ART. 4.] ELECTIONS. 377

said city, whether federal, state or municipal, except special
elections, otherwise provided for, hereafter to be held in the said

city, shall cause public notice to be given by advertisement set
up at the most public places in each precinct of the several
wards of said city, and also by advertisement in all the daily
newspapers printed in the said city, of the time of holding said
election in the said city; but if from any cause said notice shall
fail to be given, said failure shall not affect the validity of the

said election, or of any election to be thereafter held; but it
shall be the duty of the several judges of election in the said
several precincts in the several wards of the said city, at the time
prescribed by law, and at the place previously selected, and
advertised by them as required by sections 255 and 261; and in
default of any place having been selected or advertised as
aforesaid, then at the usual places of holding elections in said
several precincts, or at the place where the last preceding
election was held in such precinct, under the penalty of five
hundred dollars for each judge refusing or knowingly and
wilfully neglecting to hold such election.

P. L. L.. (1860,) art. 4, sec. 225.

270. If the said board of police shall have reason to believe
that in the neighborhood of any election polk in the said city, or

elsewhere within any election precinct of the same, there is any
depot or collection of fire-arms, or other weapons or ammunition
intended to be used for the purpose of intimidating or injuring
voters, or interfering with the freedom or peace of any election

then pending or approaching, it shall be the duty of the said
board to apply to the criminal court or some justice of the peace
of said city, for a warrant, on proper oath, to search the premises;
and the said court or justice shall issue the same without delay,
and shall cause the said arms, weapons and ammunition, if found,
to be seized and deh'vered to said board, to be detained until the
day after the returns of said election shall have been made, and
until the same shall be disposed of by law.

Ibid. sec. 226.

271. Nothing contained in this sub-title of this article shall be
construed to deprive the said board of police of any police powers,