Or if any such judge of election or other officer or person shall fraudulently, during the canvass of ballots, in any manner change, substitute or alter any ballot taken from the ballot box then being canvassed, or from any ballot box which has not been canvassed;

Every such judge or person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony under this Act.

2-3-31. If any judge of election, clerk or other officer of election, of whom any duty is required in this Act or by the general laws of this State, for the omission of which duty no punishment is provided, shall be guilty of any wilful neglect of such duty, or of any corrupt or fraudulent conduct or practice in the execution of the same, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act.

2-3-32. Any person, or any member of a board, or any judge of election, clerk or other officer, who is guilty of stealing, wilfully and wrongfully breaking, destroying, mutilating, defacing, falsifying, or unlawfully removing or secreting or detaining the whole or any part of any ballot box or receptacle for ballots, or any record, registry of voters, or copy thereof, oath, return or statement of votes, certificate, poll list, or of any paper or document provided for in this Act:

Or who shall fraudulently make any entry, erasure or alteration therein except as allowed and directed by the provisions of this Act, or who permits any other person so to do, shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony under this Act.

Every person who advises, procures or abets the commission of any of the acts mentioned in the last preceding two paragraphs shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony under this Act.

2-3-33. If any person knowingly or wilfully shall obstruct, hinder or assault, or by bribery, solicitation or otherwise interfere with any judge of election, clerk or challenger, in the performance of any duty required of him, or which he may be by law authorized or permitted to perform:

Or if any person, by any of the means before mentioned or otherwise, unlawfully shall, on the day of election, hinder or prevent any judge of primary election, clerk or challenger in his free attendance and presence at the place of election in the primary election district in and for which he is appointed or designated to serve;

Or in his full and free access and egress to and from any such place of election;

Or, shall molest, interfere with, remove or eject from any such place of election any such judge of election, clerk or challenger, except as otherwise provided in this Act, or shall unlawfully threaten, or attempt or offer so to do;

Every such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act. 2-3-34. If any person shall wilfully disobey any lawful command of any judge of election, given in the execution of his duty as such, at any such primary election, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act.

2—3—35. If, on any day of primary election, or during the canvass of the votes cast thereat, any person shall cause any breach of the peace, or be guilty of any disorderly violence, or threats of violence, whereby any such election or canvass shall be impeded or hindered or whereby the lawful proceedings of any judge of election, or clerk, or other officer of such election, or challenger, are interfered with, or causes intoxicating liquors to be brought or sent to the polling place, every such person, shall upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act.

2-3-36. Any person who votes with a certain party at such primary election, when he knows he is not qualified so to vote under the provisions of this Act, shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act.

2-3-37. If any person who shall have been convicted of bribery, felony or other infamous crime under the laws of any State, and who has never received a pardon for such offense from the officer or board entitled to grant such pardon, shall thereafter vote, or offer to vote, at any primary election in such city, village or incorporated town, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act.

2-3-38. If any person, knowing that he is not qualified to vote at such primary election takes a place in any line of voters waiting to vote at any election, or if any person, after having voted at such election, takes a place in such waiting line, or if any person repeatedly takes a place in such waiting line without voting when the opportunity comes, and who systematically gives up his place in such waiting line, such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act.

2-3-39. If, at any such election, any person shall falsely personate any elector legally qualified to vote at such primary election, and vote, or attempt or offer to vote, in or upon the name of such elector or other person, living or dead; or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently vote or attempt or offer to vote more than once, or vote in more than one primary district; or shall by force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery or reward, or offer or promise thereof, or otherwise unlawfully, either directly, or indirectly, influence or attempt to influence any elector in giving his vote;

Or shall unlawfully prevent or hinder, or unlawfully attempt to prevent or hinder, any qualified voter from freely exercising the right of suffrage;

Or shall, by any such unlawful means, compel or induce, or attempt to compel or induce, any judge of ection or other officer, to receive the vote of any person not legally qua'ified or entitled to vote at the said election;

Or by any such means, or other unlawful means, wilfully, knowingly or fraudulently counsel, advise, induce, or attempt to induce, any judge of election or other officer of election, whose duty it is to ascertain, proclaim, announce or declare the result of any such election, to give or make any false certificate, document, report, return or other

false evidence in relation thereto, or to refuse to comply with his duty, as specifically provided for in this Act, or to refuse to receive the vote of any person entitled to vote therein;

Or shall aid, counsel, advise, procure or assist any legally qualified voter, person or judge of election, or other officer of election, to do any act by law forbidden, or in this Act constituted an offense;

Every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act.

2-3-40. If any person shall, at any such election, fraudulently furnish any elector with a ballot containing more than the proper number of names;

Or shall intentionally practice any fraud upon any elector to induce him to deposit a ballot as his vote, and to have the same thrown out and not counted, or to have the same counted for a person or candidate other than the person or candidate for whom such elector intended to vote; or otherwise defraud him of his vote; or if any person shall order or cause to be printed a bogus or partly bogus primary ticket, or a primary ticket of delegates or alternates without first having secured the consent of each person named on such ticket to stand as delegate or alternate delegate for a specified convention on that particular ticket of names; or if any person causes to be brought or sent to the vicinity of a polling place such unauthorized tickets in order that they may be distributed;

Every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor under this Act.

