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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



enable them or Mm to fully perform the duties in 

 respect to such canvass provided in this act, and shall 

 there remain until every duty in respect to such can- 

 vass, certificates, returns, and statements shall have 

 been wholly completed, any law of any State or Ter- 

 ritory to the contrary notwithstanding. 



SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That if in any 

 election district or voting precinct in any city, town, 

 or village, for which there shall have been appointed 

 supervisors of election for any election, at which a 

 Representative or Delegate in Congress shall be voted 

 for, the said supervisors of election, or either of them, 

 shall not be allowed to exercise and discharge, fully 

 and freely, and without bribery, solicitation, inter- 

 ference, hinderance, molestation, violence, or threats 

 thereof, on the part of or from any person or persons, 

 each and every of the duties, obligations, and pow- 

 ers conferred upon them by this act and the act, 

 hereby amended, it shall be the duty of the super- 

 visors of election, and each of them, to make prompt 

 report, under oath, within ten days after the day of 

 election, to the officer who, in accordance with the 

 provisions of section thirteen of this act, shall have 

 been designated as the chief supervisor of the judicial 

 district in which the city or town wherein they or he 

 served shall be, of the manner and means by which 

 they were, or he was, not so allowed to fully and 

 freely exercise and discharge the duties and obliga- 

 tions required and imposed by this act. And upon 

 receiving any such report it shall be the duty of said 

 chief supervisor, acting both in such capacity and 

 officially as a commissioner of the circuit court, to 

 forthwith examine into all the facts thereof; to sub- 

 poana and compel the attendance before him of and 

 witnesses; administer oaths and take testimony in 

 respect to the charges made ; and, prior to the as- 

 sembling of the Congress for which any such Eeprc- 

 sentative or Delegate was voted for, to have filed 

 with the Clerk of the House of Eepresentatives of 

 the Congress of the United States all the evidence 

 by him taken, all information by him obtained, and 

 all reports to him made. 



SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That whenever 

 an election at which Eepresentatives or Delegates in 

 < '"Tigress are to be chosen shall be held in any city 

 or town of twenty thousand inhabitants or upward, 

 the marshal of the United States for the district in 

 which said city or town is situated shall have power, 

 and it shall be his duty, on the application, in writ- 

 ing, of at least two citizens residing in any such city 

 or town, to appoint special deputy-marshals, whose 

 duty it shall be when required as provided in this 

 act to aid and assist the supervisors of election in the 

 verification of any list of persons made under the 

 provisions of this act, who may have registered or 

 voted, or either ; to attend in each election district 

 or voting precinct at the times and places fixed for 

 the registration of voters, and at all times and places 

 when and where said registration may by law be 

 scrutinized, and the names of registered voters be 

 marked for challenge ; and also to attend, at all times 

 for holding such elections, the polls of the election 

 in such district or precinct. And the marshal and 

 his general deputies, and such special deputies, shall 

 have power, and it shall be the duty of such special 

 deputies, to keep the peace, and support and protect 

 the supervisors of elections in the discharge of their 

 duties,, preserve order at such places of registration 

 and at such polls, prevent fraudulent registration and 

 fraudulent voting thereat, or fraudulent conduct on 

 the part of any officer of election, and immediately, 

 either at said place of registration, or polling-place, 

 or elsewhere, and either before or after registering 

 or voting, to arrest and take into custody, with or 

 without process, any person who shall commit, or 

 attempt or offer to commit, any of the acts or offences 

 prohibited by this act, or the act hereby amended, 

 or who shall commit any offence against the laws of 

 the United States : Provided, That no person shall 

 be arrested without process for any offence not com- 



mitted in the presence of the marshal or his general 

 or special deputies, or either of them, or of the su- 

 pervisors of election, or either of them, and for the 

 purposes of arrest or the preservation of the peace, 

 the supervisors of election, and each of them, shall, 

 in the absence of the marshal's deputies, or if re- 

 quired to assist said deputies, have the same duties 

 and powers as deputy-marshals : And provided further, 

 That no person shall on the clay or days of any such 

 election be arrested without process for any offence 

 committed on the day or days of registration. 



SEC. 9. And be it further enacted^ That whenever 

 any arrest is made under any provision of this act, 

 the person so arrested shall forthwith be brought 

 before a commissioner, judge, or court of the United 

 States for examination of the offences alleged against 

 him, and such commissioner, judge, or court shall 

 proceed in respect thereto as authorized by law in 

 case of crimes against the United States. 



SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That whoever, 

 with or without any authority, power, or process, or 

 pretended authority ; power, or process, of any State, 

 Territorial, or municipal authority ? shall obstruct- 

 hinder, assault, or, by bribery, solicitation, or other- 

 wisej interfere with or prevent the supervisors of 

 election, or either of them, or the marshal or his 

 general or special deputies, or either of them, in the 

 performance of any duty required of them, or either 

 of them, or which he or they, or either of them, may 

 be authorized to perform by any law of the United 

 States, whether in the execution of process or other- 

 wise, or shall by any of the means before mentioned 

 hinder or prevent the free attendance and presence 

 at such places of registration or at such polls of 

 election, or full and free access and egress to and 

 from any such place of registration or poll of election, 

 or in going to and from any such place of registration 

 or poll of election, or to and from any room where 

 any such registration or election or canvass of votes, 

 or of making any returns or certificates thereof may 

 bo had, or shall molest, interfere with, remove or 

 eject^ from any such place of registration or poll of 

 election, or of canvassing votes cast thereat, or of 

 making returns or certificates thereof, any super- 

 visor of election, the marshal, or his general or spe- 

 cial deputies, or either of them, or shall threaten, or 

 attempt, or offer so to do, or shall refuse or neglect 

 to aid and assist any supervisor of election, or the 

 marshal or his general or special deputies, or either 

 of them, in the performance of his or their duties 

 when required by him or them, or cither of them, to 

 give such aid and assistance, he shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and liable to instant arrest without 

 process, and on conviction thereof shall be punished 

 by imprisonment not more than two years, or by fine 

 not more than $3,000, or by both such fine and im- 

 prisonment, and shall pay the costs of the prosecu- 

 tion. Whoever shall, during the progress of any 

 verification of any list of the persons who may have 

 registered or voted, and which shall be had or made 

 under any of the provisions of this act, refuse to 

 answer, or refrain from answering, or answering shall 

 knowingly give false information in respect to any 

 inquiry lawfully made, such person shall be liable to 

 arrest and imprisonment as for a misdemeanor, and 

 on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprison- 

 ment not to exceed thirty days, or by fine not to ex- 

 ceed $100, or by both such fine and imprisonment, 

 and shall pay the costs of the prosecution. 



SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That whoever 

 shall be appointed a supervisor of election or a spe- 

 cial deputy-marshal under the provisions of this act, 

 and shall take the oath of office as such supervisor 

 of election or such special deputy-marshal, who shall 

 thereafter neglect or refuse, without good and lawful 

 excuse, to perform and discharge fully the duties, 

 obligations, and requirements of such office until the 

 expiration of the term for which he was appointed, 

 shall not only be subject to removal from office with 

 loss of all pay or emoluments, but shall be guilty of 



