Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1870 — The Election Law. [ARTICLE]

The Election Law.

The Registry Law having been repealed since the passage of the Railroad Taxation Law, we publish a brief synopsis of the Election Law, as it now stands, for the benefit of those having charge of the polls, next Saturday. Tho Lats can be found on page 58 of the Acts of the Regular and Special Sessions of 1869. who conducts the election. 1 The township trustee is the Inspector of tbe election. Before opening the polls, the trustee ap- ; points ttvo freeholders who are quali-1 lied voters of the township to act as ' judges of the election. The in- j •pector and judges constitute the ' board of election, and they appoint two clerks.

OATH TO BOARD. The inspector, judges and clerks will make oath that they will support the constitution ot the United States and the constitution of the State of Indiana, and that they will faithfully discharge their duties. WHO ADMINISTERS THE OATH. The inspector may administer the oath to the judges and clerks', and one of the judges will administer ttie oath tv the inspector, unless some other person be present who is authorized to administer oaths. WHEN POLLS OPENED AND CLOSED. The polls shall be opened between eitfht and ten o’clock a. m. and be kept open without adjournment until four o’clock p. m., after which, time the board inay close the election when fifteen minutes have passed without a vote Laving been tendered, but the polls cannot be kept open after six o’clock. TIIX BALLOTS. The ballots shall be written or printed on plain wi.ite paper, and the inspector on receiving the ballot shall place a number thereon to correspond with the number placed opposite the name of the voter on the poll list. OATH TO VOTER. If any voter is challenged, any’ member of the board may administer to him the following oath: “You do swear, that you are a citizen of the United States, that yon are over twenty-one years of age, that yon Awve been a- bona' fide reaident of this Slate for six months immediately preceding this election, that you are now and have been for twenty days last passed resident of this township, that you are generally known by the name in which you now desire to vote, that you have not voted and will not vote in any other township in drii electiou.” In ease of a person ot foreign birth, the oath relative to edizenMMhajkHl abe dispensed with and

the following words usedin li«u thereof. ‘“That you have resided in the United States one year, and that you have declared your intention i to become n citizen thereof in conformity with the thereof.” In addition to the above oath a freeholder of the township must make an affidavit before the board ; that the person challenged has been a resident of the State and township the time required by law. QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS. To entitle a person to a vote he must be over the age ot twenty-one years, and have resided in the State six months and in the township twenty days immediately preoeding the election.