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maltreat or injure or shall offer to maltreat or in-
jure or shall by menace or violence or otherwise
intimidate, overawe or control any voter while at
the polls or going to, or returning from the same,
and any person or persons who shall wilfully de-
stroy or mutilate or attempt to destroy or mutilate
any ballot that may have been deposited in any
ballot box or in any box for rejected ballots in said
city, or any election returns, clerks book, tally-list,
poll-book, list of voters or certificates of election or
who shall steal or destroy or attempt to steal or
destroy any box or boxes aforementioned or with-
draw or attempt to withdraw therefrom illegally
any ballot or ballots which may have been deposi-
ted therein, or attempt or commit any violence
against any person or persons having lawful charge
of the same or against any judge or clerk of elec-
tion in the discharge of his duty as such, or who
shall forcibly resist the execution of any lawful
order of any judge or judges of election under the
provisions of this article, or of any other law, or
shall on election day or while the returns of any
election are being made up, forcibly resist any
policeman or peace officer in the discharge of his
duty at or about the polls or under this article, or
shall forcibly resist any private citizen acting law-
fully under the lawful order of any judge of elec-
tion given in conformity with this article, or any
other law for the purpose of securing the peace and
freedom of any election in said city, or shall seize,
take, steal, mutilate or destroy the naturalization
papers or certificate or written evidence of naturali-
zation of any naturalized voter or attempt so to
do, either at or near the polls or while the said
voter shall be proceeding thereto or returning
therefrom, shall be 'deemed guilty of felony and be
sentenced upon conviction thereof to confinement
in the penitentiary for not less than three, nor more
than six years.
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Sec. 27. If the said board of police shall have
reason to believe that in the neighborhood of any
election polls in the said city, or elsewhere within
any election precinct of the same, there is any de-
pot, or collection of firearms, or other weapons or
ammunition, intended to be used for the purpose of
intimidating or injuring voters, or interfering with
the freedom or peace of any election then pending
or approaching, it shall be the duty of the said
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