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County Officers. box as aforesaid, together with the ballots enclosed and sealed therein by such judges and supervisors, shall within the same time be deposited by said supervisors with the clerk of the district court for such judicial subdivision; and the said poll-book in the office of the register of deeds shall be subject to inspection at any time thereafter, and said poll-book shall be preserved as a public record, and the ballots and the ballot-boxes with the poll-book therein shall be carefully kept closed and sealed until they shall be ordered opened by the district court of said subdivision or the judge thereof.

§ 527. If any of the supervisors, judges or clerks of election shall in any manner interfere with any of the ballots, ballot-boxes or poll-books, other than as is provided by this act and the laws of the territory, or shall wilfully aid or assist in making any false count of the ballots, or wilfully falsify the poll-books in any manner, or wilfully make any false return of the votes, or if any supervisor of election shall wilfully refuse or neglect to deliver such poll-book and ballot-boxes to the officers provided for in this act within the time specified in this act, safe and with the seals unbroken, or if any supervisor shall in any manner interfere with such poll-books, ballots or ballot-boxes, other than to deliver them to the officers provided for in this act, he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars and be imprisoned in the territorial prison for not less than one year nor more than five years.

§ 528. The said register of deeds of the county to which such unorganized county is attached for judicial purposes shall, within the time prescribed by law for the canvass of votes, take to his assistance the said probate judge, the said clerk of the district court, and a majority of the county commissioners of his said county, who shall proceed to open said returns and make an abstract of the votes cast at said election in the following manner: The abstract of the votes for county officers shall be on one sheet, and the abstract of votes for the temporary location of the county seat shall be on a separate sheet; and it shall be the duty of said register of deeds immediately to make out a certificate of election to each of the persons having the highest number of votes for such county officers, and deliver such certificate to the persons so elected; and immediately after canvassing the returns and making an abstract of the votes as provided in this section, the register of deeds shall make a certified copy of each abstract and forward the same to the secretary of the territory; and when the votes are canvassed for county seat as provided in this section the place having the highest number of votes shall be the temporary county seat and such place shall be so declared the county seat by said board or a majority of them.

§ 529. The officers elected under the provisions of this act shall proceed to qualify in the manner provided by law for such officers within twenty days after the canvassing of such votes as provided for in the preceding section, and the county commissioners after they have so qualified shall immediately convene at the place so selected as the county seat of said unorganized county, as canvassed and declared by said canvassing board, and proceed to the discharge of their duties as said county commissioners in the organization of said county as is now or may be hereafter provided by law; and if any person elected to any office shall fail or refuse to qualify within thirty days after such can-

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