2288.2 Report that the Middlesex County Commissioners will hold a public hearing in Lexington, dated on the first Tuesday in September, 1853

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Tomnlotlwtatth .of luasgac usttts* In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Three. AN ACT CONCERNING THE MANNER OF VOTING AT CERTAIN ELECTIONS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: SECT. 1. All votes and ballots for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Senators and Representatives of t.he Commonwealth, Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, and Representatives in Congress,and all votes and ballots to be given at the meetings to be held on the first Monday of March of the present year,for the election of delegates to be chosen under the provisions of an act relating to the calling of a convention of delegates of the people for the purpose of revising the Constitution of the Com- monwealth, may be deposited in the ballot box in a sealed envelope, or without any envelope, at the option of each voter; and if in any case more than one vote or ballot is found in any one envelope, bearing the name of the same person for the same office, all but one vote or ballot shall be thrown out; and if two or more votes or ballots be found in one envelope bearing the names of different persons for the same office, all such votes and ballots shall be rejected ; and any envelope found to contain only a blank shall not be counted as a vote or ballot. .SECT. 2. Self-sealing envelopes of uniform size and color bearing the emblematic Seal of the Com- monwealth shall be furnished at the expense of the State, (as heretofore in accordance with the provi- sions of a law passed in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one) to all persons who may desire, at any election hereinbefore specified, to deposit their ballots therein, and no other envelopes shall be used at the polls. SECT. 3. The act entitled "An Act for the better security of the ballot," passed on the twenty- second day of May, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-One : and the Act entitled "An Act in addition to an Act for the better security of the ballot," passed on the twentieth day of May, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Two, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECT. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Souse of Representatives, March 1st, 1853. Passed to be enacted. GEORGE BLISS, Speaker. In Senate, March 2d, 1853. Passed to be enacted. CHARLES H. WARREN, President. March 2d, 1853. Approved. JOHN 11. CLIFFORD. ---------------------------------- COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. Secretary's Office, Boston, March 2d, 1853. 1 certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original act. r /u Secretary of the Commonwealth.