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1892, ch. 55, sec. 161-O

279. If any person other than a judge of election shall at any election
knowingly and wilfully cause to be put or put any ballot or ballots, or
other paper having the semblance thereof, into any box used at such elec-
tion for the reception of votes; or if any judge of election shall knowingly
or wilfully cause or permit any ballot or ballots to be in said box at the
opening of the polls, and before the voting shall have begun; or shall
knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently put any ballot, or other paper having
the semblance thereof into any such box at any election unless the same
shall be offered by a voter whose name shall have been found as a voter
upon the registry as in this article provided; or if any judge of election,
or other officer or person, shall fraudulently, during the canvass of ballots,
in any manner change, substitute or alter any ballot taken from the ballot-
box then being canvassed or from any ballot-box which has not been can-
vassed; or shall remove any ballot or semblance thereof, from, or add any
ballot or semblance thereof to the ballots taken from the ballot-box then
being canvassed, every such person shall upon conviction thereof, be ad-
judged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment
in jail for not less than one, nor more than five years, or by a fine not
exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the
discretion of the court.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161P

280. The judges of election may administer an oath in any inquiry
they may deem necessary to be made touching the right of any person
offering to vote; and if any person shall swear falsely in relation thereto,
he shall, upon conviction thereof, suffer the pains and penalties of perjury.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161Q.

281. It shall be the special duty of the judges of election to give in-
formation to the State's Attorney of Washington County of all infractions
of this article when discovered by them, under the penalty of twenty dol-
lars for neglect in each case.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161R.

282. If any candidate, or other person or persons, shall practice force
and violence, with intent to influence unduly, or to overawe, intercept or
hinder any election, he shall, on conviction thereof in the Court of Crim-
inal Jurisdiction of Washington County, suffer such fine, or such impris-
onment, or both as is prescribed in Section 278.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161S

283. The board of supervisors of election shall under a penalty of five
hundred dollars, provide, or cause to be provided and delivered to the
judges of election in each ward, previous to or at the commencement of
each election a box for receiving the ballots, and two separate books for
the purpose of entering the names of the voters. All ballot boxes shall
be constructed as follows: Each box shall be one foot, outside measure,