judges,
or by absence or by refusal to serve Of either OF
the Clerks, after the polls have been opened.
On opening the Polls: Of Vottag and Challenges


SEC. o. At all elections, the polls shall be
open Mt eight o'clock in the morning, and shall
continue open until sunset, at which time
the Judges shall close the polls; proptded,
that the Judges Of the election may take re-





proper during the day before three o'clock in
the afternoon.


SEC %. The Board OF Judges, before they
commence receiving ballots, shall cause it TO
be proclaimed aloud III the place of voting that
the polls are open.


SEC. 2E. Whenever any person offers TO vote,
the Inspector shall pronounce his name in an
audible voice, and if there be no objection TO
the qualification of such person as an elector,
shall receive his ballot. and in the presence of
the other Judges pat the same, without being
opened or examined, into the ballot box.


SEC IS The name of each elector whose bal
lot has thus been received, shall be immediate
ly entered by each Clerk in the column OF his
poll list, headed names of voters, numbering
each name in the additional column, as it is t.
ken down, so that it may be seen at any time
whether the two lists agree.


SEC 27. Any person offering to vote may be
challenged as unqualified, by the Inspector. or
either of the Judges, or by any legal voter; and
it shall, in all cases, be the duty of the lnspcc-
tor and each of the Judges to challenge any
person Offering to vote whom he shall know or
suspect not to be duly qualified as an elector.


Proceedings on Challenge.


Section l. Section twenty eight of said Act is
amended so as to read as follows:



any election shall be challenged in relation to his
right to vote at that election the Board of Judges
shall declare to him the qualifications of elector
and the Inspector of the Judges shall tender
to him the following preliminary oath


.You do swear affirm, that you will
fully and truly answer all such questions shall
be put to you touching place of residence and
qualifications an eleetor!


The Inspector OF of the Judges shall then
proceed to question the person challenged in rela
ton to his name, his then place of residence how
long he has resided in the township and county,
where his last place of residence was, also to his
citizenship, and whether a native naturalized
citizen, and if the latter when where, and in what
Court or before what officer he nauralized. and
all such other questions as shall tend to test his
qualifications to citizenship and right to vote.


Sec. 2. If any person shall refuse to take the
said preliminary oath when rendered. to
swer any and all pertinent questions to his quail
iications, his vote shall be rejected and if the
Board of Judges are satisfied. from his as
aforesaid, that such person is not legal voter,
they shall reject his vote.


Sec g. If such person shall still insist that he is
entitled to vote, and the Board of Judges find no
cause to reject his vote under the preliminary ex-
animation, and the challenge shall not be with
drawn, he shall not be entitled to vote unless he
take the following oath, to be administered by the
Inspector one ofthe Judges, viz:


You do swear Tor affirm. as the case may be)
that you citizen of the United States that you
are of the age of tweny-one years according the
best of your knowledge and belief, that you have
resided in this State six months next preceding
this election, and in this county, township. or
ward, Is the may be,) thirty days. and that
you have not voted this day?'


And in case the person offering to vote produce a
certified transcript of the records of Court of com
petent jurisdiction, admitting him to citizenship.
duly attested by the Clerk thereof as evidence of
his right to vote, and the person so producing the
same is unknown to the Board of Judges. he shall
make oath that he is the person therein named.


Sec 4. If any person challenged as unqualified
shall be guilty Of wful and corrupt false swearing
affirming in taking any oath or affirmation pre-
scribed by this Act such person shall be adjuiged
guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury.


Sec. 5. Every person who shall wilfully and
corruptly procure any person to swear or affirm
falsely aforesaid, shall be adudged guilty of sub
ornation of perjury, and shall upon conviction
thereof suffer the punishment directed by law in
cases of wilful and corrupt perjury.


Sec. 6. Every person who shall procure, aid. as
sist counsel advise another to give offer his
vote at any general or special election, knowing
that the person Is not duly qualified to vote, shall
conviction be adjudged guilty of misdemeanor
and punished by fine of not less than fifty nor
more than Eve hundred dollars. or Imprisonment
not less than two nor more than six months. or BY
both such fine and imprisonment, rs the Court may
direct.


Sea. :. The Board Of Judges of Election shall
keep minute of their proceedings in respect to the
challenging ana administering Of osths to persons
Offering to vote in which shall be entered By one of
them the name of every person vino shall have ta-
ken the oa.hs prescribed By this Act, either of