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416 FEDERAL REPORTER. �and the proper and requisite certificates or retums made, whether the certificates or returns be required under any law of the United States, or any state, territorial, or municipal law; and to personally inspect and scrutinize, frona time to time, and at all times, on the day of election, the manner in which voting is done, and the Mvay and method in which the poll-books, registry lists, and tallies or check. books — whether the same are required by any law of the United States, or any state, territorial, or municipal law — are kept. Section 2017. �And to the end that each candidate for the office of representative or delegate in congress may obtain the benefi^t of every vote cast for him, supervisors are required to personally scrutinize, count, and canvass each ballot cast in their election districts or voting preoincts, etc. ; and the better to enable them to discharge their duties, they are authorized and directed, in their respective districts or voting pre- cincts, on the day of registration, on the day when the registered voters may be marked to be challenged, and on the day of election, to take, oceupy, and remain in such position as will, in their judgment, best enable them to discharge their duties; and when the voting has ceased, to assume such position in relation to the ballot-boxes, for the purpose of engaging in the work of canvassing the ballots and per- forming such other duties as are prescribed by law, and there remain until every duty in respect to such canvass, certificates, returns, and statements has been wholly completed. Sections 2018 and 2019. �An officer whose only officiai duties relate to the registration of votes as preliminary to the exercise by them of their right to vote, to be present at the poils during the time the votes are being cast, to engage in the work of canvassing the ballots, to personally scrutin- ize, count, and canvass each ballot cast, and to remain with the inspectors and other officers of such election until the votes are can- vassed and counted, and certificates and returns are wholly completed, is an officer of the election so supervised by him within the meaning and intention of the section under and pursuant to which the counts under consideration were framed. �The remaining counts, based on section 5522, proceed against de- fendant as an individual. This section declares it an offence for any one "to interfere in any manner with any officer of such election in the discharge of his duty." The counts thereunder recharge the same nnlawful commingling of votes referred to in the preceding counts, and aver that such unlawful commingling of the spurious with the legal ballots oonstituted "an unlawful interference with the ��� �