tain name SECTION 7. The ballots to be voted at the election Ballots to com held under this act, shall have printed or written at the county, &c: top of the ballot, the name of the county in which the person offering to vote, is a voter. Each ballot, in addition to the name of the county, shall have printed or written on it the names of the persons voted for, with a pertinent designation of the office which he or they may be intended to fill; and each ballot containing a vote for member of assembly or state senator, shall have written or printed thereon the county or counties, towns or wards, constituting such assembly or senatorial district. The ballot shall be folded (if folded at all) so as to show on the outside the name of the county; and the inspectors shall refuse to receive any ballot which does not thus show the name of the county. The ballot thus prepared shall be on one piece, and all the ballots shall be deposited in one box; and it is the duty of the inspectors of the election to be satisfied that the person offering to vote is a legal voter of the county which is shown at the top of the ballot. In canvassing the votes thus cast, the inspectors shall reject all votes cast for any officer of a district (whether congressional or otherwise) not composed in part of the county named at the head of the ticket. SECTION 8. It shall be the duty of each inspector of Challenging. elections, and the privilege of each elector, to challenge any person offering to vote, when he shall know or have any reason to suspect or believe that such person is not a qualified elector; and to every person challenged by any inspector or qualified elector, one of the inspectors shall administer an oath that he will true answer make to all questions touching his residence and qualifications as an elector at the election, and the same questions, in substance, shall be put and the same proceedings had, as may be required at general elections in this state. SECTION 9. The clerks shall keep correct poll-lists Poll-lists. containing the names of the voters and their respective places of residence in this state, giving the name of the town, ward, city or election precinct, and county, in which they severally have a residence, which lists shall be certified by the inspectors, or a majority of them, and clerks, to be correct. SECTION 10. After the polls are closed, the inspect- Canvass and reors shall canvass the votes cast, and shall make a state- turn of votes. Duties of state canvassers. Certified statement of votes for senators, ment of the result in writing, which canvass and statement shall be made by counties, so far as practicable, in accordance with the provisions of law relating to the general elections in this state. A copy of such statement, duly certified to be correct by the inspectors, or a majority of them, shall be transmitted to the governor, together with one of the poll-lists, and a like copy with the other poll-list, shall be transmitted to the secretary of state. SECTION 11. It shall be the duty of the state board of canvassers to meet on or before the 15th day of December next after any general election, to canvass the votes returned under this act, and they shall make statements of the votes returned, and perform other duties relating to the canvass, in accordance with existing provisions of law, so far as practicable. The said board shall also make statements of the number of votes given and returned under this act, for senators and members of the assembly, and for the several county officers, giving the names of the persons to whom such votes shall have been given for either of said offices, and the whole number of votes given for each. The state canvassers may commence the performance of their duties under this act as soon as any of the returns herein provided to be made are received, and adjourn from time to time till completed. SECTION 12. Immediately after the completion of said canvass, the secretary of state shall transmit to assemblymen the clerk of the board of supervisors of each county, a certified copy of the statement, showing the votes cast for senators, members of assembly and county officers, for his county. cers. Duties of county 'canvassers. When district is composed of more than one county, &c. SECTION 13. Upon receiving such statement, the clerk shall take to his assistance two justices of the peace, who, as a board of county canvassers, shall, from said statement and from the statement made in accordance with section fifty-eight of chapter seven of the revised statutes, proceed to determine the persons, by the greatest number of votes, elected as members of the senate and assembly, and to the several county offices. SECTION 14. In case a senatorial or assembly district is composed of more than one county, the secretary of state shall transmit a statement, duly authenticated, showing the number of votes for senators and members of the assembly in such district, and for whom given, to the several clerks of the counties in such districts in which the district canvass may be required to be held by law. The clerk of such county and the county judge, shall thereupon determine from such statement and from the statement made by the district canvassers, the person or persons elected within such district, and shall certify such determination, which shall be filed with said clerk, who shall transmit to the secretary of state the names of the person or persons elected, and also to such person a certificate of his election. certificates of SECTION 15. The clerk shall not