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remove or eject from any such place of registration or election
or of canvassing ballots cast thereat or making returns or certifi-
cates thereof, any such officer of registration, judge or clerk of
election, challenger or person designated as provided in this arti-
cle, to watch the reception or canvassing of any ballots except as
otherwise provided in this article, or shall unlawfully threaten or
attempt or offer so to do, every such person shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by
imprisonment in jail for not less than three months nor more
than one year, or by fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor
more than one thousand dollars ($1, 000) or by both fine and
imprisonment.

1896, ch. 202.

97. If any person upon the day of any election, or before the
canvass of votes is completed, shall conceal or wilfully break
or destroy any ballot-box used or intended to be used at such
election, or shall wilfully or fraudulently conceal, secrete or re-
move any such box from the custody of the judges of election,
or any other official in charge thereof, or shall alter, deface,
injure or destroy or conceal any ballot which has been deposi-
ted in any ballot-box at such election which has not been
counted and canvassed, or any poll-list used at such election, OP
any report, return, certificate or any evidence in this article re-
quired, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of
a felony, and shall for each and every such offense be punished
by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor
more than five years.

Ibid.

98. If at any election precinct, at any registration of voters or
revision thereof, any officer of registration shall knowingly or
wilfully admit any person to registration; ' or make any entry
upon any register unless a majority of the board* of registry in
said precinct are present and concur, or if at any election here-
after held, any judge or clerk of election shall receive any vote
or proceed with the canvass of ballots, or shall consent thereto,
unless a majority of the judges of election in said election pre-
cinct are present and concur, he shall, upon conviction thereof,
be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by