Year: 1863

Sec. 80. When the polls are closed, proc lama
tion thereof shall be made at the place Of voting.
and no votes shall be afterwards received.


Sec. 33. AS soon as the polls are closed on the
afternoon of the day of the election, the judges
shall open the balot-box and commence counting
the votes, and in no case shall the halotbOx be
removed from the room in which any election
may be held, until all the ballots are counted;
the counting of ballots shall in all cases be pub
lie. The ballots shall be taken out carefully, one
by one, by the Inspector or enc Of the Judges,
who shall open them and read aloud the name of
each person contained therein, and The office for
which every such person is voted for. Each
clerk shall write down each Office to be filled and
the name of each person voted for, for such
office, and shall keep the number Of votes by
talies, as they are read aloud by the Inspector or
Judge. The counting OF votes shall be cOntin-
ued without adjournment until all are counted.


Sec. "a. Ii two tickets are folded together,
they shall both be rejected; and if more persons
are designated on any ticket for any office than
to be elected for such office, such part of the
ticket shall not lie counted for any of them but
no ticket shall be lost for want OF form, if the
Board of Judges can determine to their satisfsc-
tion the person voted for the Office intended.


Sec. 35. As soon rs all the votes are read off
and counted, n certificate shall be drawn up on
each OF the papers containing the poll list and
tallies, or attached thereto, stating the number
of votes each person voted for has received. and
designating the office to fill which he was voted
for, which number shall be written in words at full
length. Each certificate shall be signed by the
clerks, Judges and Inspector. One of said GER
ticates, with the poll. list and tally paper to
which it is attached, shall he retained by the In
spector and preserved by him at least six months.
The ballots shall be strung upan chord or thread
by the Inspector during the counting of the bal
lots, in the order in which they are entered upon
the tally list by the clerks, and said ballots to-
gcther with the other of said certificates, with the
poll list and tally paper to which it is attached,
shall be sealed up by the Inspector in the pres
encc of the Judges and clerks, and indorsed
ELECTION Returns" and be directed and deliver
ed or sent by the Inspector to the county clerk of
the county in which the election is held and the
said ballots shall be kept for ut least six months
by said clerk; and if any person be of the opinion
that the vote of any precinct shall not have been
correctly counted, he may appear on the day ap-
pointed for the Board of Supervisors to open the
returns, and demand Il recount of the vote of said
precinct. and the Board of Supervisors shall pro-
ceed to recount the vote of the precinct that is so
clamed to have been incorrectly counted.


Sec SO. The said package shall be delivered
to the County Clerk by one of the Judges or
Clerk OF the election in person. or may be sent
by private hand or by mail If sent by private
hand, the person delivering it shall, before the
County Clerk take and subscribe an affidavit that
the package WAS delivered to him by one of the
Jul lges (naming him. that it has not been out of
his possession since it was received, and has un-
dergone no alteration while in his possession.
The affidavit shall be endorsed on the PACKAGE
If sent by mail it shall be mailed by one of the
Judges. and the postm lster shall make on it an
Endorsement that he received it from one of the
judges (naming him)


Sec, 1o4. lfany Inspector, Judge, or clerk
of an election shall. previous to putting the BAL
lot OF any 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
elcctor in a folded form, or if any Inspector
Judge or clerk OF any election shall open, or suf-
fer the folded ballot Of any elcctor which has
been handed in to the Board of Judges, to be
opened or examined nte previous to putting the
same into the ballot box, or if any Inspector
Judge or clerk OF an election shall make or place
| any mark or device on any folded ballot which
has been handed in to the Board of Judges bv
| any elector, with the view to ascertain the name
ofnny person or persons for whom such elector
| shall have voted at any such election. or if any
Inspector, Judge or clerk of an election without
the consent OF the clcctor, shall disclose the name
OF any person or persons which such INSPECTOR
Judge or clerk shall have fraudulently or illegal
ly discovered to have been voted for such elector
at any election. every such Inspector, Judge or
clerk of an election so offending, upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than
nifty nor more than five hundred dollars. Every
person who shall forge or counterfeit returns of
an election purporting to have been held ut pre-
ClHCt, toWll, UT WaTu. Wnefe no election was in
fact held, or shall wilfully substitute forged or
counterfeit returns of election in the place of the
true returns. for precinct, town, or ward, where
an election was actually held, shall upon convic-
tion, be punished by imprisonment in the State
Prison Tor Il term not less than two years, and not
more than ten years. Every person who shall
wilfully add to or subtract from the votes actual
ly cast at an election in any returns of such cleo
tloa. whether such person be an officer Of such an
election or not. every officer of elections who
shall wilfully make false and fraudulent returns.
in any manner whatever. Of an election held in
| any precinct, town, or ward. and every person
whom-oever, whether officer not, to whom or
/ through 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 election returns shall,
upon conviction be punished by imprisonment in
the State Prison for term not less than one nor
more than five years.


Every person who shall aid or abet in the com
mission OF the Otfenses mentioned in this section
or who, being present at or cognizant of the com
mission OF either OF said otfcnses, and shall not
81 We information thereof as soon rs practicable
TO the District attorney, or Grand Jury Of the
proper county, or to some Justice of the Peace of
such county, shHll for every such offense be pun
ished upon conviction thereof, by imprisonment
in the County Jail for the period of six months
or in the State Prison for term of not more
than two years.


Inc attention OF Inspectors and Judges is call
ed to an Act to amend an act to regulate eec-
tions passed March 23d, 1855, on page l6O OF
the Statute of 1855.


ES- The above is the law regulating
Elections in this State, and the Boards o.


Election in the different Precincts are requr
ed to comply with it. And the attention O.
the inspector is especially called to his duty
under Section 35, in relation to sending bal


lots to the County Clerk.


ROBERT GORDON.


WhoSesale and Retail Dealer,