Screens.

Office for

Department

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screen or other obstruction to such view of any ballot-box by the voter or challenger shall be allowed.

SECTION 21. The said Department of Elections may rent of Election. Some suitable and convenient place in the said city, and fit up the same for an office for the use of the said Department of Elections at a yearly rental not to exceed three hundred dollars.

Registering

more than once.

Majority of inspectors

in all actions, etc.

SECTION 22. No person who is registered in one election. district shall register or cause hitnself to be registered in another district.

SECTION 23.

For all power, authority, and duties in this must concur act prescribed for or conferred upon and all actions required of inspectors of election, save where such authority or action is specifically allowed to any of said inspectors, the concurrence or assent of a majority of all the inspectors of election in any election district must in all cases be obtained.

Inspector required to serve but

one term.

Election officers.

SECTION 24. No person shall be required to serve as an inspector of election for two successive terms.

SECTION 25. The several inspectors of election, and poll clerks, in this act named and created, are and shall be in all courts and proceedings deemed and held respectively to be election officers; and it shall be the duty of the said inspecAttendance tors of election, and poll clerks, respectively, or a majority of officers. said inspectors, to be in constant attendance during the hours and times fixed for the discharge of their several duties.

of election

Duty of election offi

canvass of

trict.

SECTION 26. Any inspector of election, poll clerk, or any cers to make challenger, appointed in compliance with the provisions of election dis- this act, shall at any time between the first day of registration or revision of registration, as required by this act, preceding any election and ten days after the official declaration and certificate of the result of any such election, have full power and authority to make a thorough and effective canvass of the election district in and for which he has been or was designated to serve and act upon any day of registration, or revision of registration, or election, and to make full inquiry respecting any and every resident of any dwelling, building, or other place of abode in any such election district, his age, term of residence, and qualifications as a voter; but the power and authority by this section conferred upon any inspector of election, poll clerk, or challenger, shall wholly

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cease upon his resignation or removal from the office or position to which he was appointed, or for which he was designated.

duties of in

election

while hold

SECTION 27. The inspectors of election in each election Powers and district, while discharging any of the duties imposed upon spector of them by this act, shall have full authority to preserve order on and enforce obedience to their lawful commands at and ing election. around the place of registration or election during the time of any registration or revision of registration, election or canvass, estimate or return of votes, to keep the access to such places open and unobstructed; to prevent and suppress riots, tumult, violence, disorder and all improper practices tending to the intimidation or obstruction of voters, the disturbance or interruption of the work of registration or voting, or the canvass estimate or return of votes, and to protect the voters and challengers from intimidation and violence, and the registers, poll books, boxes and ballots from violence and fraud, and to deputize, if necessary, one or more electors to communicate their orders and directions and to assist in the enforcement thereof.

tion of mem

Elections,

tion of other

cers and

how paid.

SECTION 28. The legal compensation of all members of Compensathe Department of Elections shall be paid quarterly on the bers of Delast day of March, June, September and December by the partment of State Treasurer out of any money belonging to the State not how paid. otherwise appropriated. The compensation of inspectors of Compensaelection, poll clerks and other officers of election, as pro- election offivided for by this act, the cost and expenses of all necessary election notices, posters, maps, advertisements, registers, expenses. books, blanks, stationery, the rent and cost. of fitting-up, warming, lighting, cleaning and safe keeping of all places of registration and polling places; of furnishing, repairing and carting ballot-boxes, and the cost of all supplies of every kind and nature for elections in said city shall be paid as other general election expenses are, and upon proper warrants and vouchers made by the Department of Elections.

surveyor.

SECTION 29. It shall be the duty of the city surveyor to Duty of city furnish to the Department of Elections of said city, upon their request, a map or maps of the several wards of the city, or any and all portions thereof.

SECTION 30.

Hereafter it shall not be lawful for any of the authorities, officers or agents of the said city of Wilming

Change of number or name of

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ton to number or re-number, or change the name of any street, avenue, lane, road or way in the said city, or in anystreets, etc. wise change or alter any such number or name, save between the first day of July and the last day of August, of any year.

Electioneering or engaging in political discussion.

Penalty.

Intoxica

ting and liquors.

SECTION 31. It shall be unlawful for any inspector of election, poll clerk or challenger, during the election or canvass of ballots, or any person or persons within the polling place, to electioneer or engage in any political discussion. Any violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety days or by fine not more than two hundred dollars, or both.

SECTION 32. Whoever, during the sitting of any board spirituous of inspectors of election in any election district in the city, whether held for the purpose of registration, revision of registration, reception or canvass of votes, or of making return thereof, shall bring, take, order, or send into, or shall attempt to bring, take, or send into any place of registration, revision of registration, or of election, any distilled or spirituous liquors whatever, or shall, at any such time and place, drink or partake of any such liquor, shall be deemed and held to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety days, or by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or both.

