Year: 1872

Onment not exceeding one year, or either |
or both, at the discretion OF the court.


SEC. Z. Ten days preceding every cleo
ton for electors for President and Vice
President of the United States, it shall be
the duty of the assessor to attend at the
place required by law for holding the cleo
ton in each election district, and then and
there hear all applications of persons
whose names have been omitted from the
list of assessed voters, who claimed the
right to vote, or whose rights have origin
ated since the same was made out, and
shall add the names of such persons there
TO as shall show that they are entitled to
the right of suffrage in such district on
the personal application of the claimant
only, and forthwith assess them with the
proper tax. After completing the list, a
copy thereof shall be placed on the door OF
or on the house where the election is to be
held, at least eight days before the election;
and at the election the same course shall
be pursued in all respects as is required
by this act and the acts to which this is q
supplement, at the general election in Oc-
tober. The assessor shall also make the
same returns to the county commissioners
of all assessments made by virtue of this
section and the county commissioners
shall furnish copies thereof to the election
officers in each district, in like p'annor, in
all respects, as is required at the general
election in October.


SEC. g. The respective assessors, inspec-
tors and judges of the election shall each
have the power to administer oaths to any
person claiming the right to be assessed
or the right ofsuffrage, or in regard to any
other matter or thing required to be done
or inquired into by any of said officers un-
der this act, and any wilful false swearing
by any person in relation to any matter
concerning which they shall be lawfully
interrogated by any of said officers, shall
be punished as perjury.


SEC. 10. The assessors shall each receive
the same compensation for the time neces-
sarily spent in performing their duties
hereby eniolned as is provided by law for
the performance of their other duties, to
be paid by the county commissioners as in
other cases and it shall not be lawful for
any person to assess tax against any per-
son whatever within ten days next prece-
ding the election to be held on the second
Tuesday of October, in any year, or within
ten days next before any election for cleo
tors of President and Vice President of
the United States; any violation of this
provision shall be misdemeanor, and
subjecting the officers so offending to a fine
on conviction not exceeding one hundred
dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding
three months, or both, at the discretion of
the court.


SEC. II. On petition of five or more cit
izen~ 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 the duty of the
| Court of Common Pleas of said county, if
| in session, if not II judge thereof in vaca-
ton, to appoint two judicious, sober and
| intelligent citizens of the county to act as
| overseers of said election; said overseers
shall be selected from different political


parties, where the inspectors belong to diff
ierent parties, and where both inspectors
| belong to the same political party both of
| tho shall Ina tn lynn from thn on
| 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 cleo
| ton officers to keep q 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 to af-
| ford to said overseers so selected and ap-
| pointed every convenience and facility for
| the discharge of their duties: and if said


election officers shall refuse to permit said
| oVersecrs 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 oyerseer.
! SEC. II. If any prUtnonotary, c.eI6, oil
! deputy of either, or any other person shall
| af1ix the seal ofofliee 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
| fraudulenty used, or furnish a naturaliZa-


ton paper to any person who shall not
| have been duly examined and sworn in
| open court, i'll the presence OF some OF the
| judges thereof, according to the act of


Congress, or shall aid in, or connive at or
| in anv way permit the issue of any fraud
| uleut naturalization certificates, he shall be
| guilty of Il high misdemeanor or if any
| one shall fraudulently use any such certif-
| icate of naturalization, knowing that il was


fraudulently issded, 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 high misdemeanor /;


and either any ofthe 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 period not exceeding three


years.


Sec. 10. Any person who, on oath or af-
| firmation before any court of this State, or
officer authorized TO administer oaths,


shall. to procure certificate of naturaliZa-
ton, for himself or any other person, will


fully depose or affirm any matter to be


facts, knowing the same 10 be true, shall


be guilty of perjury; and any certificate of


naturalization issued in pursuance of any


such deposition, declaration or aflirma ion


shall be null and void and it shall be the


duty of the court issuing the same. upon
proof being made before it that it was


iraudulently 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, oonniVe at


or have any agency whatever in the issue,


circulation or use of any fraudulent natur~


alization certificate, shall be deemed guilty


of a misdemeanor, 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 rs an OVerseer, who shall