§ 111 — Conduct of elections

§ 111. Conduct of elections. The clerk of the tribe shall provide a\nsufficient number of ballot-boxes so that there shall be a separate\nballot-box for each officer to be elected, the expense for which shall\nbe paid from the moneys due to the tribe from the state. The county\nattorney or the sheriff of Franklin county and the members of the\ncouncil who are not then candidates for election shall preside at the\nelection, receive the ballots presented by the voters and deposit them\nin the respective ballot-boxes. Such council members and county attorney\nor sheriff shall each be entitled to receive for such services the sum\nof twenty dollars per day for each day during which they are actually\nemployed with such duties, to be paid out of the moneys due such tribe\nfrom the state. The polls of such election shall be open between the\nhours of nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the afternoon.\nA voter voting at such election must, if challenged, before depositing\nhis ballot, solemnly swear that he is at least eighteen years of age,\nthat he resides on the American side of the line dividing the United\nStates from Canada and that he is entitled to draw a share of the yearly\nannuity moneys, which oath shall be administered by the clerk of the\ntribe.\n