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offering the same is lawfully entitled to vote at such
election, or shall wilfully receive a vote from any person
who has been duly challenged in relation to his right to
vote at such election, without exacting from such person
an oath or other proof of qualification, or shall wilfully
omit to challenge any person offering to vote whom he
knows or suspects to be not entitled to vote, and who has
not been challenged, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
punished by imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary
for not less than three months nor more than two years.

(h) Every judge or judges acting as clerk of any such
election who shall make, sign, publish or deliver any false
tally or return of an election, or any false statement of the
result of an election, knowing the same to be false, or
who shall wilfully deface, destroy or conceal any statement,
tally or certificate of return 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 year nor more than ten
years.

(i) If any judge or judges acting as clerk of said
election of whom any duty is required by this Act, shall
be guilty of any wilful neglect of such duty, or any corrupt
or fraudulent conduct or practice in the execution of the
same, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by
imprisonment in jail for not less than thirty days nor
more than three years, or by a fine of not more than fifty
dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or both by
such fine and imprisonment.

(j) The judges of said election while acting in the
discharge of their duties as such judges are hereby clothed
with authority to preserve the peace, and to pass such
orders as may be necessary to carry out that object, and if
any person shall wilfully disobey any lawful command of
any judge of election in the execution of his or their
duty as such judge at any election, he shall, upon convic-
tion thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not less
than thirty days nor more than six months, or by fine of
not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred and
fifty dollars, or both by such fine and imprisonment in the
discretion of the Court.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1945.

Approved March 8, 1945.