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When a person who is supposed to be unqualified to vote on any question which shall come before the voters district meeting, offers to vote, his vote may be challenged by any legal voter present; and it is the duty of the chairman to require such person to take his oath that he is legally qualified. If such person refuses to take the oath, his vote is rejected. A person who takes a false oath, is deemed guilty of perjury and may be tried and punished according to the law for such an offense.

When any question is taken in any other manner than by ballot, a challenge immediately after the vote has been taken shall be deemed to be made when offering to vote, and treated in the same manner (5050).

If, at any district meeting, any person conducts himself in a disorderly manner and, after notice from the moderator or person presiding, persists therein, the moderator or person presiding may order him to withdraw from the meeting and, on his refusal, may order any constable or other persons to take him into custody until the meeting shall be adjourned.

Any person who refuses to withdraw from such meeting on being so ordered, and also any person who wilfully disturbs such meeting by rude and indecent behavior, or by profane or indecent discourse, or in any other way makes a disturbance, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not less than two nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days; and any justice of the peace, recorder, or police justice of the township, ward, or city where such offense is committed, shall have jurisdiction to try and determine the same (5051).