said, attending any election held, or to be held, under the laws of this Territory, and voting thereat, or in consideration, express or implied, of voting at any such election for or against any particular person for any office under the laws of this Territory; or for or against any ticket, or list of persons, or any selection of candidates, for any office or offices under the laws of this Territory, or for or against any proposition submitted under any law or laws of this Territory to the vote of the legal voters thereof, or of any county, city, township, ward, precinct, or school district thereof, or in consideration, express or implied, of the person so accepting, receiving or consenting as aforesaid, attending any election held under the laws of this Territory, and there inducing, or attempting to induce, any voter to vote for or against any particular person for any office under the laws of this Territory, or for or against any ticket, or list of persons, or candidates for any office or offices under the laws of this Territory, or for or against any proposition submitted as aforesaid to the legal voters as aforesaid; or if any person shall accept any money, or other valuable thing or things, from any person or persons, with intent to use the same in violation of the provisions of the last preceding section herein, or of any provision of this chapter, every person so accepting, receiving, or consenting as aforesaid herein, for the purpose herein aforesaid mentioned, or any of them, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine of not less than fifty (50) dollars, nor more than one thousand (1,000) dollars, and be imprisoned not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days for each and every offense.

Concerning

SEC. 12. If any person or persons shall pay, or promise to pay money, or give, pay, furnish, or ad- funds and pools vance any money or other valuable thing, as a con

to aid in carrying elections.

tribution to any fund, purse, or pool, to be used in any manner in violation of any provision of this act, or to be used secretly for the purpose of procuring votes, by paying any consideration to any person or number of persons, for any office under the laws of this Territory, or for or against any proposition, submitted as aforesaid under any law in this Territory, or for paying any person for services in so procuring any person to vote as last aforesaid, or if any person shall contribute any money or other valuable thing, or promise or agree so to do, toward any fund, purse or pool, which he or they at the time of so paying or contributing, or promising so to do, shall have reason to believe is intended to be, or will probably be used in violation of any provision of this act, he or they so offending shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine of not less than the amount so by him paid or contributed, and in addition thereto the sum of not less than one hundred (100) dollars, nor more than five hundred (500) dollars, or be imprisoned not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days, or by both fine and imprisonment, as the jury may determine; the jury to fix the amount of such fine and the duration of such imprisonment, or both as the case may be, for each and every offense. SEC. 13. If any person or persons shall pay, give, lend or advance, or promise expressly or by implicaPenalty for pur- tion, to pay, give, lend or advance any sum of money or other valuable thing, or promise, expressly or by implication, to procure or aid in procuring or attempting to procure for any person or persons any office, appointment, place or position, under the laws of this Territory, or aid in any way any person to retain and hold any office, appointment, place or position under the laws of this Territory, for or in consideration of any aid or assistance, support or influence in his own behalf, or in behalf of any other per

chasing influence for retention in office.

son, in obtaining any office, place or position under the laws of the United States, or for or in consideration of procuring any third person to aid or assist himself or themselves or any other person or persons in procuring or retaining any such office, appointment, place or position as aforesaid, such person so offending, and any person or persons consenting, promising or colluding with him or them to take, receive, have or enjoy any such aid, assistance, support or influence as aforesaid, or such office, appointment, place or position so procured or attempted to be procured, or for the procurement or attempted procurement of which such aid, assistance, support or influence, shall be or shall have been promised as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of conspiracy to corrupt the government of this Territory, and the same shall be held a high misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine of not less than one hundred (100) dollars, nor more than five hundred (500) dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days, as the jury rendering the verdict of conviction may determine, and the said jury shall fix the amount of fine, or the duration of the imprisonment, or both as the case may be.

SEC. 14. In case any person offending, as in the last preceding section of this act mentioned, shall be at the time of so offending a member of either House of the Legislature of this Territory, or shall hold any office under the laws of this Territory, he shall be punished by fine and imprisonment as provided in said section, and shall also thenceforth be disqualified to exercise the right of voting at any election. under the laws of the Territory, and from taking, holding, or retaining any office of honor or profit under the laws of this Territory.

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SEC. 15. If any person shall vote or attempt to vote Punishment of at any election under the laws of this Territory, he

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not being then and there a legal voter in the ward or voting precinct in which he shall so attempt to vote, and he then and there knowing that he is not entitled to vote at such election, he shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred (100) dollars nor more than five hundred (500) dollars, and imprisonment not less than ten (10) ́days nor more than thirty days.

SEC. 16. If any president, vice president, director, Application of superintendent, conductor, agent, attorney, or other road companies. officer or employe of any railway company, the line of whose road shall run through any portion of this Territory, shall knowingly aid or assist in any manner, directly or indirectly, in conveying any person or persons in the cars of such company, or in any manner on the track of such company, within this Territory, to any place in this Territory, for the purpose of enabling such person or persons to vote illegally at any election to be held under any law of this Territory, or to enable any such person or persons to acquire a fraudulent or simulated residence in any county, city, ward, or voting precinct, for the purpose of voting at any such election, or for the purpose of procuring the names of such persons, or any of them, to be wrongfully registerd in any ward, city or voting precinct, or if any such officer, agent, or employe, above herein mentioned, shall in any way, directly or indirectly, aid, assist, or consent to any act for the purpose of inducing or assisting any person to go in any manner to any place in this Territory for the purpose of illegally voting at any election under any law of this Territory, or for the purpose of having his or their names illegally registered in any city, ward or voting precinct in this Territory; or for the purpose of acquiring a fraudulent or simulated residence in any such city, ward or voting precinct. with intent to be wrong

fully registered, or to illegally vote therein, any such person so offending shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred (200)' dollars nor more than one thousand (1,000) dollars, and to be imprisoned not less than thirty (30) days nor more than one hundred (100) days for each person he shall have so aided or assisted to go to any place as aforesaid, for the wrongful purposes aforesaid.

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cars or trains to aid of elections.

SEC. 17. If any railroad company shall, with the officer or officers thereof having based inillegal knowledge of any charge, control or management of any of its trains or cars, or having charge of any portion of its work, or control, superintendence, or oversight of any of its employes, shall permit its cars, or any car under its control, to be used in carrying any person or persons from any place within or without this Territory to any place within this Territory, or into or near any city, ward or voting precinct, for the purpose and with the intent on the part of such officer or officers to enable such person or persons so conveyed to vote illegally, at any election in this Territory, or for the purpose of such person or persons so conveyed procuring his or their names to be registered illegally in any city, ward or voting precinct in this Territory, or for the purpose of appearing to have gained a residence, or gaining any fraudulent or simulated residence in any such city, ward or voting precinct, with intent to vote therein illegally; every such railroad company so offending shall be liable to pay, and shall forfeit and pay to the Territory of Colorado, for the use of any county through which the track of such road may pass, the sum of three thousand (3,000) dollars, for each several offense, to be recovered by action of debt in the name of the Territory of Colorado, for the use of any county which may be entitled thereto. Such suit may be