APPENDIX. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES IN RELATION TO THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. ELECTION OF SENATORS. ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES. ORGANIZATION OF MEETINGS OF CONGRESS. CONTESTED ELECTIONS. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. ALSO A DISCUSSION OF THE QUESTION OF RESIDENCE AS A QUALIFICATION FOR VOTING, BEING PART OF REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF ELECTIONS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U. S., IN CASE OF CESSNA VS. MYERS. THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. (FROM THE REVISED STATUTES.) Sec. 2002. Bringing armed troops to places of election. 2003. Interference with freedom of elections by officers of army or navy. 2004. Race, color, or previous condition, not to affect the right to vote. 2005. Nor the performance of any pre-requisite. 2006. Penalty for refusing to give full effect to preceding section. 2007. What shall entitle a person to vote. 2008. Penalty for wrongfully refusing to receive a vote. 2009. For unlawfully hindering a person from voting. 2010. Remedy for deprivation of office. 2011. In cities or towns of over 20,000 inhabitants, upon written application of two citizens, the circuit judge to open 2014. District judge may perform duties of circuit judge. 2015. Construction of preceding section. 2016. Duties of supervisors of elections. 2017. Attendance at elections. 2018. To personally scrutinize and count each ballot. 2019. Their positions. 2020. When molested. 2021. Special deputies. 2022. Duties of marshals. 2023. Persons arrested to be taken forthwith before a judge. 2025. Chief supervisors of elections. 2026. Their duties. 2027. Marshals to forward complaint to chief supervisors. 2028. Supervisors and deputy marshals to be qualified voters, &c. 2029. Certain supervisors not to make arrests, &c. 2030. No more marshals or deputy marshals to be appointed than now authorized. 2031. Pay of supervisors, &c, SEC. 2002. No military or naval officer, or other person engaged in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, shall order, bring, keep, or have under his authority or control, any troops or armed men at the place where any general or special election is held in any State, unless it be necessary to repel the armed enemies of the United States, or to keep the peace at the polls. SEC. 2003. No officer of the Army or Navy of the United States. shall prescribe or fix, or attempt to prescribe or fix, by proclamation, order, or otherwise, the qualifications of voters in any State, or in any manner interfere with the freedom of any election in any State, or with the exercise of the free right of suffrage in any State. SEC. 2004. All citizens of the United States who are otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election by the people in any State, Territory, district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality, or other territorial subdivision, shall be entitled and allowed to vote at all such elections, without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; any constitution, law, custom, usage, or regulation of any State or territory, or by or under its authority, to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2005. When, under the authority of the constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of any Territory, any act is required to be done as a prerequisite or qualification for voting, and by such constitution or laws persons or officers are charged with the duty of furnishing to citizens an opportunity to perform such prerequisite, or to become qualified to vote, every such person and officer shall give to all citizens of the United States the same and equal opportunity to perform such prerequisite, and to become qualified to vote. SEC. 2006. Every person or officer charged with the duty specified in the preceding section, who refuses or knowingly omits to give full effect to that section, shall forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars to the party aggrieved by such refusal or omission, to be recovered by an action on the case, with costs, and such allowance for counsel fees as the court may deem just. SEC. 2007. Whenever under the authority of the constitution or laws. of any State, or the laws of any Territory, any act is required to be done by a citizen as a prerequisite to qualify or entitle him to vote, the offer of such citizen to perform the act required to be done shall, if it fail to be carried into execution by reason of the wrongful act or omission of the person or officer charged with the duty of receiving or permitting such performance or offer to perform, or acting thereon, be deemed and held as a performance in law of such act; and the person so offering and failing to vote, and being otherwise qualified, shall be entitled to vote in the same manner and to the same extent as if he had in fact performed such act. SEC. 2008. Every judge, inspector, or other officer of election whose duty it is to receive, count, certify, register, report, or give effect to the: vote of such citizen, who wrongfully refuses or omits to receive, count,, certify, register, report, or give effect to the vote of such citizen upon the presentation by him of his affidavit, stating such offer and the time and place thereof, and the name of the officer or person whose duty it was to act thereon, and that he was wrongfully prevented by such person or officer from performing such act, shall forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars to the party aggrieved by such refusal or omission, to be recovered by an action on the case, with costs, and such allowance for counsel fees as the court may deem just. SEC. 2009. Every officer or other person, having powers or duties of an official character to discharge under any of the provisions of this Title, who by threats, or any unlawful means, hinders, delays, prevents, or obstructs, or combines and confederates with others to hinder, delay, prevent, or obstruct any citizen from doing any act required to be done to qualify him to vote, or from voting at any election in any State, Territory, district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality, or other territorial, subdivision, shall forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered by an action on the case, with costs, and such allowance for counsel fees as the court may deem just. SEC, 2010. Whenever any person is defeated or deprived of his election to any office, except elector of President or Vice-President, Representative or Delegate in Congress, or a member of a State legislature, by reason of the denial to any citizen who may offer to vote, of the right to vote, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, his right to hold and enjoy such office, and the emoluments thereof, shall not be impaired by such denial; and the person so defeated or deprived may bring any appropriate suit or proceeding to recover possession of such office, and in cases where it appears that the sole question touching the title to such office arises out of the denial of the right to vote to citizens who so offered to vote, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, such suit or proceeding may be instituted in the circuit or district court of the U. S. of the circuit or district in which such person resides. And the circuit or district court shall have, concurrently with the State courts, jurisdiction thereof, so far as to determine the rights of the parties to such office by reason of the denial of the right guaranteed by the fifteenth article of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and secured herein. SEC. 2011. Whenever, in any city or town, having upward of twenty thousand inhabitants, there are two citizens thereof, or whenever, in any county or parish, in any congressional district, there are ten citizens thereof, of good standing, who, prior to any registration of voters for an election for Representative or Delegate in the Congress of the United States, or prior to any election at which a Representative or Delegate in Congress is to be voted for, may make known, in writing, to the judge of the circuit court of the United States, for the circuit wherein such city or town, county or parish, is situated, their desire to have such |