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152 42. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Governor, any justice of the peace, alderman, mayor, judge, or any State officer who may be present at, or have knowledge of any drinking saloon, dram shop, groggery, or place where liquor is sold by the glass or bot1e, which is open contrary to the provisions of the foregoing section within the limits therein prescribed, may in writing order any police officer or constable to seize any such liquors, or any carriages or vessels containing the same, or any booths or tents erected within said limits for the purpose of exposing such intoxicating liquors for sale.

. 43. Be it further enacted, etc., That the constable or police officers to whom such order shall be delivered, shall thereupon seize all such liquor, carriages, vessels, and the materials of any such tent or booth and hold and detain the same until twenty-four hours after the close of the election, then to be delivered on demand to the owner or the person from whom they were taken, on the payment of ten dollars for the safe keeping of said articles.

. 44. Be it further enacted, etc., That if these effects be not thus demanded, the same shall be sold at public auction by the police officer or constable making the seizure, and the proceeds of such sale, after deducting costs of sale and safe keeping, shall be paid to the owner of the articles sold, or the person from whom the same were taken.

. 45. Be it further enacted, etc., That no voter whose name is registered according to law shall be challenged at the polls on any question of residence but it shall be the duty of the commissioners of elections to require every person whose name appears on the registration books to prove his identity if required by the commissioners of election; and any commissioner of election who shall receive a second vote on the same day by virtue of the same certificate of registration, and any person who shall offer to vote a second time upon any certificate of registration, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be fined or imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of the court, but the fine shall not exceed one hundred dollars in each case, nor the imprisonment one year, and the like punishment shall, on conviction, be inflicted on any commissioner of election who shall neglect or refuse to make the endorsement required as aforesaid, on the said registration certificate

. 46. Be it further enacted, etc., That if any clerk of a court, or deputy of any such clerk, or any other person, shall affix the seal of office to any naturalization paper or permit the same to be affixed, or give out, or cause or permit the same to be given out, in blank, whereby it may be fraudulently used, or furnish a naturalization certificate to any person who shall not have been duly examined and sworn in open court, in the presence of some of the judges thereof, according to the act of Congress, or shall aid in, connive at, or in any way permit the issue of fraudulent naturalization certificates, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; or if any one shall fraudulently use any such certificate of naturalization, knowing it to have been a fraudulently issued, or shall vote, or attempt to vote thereon, or if any one shall vote, or attempt to vote, on any certificate of naturalization not issued to him, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and either or any of the persons, their aiders or abettors, guilty of either of the misdemeanors aforesaid, shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the penitentiary for a period not exceeding three days.