Every male person of the age of twenty-one years who are qualiging to either of the following classes, who shall fied voters. e state for one year next preceding any election,

qualified voter at such election :

ens of the United States.

ons of foreign birth, who shall have declared their ne citizens, conformably to the laws of the United ject of naturalization.

Indian blood, who have once been declared by o be citizens of the United States, any subsequent to the contrary notwithstanding.

ersons of Indian descent, not members of any tribe.

No person under guardianship, non compos mentis, Who not qualified or permitted be qualified to vote at any election; nor shall any to vote. of treason, felony, or bribery, unless restored to rshall any person, who, being an inhabitant of this after be engaged, directly or indirectly, in a duel, pal or accessory, be permitted to vote at any elecany person who shall have made or become directly terested in any bet or wager, depending upon the ection at which he shall offer to vote, be permitted election.

GENERAL ELECTIONS.

and what officers elected thereat.

A general election shall be held in the several General election, rds in this state, on the Tuesday next succeeding the n November in each year, at which time shall be y of the following officers as are by law to be elected that is to say, a governor, lieutenant governor, sece, treasurer, attorney general, state superintendent,

ecial elections en held.

bank comptroller, state prison commissioner, senators, members of
assembly, representatives in congress, electors of president and
vice-president, and the following county officers, to wit: clerks of
the circuit courts, sheriffs, registrars of deeds, district attorneys,
clerks of the boards of supervisors, county treasurers and coroners,
and all other state and county officers not herein enumerated or
otherwise provided for.

SPECIAL ELECTIONS.

SECTION 4. Special elections may be held in the following cases, and for the election of the following officers :

1. When there has been no choice at a general election of a representative in congress, senator, member of assembly, or of any county officer who should properly have been chosen at such general election.

cancies may be

2. When the right of office of a person elected to the office of senator, member of assembly, or to either of the said county offices, shall cease before the commencement of the term of service for which he shall have been elected.

3. When a vacancy shall occur in either of the said county offices, except in those of county treasurer, clerk of the circuit court, and clerk of the board of supervisors, after the commencement of the term of service, and more than three months before the next general election.

4. When a vacancy occurs in the office of senator or member of assembly, after the last day of December in any year, and before the first day of February next following.

5. If a vacancy, proper to be supplied at the general election, shall not have been supplied at the general election next succeeding the happening thereof, a special election to supply such vacancy shall then be held.

6. When in any other case of a vacancy, not particularly provided for in this section, the governor shall in his discretion direct. SECTION 5. A vacancy in either of the offices named in the pplied at gen- third section of this chapter, which shall not have been supplied en governor by an election before the general election next succeeding the d lieutenant happening thereof, may be supplied at such election; but no election shall take place for governor or lieutenant governor except at the general election held in the last year of their constitutional term of office.

al election;

vernor to be

osen.

ecial elections,

d when held.

SECTION 6. Special elections shall be conducted, and the result w conducted thereof canvassed and certified, in all respects as near as practicable, in like manner as general elections, except as otherwise directed; and no special election shall be held within thirty days next preceding a general election.

ections where d.

SECTION 7. All general and special elections shall be held at the place in each town where the last town meeting was held, or . at such other place therein as shall have been ordered at a previous meeting, or when there has been no such previous meeting, then at such place as shall be directed in the act or proceeding by which the town was organized: but nothing in this section contained shall prevent the holding of two or more polls in one town, when the

shall be o ded. SECTION 8.

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jared place

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state, when th cancy in a di ifying the ca office it occu SECTION day of July the term of make and ca prising such form a part the district, will so expire eral election. SECTION notice issued governor for

by the inspectors of election as hereinafter

adjourned.

enever it shall become impossible or incon- When place of election at the place designated therefor, the holding may be after having assembled at, or as near as prac, and before receiving any votes, may adjourn nient place for holding the election, and at such hwith proceed with the election.

be made, &c.

pon adjourning any election, as provided in the Proclamation to he board of inspectors shall cause proclamation e, and shall station a constable or some other the place where the adjournment was made, to arriving at such place, of the adjournment and it was made.

NOTIFYING ELECTIONS.

elections to be

The secretary of state shall, between the first Notice of general he first day of September in each year in which given by secrenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, at- bary. nd state superintendent, or representatives in e elected for a full term of office, or in which elecnd vice-president are to be elected, make out and ered to the sheriff of each county a notice in writat the next general election, the aforementioned electors of president and vice-president, and a à congress for the district to which such county to be elected, or so many of such officers as are

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elections.

If any vacancy shall exist in the offices either of Ib. of special e, treasurer, attorney general, state superintendent, representative in congress, proper to be supplied eneral election, one month before such election, the te, or in case of a vacancy in such office, then the g as such, shall, thirty days at least before such otice in writing to the sheriff of each county in the vacancy is in a state office; or in case of such vaict, then to the sheriff of each county therein, spece of such vacancy, the name of the officer in whose ed, and the time when his term of office will expire.

1. The secretary of state shall, between the first Secretary to notid the first day in September in each year in which fy sheriffs of vaice of any state senator in any district will expire, senator.

se to be delivered to the sheriff of the county comlistrict, or to the sheriff of each county which shall ereof, a notice in writing, specifying the number of id the name of the senator whose term of service and whose successor is to be elected at the next gen

cancy in office of

3. The secretary of state shall cause a copy of each Publication of by him, and of each writ of election issued by the notices and writs a special election, to be published in a paper printed retary.

of election by sec