2-3-41. Any person who shall make, seek or obtain for himself or another, a false certificate of election as delegate or alternate delegate to any convention, knowing that he or such other person is not entitled thereto, and any person who shall use, or attempt to use, such certificates of election, knowing the same to be false or fraudulent, or to have been issued for another person; and any person who shall fraudulently, knowingly and without right, act as a delegate or alternate delegate to any such convention, shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony under this Act.

2-3-42. If any person shall commit any act prohibited herein, or refrain from doing any act or duty required to be done herein, and if any person shall in any manner be guilty of a violation of this Act, whether the same is denominated an offense or not, and for which no punishment is herein specifically provided, such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor under this. Act.

2-3-43. Any person adjudged guilty of an offense demonimated a misdemeanor under this Act shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than one month nor more than two years, or any such person may be punished by both such fine. and imprisonment.

Any person adjudged guilty of an offense denominated a felony in this Act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than five years.

2-3-44. The word "householder,” as used in this Act, shall mean the chief, or head, of a family, who resides with a family as a family and who supports and provides for such family as an independent family.

2-3-45. In all prosecutions and in all contests under this Act it shall be the lawful duty of the board of election commissioners or other officers having the custody thereof to produce, open, exhibit and offer in evidence any notice, ballot box, registry book, bundle of ballots, returns, statements or other documents or papers relating to the particular prosecution or contest for the purpose of enabling a full investigation.

2-3-46. Irregularities or defects in the mode of calling, noticing, convening, holding or conducting any primary election authorized by law shall constitute no defense to a prosecution for a violation of this Act. When an offense shall be committed in relation to any primary election an indictment for such offense shall be sufficient, if it allege that such election was authorized by law, without stating the call or notice of election aforesaid, the names of the judges or clerks holding such election, or the names of the persons voted for at such election. Judicial notice shall be taken of this Act in any county, city, village or incorporated town to which this Act shall apply, and of the holding of any election thereunder on any primary election day.

2-3-47. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners to make all necessary rules, instructions and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, with reference to the conduct of primary elections held in accordance with the provisions contained herein.

ARTICLE III.

THE MAYOR.

3-1. The chief executive officer of the city shall be the mayor, who shall be a citizen of the United States and a qualified elector of the city, who shall have been a resident of the city for at least five years immediately preceding his election, and who shall be elected for a term of four years.

The first election for mayor after this charter shall have taken effect shall take place on the first Tuesday of April in the year 1911. The mayor holding office at the time of this charter shall take effect shall continue to hold office until his successor shall be elected and have qualified.

3-2. The mayor shall receive such compensation as the city council may by ordinance direct, but his compensation shall not be changed during his term of office.

3-3. If the mayor, at any time during the term of his office, shall cease to be a resident of the city, his office shall thereby become vacant.

3-4. Whenever a vacancy shall happen in the office of the mayor, in case the unexpired portion of the term shall be one year or more from the date when the vacancy occurs, it shall be filled at the next election held in and for the entire city.

3-5. If the vacancy is less than one year, the city council shall elect one of its number to act as mayor, who shall possess all the rights and powers of the mayor until the next regular election for mayor, and until his successor is elected and has qualified.

3-6. During the temporary absence or disability of the mayor, the presiding officer of the council shall temporarily act as mayor. The presiding officer of the council shall also temporarily act as mayor in a case of a vacancy in the office of the mayor until such vacancy can be filled, as hereinbefore provided.

The person temporarily acting as mayor shall not exercise any power of appointment to or removal from office until the absence or disability of the mayor shall have continued thirty days; or sign, approve or disapprove any ordinance or resolution until the day of the next regular meeting of the council, occurring not earlier than five 'days after the passage thereof.

3-7. The mayor shall annually, and from time to time, give the council information relative to the affairs of the city, and shall recommend for their consideration such measures as he may deem expedient. He may introduce measures subject to the general rules of procedure of the council and shall have a seat in the council, but no vote.

3-8. He shall perform all such duties as may be prescribed by law or by the city ordinances.

3-9. He shall have the power at all times to examine and inspect the books, records and papers of any agent, employé or officer of the city.

3-10. He shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations upon all lawful occasions.

3-11. The mayor shall have power to remove any officer appointed by him, whenever he shall be of the opinion that the interests of the city demand such removal, but he shall report the reasons for such removal to the council at a meeting to be held not less than five days nor more than ten days after such removal; and if the mayor shall fail, or refuse to file with the city clerk a statement of the reasons for such removal, or if the council by a two-thirds vote of all its members authorized by law to be elected, by yeas and nays, to be entered upon its record, disapprove of such removal, such officer shall thereupon become restored to the office from which he was so removed; but he shall give new bonds and take a new oath of office. No officer shall be removed a second time for the same offense.

3-12. The mayor shall have the power to release any person imprisoned for violation of any ordinance; he may, if he sees fit, appoint a pardon board of three persons consisting of the superintendent of the house of correction and such inspectors thereof as the mayor may select. In case such board be appointed, all petitions for release from the house of correction shall in the first instance be addressed