ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

to defeat or effect the result of the election, he
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the judges,
after organizing and selecting a presiding judge

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at any such primary election, shall, before en-
tering upon their duties, severally take and sub-
scribe to an oath in form now required of judges
at general elections. The vote or ballot of any
person offered at such election, shall, upon chal-
lenge by any lawful voter or watcher thereat,
be rejected unless he be sworn as to his lawful
qualifications as such voter ; and the presiding
judge of such primary election is hereby em-
powered, and it shall be his duty to administer
an oath to such person, or to any other person

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oath.

offering to vote as may be deemed advisable by
the said judge, to the effect that he will true
answers make to such questions as shall be put
to him touching his qualifications as a voter,
and his right to vote. He may then be exam-
ined as to such qualifications and right to vote.
If he shall swear to the necessary qualifications
of a voter, as prescribed by the regulations of

Vote— when
registered.

the association holding the primary election or
convention, his vote shall be received ; provided,
however, that said voter shall hold and support
the political principles of the association con-
ducting the said primary election. If the per-
son so sworn and examined shall intentionally
swear falsely as to his qualifications as a voter,
he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall,
on conviction, be punished as now prescribed by
law for the crime of perjury.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That if any person
acting as judge, teller or canvasser at any such

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received.

primary election, shall knowingly receive the
vote of any individual who shall have been
challenged, or who is known to him not to be
entitled by the regulations of the political asso-
ciation holding said primary election, to vote
at such primary, unless the same shall be first
sworn in as aforesaid ; or shall in any manner
fraudulently and wrongfully deposit or put any
ballots into or take any from the ballot-box of
said primary election, or shall fraudulently and
wrongfully mix any ballots with those cast at
said primary election, or shall knowingly make

When deemed:
guilty of a mis-
demeanor.