oaths shall then be attached to poll book, and with it returned to the Executive Council as hereinafter provided, which oath shall be in the following form:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Laws of Porto Rico; that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties as judge of election according to law; that I will not knowingly permit any person to vote who is not qualified, and will not knowingly refuse the vote of any qualified elector, or cause any delay to person offering to vote further than is necessary to procure satisfactory information of the qualification of such person as an elector; and that I will not disclose or communicate to any person how any elector has voted at such election, or how any ballot has been folded (or marked); that I have nothing of value bet or wagered upon the result of said election, and am not a candidate at this election, and am not related to any person to be voted for at this election, within the degree named in Section 13 of the Election Law and that I will execute the duties of judge of the election without favor or partiality so help me God.

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Sworn to and subscribed before me this SECTION 19.—One judge shall administer the oath to the other judges, and one of said judges shall then administer the said oath to the third judge. The judge first named in the list of judges appointed by the Board of Elections shall be chairman of such judges of election, and before the reception of any votes, shall administer oaths to the Clerks of Election that they will faithfully discharge their duties as such. The oaths for the clerks shall be in the following form:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Laws of Porto Rico; that I will faithfully and honestly discharge my duties as Clerk of the Elections, in precinct, in Porto Rico, and that I will not disclose or communicate to any person how any elector voted, or how any ballot was folded (or marked).

Sworn and subscribed to before me this day of

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SECTION 20.-The supervisor shall provide the necessary stationery, blanks, poll books and ballot boxes for the conduct of such election. Each ballot box shall be securely locked, and shall be constructed as required by the Supervisor of Elections.

SECTION 21.-The election shall be opened at eight o'clock in the forenoon, and continued open until four o'clock in the afternoon, at which hour the polls be closed. Thirty minutes before the polls are closed the chairman shall announce to the people outside in a loud and audible tone of voice that it is half-past three o'clock, and that the polls will close in thirty minutes, and at the hour of four o'clock he shall also announce in a clear and audible tone of voice that the polls are closed, and that thereafter no more votes shall be received.

SECTION 23. The Executive Council shall cause to be printed on the official ballot, the names of candidates nominated by the conventions of any party that cast five per cent of the total vote of Porto Rico at the election held, as the names of the candidates nominated may be certified to the Secretary of Porto Rico by the presiding officer and secretary of the convention or caucus or committee making such nomination, and also the names of any candidates for any office when petitioned to do so by the electors qualified to vote for such candidates; Provided, nominations by petition for officers to be elected under this Act shall be made by at least five hundred signers to said petition who are registered as qualified voters for said election. In case of a nomination by petition, no petitioner shall be counted unless his residence and post-office address be desiguated, and unless such petition states the name and residence of the candidate; that he is legally qualified; that the subscribers desire and are legally qualified to vote for said candidate, and may designate a brief name or title of the party or principle which said

candidate represents, together with any simple figure or device by which he shall be designated on the ballot. Said device may be the figure of a star, an eagle, or some appropriate symbol, but the coat of arms or seal of Porto Rico, or of the United States, the national flag, or any other emblem common to the people at large shall not be used as such device. In case of the death, resignation or removal of any candidate subsequent to nomination, unless a supplemental certificate or petition of nomination be filed, the president or the central committee of the party shall fill such vacancy. Certificates and petitions of nomination shall be filed with the Secretary of Porto Rico not more than sixty days and not less than twenty days before election day. The Executive Council shall cause the name of all candidates for the House of Delegates in the district in which such candidate may be running, and the names of the candidates for Commissioner to the United States, and all other candidates to be printed on one ballot with names placed under the title, and device of the party or petitioners as designated by them in their certificate or petition, or if none be designated under some title and device. The ballots shall be of uniform size and of the same quality and color of paper, and sufficiently thick that the printing cannot be distinguished from the back. All ballots prepared by the Council shall be printed on white paper and put up in blocks of one hundred each. The device named and list of candidates of the party, which at the last preceding elections polled the largest number of votes in Porto Rico, shall be placed in the first column on the left-hand side of said ballot; and the party which cast the next highest number shall be put in the second column; and of any other party in such order as the Council shall decide. The device of each party shall be above a circle of not less than one inch in diameter, and shall be placed at the head of the list of candidates of the party, and the following words shall be printed in Spanish and English around the outer edge of each of said circles, to wit: "For a straight ticket mark X within this circle." Immediately under the circle shall be placed the name or title of the party ticket, and immediately under such name or title the list of candidates of the party, such names being placed three fourths of one inch apart from center to center of the name, the name of each candidate having immediately on its right a square three-eights of an inch on one side; and the general arrangement of the ballot shall conform substantially to the following form:

A candidate named shall appear but once upon a ballot, and if he has been nominated as a candidate by petition or convention or committee, he shall elect which of said nominations he will accept, and his name shall be printed on the ballot accordingly.

