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No. 7
An Ordinance to
provide for the Protection and Purity of Elections.
Be it Ordained by the People of Florida in Convention
assembled, That no person shall give, or offer to give, directly or indirectly,
any bribe, present, or reward, or any private benefit or promise of such benefit
whatever, to induce any voter to refrain from casting his vote, or to prevent
him in any way from voting, or to procure or attempt to procure him to vote for
any particular candidate or candidates at any election in this State, and the
person so giving, or offering to give, and the person receiving the same, and
any person who gives, or causes to be given, an illegal vote, knowing it to be
such, at any election in this State, shall, on conviction in a court of law, be
fined not exceeding three hundred dollars for each offense, or be imprisoned not
exceeding six months; and either party to such unlawful bargain or agreement may
make complaint or commence prosecution, and appear in evidence against the
other, and thereby absolve himself from all penalty in said case; And further,
No person shall threaten or intimidate in any way, or injure any elector on
account of the manner in which he may have voted, or be expected to vote, or to
knowingly deceive or mislead any elector in relation to the time or place of
holding any election, or in the name or political affiliation of any candidate
at any election in the State; and any person violating this provision shall,
upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than five hundred dollars for each
offense, or be imprisoned for not less than one year; Provided, That the
legislature shall have power at any time to change, amend, or repeal this
Ordinance.
And be it further ordained, That the President
of this Convention immediately furnish fifty printed copies of this Ordinance to
the sheriff of each county in the State, who shall publish and post the same
throughout his county for four weeks previous to the next election.
Passed in open Convention, February
22d, A. D. 1868.
HORATIO JENKINS, JR., President.
SHERMAN CONANT, Secretary.
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