Year: 1868

OfQudlifcdtionS and Disabilities OF Electors.


SEC 10. Every white male citizen of the
United States, and every white male citizen of
Mexico who shall have elected to become
a citizen OF the United States under the treaty
of peace exchanged and ratified at Queretaro
on the 30th of May, lS48, of the age of twenty
one years, who shall have been president of the
State six months next preceding the election,
and the county or district in which be claims
his vote, thirty days, shall be entitled to vote
al all elections which are now or hereafter may
be authorized by law.


SEC. 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, while
engaged in the navigation of the waters of this
State or the United States, or of the high seas !;
nor while student of seminary of learning
nor while kept at an almshouse or other asy-
lum, nor while confined in any public prison.


SEC. II. 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.


Ofths Place Of Holding Elections, and also of In


spectors, Judges, and Clerks Of Election.


SEC. II. 1t shall be the duty of each Inspec-
tor to be at the place where the polls 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
electors present at the place where the polls are
to be opened, may appoint an Inspector for the
precinct.


SEC. l8. The Board of Inspectors for each
precinct shall, before the time of opening the
polls, oppoint two suitable persons to act as
Clerks.


SEC 10. 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 be will faithfully and impair
TALLY discharge the duties assigned him by law
If there is no person present authorized to 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. 20. The Inspector shall be Chairman
of the Board and after its organization shall
have power to administer all necessary oaths,
which may be required in the progress of the
election. He shall also have power to fill any
vacancy that may occur in the Board of Judges,
OF by absence or by refusal to serve of either of
the Clerks, after the polls have been opened
On opening the Polls: of Voting and CHALLENGES.


SEC. o. At all elections, the polls shall be
open at eight o'clock in the morning, and shall
continue open until sunset, at which time
the Judges shall close the polls; propided,
that the Judges of the election may take re-
cess of one hour at any time they may think
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 at the place of voting that
the polls are open.


SEC %. 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 put the same, without being
opened or examined, into the ballot box


SEC. 26. 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 ts-
ken down, so that it may be seen at any time
whether the two lists agree.


SEC. 81. Any person offering to vote may be
challenged as unqualified, by the Inspector, or
either of the Judges, or by any legal voter; and
1T shall, in all cases. be the duty of the Inspec-
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 I. Section twenty eight of said Act is
amended so as to read as follows


section Is. If any person offering to vote at
any election shall be challenged in relation to his
r,gns to vote at that election, the Board of Judges
snal declare tohim the qualifications of elector,
anu tne inspector or one of the Judges shall tender
70 MN the following preliminary OATH


In toe DO swear or affirm, that you will
~ y ana truly answer all such questions as shall
% put to you touching your place of residence and
quallfcations an eiector P''


The Inspector or one az The I'D, .h.u 49,
proceed to question the person ebalsnrad in rsIa-
on, ~ ~ nls name his then place of residence. how
bsa ,U%g ne mas resided in the township and county
ctzsnsh Las. pace Of residence was also as to his
citizen and fthe latter, when, where ana IN mbst