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same day, at which time the polls shall be closed. Thirty minutes before the closing of the polls, proclamation shall be made in like manner, that the poll will be closed in half an hour, but the board may, in their discretion, adjourn the polls at twelve o'clock, noon, for one hour, (proclamation of the same being made.)

Sec. 11. That any board of judges who shall willfully and knowingly reject any legal vote, shall be subject to a fine of fifty dollars to be collected before any justice of the peace, for the use of common schools, on the complaint and proof of any person.

Sec. 12. Every elector shall vote by ballot, and each person offering to vote shall deliver his ballot to one of the judges of election, in presence of the board. The ballot shall be a paper ticket, which shall contain written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, the names of the persons for whom the elector intends to vote, and shall designate the office to which each person so named is intended by him to be chosen; but no ballot shall contain a greater number of names of persons designated to any office than there are persons to be chosen at the election to fill such office.

Sec. 13. The names of all persons voted for by any elector at any general election or special election, shall be on one ballot.

Sec. 14. If any person offering to vote shall be challenged as unqualified, by any judge or clerk of election, or by any oath, other person entitled to vote at the same poll, the board of judges shall declare to the person so challenged, the qualification of an elector ; if such person shall then state himself duly qualified, and the challenge shall not be withdrawn, one of the judges shall then tender to him the following oath; "You do Ferm of oath. solemnly swear, (or affirm, as the case may be,) that 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, conformably to the laws of the United States, and of this Territory on the subject of naturalization,) that you have resided 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