OF THE GENERAL ELECTION.

lock and key for securing the lid; the lid of the other box shall be without a hole, and it shall be so constructed as to be secured with tape or sealing wax.

Tally lists.

SECTION 5. There shall be two of the said tally lists each of which shall consist of a margin on the left for the names of the persons voted for, and squares formed by parallel lines, drawn from left to right, and from the bottom to the top of the sheet, each square to be sufficient to contain five distinct rows of five distinct dots of a pen in each row, and there shall be a sufficient number of squares in each row of squares from left to right to contain more dots than any other person will probably receive votes in the election district.

Certificates of election.

Form of.

SECTION 6. There shall be two of the said certificates of election which may be according to the following form, viz : County and Election District of Representative District, ss. At the general election held in the said election district, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, A. D., eighteen hundred and the votes stand as follows:

FOR THE OFFICE OF ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRES

votes

FOR THE OFFICE OF REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS.

Received::::::

:::::::: Received

FOR THE OFFICE OF SENATOR IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

FOR THE OFFICE OF SENATOR IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN

:::::

FOR THE OFFICE OF CLERK OF THE ORPHANS' COURT.

Received

:

votes OF THE GENERAL ELECTION.

And we further certify that the Clerks appointed by us were duly sworn or affirmed according to law, and that we were duly sworn or affirmed.

In Testimony Whereof, We, the Judges of said election for said election district have hereunto set our hands the day and year aforesaid.

In the said written or printed forms of certificates before Filling the same shall be delivered by the Sheriff as above directed, certifi the name of the county and election district and of the representative district and the date of the year shall be inserted in the blanks for said purposes in the foregoing form; and the offices to be filled at the election shall be inserted with blanks under each to contain the names of the persons who may be voted for, with the number of votes; and the offices not to be filled at the election, shall be omitted.

blanks in

cates.

officers.

SECTION 7. The form of the oath or affirmation to be ad-Oath of ministered to the Inspector or other officer authorized by law to hold the election and Judges shall be as follows, viz:

I

do solemnly swear (or affirım) Form.

that in the election to be this day held, I will not knowingly or wilfully, receive, or consent to the receiving of the vote of any person whom I shall believe not entitled to vote, unless my associates shall adjudge such persons to be entitled to vote, that I will not receive or reject nor concur in receiving or rejecting any vote through partiality or undue bias and that I will determine every matter that shall come before me, and perform every act and duty by law required of me touching the said election, truly, faithfully and impartially according to the best of my skill and judgment and ability; that I will cause the ballots that shall be taken at this election to be fairly read and ascertained and a true statement thereof to be made according to the best of my knowledge and ability and that if I shall discover any partiality, unfairness or corruption in the conducting of the said election, I will disclose the same to the Attorney General to the end that the subject may be investigated, so help me God (or so I solemnly affirm). There shall be three distinct forms of the foregoing oaths of Three affirination written or printed on one sheet; which forms oaths. shall be numbered and distinguished as No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. On the same sheet after the last of said forins shall be

of qualifi

OF THE GENERAL ELECTION.

Certificate written or printed a form for the certificate of the qualificacation of tion of the Inspector or other officer authorized by law to

officers.

Form.

Filling in blanks.

Inspector to give

notice of

time and place of election.

hold the election and Judges as follows, to wit:

District
Representative District, ss, We,
the subscribers, Inspector (or other officers authorized by law
to hold the election) and judges for said election district of
the general election, therein held on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday of November in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and

certify that on said day, before opening the said election in said election district, the foregoing oath or affirmation was duly administered to each of us, according to law."

The blanks in which said certificates shall be filled by the Sheriff or by his order, before delivering the same to the Inspector or other officer authorized by law to hold the election.

SECTION 8. The Inspector or other officer authorized by law to hold the election of each election district shall within two days after receiving from the Sheriff a list of officers to be chosen at the general election, give public notice of the time and place of holding the then next general election in his election district and of the officers to be voted for at such

Advertise- election, by advertisements posted in at least five of the most

ments.

absence of

public places in his election district.

In case of SECTION 9. If at the time for holding the general election Inspector there shall be no Inspector or other officer authorized by law hold elec- to hold the election of any election district, or if he shall be

who to

tion.

absent from the place of election at half-past eight o'clock of the forenoon of the day of the election the registrar of the said election district who shall be present with his Register and Book of Registered Voters for said district, or in the event of the registrar's absence the alternate registrar of said election district who may be present with a Register and a Book of Registered Voters of said election district shall serve as the Inspector for said election district and perform all the duties required of him by such Inspector.

Inspectors SECTION 10. The Inspector or other officer authorized by judges and law to hold the election in any election district shall be a officer. Judge of the general election held therein and the presiding