SECTION 23. If any candidate whose nomination has been certified according to law shall wish to resign from such ticket, he shall file his resignation in writing with the Secretary of Porto Rico within three days after the filing of such certificate of nomination, and any resignation filed after the time mentioned in this section shall not be considered; Provided, that no resignation shall be filed with, or received by, the Secretary of Porto Rico within twenty days immediately preceding an election.

SECTION 24.—In case of the death or removal of any candidate after the printing of such ballot and before such election, it shall be lawful for the chairman or Excutive Committee of the political organization of which such candidate was a member, to make a nomination to till such vacancy, and upon notification of a new nomination for such vacancy the Board of Elections shall provide the Election Judges of each precinct in which such candidate is to be voted for, with a number of pasters containing only the name of such candidate. But no pasters shall be given to, or received by, any one except such Election Judges, and it shall be the duty of the polling clerks to put one of such pasters in a careful and proper manner and in the proper place on each ticket before they shall sign their initials thereon.

SECTION 25.-It shall be the duty of the Executive Council or its Committee on Elections to deliver by hand or registered letter or messenger to the chairman of the Board of Elections ten ballots for every five voters and a fraction thereof in each precinct of his district. The ballots shall, in the presence of the Executive Council or the Committee on Elections, be wrapped and tied in packages plainly marked, one for each precinct within the election district, and securely sealed with wax, and receipt for the same shall be taken and filed. The Executive Council shall also provide and enclose in each of the aforesaid sealed packages six pencils. Each package shall remain in the custody of the chairman of the Board of Elections until delivered to the Judges of the Election. In case it be necessary for members of the Boards of Elections to personally appear before the Executive Council they shall be allowed five cents per mile for the distance necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the office of the Executive Council. If any member of the Board of Elections shall give or deliver to any other person any of said ballots, or shall permit any of them to be taken away except as provided in this Act, he or they shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished imprisonment in the penitentiary of not less than three nor more than seven years. If any person shall feloniously take or remove in any manner or with the consent or permission of the custodian from any place where they may lawfully be under this Act, any of such ballots or pencils, or be found in custody or possession of such ballots or pencils (except as an official or custodian under this Act, or while within the polling place for the purpose of voting), or if any such custodian or official shall consent to or permit any of such ballots or pencils to be removed or carried away from the place where they may lawfully be, by any person (except by an official or custodian authorized by this Act, whose duty it is to receive same), such person, custodian or official shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in

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the penitentiary for not less than three nor more than ten years, be disfranchised for any determinate period not less than ten years. SECTION 26.—It shall be the duty of the Board of Election, to send or deliver to the judges of election, at least two days before election, the said package of ballots and the pencils provided for their precinct by the Executive Council.

SECTION 27.-At the opening of the polls after the organization of, and in the presence of the election judges, the chairman shall open the package of ballots in such manner as to preserve the seals intact. He shall then deliver to the poll clerks the ballots. The poll clerks shall at once proceed to write their initials in ink on the lower left-hand corner of each of said ballots in their ordinary handwriting and without any distinguishing mark of any kind, and return them to the judges. As each successive elector calls for a ballot one of the judges shall deliver to him a signed ballot. The Executive Council or supervisor shall cause to be printed in large type, on cards, in Spanish and in English, instructions for the guidance of the electors in preparing their ballots. A suitable number of such cards shall be delivered to the Board of Election in each district at the time the ballots shall be delivered, and it shall be the duty of the Board of Election to see to it that the said cards are posted by the judges of election in each place or compartment provided for the preparation of the ballots, and the judges of election shall post several of such cards at or near the polling place, but not within one hundred feet thereof, together with samples of the ballots, which sample ballots shall be printed on different colored paper than the genuine ballots.

SECTION 28.-If by accident the ballots delivered are lost and destroyed, upon report being made the Board of Elections shall at once re-supply the judges of elections.

SECTION 29.-It shall be the duty of the Board of Election in each district before each election to provide for and secure in each precinct of the district a suitable room in which to hold the election, and to have placed therein a railing separating the part of the room to be occupied by the judges of election from the remainder of the room, and also three booths or compartments, in which electors shall mark their ballots, screened from observation, each containing a counter or shelf. Booths shall be so constructed and arranged that all the judges of election can see whether more than one voter enters any one of such booths at one time, and each and every judge of elections allowing any booth or compartment in which an elector is preparing his ballot to be used without a screen, or such screen being so arranged as not to shield the preparation of the ballot from observation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, be fined for each offense in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than five dollars, to which may be added imprisonment in jail not exceeding ninety days. No election shall be held in a room in which spirituous, vinous, malt, or other intoxicating liquors are kept or sold; and if practicable the room shall be one used exclusively for election purposes on the day of election.

SECTION 30.--Not more than three voters shall be allowed in the voting room at one time. On entering the room the voter shall announce his name to the poll clerks, who shall register it. The judge holding the ballot shall deliver to him one ballot, and the clerk shall thereupon deliver to him a pencil, and the judges, on request, shall give explanation of the manner of voting. If deemed necessary by any one of the judges, an interpreter may be called. The voter shall then, and with