issue certificates of when clerk of election upon the determination made in accordance board issue with section sixty, chapter seven, of the revised stat- election. utes, to persons by such determination appearing to be elected as members of the senate and assembly, except in cases when no statement shall be received by the clerk from the secretary of state on or before the 25th day of December next after the election, in which cases such certificates shall be issued upon such determination. trict canvassers SECTION 16. The determination made by the district When determicanvassers in accordance with section seventy-three of nation of dischapter seven of the revised statutes, shall not be final, shall be final. and no certificate of election shall be given thereon; but in case the statement herein provided to be transmitted to the clerk by the secretary of state, by section fourteen of this act, shall not be received by such clerk on or before the 25th day of December next succeeding the election, such determination shall be final, and a certificate shall be issued thereon. penalty therefor. SECTION 17. Any person who shall vote at any Illegal votingelection held under this act, who shall not be a qualified elector under the laws of this state, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year, nor less than six months; and any person who shall vote more than once at any such election, shall, on conviction, be punished. by imprisonment in the state prison, and kept at hard labor, not more than two years nor less than one year. SECTION 18. It shall be the duty of the secretary Duty of secretary of state to prepare suitable blanks for carrying into effect the provisions of this act, and transmit a sufficient number, together with a copy of this act, with such extracts from the general election laws as of state. may be necessary to enable the inspectors to perform their duties under this act, to the captain or commanding officer of each company and battery of artillery, with such instructions as he may deem necessary. SECTION 19. This act shall be published and take effect immediately. Approved Sept. 25, 1862. Authority to quartermaster general. CHAPTER 12. [Published September 27, 1862.] AN ACT to amend section one of chapter 379 of the general laws of 1862, approved June 17th, 1862, entitled "an act to authorize the quartermaster-general to audit bills for subsisting and transporting volunteers of the Wisconsin cavalry regiments." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 379 of the general laws of 1862, approved June 17th, 1862, is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: "The quartermastergeneral is hereby authorized and required to audit all bills properly made out and certified, for recruiting, subsisting and transporting to the place of rendezvous, of their respective regiments, the volunteers of the Wisconsin cavalry regiments, and to draw warrants therefor upon the paymaster-general, in the same manner that recruiting, subsistence and transportation bills of volunteers of the Wisconsin infantry regiments are by law audited, and warrants drawn therefor. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved Sept. 25, 1862. CHAPTER 13. [Published September 27, 1862.] AN ACT to empower towns, cities, incorporated villages and counties to raise money for the payment of bounties to volunteers. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: raise money to volunteers. SECTION 1. The qualified electors of each town, city, Authority to incorporated village, and the county board of super- pay bounties to visors of each county, shall have power, at any legal meeting thereof, to vote to raise such sum or sums of money as they may deem necessary, for the payment of bounties to volunteers, residents of such town, city, incorporated village or county, mustered into the military service of the United States or of this state, and shall also have power to offer such bounties and to determine and fix the amount thereof, to be paid to each to be raised. of such volunteers; and all such sum or sums of money How money to shall be subject to and paid out on the order of the be paid out. board of supervisors of each town, and of the proper auditing board of each city, corporated [incorporated] village and county: provided, that no greater sum of Limit to amount money shall be voted or raised for the payment of bounty to volunteers by any such county board or electors, than has been pledged to them by such county, town, city or incorporated village, or pledged to persons advancing the money for such purpose; and no voluntary conmoneys contributed voluntarily as bounties to volun- tributions not to teers, shall ever be refunded by any county, city, town or incorporated village. be refunded. raised may be ment of liabili SECTION 2. The qualified electors of each town, city Part of money and incorporated village, and the county board of su- applied to pay pervisors of each county, shall have power, at any legal ties incurred for meeting thereof, to vote to appropriate the whole or bounties. any part of any sum or sums of money that heretofore has or have been, or hereafter may be, voted or raised by such town, city, incorporated village or county board of supervisors, under and by virtue of the powers granted in the act entitled "an act to provide for the assistance of volunteers in the service of the United States government," approved May 25th, 1861, to the payment or liquidation of any sum or sums of money which may have been paid, or to the discharge of any |