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still of the opinion that such person is not a qualified voter under the provisions of this section, he shall reject said vote; and any person who shall take such oath falsely, or who shall vote without possessing the qualifications ‘required by this section, shall suffer the same punishment, and pay. the same fines prescribed in other cases by this act. After all the officers and privates of said company, who, are entitled to vote at said election, shall have had an opportunity to vote, the commissioner shall make out an abstract of all the votes cast for territorial officers, and delegate to congress, specifying the the name of the person voted for, the office, and the number of votes received by him. He shall in like manner make out an abstract of the votes cast for members of the legisla- ture, and county officers, and shall certify the same under oath, which abstract he shall deliver to the Secretary of the Terri- tory, within fifteen days after such election. And the territorial canvassers shall receive and count the returns so made for delegate to congress, and territorial officers, the same as other returns. And it shall be the duty of the Sec- fetary of the Territory to make out an abstract of the re- turns foreach county and district, and forward the same by mail to the several registers of deeds for whose counties re- turns have been made to him, by virtue of this section. And the county canvassers of the several counties shall receive and count the returns so made, the same as other returns.
Sec. 50. And all legal voters in this Territory,residing in an organized county, shall-have [the] right to vote for deiegate to congress, at any election precinct established by law in any or- ganized county in this Territory; and all voters living ih unor- ganized counties, shall vote in the organized counties to which their unorganized counties are respectively attached for elec- tion purposes.
Sec. 51. Every free white male person above the age. of vuters. twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of the Territory ninety days, and twenty days in the county, next preceding the election, who is a-citizen of the United States, or who has declared upon oath his intention to become such, and shall have taken an oath to support. the constitution of the United States, and persons who have been declared by law. to be citi-
