ART. 2. Of the manner of ascertaining the citizens who ART. 3. Of the manner of ascertaining the citizens of the TITLE V. Of the final canvass, and the mode of declarin certifying the result, §§ 299-347. ART. 3. Of the duties of the secretary of State, previous meeting of the State canvassers, §§ 327-332. ART. 4. Of the formation and proceedings of the board o ART. 5.- Of the subsequent duties of the secretary of State, Relating to elections in the city and county of New York, and also to elections in the city of Brooklyn. TITLE I. In relation to elections in the city and county of New York, and to provide for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage thereat. §§ 430-523. TITLE II. Concerning the regulation of elections in the city of Embracing certain provisions of the Revised Statutes (2d edition) of the United States, relating to citizenship, elective franchise, naturalization, crimes against the operations of the government and against the elective franchise and civil rights of citizens. TITLE I. Citizenship, §§ 564-571. TITLE II. The elective franchise, §§ 572-601. TITLE III. Naturalization, §§ 602-607. TITLE IV. Crimes against the operations of government and against the elective franchise and civil rights of citizens, §§ 608-636. ELECTION CODE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. CHAPTER ONE. TITLE I. OF THE QUALIFICATIONS, DISABILITIES AND PRIVILEGES OF ELECTORS. Vote, right to, not to be denied. to, not to SECTION 1. The rights of citizens of the United States vote, right to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United be denied. States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. §§ 1, 2, art. 15, amendment to United States Constitution. Vote, who entitled to. entitled to. SEC. 2. Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one vote, who years, who shall have been a citizen for ten days, and an inhabitant of this State one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county, and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people, and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people, provided that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State, or of the United States, in the army or navy Vote, residents on Indian lands entitled. Bribery at elections. Form of oath, thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district; and the legislature. shall have power to provide the manner in which, and the time and place at which, such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election districts in which they respectively reside. 81, art. 2, State Constitution, as amended in 1874. Vote, residents on Indian lands entitled. SEC. 3. Any person residing on the lands of any nation or tribe of Indians in this State, being a qualified voter, shall be entitled to vote in the election district nearest the place of residence of such person, in the same town, at any election held therein, whether such Indian lands shall be included in the said election district or not, and such person or persons shall have the same right to register his or their names as voters, and shall possess the same right to vote in such adjoining district, as if actually residing therein. Ch. 134, 1870. This section 3 seems to be in conflict with section 1, article 2, of State Constitution, as amended in 1874. Bribery at elections. Form of oath. SEC. 4. No person who shall receive, expect or offer to receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an election, or who shall make any promise to influence the giving or withholding any such vote, or who shall make or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of any election, shall vote at such election; and upon challenge for such cause, the person so challenged, before the officers authorized for that purpose shall receive his vote, shall swear or affirm before such officers that he has not received or offered, does not expect to receive, has not paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, offered or promised to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing, as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at such election, and |