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Penalty for making or tendering false statement of claim to vote, &c. and for suppressing &c. statements, &c.
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25. If any person shall knowingly and fraudulently, and with the intent of giving a greater number of votes than he is by law entitled to give, tender or forward to the returning officer a false statement of the grounds on which he claims to vote or give additional votes, or shall forge, falsify, or knowingly and fraudulently alter, after signature, any paper containing a statement of claim to vote, proxy, nomination, or vote for the election of guardians, or refusal to serve the office of guardian, or shall conspire to forge, falsify, or so alter any such paper, or shall knowingly tender or forward to the proper officer any such paper forged, falsified, or so altered as aforesaid, or shall wilfully suppress, carry off, destroy, or deface any statement of claim to vote, proxy, or nomination of a candidate for the office of guardian, after the same shall be duly signed, or shall in like manner suppress, carry of, destroy, or deface any voting paper after the same shall have been issued by the returning officer, he shall forfeit not more than ten pounds, to be recovered as penalties and forfeitures under the said first-recited Act.
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