FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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omit to challenge any person offering to vote whom he knows,

or has reasonable cause to believe to be not entitled to vote,

and who has been challenged ; or shall wilfully refuse to

open and show the ballot-box to be empty prior to the open -

ing of the polls ; or shall permit any barricade or obstruc-

tion of any kind to be interposed, so that all who desire can-

not constantly see such ballot-box, shall, upon conviction

thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be

punished by imprisonment in jail for not less than one nor

Penalty.

more than five years, or by both fine and imprisonment in

the discretion of the court.

161 N. Every judge or clerk of election who shall make,

sign, publish or deliver any false tally or return of election,

False

or any false certificate or statement of the result of an elec-

Tally.

tion, knowing the same to be false, and every judge or clerk

of election, or other officer or person, who shall wilfully de-

face, destroy or conceal any statement, tally or certificate

intrusted to his care and custody, shall, on conviction thereof,

be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be pun-

isued by imprisonment in jail for not less than one nor

Penalty.

more than five years, or by a fine not exceeding one thou-

sand dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the

discretion of the court.

161 O. 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 sem-

blance thereof, into any box used at such election for the

Fraudu-

reception of votes ; or if any judge of election shall know-

lent-

ingly or wilfully cause or permit any ballot or ballots to be

Ballots.

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, sub-

stitute or alter any ballot taken from the ballot-box then

being canvassed or from any ballot-box which has not been

canvassed ; 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 adjudged guilty of

a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in

Penalty.

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.

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