T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

by death, disqualification, refusal to act, or other-
wise, and to appoint successors from time to time
to those judges whose term of service shall be about
to expire or shall have expired, or whom they shall
remove, and every judge so appointed shall hold
his office for the term of one year, subject to the
conditions hereinbefore provided.

CHAP. 9.

SEC. 9. The said judges of election and each of
them are made conservators of the peace while they
shall be acting as such judges, and shall have full
power and authority, and are hereby respectively
commanded to preserve the peace at and about the
places of voting of their respective precincts from
the time that the polls shall have been opened
therein until the returns of votes, taken at any
election therein, shall have been made, and they
and each of them shall have full power, and it
shall be their duty to keep the polls of their re-
spective precincts clear, or cause them to be kept
clear, so that ingress thereto and egress therefrom
shall be free and unobstructed to the voters, and to
prevent and suppress riots, tumult, violence, dis-
order, and all other improper practices tending to
the intimidation or obstruction of voters, or the
disturbance or interruption of voters.

Conservators
of the peace.

SEC. 10. The said judges, or a majority of them,
in each precinct, shall have power, and are hereby
directed to select the places of voting in and for
their respective precincts, and to take care that the
same be as near the centre of such precincts as may
be, and upon an open public street, in a free,
accessable and convenient location, and that no
tavern, liquor store, grog shop, or other place at
which liquor shall usually or at the time be sold,
be by them taken or used as a place of voting; and
they shall take all such measures, whether by the
erection of barriers or establishing limits around
the polls or otherwise, as may be necessary and
proper, in their judgment, to prevent crowding at
or near the polls, or the interruption of voters in
approaching or returning from the same, and it
shall be their duty, by proper precautions in ad-
vance and by such regulations and arrangements
beforehand, or on the day of election, as may be
suitable to secure the peaceful conduct of such
elections as maybe held during their official terms,
and the protection of the voters and the ballot boxes
from violence and fraud.

Judges to
select places
of voting.