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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
26. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person shall
vote twice
at one election, he shall be liable to a presentment in the county
court of the county where he may reside, and may be fined not
exceeding forty dollars, and imprisoned not exceeding one month,
in the discretion of the court. |
1805.
CHAP. 97.
Persons voting
twice may be presented,
&c. |
27. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any candidate,
or other person
or persons, shall practise force and violence, with intent to influence
unduly, or to overawe, interrupt or hinder, any election
to be held in virtue of this act, every person so offending shall, on
conviction thereof in the county court of the county wherein such
offence shall be committed, suffer such fine, not exceeding two hundred
and fifty dollars, and such imprisonment, not exceeding fifty
days, as the court in their discretion shall adjudge. |
Penalty on persons
attempting to
overawe elections,
&c. |
28. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for any
commissioned or non-commissioned officer, having the command
of any soldier or soldiers quartered or posted in any district of any
county in this state, to muster or embody any of the said troops,
or to march any recruiting party, within the view of any place of
election, during the time of holding said election, under the penalty
of one hundred dollars. |
Soldiers not to be
mustered within
view of an election. |
29. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any candidate
(a), at an election
to be held in virtue of this act, or any other person or persons
whatever, shall give or bestow, or directly or indirectly promise,
any gift or reward, to secure any person's vote or ballot at
any such election, or shall keep, or suffer to be kept, any house,
tent, booth or other accommodation, in any part of any district at
any time during the day of holding such election, and before the
close thereof, at his or their expense, where any victuals or intoxicating
liquors shall be gratuitously given or dealt out to voters,
every such person or candidate so offending, shall, on conviction
thereof in the county court of the county wherein such offence may
be committed, be fined, at the discretion of the court, a sum not
exceeding five hundred dollars, and suffer such imprisonment as
the court may adjudge, not exceeding six months.
(a) By 1811, ch. 204, if any candidate, or other
person, shall at any time before
or on the day of the election,
give or bestow, or directly or indirectly promise,
any gift or reward to secure
any person's vote or ballot at any election, such
person or candidate, so offending,
shall on conviction be fined, &c. |
Penalty on candidates
and
for bribing voters. |
30. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerks of
the respective
counties shall endorse on the certificates and polls to be delivered
to them as aforesaid, the day when received, and shall be allowed,
as a compensation for making out and forwarding the copies of
said certificates to the governor and council aforesaid, the same
compensation as is allowed for like services, to be levied and paid
for by the county as his other fees. |
County clerks to
endorse on the
books of the polls,
&c. the day when
received. To be
compensated for
services. |
31. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judges
and clerks of
elections respectively shall be allowed, for each election at which
he attends as aforesaid, and form making the returns as aforesaid,
the sum of four dollars per day (b), to be levied and paid as other
county charges.
(b) By 1810, ch. 46, the allowance to the judges
and clerks in Allegany reduced
to two dollars per day.
By December 1813, ch. 170, the sheriffs of the
respective counties are allowed
twelve dollars for each and every election held
in such county; but if two or
more elections are held on the same day, the
sheriff shall not be entitled
to receive more than twelve dollars for such elections.
The same to be levied annually
by the levy court, &c. |
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