HERBERT R. O'CONOR., GOVERNOR. 1583

in the penitentiary, for not less than three months, nor more
than two years.

170. Every judge or clerk of election or other officer or per-
son who shall make, sign, publish or deliver any false tally or
return of any general, special or primary election, or any
false certificate or statement of the result of any such election,
knowing the same to be false, or who shall wilfully deface, de-
stroy or conceal any statement, tally or certificate entrusted to
his care and custody, shall on conviction thereof be adjudged
guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in
the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than ten years.

171. If any person other than a judge of election shall at
any general, special, or primary election, knowingly and wil-
fully put, or cause to be put any ballot or ballots, or other
paper having the semblance thereof into any box used at such
election for the reception of votes; or if any judge of election
shall knowingly or wilfully cause or permit any ballot or bal-
lots to be in said box at the opening of the polls, and before
the voting shall have begun; or shall knowingly, wilfully or
fraudulently put any ballot or other paper having the semb-
lance thereof in any such box at any such election, unless the
same shall be offered by a voter whose name shall have been
found and kept upon the registry, as hereinbefore provided, or
who shall be entitled to vote under this Article; or if any judge
of election or other officer or person shall fraudulently during
the canvass of ballots in any manner change, substitute or alter
any ballot taken from the ballot box then being canvassed,
or from any ballot box which has not been canvassed, or shall
remove any ballot or semblance thereof from or add any ballot
or semblance thereof to the ballots taken from the ballot box
then being canvassed, or from any ballot-box which has not
been canvassed, every such person shall upon conviction thereof
be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by im-
prisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more
than five years.

172. Every judge or clerk of election or other officer or
person having the custody of any record, registry of voters or
copy thereof, oath, return or statements of votes, certificate,
poll-list, or any papers, documents, ballots, coupons or vote of
any description in this Article directed to be made, filed or
preserved, who is guilty of concealing, wilfully destroying,
mutilating, defacing, falsifying or fraudulently removing or
secreting the whole or any part thereof, or who shall fraudu-
lently make any entry, erasure or alteration therein except as
allowed and directed by the provisions of this Article, or who
permits any other person to do so, shall upon conviction there-