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the provisions of this sub-division of this Article, of which he
may have personal knowledge, to have been committed at such
election, or to furnish to said Grand Jury, before their adjourn-
ment, his or their certificate, signed by him, and under oath
made and certified before a Justice of the Peace of said City,
that he did not know and had no reason to believe that any
such offences had been committed at such election, which cer-
tificate shall be returned by the Grand Jury to the said court,
and preserved and recorded by the clerk thereof.

421. The return judges at any such election shall each re-
ceive five dollars per diem, and the other judges and clerks of
election, two dollars and a-half per diem, for their respective
services, to be paid by and recoverable from the members of
the executive committee of the managing convention of the
political association under whose authority the election was
called.

422. If at any election held under the, terms of this sub-
division of this Article, any person knowingly personates any
voter, or votes in the name of any other person, whether liv-
ing, dead or fictitious, or votes more than once at the same elec-
tion for any candidate for the same office, or votes without
having a lawful right to vote, or unlawfully prevents any quali-
fied voter from freely exercising his right to vote, or interferes
in any manner with any judge or clerk of such election in the
discharge of his duties, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and punished, upon conviction, by a fine of not more than one
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty
days.

423. If any judge or clerk of election shall fraudulently
make any false certificate of the result of such election, or with-
hold, conceal or destroy any such certificate of any election
returns, tally lists or poll book, or take unlawfully from the
custody of the judges of election, or destroy any ballot-box, or
withdraw therefrom illegally any ballot or ballots which have
been deposited therein, or attempt or comm'it any violence
against any person having lawful charge of the same, or against
any judge or clerk of election in the discharge of his duty as