Year: 1873

SEC. IL. On petition of five or more citi-
zens of the county, stating under oath that
they verify believe that frauds will be
practiced at the election about to be held
in any district, it shall be tho duty of the
Court of Common Pleas of said county, If
in session, if not judge thereof in vaca-
ton, to appoint two judcious. sober and
intelligent citizens of the county to act as
overseors of said election; said overseers
shall be selected from different political
parties, where the inspectors belong TO diff
ferent parties, and where both inspectors
belong TO the same political party both of
the overseers shall be taken from the op-
posite political party; said overseers shall
have the right to be present with the Off
GERS of the election during the whole time
the same is held, the votes counted and the
returns made out and signed by the elec-
ton officers to keep a list of the voters If
they see proper; to challenge any person
offering to vote,and to interrogate him and
his witnesses, under oath in regard to his
right of suffrage at said election, and to
examine his papers produced and the
officers OF said election are required 10 af-
ford to said overseers so selected and APP
pointed every convenience and facility for
the discharge of their duties and if said
election officers shall refuse to permit said
everseers to be present and perform their
duties as aforesaid, or if they shall be
driven away from the polls by violence or
Intimidation, all the vote polled at such
election district may be rejected, by any
tribunal trying contest under the said
election: Provided, that no person signing
the petition shall be appointed an overseor.


SEC. II. If any prothonotary, clerk, or
deputy of either, or any other person shall
affiX the seal of Office to any naturalization
paper, or permit the same to be affixed, or
give out, or cause, or permit the same to
be given out, in blank, whereby it may be
fraudulently used, or furnish nauraliza-
ten paper to any person who shall not
have been duly examined and sworn in
open court, in the presence of some of the
judges thereof, according to the act of
Congress, or shall aid in or conniVe at or
, in any way permit the Issue of any fraud
ulent naturalization certificates, he shall be
guilty of high misdemeamor or If any
one shall fraudulently use any such certif-
! icate of naturalization, knowing that it was
! fraudulently issued, or shall vote or at
tempt to vote thereon, or if any one shall
vote or attempt TO vote on any certificate
of naturalization not issued to him, he
| shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor;
and either or any of the persons, their aid
ers or abettors, shall on conviction be fined
| in a sum not exceeding one thousand dol
lars, and Imprisonment in the proper pen
itentiary for a period not exceeding three
years.


Sec. Is. Any person who, on oath or af-
| firmation before any court of this State or
| officer authorized to administer oaths,
| Snall, 10 prOcur0a a OertlIlCato OF ntllurallIa-
| ton, for himself or any other person, will
fully depose or affirm any matter to be facts,
! knowing the same to be untrue, shall be
| guilty of perjury and any certificate of
naturalizationissued in pursuance of any
such deposition, declaration or affirmation
shall be null and void and it shall he the
duty of the court issuing the same, upon
proof being made before it that it was
| fraudulently obtained, to take immediate
measures for recalling the same for can
collation. and any person who shall vote
or attempt to vote on any paper so OBJ
| tanned, or shall any way aid in, conniVe at
or have any agency whatever in the issue,
| circulation or use of any fraudulent natur
| alization certificate, shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeandor, and upon conviction
| thereof shall undergo Imprisonment in the
penitentiary for not more than two years,
and pay fine of not more than one thou
sand dollars, or either or both, at the dis
| cretion of the court.


SEC. ii. ANY assessor, election officer or
person appointed as an overseer, who shall
neglect or refuse to perform any duty en-
| Joined by this act, without legal cause,
shall be subject to penalty of one hun


dred dollars, and il any assessor shall as
sess any person as q voter who is not
qualified, or refuse to assess any one who
is qualified, he shall be deemed guilty of q


misdemeander in office, and on conviction
be punished by fine and imprisonment,


and subject to an action for damage bv the
person aggrieved, and if any person shall
fraudulently add to, deface or destroy a
list of voters made out as directed by this


act, or tear down or remove the same from


the place where it has been filed, with
fraudulent or mischioVous intent, or for
any improper purpose, the person so Of
tending shall be guilty of a high misde-


meanor, and on conviction shall be pun
ished by fine not exceeding five hundred


dollars or imprisonment not exceeding
otf l.n Il Of
court.


SEC. Is. All elections hereafter held, un-
der the laws of this Commonwealth, the


polls shall be opened between the hours OF


six and seven O'Clock a, M, and closed at


seven o'clock p. m.


SEC. IL. 1t shall be the duty of the Secre-


tary of the Commonwealth to prepare


forms for all the blanks made necessary


by this act, and furnish copies of the same


to all the county commissioners ofthe sew


erll counties of the Commonwealt and
| the county commissioners of each county


shall, as soon as necessary after the receipt


of the same, at the proper expense of the


county, procure and furnish to all the


election officers of the election districts o


their respective counties, copies of sucl


blanks, in such quantities as may be rem


dered necessary for the discharge OF theii


duties under this act,


SEC. II. That citizens of this State tenn


poTarily in the service of the State or tn,


United States Government, on clerical o


other duty, and who do not vote wher


thus employed, shall not be deprive,


thereby OF the right to vote in their severa
election districts if otherwise duly quail
: fed.


CHANGE IN THE MODE OF VOTING
; AS therein disrected, 1 also give ofIicia
: notice of the following provisions of al
, act approved the Both of March, 1866, en-
titled "An Act regulating the mode ofYot
wealth."


: SEC. l. BE it enacted by the Senate an
J House of Representatives of the Common


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