or voting for another, penalty. Giving proxy by giving a proxy, or any person by voting or attempting to vote in place of any delegate or committeeman, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars and be imprisoned not less than five nor more than thirty days. SECTION 41. It shall be unlawful during the time. the polls are open for any person within one hundred feet of the polling place of any primary election to give, tender, or exhibit any ballot or ticket to any person other than to a judge of the election, or to exhibit any ticket which he intends to cast, or within such distance solicit or in any way attempt to influence any elector in casting his vote. SECTION 42. Any person who shall solicit, request, demand or receive, directly or indirectly, any money, intoxicating liquors, reward, or other thing of value, or the promise thereof, either to influence his vote, or to be used, or under pretense of being used to procure the vote of any other person or persons or to be used at any poll or other place prior to or on the day of a primary election for or against any candidate, shall be deemed guilty of an offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine not less than one hundred dollars and not more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the penitentiary for one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. SECTION 43. All provisions and requirements of the law of the state to preserve and protect the purity of elections, and all the penalties for violation of such laws shall apply and shall be enforced as to all primary elections held under this act. SECTION 44. In any proceeding or prosecution brought under this act, when any person is called to testify, he shall be required to testify to all facts of which he has any knowledge, and the fact that he has so testified shall forever be a bar to any prosecution brought against him for violating this act as to such matters to which he may have testified; and any person who, having been duly subpœnaed or ordered to appear before any grand jury, court, board or officer in any proceeding or prosecution upon complaint, information, affidavit or indictment for any offense defined in this act, shall fail so to do, or having appeared shall refuse to answer any question pertinent to the matter under inquiry or investigation, or shall refuse to produce upon reasonable notice any material, books, papers, documents or records in his possession, or under his control, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars and be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six months. SECTION 45. That sections 2916, 2917, 2919, 2920, 2921 and 2921a and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are to the extent of such t inconsistency hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after January 1st, 1909. To provide religious services in county infirmaries. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: ices. SECTION I. That each board of infirmary directors in Religious servthe state may provide for holding religious services in the infirmary of its county at least twice a month on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday; which services shall be conducted by some clergyman to be employed by the board for that purpose, and for and during such term as the directors shali designate, not exceeding one year, and said clergyman may also during the time of such employment conduct funeral services at the death of each inmate. SECTION 2. A reserve fund of not less than one hun- Compensation dred and fifty, nor more than two hundred dollars, shall be of clergyman. set apart each year for the commissioners of the county out of the poor fund for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the services mentioned in the preceding section; which fund shall be paid by the county commissioners to the clergyman conducting such services. SECTION 3. That each administrative board or other administrative authority in the state, having in charge or control a county jail, city prison, or workhouse, shall provide for holding religious services in the same, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, and may employ a clergyman or religious organization for the purpose of conducting such services, and any expense incurred by such board or authority, in providing such religious service, shall be paid out of the general fund of the county or city. FREEMAN T. EAGLESON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JAMES M. WILLIAMS, President of the Senate. Board having charge of county jail, ice's. Passed April 28, 1908. Approved April 28, 1908. ANDREW L. HARRIS, Governor. 15-G. & L. A. [House Bill No. 854.] AN ACT Ward, township or pre divided, when. To amend section 3 of an act entitled, "An act to provide for the mode of conducting elections, to insure the secrecy of the ballot and prevent fraud and intimidation at the polls, and to repeal certain statutes therein named," passed April 30, 1891, as amended April 23, 1904, relating to election precincts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION I. That section 3 of an act entitled, “An act to provide for the mode of conducting elections, to insure the secrecy of the ballot and prevent fraud and intimidation at the polls, and to repeal certain statutes therein named," passed April 30, 1891, as amended April 23, 1904, be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 3. In all municipalities where registration is not cinct may be required, and in townships, when four hundred votes or more have been cast at the last preceding November election in any ward or township, or in any precinct therein, such ward, township or election precinct may, or, when a majority of the voters petition therefor, shall be divided by the deputy state supervisors, as hereinafter provided, into two or more election precincts, so as to limit the number of voters in each ward or precinct to two hundred, as nearly as may be practicable; provided, that a township wherein less than four hundred votes were cast at the preceding November election, may be divided into two election precincts as hereinafter provided, if a majority of the voters therein petition therefor and the deputy state supervisors are of the opinion that such division is necessary and from time to time, any or all of such precincts may be re-arranged, subdivided, or combined as often as