OF ELECTIONS. CHAPTER 574 OF ELECTIONS. AN ACT to amend Chapter 38, Volume 19, Laws of Delaware, passed at Dover, May 13, 1891. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: amended. SECTION I. Amend Section 2 by striking out the words Section 2 "and will not be " in the fifth and fourth lines from the end thereof. Also amend said Section 2 by adding the following paragraph thereto : ternate reg come vacant trar becomes Should the said registrar (or alternate registrar) after taking Office of resaid oath and before entering upon the active duties of said gistrar or aloffice become a candidate for any office to be voted for by the istrar to beelectors of the hundred or election district for which he is when regisappointed registrar or alternate registrar, the said office shall a candidate. ipso facto become vacant and be filled by the appointment of another person to the same. After the said registrar or alternate registrar shall have entered upon the active duties of his office he shall thereby become ineligible to any office in Registrar, the said hundred or election district to be voted for at the ble to office. next ensuing general election. when ineligi SECTION 2. Amend Section 7 of said act by striking out Section 7 all after the word "o'clock," in the ninth line, and before amended. the word "each," in the eleventh line of the second paragraph, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "on the Time when last three Saturdays in the September and the first Saturday shall sit to in the October next preceding the general election." registrars qualify elec tors. amended. SECTION 3. Amend Section 10 by striking out the word Section to "three" in the third line of the second paragraph and by when board inserting in lieu thereof the word “two." of registration shall sit two days. SECTION 4. Amend Section 21 of said act by inserting Section 21 after the word "intimidation" and before the word "or" in amended. the twenty-first line the word "bribery," and by inserting after the word "hinder" and before the word "any" in the Attempt to same line the words following, to wit: "or attempt to pre- or hinder. vent or hinder." prevent No person to compel registrar to registering OF ELECTIONS. Also amend said Section 21 by inserting after the word "therein" and before the word "or" in the twenty-eighth refrain from line thereof the following: "or to refrain from entering on his registers the name of any person legally entitled to be entered there on. persons le gally quali fied. Passed at Dover, May 4, 1893. Bribing, or bribe, any CHAPTER 575 OF ELECTIONS AN ACT concerning Bribery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. That if any person shall bribe or attempt to attempt to bribe any one holding or expecting to hold any official posielection offi- tion under the election or registration laws of this State, pectant elec- either as registrar, judge, inspector, voter's assistant, or cer or ex tion officer a misdemeanor. Penalty. otherwise, by giving money or the promise of money, office, or the promise of office or position, either under the State or Federal government, to perform any service for any political party in this State, or to favor any candidate for political office, [he] shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by indictment shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, and may also in the discretion of the court be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months. Passed at Dover, May 4, 1893. OF ELECTIONS. CHAPTER 576. OF ELECTIONS. AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to provide for the Secrecy and Purity of the Ballot," passed at Dover, May 15, 1891, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. That the act entitled "An act to provide for Act of May the secrecy and purity of the ballot," passed at Dover, May amended. 15, 1891, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: By striking out all of Section 19 of said act, between the word "vote," in the fourteenth line, and the word "Any" in the twenty-second line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the following words, to wit: "in the manner following, that is to say: if he desires to vote for all the candidates of one party and none other he shall place the stamp anywhere in the square enclosing the device and above the title under which are printed the names of the candidates of such party, the vote shall then be counted for all the candidates under that title; but if the voter does not wish to vote for all the candidates of any one party, he shall as before stamp the square enclosing the device above the title under which are Manner of printed the names of the candidates a majority of whom he ballot. desires to vote tor, and shall erase the names of those candiMay stamp dates under that title for whom he does not wish to vote; anywhere in and if he desires to vote for other candidates in the place of closing dethose whose names have been erased, he shall in that case also stamp the square or squares immediately preceding the How to vote name or names of the candidate or candidates under other other than a title or titles for whom he wishes to vote in the place and stead and for the same office and position as those whose names he shall stamp has erased, the vote shall then be counted for all the candi- opposite dates whose names have not been erased under that title name of person voted above which the square enclosing the device is stamped and for. also for those candidates, if there be any such, under other How counttitle or titles the squares preceding whose names have been stamped as before prescribed. Passed at Dover, May 4, 1893. preparing square en Vice whole ticket the squares ed by election officers. TITLE FIFTH. Of Certain Public Officers. Officers of the two fixed com Salaries of Senate officers. CHAPTER 577 OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. AN ACT in relation to the Compensation of Officers of the two houses of the General Assembly. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. That beginning with the session of the Houses to General Assembly for the year A. D. 1895, the officers of receive a the two Houses shall receive a fixed compensation for their pensation. services during the session of the Legislature, as follows: The Clerk of the Senate shall receive the sum of one thousand dollars. The Reading Clerk of the Senate shall receive the sun of five hundred dollars. The Sergeant-atarms of the Senate shall receive the sum of three hundred dollars. The Chaplain of the Senate shall receive the sum of seventy-five dollars. The Page of the Senate shall receive the sum of seventy-five dollars. Salaries of cers. Enrolling Clerk; how appointed; The Clerk of the House of Representatives shall receive the sum of twelve hundred dollars. The Reading Clerk of the House shall receive the sum of six hundred dollars. The Sergeant at-arms of the House shall receive the sum of three hundred dollars. The Chaplain of the House shall receive the sum of seventy-five dollars. The Page of the House shall receive the sum of seventy-five dollars. SECTION 2. That an Enrolling Clerk shall be appointed by joint resolution. The said Enrolling Clerk shall receive compensa- such compensation as the General Assembly shall direct, not to exceed the sum of seven hundred dollars. tion. Passed at Dover, May 5, 1893. OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. CHAPTER 578. OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. AN ACT to repeal an act entitled "An act in relation to the office of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Volume 19, SECTION I. That the act entitled "An act in relation Chapter 42, to the office of Secretary of State," Chapter 42, Volume 19, repealed." Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby repealed. Passed at Dover, Feb. 28, 1893. CHAPTER 579. OF SHERIFFS. AN ACT to amend Chapter 32 of the Revised Code. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. That Section 1 of Chapter 32 of the Revised Section 1, Code be and the same is hereby repealed and made null and Chapter 32, void. Passed at Dover, May 4, 1893. Rev. Code, repealed. |