of this Territory, and shall not forfeit their residence by reason of any absence while engaged in such service or campaign.
Sec. 2. At nine o’clock in the forenoon on the day of any election aforesaid, the legal voters aforesaid shall proceed to elect judges and an inspector, who shall immediately give public notice of the hour of such day, and the place when and where they will open the polls, and they shall appoint two clerks, and shall receive, canvass, and record the votes, and conduct the election as nearly as may be in conformity with the provisions of the chapter aforesaid; and shall, in like manner, cause to be delivered, within ten days after such election, to the county recorders of the several counties in which such voters are legally entitled to vote (which name of county shall be either written or printed on each ballot), a tally list, which shall contain the names of each person voted for, and the office for which such person was voted for; and a tally of the number of votes received by each shall be made opposite their respective names, and the whole number of votes received by each person shall be expressed in writing and figures at the bottom of each tally list aforesaid, which shall be certified to be correct by the board, and with the votes cast for such county shall be transmitted under seal as aforesaid.
Sec. 3. The judges of election aforesaid shall have the power to cause the arrest of any person who may interfere, or in any way prevent any person legally entitled to vote, from casting such vote, or who may in any way interrupt the proceedings of such meeting, or who may commit any breach of the peace, and detain him in custody (but not depriving him of the right to vote if he be a legal voter) until complaint can be made against him before the proper officer, and cause him to be tried for the offence. Except as herein specified, the elections aforesaid shall be conducted as required by chapter twenty-four of the civil Code aforesaid.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved November 9, 1864.
An Act
Allowing Persons in the Military Service of the United States and of this Territory to hold Mining Claims.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona:
Sec. 1. All persons in the military service of the United States or this Territory shall be allowed to locate claims on mineral lodes or veins in the limits of this Territory, subject to the requirements of the mining laws of this Territory, and shall be protected in the possession of the same, and shall have the same rights in all respects, in regard to such claims as like persons not in the military service.
Sec. 2. All the laws of any mining district contrary to the spirit and provisions of this act, are declared to be null and void, and shall not be
