Year: 1863

The last Legislature passed an act which has
not been generally rea nor its provisions made
widely known 1t is very stringent in its require
ments and no Judge or inspector Of elections
sbould be ignorant of them. We copy it entire,
with the certificate of its correctness annexed
Cu.p CCXCVI.-An Act to amend an act enti-


tied an Act to regulate Elections, passed March


% 1850.


The People of the State of California, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as fol-
lows!


SEC. l. Section 1O4 of an act entitled an Act
to regulate Elections, passed March 49, 1850, is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:


SEC. 104. If any inspector, Judge or clerk of
an election, shall, previous to putting the ballot
of an elector in the ballot-box, attempt to pry
into or find out any name or names on such ballot
which shall have been handed in by said elector
in a folded form, or if any inspector, Judge or
clerk of any election shall open or suffer tn e
folded ballot of any elector which has been
handed in to the Board Of Judges to be opened
or examined into previous to putting the s me
into the ballot box or if any Inspector judge or
clerk of an election shall make or place any mark
or device Oh any folded ballot which has been
handed into the Board of Judges by any eector,
with the view to ascertain the name OF any person
or persons for which such eector shall have voted
at any such election, ii any Inspector, Judge or
clerk of an election, without the consent of the
eector, shall disclose the name of any person or
persons which such inspector. Judge or clerk shall
have fraudulently or illegally discovered to have
been voted for by such elector at any election
every such inspector, judge or clerk of an election
so offending, upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined in any not less than $50 nor more than
$500. Every person who shall forge counter
felt returns OF an election purporting to have
been held at precinct, town or ward where no
elec ton was in fact held shall wiliully substi
iute, forge counterfeit returns OF election in
the place OF the true returns for a precinct, town
or ward where an election was actually held,
shall, upon conviction, be pduished by imprison-
ment in the State Prison for term not less than
two years and not more than ten years. Every
person who shall wltully add to or subtract from
the votes actually cast at an election, in any re-
turns of such election whether such person BE-
an officer OF such election ar not every Officer
of elections who shall wiltully make false and
fraudulent returns, in any manner whatever. of
an election held in any precinct, town or ward,
and every person whomsoever whether officer or
not, to whom or TIN ough whom any such returns
are required by law to be made, whether such
person be County Clerk Messenger, Secretary Of
State, or other person. who shall alter such cleo
tion returns, shall, upon conviction be punished
by imprisonment in the State Prison for u term
not less than one nor more than five years. Every
person who shall aid or abet in the commission of
any Of the offences mentioned in this section. or
who, being present at or cognizant of the com
mission Of either OF said ofenses, and shall not
give information thereof as soon as practicable
to the District Attorney or Grand Jury Of the
proper county, or to some Justice Of the Peace Of
such county, shall Tor every such ofcnSe. be pun
ished, upon conviction ther of. by Imprisonment
in the county Jail for the period OF six months. or
in the State Prison for term Ct not more than
two years.


SEC. 2 This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its Passage.


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