Penalty.

Personation

wrong dis

trict or in more than one.

SECTION 33. If, at any registration, or revision of registration of voters, or at any meeting of inspectors of election held for such purpose, as provided in this act, any person shall falsely personate an elector, or other person, and register, or attempt or offer to register in the name of such elector, or other person, or if any person shall knowingly Registry in or fraudulently register, or offer, or attempt to make application to register in or under the name of any person, or in or under any false, assumed, or fictitious name, or in or under any name not his own, or shall knowingly or fraudulently register in two election districts, or, having registered in one district, shall fraudulently attempt to offer to register in another, or shall fradulently register, or attempt or offer to register in any election district not having a lawful right to register therein, or shall knowingly or willfully do any unlawful act to secure registration for himself or any other person, or shall knowingly, willfully, or fraudulently, by false personation, or otherwise, or by any

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unlawful means, procure, or attempt to cause or procure the name of any qualified voter in any election district to be erased or stricken from any register of the voters of such district, made in pursuance of this act or otherwise than in this act provided; or by force, threat, menace, in- Intimidation timidation, bribery, reward, or offer, or promise thereof, or other unlawful means, prevent, hinder, or delay any person having a lawful right to register or be registered, from duly exercising such right, or who shall knowingly, willfully, or fraudulently compel or induce, or attempt, or offer to compel, or induce by such means, or any unlawful means, any inspector of election or officer of registration in any election district, to register or admit to registration any person not lawfully entitled to registration in such district, or to register any false, assumed, or fictitious name, or any name of any person except as provided in this act, or shall knowingly, or willfully or fraudulently interfere with, hinder or Intimidation delay any inspector of election, or other officer of registra-ence with tion in the discharge of his duties, or counsel, advise or in-officer. duce, or attempt to induce any such inspector or other officer to refuse or neglect to comply with or to perform his duties, or to violate any law prescribing or regulating the same, or shall aid, counsel, procure, or advise any voter, person, inspector of election, or other officer of registration, to do any act by law forbidden or in this act constituted an offense, or to omit to do any act by law directed to be done; every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than two years, or Penalty. by fine not more than two hundred dollars, or both.

or interfer

election

of voters.

SECTION 34. If at any election hereafter held in the said Personation city as provided in this act any person shall falsely personate any elector or other person, and vote or attempt or offer to vote in or upon the name of such elector or other person, or shall vote or attempt to vote in or upon the name of any person whether living or dead, or in or upon any false, assumed or fictitious name, or in or upon any name not his own, or shall knowingly, willfully or fraudulently vote more than Fraudulent once for any candidate for the same office, or shall vote or attempt or offer to vote in any election district without having a lawful right to vote therein, or to vote more than once or to vote in more than one election district, or having once voted shall vote or attempt or offer to vote again, or shall knowingly, willfully or fraudulently do any unlawful act to

voting.

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secure an opportunity for himself or for any other person to vote, or shall by force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery Intimidation or reward or offer or promise thereof, or otherwise, unlawfully and bribery. either directly or indirectly influence or attempt to influence

Penalty.

Poll clerks making false entries.

Penalty.

any elector, in giving his vote, or prevent or hinder or attempt to prevent or hinder any qualified voter from freely exercising the rights of suffrage or by any such means induce or attempt to induce any such voter to refuse to exercise any such right, or shall by any such means or otherwise compel or induce or attempt to compel or induce any inspector of election or other officer of election in any election district to receive the vote of any person not legally qualified or entitled to vote at the said election in such district, or shall knowingly, willfully or fraudulently interfere with, delay or hinder in any manner any inspector of election, poll clerk, or other officer of election in the discharge of his duty, or by any of such means or other unlawful means, knowingly, willfully or fraudulently counsel, advise, induce or attempt to induce any inspector of election, poll clerk, or other officer of election whose duty it is to ascertain, proclaim, announce or declare the result of any such election, or to give or make any certificate, document, report, return or other evidence in relation thereto, to refuse or neglect to comply with his duty, or to violate any law regulating the same, or to receive the vote of any person in any election district not entitled to vote therein, or to refuse to receive the vote of any person entitled to vote therein, or shall aid, counsel or advise, procure or assist any voter, person or inspector of election or other officer of election to do any act by law forbidden, or in this act constituted an offense, or to omit to do any act by law directed to be done, every such person shall upon conviction thereof be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished for each and every offense by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars, or both.

SECTION 35. If any poll clerk or inspector of election performing the duty of poll clerk shall willfully keep a false poll list or shall knowingly insert in his poll list any false statement or any name or statement, or any check, letter or mark except as in this act provided, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than two years, or by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars, or both.