Pennsylvania Act 1861-532 — FRAUDS AT ELECTION - PREVENTION OF - SUPPLEMENT TO CONSOLIDATE PHILADELPHIA

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FRAUDS AT ELECTION - PREVENTION OF - SUPPLEMENT TO CONSOLIDATE
                               PHILADELPHIA
                  Act of May 1, 1861, P.L. 575, No. 532               Cl. 25
                                  AN ACT

     Supplemental to an act to consolidate the city of Philadelphia,
        passed the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred
        and fifty-four, and to prevent Frauds at Elections.

        Section 11.  Disposition of ballot boxes in Philadelphia
        The commissioners for the City of Philadelphia shall provide
     a fire-proof room or vault, in the public buildings of the said
     city, or some other suitable place, at which the judge of the
     elections, after the closing of the polls, and the requirements
     of the law have been complied with, shall forthwith there
     deliver to the mayor and recorder of the City of Philadelphia
     the said ballot boxes; that the said room or vault shall not be
     accessible to any other person than the mayor and recorder
     aforesaid, who shall be present and receive, at the said room,
     or vault, the ballot boxes from the return inspectors as
     aforesaid; that the mayor and recorder aforesaid shall not take
     or open, nor permit to be taken or opened, any ballot box
     deposited as aforesaid, for the space of one year after the same
     has been therein deposited, except when they shall be called
     upon by some court or other tribunal authorized to try the
     merits of such election; and after such trial or investigation
     it shall be the duty of the mayor and recorder aforesaid to have
     said box or boxes returned and deposited as aforesaid.  1861,
     May 1, P.L. 575, Sec. 11.
        Section 12.  Neglect of duty in care of ballot boxes
        If any officer under this act shall neglect or fail to
     perform the duties herein imposed upon them, then they, or
     either of them, shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a
     fine of five hundred dollars, and undergo an imprisonment, by
     separate or solitary confinement, not exceeding three years,
     respectively, for every such offense.  1861, May 1, P.L. 575,
     Sec. 12.