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"Sec. 15. If any person shall refuse to take the said preliminary oath
when so tendered, or to answer fully any questions which shall be
so put to him, his vote shall be rejected."
"Sec. 16. After receiving the answers of the person so challenged, the
board of inspectors shall point out to him the qualifications, if
any, in respect to which he shall appear to them deficient."
"Sec. 17. If the person so offering shall persist in his claim to
vote, and the challenge shall not be withdrawn, one of the
inspectors shall then administer the following oath: 'You do swear
(or affirm as the case may be) that you have been a citizen of the
United States for ten days, and are now of the age of twenty one
years; that you have been an inhabitant of this State for one year
next preceding this election, and for the last four months a
resident of this County; that you have been for thirty days next
preceding this election a resident of this Assembly district (or
Senate or Congressional district or districts, ward, town, village
or city from which the officer is to be chosen for whom said person
offers to vote); that you are now a resident of this town (or ward,
as the case may be) and of the election district in which you now
offer to vote, and that you have not made any bet or wager, and are
not directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending
upon the result of this election, and that you have not voted at
this election.
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