LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

persons by any of the means before mentioned or otherwise
unlawfully shall, on any day of registration, revision of regis
tration, or of election, hinder or prevent any officer of regis
tration, judge or clerk of election, challenger or person desig
nated as provided in this Article to be present at the reception
or canvass of ballots, in his free attendance and presence at the
place of registration or revision of registration, or of electior
in the election precinct, in and for which he is appointed or
designated to serve or in his full and free access and egress to
and from any such place of registration, revision of registra-
tion or of election, or to and from any room where such regis-
tration, revision of registration or election, or canvass of votes
or making of any return and certificates thereof may be had
or shall molest, interfere with, remove or eject from any such
place of registration or election or of canvassing ballots cast
thereat or of making returns or certificates thereof, any such
officer of registration, judge or clerk of election, challenger or
person designated as provided in this Article to watch the
reception or canvassing of any ballots except as otherwise pro
vided in this Article or shall unlawfully threaten or attempt or
offer to do, every such person shall be guilty of a misde-

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meanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by im-
prisonment in jail for not less than three months nor more
than one year, or by tine of not less than fifty dollars ($50)
nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both fine
and imprisonment.

270 KKKK. If any person upon the day of any election, or
before the canvass of votes is completed, shall conceal or wil-

Penalty.

fully break or destroy any ballot box used or intended to be
used at such election, or shall wilfully or fraudulently conceal,
secrete or remove 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 deposited in any ballot box at such election which has
not been counted and canvassed, or any poll list used at such
election, or any report, return, certificate or any evidence in

Concealing
ballot box:,
etc.

this Article required, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be ad-
judged 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.

Penalty.

270 L L L L. If at any election precinct, at any registration of
voters or revision thereof, any officer of registration shall know-
ingly or wilfully admit any person to registration, or make any
entry upon any register unless a majority of the board of reg-

Unlawfully
permitting
person to
register, etc.