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278 you are twenty-one years of age; that you are a citizen of the United States (or that you have declared your intention to become a citizen, conformable to the laws of the United States and this territory, on the subject of naturalization); that you have resided in the United States two years, and in this territory ninety days, and in this county twenty days next preceding this election; that you have not voted at this election;" and if any person so challenged shall refuse to take such oath so tendered, his vote shall be rejected.

. 15. If any person so offering such vote shall take such oath, his vote shall be received; and if any person shall take the said oath, knowing it to be false, he shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury; and shall, on conviction, suffer such punishment as now is, or shall hereafter be, prescribed by law for persons guilty of perjury. And if any person shall vote at any election, who is not a qualified voter, he shall forfeit and pay for the use of the county in which such election shall take place, a sum not exceeding fifty, nor less than twenty-five dollars, to be sued for and recovered in the name of the county commissioners, by a civil action before any justice of the peace in such county, for the use of common schools.

. 16. There shall be provided and kept by the judges of each election precinct (at the expense of the county in which such precincts are situated), a suitable ballot-box, with a lock and key.

. 17. There shall be an opening through the lid of such box, of no larger size than shall be sufficient to admit a single folded ballot. Before opening the polls, the ballot-box shall be carefully examined by the judges of the election, that nothing may remain therein; it shall then be locked, and the key thereof delivered to one of the judges to be designated by the board, and shall not be opened during the election, except in the manner and for the purposes hereinafter mentioned.

. 18. When a ballot shall be received, one of the judges, without opening the same, or permitting it to be opened or examined (except to ascertain whether it be a single ballot), shall deposit it in the box.

. 19. Each clerk shall keep a poll list, which shall