Section 41_f_.  Whosoever shall violate any provision of this title, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than three months nor more than one year.  The offenses described in section[53] forty-one and forty-one-a of this act are hereby declared to be infamous crimes.  When a person is convicted of any offense mentioned in section forty-one of this act he shall in addition to the punishment above prescribed, forfeit any office to which he may have been elected at the election with reference to which such offense was committed; and when a person is convicted of any offense mentioned in section forty-one-a of this act he shall in addition to the punishment above prescribed be excluded from the right of suffrage for a period of five years after such conviction, and it shall be the duty of the county clerk of the county in which any such conviction shall be had, to transmit a certified copy of the record of conviction to the clerk of each county of the state, within ten days thereafter, which said certified copy shall be duly filed by the said county clerks in their respective offices.  Any candidate for office who refuses or neglects to file a statement as prescribed in section forty-one-d of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, punishable as above provided and shall also forfeit his office.

[Footnote 53:  So in the original.]

Section 41_g_.  Other crimes against the elective franchise are defined, and the punishment thereof prescribed by special statutes.

Section 2.  Section forty-one of the Penal Code, as it existed prior to the passage of this act, is hereby repealed.

Section 3.  This act shall take effect immediately.  APPENDIX K.

FORM OF AUSTRALIAN BALLOT ADOPTED IN MASSACHUSETTS,
                 1889.

OFFICIAL BALLOT

FOR

PRECINCT, WARD,

OF (CITY OR TOWN),

NOVEMBER__, 18__.

[Fac-Simile of Signature of Secretary.]
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

SAMPLE BALLOT,

With explanations and illustration.

Prepared by the Ballot Act League with the approval of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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Some representative districts elect one, some two, and a few three representatives to the General Court.  Worcester County elects four commissioners of insolvency instead of three as in other counties.

No county commissioners or special commissioners will be voted for in the cities of Boston and Chelsea or the county of Nantucket.

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Forms for nominating candidates can be had at the department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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Carefully observe the official specimen ballots to be posted and published just before election day.

To vote for a Person, mark a Cross X