Year: 1864




GERS which are or may be elected at such annual
election, in the following manner:
SEC. 2. Such person, whether within Or
without this State, shall deposit his ballot,


printed or written, or partly printed or partly


written and properly folded, in an envelope


ana seal the same with sealing wax, and shall
direct such envelope to the judges of election
OF the election district where he resided at the


time of entering the service of the United
states, or of the State of Minnesota, together
with the name of post Office in said election
district, and in case there is no post Office in


said election district, then the name of the
post office at which the mails for said election
district are usually received and shall endorse


thereon his name, with designation of the
! company, regiment, or service to which he is
| attached. He shall take the said envelope, so
sealed, endorsed and directed before q commits


sioner, to be appointed as hereinafter provid-
| ed, and shall acknowledge the same to be his
! free and voluntary vote to be caat at the cleo
| ton to be designated by him.


SEC. 3. The said commissioners, or one of
| them, Shall, upon presentation of the envelope
| containing the ballot of any person claiming


the right to vote under the provisions of this


act, before receiving and certifying the enyel-
ope containing the ballot of such person so


claiming the right to vote under the provisions
| OF this act, tender to and REQUIRE such person
to make oath (Which oath either of said com
mlssloners are authorized to administer1 in the
| following form:
''You do swear Cor affirm, as the case NAV
be,) that you are citizen of the United States.
OF the age of twenty-one years, or have declar.
| ed your intention to become such citizen con-
| formally to the laws of the United States on
the subject of naturalization, that you have
been an inhabitant of this State (of Minnesota)


for four months Immediately preceding this


actual resident of this election district n which
| you offer to vote) for the ten days immediate
ly preceding this election Cat which you offer
| to vote') ="
And thereupon, in case said oath is taken
and not otherwise, said. commissioners shall
certify, without fee, upon the back of such en-
velope in the following form:


Headquarters, Specifying the regiment, bat


talon, detachment or service. ], insert nam
commissioner, certify that Tinsert the name of
person proposing to vote. whose name is en-.
dorsed on this envelope, is the identical person


who is engaged in the insert military or ma.


val, as the case may be, service of the United
he has personally acknowledged before me, that
the enclosed ballot is his free and voluntary
vote which he desires to cast at the general
election to be held on here insert the date |
in the State of Minnesota, and that he has TAX
en- the oath prescribed by this act


Dated at insert place this day of
A. d.


Signature of Commissioner
And thereupOn each person shall be entitled
to vote at such election, and his vote shall be


received, Notwithstanding he may have been
challenged before the judges of election.


SEC. 4. The person desiring to vote shall
then deposit the said envelope, sealed, di-


rected, endorsed and certified as aforesaid, with


said commissioners, who shall deposit the same
with the postage prepaid, in any post-office, or
deliver the same to the judges of election of
the election district where such voter resided
at the time of his entering the service of the
United States, or of this State. The Judges.
the same unopened until the opening of the
polls, at the said election, when they shall ex-
anime the registry list of their district and
upon finding the name of the person endorsed
upon such envelope on said registry list, they


shall open the said envelope, and unless
envelope shall have died after the certifying
of the same. shall deposit the ballot contained
therein, unopened, in the proper box or boxes


and canvass the same with the other votes
cast at such election, in no way distinguishing
the same from the other votes cast, and shall
deposit the envelopes, with the directions and
certificates uninjured, in the Office of the town
clerk of the district, and it shall be the duty


of the judges of election in each election dis
trict, on the day next preceding such election
to make diligent inquiries st each post
office in such district, or to which letters are


usually directed for such district, for any mail
matter which may be directed to them as such
judges of election and receive the same.
Sec. 5. 1t shall be the duty of the judges of


election in the several election districts in this


State in making up the registry list for any
general election, to insert therein the


names of all persons qualified to vote at such
election In their respective election districts,
although such persons may be at the time alb
sent in the service of the United States, or of
this State, at the same time and in the same
manner as the names of other electors are en-
tered under the general election law. And if
any such absent person whose name is put
upon such registry list, or whose name is pro.
posed to be put thereon, shall be challenged as
having no right to be put thereon, the Judges
of election shall strike such name from said
list, or refuse to enter the same therein as the
case may be, unless the person so challenged is


known to each of the judges to be qualified


elector in such district, or unless some qualified
elector shall, before the day of election, make


oath before such judges that the person chaI-
lenged is known to him to be citizen of the
United States of the age of twenty one wears.
or has declared his intention to become such


citizen, conformably to the laws of the United
States on the subject of naturalization. that
ne has Uecu du luuaDlL80C OF the State


Of Minnesota for four months immc.


dately preceding such election, and an actual


resident of such election district for ten davs


Immediately preceding the election. in either


of which excepted cases the name of the per


son 80 challenged shall remain on. or be placed


upon the registry listas the case may be, and he


shall be allowed to vote at such election.


Provided. hoacerer, That the name of any alb


sent elector whose vote shall be received by


such judges, accompanied with the certificate


of the oath provided by section three of this


act, shall be inserted in said registry list on


the day of election, and such electOr shall b


allowed to vote, whether challenged under


this section or not.


SEC 6. That there shall be appointed by the


Governor, by and with the advice and consent


of the Senate, two commissioners for the east


ern and middle States and for such of the


southern States as lie east of the western line of


the States of Virginia, and North and South |