Municipalities excepted.

Repealer.

361. SEC. 9. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect or provide for the division into wards of municipalities, the boundaries of which shall be coterminous and co-extensive with the boundaries of the township of which they are a part.

362. SEC. 10. All acts or parts of acts, general or special, inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

363. SEC. II. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 30, 1906.

Bribery at election a

CHAPTER 206.

A Supplement to an act entitled "An act for the punishment of crimes (Revision of 1898)," approved June fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyeight.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

364. SEC. I. Any person who shall, directly or inmisdemeanor. directly, by himself or by any other person in his behalf, give, lend, or agree to give or lend, or procure, or agree to procure or offer or promise to procure, or endeavor to procure, any money or other valuable consideration or thing, or any office, place or employment to or for any voter, or to or for any person, in order to induce such voter to vote or refrain from registering or voting at any election, or shall corruptly do or commit any of the acts in this section mentioned, on account of any voter having voted or refrained from voting, or having registered or refrained from registering for any election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic

tion thereof shall be sentenced to disfranchisement for Penalty. a period of five years from the date of conviction.

with view to bribery a misdemeanor.

365. SEC. 2. Any person who shall give, advance or Contributing pay, or cause to be given, advanced or paid, any money or other valuable thing to any person, or to the use of any other person, with the intent that such money or other valuable thing, or any part thereof, shall be expended, or used for bribery of voters, or for any other unlawful purpose at any election, or who shall know. ingly pay, or cause to be paid, any money to any person wholly or in part expended in bribery of a voter or voters at any election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to disfranchise- Penalty. ment for five years from the date of conviction.

366. SEC. 3. Any person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person on his behalf, receive, agree or contract for any money, gift, loan or valuable consideration, office, place or employment for himself or for any other person for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting at any election, or for registering or agreeing to register, or for refraining or for agreeing to refrain from registering for any election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to disfranchisement for a period of five years from the date of conviction.

Receiving

rewards or misdemeanor.

promises a

Penalty,

disfran

chisement.

employer to influence employe

367. SEC. 4. Any employer of any workmen, or any Illegal for agent, superintendent or overseer of any company or corporation employing workmen, or any person who- improperly. soever, who shall directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person in his behalf or by his direction, make use of or threaten to make use of any force, violence or restraint, or inflict or threaten to inflict by himself or by any other person any injury, damage, harm, or loss against any person or persons in his employ, in order to induce or compel such employee or employees to vote

Penalty.

Penalty for second offense.

Compulsory testimony.

or refrain from voting for any particular candidate or candidates at any election, or on account of such employee or employees having voted or refrained from voting for any particular candidate or candidates at any election, or who shall, by any sort of duress, constraint or improper influence or by any fraudulent or improper device, contrivance or scheme, impede, hinder or prevent the free exercise of the franchise of any voter at any election, or shall thereby compel, induce, or prevail upon any voter to vote for or against any particular candidate or candidates at any election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be sentenced to disfranchisement for a period of five years from the date of conviction.

368. SEC. 5. Any person who, having once been convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this act, shall again be convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this act, whether such conviction be for the same offense or not, shall, on such second conviction, be sentenced to disfranchisement and to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or both, at the discretion of the court.

369. SEC. 6. No person shall be excused from attending and testifying, or producing any books, papers or other documents before any court on any indictment for violation of any of the provisions of this act, upon the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to convict him of a crime or to subject him to a penalty or Incriminating forfeiture, but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced shall be received against him upon any criminal proceeding or action.

testimony not used against witness.

370. SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent Repealer. with the provisions of this act be and the same are

hereby repealed.

371. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect immediately.

Approved May 3, 1906.

CHAPTER 208.

An Act to define the crime of bribery and to provide for the punishment therefor.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

372. SEC. I. Any person who shall do any act herein- Bribery. after prohibited shall be deemed guilty of the crime of bribery and shall be punished therefor as hereinafter provided.

373. SEC. 2. No person shall give or agree to give for the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of a candidate for public office, or for the purpose of promoting or procuring the nomination of any person as a candidate for public office, any money or any valuable thing to be used for any of the purposes hereinafter enumerated.

No contri

butions or

promises.

ment.

(a) To provide or give or to pay, wholly or in part, Entertainthe expense of giving or providing any meat, drink, entertainment or provision to or for any person for the purpose of influencing that person or any other person to give or refrain from giving his vote at any election, or on account of any such person or any other person having voted or refrained from voting.

(b) To provide for the payment of rent for or for Clubs. the purpose of providing and fitting up any clubroom

for social or recreative purposes, or providing for uniforms for any organized club.

(c) To provide for the payment for the insertion in Literature.

Proviso; paid advertisements.

Not accept gift.

Penalty for violations.

Incriminating testimony not used against witness.

Construction of act.

Proviso.

any newspaper or magazine of any article tending to
influence any voter; provided, however, that this pro-
hibition shall not be construed to prohibit the insertion
of paid advertisements, which advertisements shall be
indicated by the words "This advertisement has been
paid for by
(inserting the name of the
person or persons paying for the same).

374. SEC. 3. No person shall accept any money or other valuable thing, the payment of which is prohibited by this act.

375. SEC. 4. Any person found guilty of bribery as hereinabove defined shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for the first offense be disfranchised for a period of two years from the date of such conviction, and for any subsequent offense shali be perpetually disfranchised, and in addition thereto the court in which such conviction is obtained, may, in its discretion, in case of a subsequent conviction, impose upon the person so convicted, the punishment now prescribed by law for a misdemeanor.

376. SEC. 5. No person called to testify in any proceedings under this act shall be liable to a criminal prosecution, either under this act or otherwise, for any matters or causes in respect to which he shall be examined, or to which his testimony shall relate, except to a prosecution for bribery committed in such testimony; nor shall any person, when called to testify in any trial for a violation of this act, be privileged to refuse to answer any questions which may be asked him, upon the ground that the same will tend to degrade or incriminate him.

377. SEC. 6. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to alter, modify, amend or repeal any statute of this State imposing any penalty for any offenses in connection with the holding of an election; provided, however, that this section shall not be construed to alter or modify the provisions of section five of this act.

378. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved May 3, 1906.