may be deemed necessary or the convenience of the electors and the prompt and correct conduct of the elections may require, provided that no precinct hereafter created shall contain less than one hundred and fifty voters; except that a township precinct may contain seventy-five voters and except that a municipality containing fifty or more voters shall compose at least one voting precinct as provided in section 2923 herein, and in a municipality situated in two or more townships, the part thereof in each township shall compose at least one voting precinct if there are fifty or more voters therein. At least thirty days, previous to any election, the officers above named shall give ten days' notice, by publication in two papers of opposite politics published in the county, that the question whether the township, ward or precinct, or precincts shall be divided, changed or combined, will be 150 voters, minimum precinct; ceptions. Ten days' notice. for ex considered on a day named in said notice. On said day, or some subsequent day to which the matter may be adjourned, the question of dividing, changing or combining said precinct shall be heard, and if there are no remonstrances Hearing. against said division, change or combination, they shall declare the same, and the precincts so established; but if any twelve electors of such precinct remonstrate against such division, change or combination, the matter shall be heard and determined, and such order made for or against such division, change or combination as is deemed proper; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the powers and duties of boards of deputy state supervisors in reference to the division of election precincts within such cities as provided in section 2926 of the Revised Statutes; provided, further, that the division of any election precinct into two or more subdivisions, as herein provided, shall not be construed as requiring the election of an assessor in each such subdivision, but in all such election precinct subdivisions as aforesaid there shall be elected one assessor for each original precinct unless the deputy state Assessor, prosupervisors, at the time of the division, shall order that an assessor be elected in each precinct. SECTION 2. That section 2923 of the Revised Statutes. be amended so as to read as follows: vision as to. township and of. Sec. 2923. Each township, exclusive of the territory embraced within the limits of a municipal corporation, shall compose an election precinct, unless such township is divided according to law, into precincts. Each municipal cor- Precincts, poration containing fifty or more voters, shall also compose an municipal, election precinct, unless such corporation is divided according composition to law, into precincts; but if such municipal corporation is situated in two or more townships, or counties, the territory of such corporation situated in each township, or county, together with such territory as may be attached thereto for voting purposes, shall constitute at least one election precinct, provided that territory annexed to a village for school purposes may be included within a village precinct if the deputy state supervisors are of the opinion the same is practicable and most convenient to the voters. Each ward of every city shall compose one election precinct, unless such ward is divided, according to law, into precincts. Elections shall be held for every township precinct at such place within the township as the trustees thereof shall determine to be most convenient of access for the voters of such precinct, and for each municipal, or ward precinct, at such place as the council of the corporation shall designate. Provided that in registration cities, the deputy state supervisors of election shall designate such places of hold- cities, elecing election in each precinct. SECTION 3. That section 3 of an act entitled, “An act to provide for the mode of conducting elections, to insure the secrecy of the ballot and prevent fraud and intimidation at the polls, and to repeal certain statutes therein Registration tion held named, passed April 30, 1891, as amended April 23, 1904, and section 2923 of the Revised Statutes be and the same are hereby repealed. FREEMAN T. EAGLESON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Pregnant woman. Neglect or refusal to pay trustees of children's home. Abandonment. Penalty. Bond. Trustee named by court. [House Bill No. 932.] AN ACT To compel parents to maintain their children. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. The father, or when charged by law with the maintenance thereof, the mother, of a legitimate or illegitimate child or children, under sixteen years of age, or the husband of any pregnant woman, living in this state, who being able either by reason of having means, or by personal services, labor or earnings, shall neglect or refuse to provide such child or children or pregnant woman with necessary or proper home, care, food and clothing, or any such child or children being legally an inmate or inmates of a county or district children's home in this state, shall neglect or refuse to pay to the trustees of such children's home, the reasonable cost of keeping such child or children in said home, or the father of any legitimate child or children under sixteen years of age, or the husband of any pregnant woman, who shall leave such child or children or pregnant woman with intent to abandon such child or children or pregnant woman, shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a felony and punished by imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary for not more than three years or less than one year, or in a county jail or a workhouse at hard labor, for not more than one year nor less than six months, provided, however, if after conviction and before sentence, he shall appear before the court in which said conviction shall have taken place, and enter into bond to the state of Ohio, in the penal sum, to be fixed by the court, at not less than five hundred or more than one thousand dollars, with sureties to be approved by the court, conditioned that he or she will furnish said child or children or pregnant woman with necessary and proper home, food, care and clothing, or will pay for such purpose, to a trustee to be named by said court, promptly every week a sum to be named by said court, or if said child or children |