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Rh out having been pardoned and restored to all the rights of a citizen, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 75. Every person who causes his name to be registered as that of an elector, upon any registry of voters authorized by law to be kept in any town, city or election district of this territory, knowing that he is not a qualified voter within the territorial limits covered by such registry, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not less than one year.

Sec. 76. Every person who, within any city, town or election district in this territory in which a registry of qualified voters is by law authorized to be kept, falsely personates a registered voter, and in such personating offers to vote at any election, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not less than one year.

Sec. 77. Every person who, at the time of requesting his name to be registered as that of a qualified voter, upon any registry of voters authorized by law to be kept in any city, town, or election district of this territory, or at the time of offering his vote at any election knowingly makes any false statement or employs any false representation or false pretence or token, to procure his name to be registered or his vote to be received, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 78. A false statement, representation or token, made or used in the presence and to the knowledge of a person requesting his name to be registered, or offering his vote, is to be deemed made by himself, if it appears that it was made or used in support of his claim to be registered or to vote, that he knew it to be false, and suffered it to pass uncontradicted.

Sec. 79. Every person who willfully disturbs or breaks up any public meeting of electors and others, lawfully being held for the purpose of considering public quesitions is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 80. Every person who, by threats, intimidations, or unlawful violence willfully hinders or prevents electors from assembling in public meeting for the consideration of public questions, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 81. Every person who makes use of any force or violence, or of any threat to do any unlawful act, as a means of