Year: 1867

| Porter's Primary Law.


An ACT TO PROTECT 1HE ELECTIONS VOLUNTARY POLITICAL


ASSOCIATIONS AND TO PUNISH FRAUDS THEREON approved
The rp,e Of ss State Of chleria represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact as joltors:


SECTION ALL elections hereafter to be
holden by any voluntary political association
or party in this State, for any delegates or man.
aging committee, or for the nomination of
didates for public Office, may be called or order
ed by published notice, which shall state the
purpose, time, manner, conditions together with
the place or places of holding such elections;
also the authority by which the call or notice is
published, and the person shall be named therein
who is to supervise or preside at each poll where
such election is to be holden and the said per-
son shall be legal voter of township, precinct,
ward, or election district for which he is named
Said notice shall likewise declare the qualifca-
tions of the persons to vote at such elections
propided that such prescribed qualifications shall
not be inconsistent with those expressed in this
| Act.


Sec. 1.-The notice required by section one
of this Act shall be published in some newspa-
per or newspapers printed in the district, ward,
precinct, township, city, or county, for which
the election is called, and shall be posted in at
least three public places in the polling precincts
of such election at least five days prior thereto
providing, if there be no newspaper published In
| the QlStrlCt OF county, tneH tue He"ePaPei Puo-
lication may be omitted.


| Sec. 3.-The person named as Supervisor in
the notice required by section one OF this ACT,
or any person, in his absence or refusal to serve,
| assuming chosen to be such Supervisor OF the
election aforesaid shall first be sworn by some
officer authorized to administer oaths, or by some
resident freeholder and legally qualified voter of
the precinct, ward, or district, in presence OF at
least two witnesses of like qualifications, that he
is legal voter of the precinct, ward, or district,
in which such election is to be held and that lie
will correctly and faithfully conduct such cleo
tion protect it against all fraud and unfairness,
| carefully and truly canvass and report all votes
cast thereat in such manner as may be required
by the authority appointing the election, and he
shall appoint such assistants as shall be neces
sary to receive and take account of the votes
| cast provided, that such assistants shall be
reputable citizens and legally qualified electors
of the township, precinct, ward, or district, MS
the case may be. And any violation OF the pro-
visions of this section shall be deemed mis-
demeanor, and shall, on conviction, subject the
offender to punishment by fine, not less than
! fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by
| Imprisonment in the County Jail not more than
six months, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment.


SEC. At shall be the duty of the Supervisor
of such election to entertain objections made by
any qualified elector under said published Gall or
notice to any vote that may be offered, on the





to vote under the terms of the said call for the
said election, or that he is not q citizen of the
United Stataes, legal resident and voter of the
election precinct ward, township, or district,
that he has voted before at that place some
other on that day in the same cletion and it
shall be the duty of such Supervisor if such OBJ
lection be not withdrawn, to administer to the
person so offering to vote an oath or affirmation
to the general effect that he will truly testify
to all matters relating to his said qualifications
under said published call, his residence, citizen
ship of the United States, and whether he has
voted at that or other place on that day at such
election. 1t shall then be the duty Of the Super
visor to interrogate the person so objected to as
to all matters in particular upon which such OBJ
lection was made and generally as to all of said
qualifications. If the person so objected TO
shall refuse to answer such questions after said
oath shall have been administered, it shall be
the duty of the Supervisor to reject such vote.
But if such oath be taken and such questions be
answered satisfactorily, it shall be the duty of
the Supervisor to admit the vote sworn to be
qualified according to the terms OF the call anu
the provisions of this Act And any violation of
the provisions of this section by the Supervisor
shall be deemed a msdemeanor, and shall, on
conviction, subject him to punishment pre-
scribed in section three of this Act And any
person who shall, upon taking such oath and
under the examination herein authorized, wilful-
ly make false statement to a matter pertinent





deemed guilty of the crime of perjury, and, on
conviction, be punished as prescribed by law.


SEC. Amy person who is not a citizen of
the United States and qualified to vote in the
county wherein the election is held at the next
coming State, county, or municipal election, who
shall vote at an election held under the provi-
sons of this Act after objections made as speci-
fed in section four, or any person who shall vote
more than once at the different precincts polls
the same day and in the election,
whether such objection be made be not, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on
conviction thereof shall be punished as pro-
vided in section three of this Act.


Sec. G.-Any voluntary political association
party that shall elect to invoke the protection
and subject itself to the provisions of this Act,
shall at the time Of the publication of notice
provided for in section one, declare that such
election therein called will be held in pursuance
of any subject to the provisions of this Act, I'M
der the title of the Primary Election Law and
in the event such notice last aforesaid shall be
published, and not otherwise, the provisions OF
this Act shall be applicable and in force In res
pect to such election.


SEC This Act shall take effect and be IN
force from and after its passage, ana no expense %
shall be incurred TO the county or ota'e III Inc
conduct of elections under its provisions.


s-,.xcr MrrrIse.-Bayard Taylor in one
NJ b;s Letters from Colorado, relates the follow
ing incident LAST oaIufuay nsn'' "' Dla.A
came and said " 1t was long way from here
where we last met" He had familiar face,
but could not at once detach it from the tens
of thou sands in my memory. "Do you remem-
ber," he asked, "riding into Kaulokeino, in
Lapland, one cold winter night, in reindeer
sled p 1t is impossible p' exclaimed, recog-
mixing Herr Berger, the Norwegian merchant,
who took me into his house in that Arctic so-
tude, after twenty hours of frozen travel among
the wastes Of snow I 1t was he himself, come all
the way from Hammerfest, in latitude 10, to be,
first soldier in the Union army, and now a mi
ner In Colorado! He visited me yesterday, and
we had long talk about old times and mutual
friends inside of the Arctic Circle. In three
years he had lost every characteristic of the hy-
perborean, except an intense longing for the per-
petual daylight of the Arctic summer.


The day before l was suddenly accosted by
fellow voyager from China to New York, via st.
Helena, who, after enduring the horrors Of Sou
theru prisons, has come here to recruit as
uko;u