for a period of twenty days from the election, unless otherwise ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Sec. 726. Penalties for violation of election laws where voting machines are used. All laws of this state applicable to elections where voting is done otherwise than by machines, and all penalties prescribed for violation of such laws, shall apply to elections where voting machines are used, in so far as they are not in conflict with the provisions of this chapter. And voting machines may be purchased by boroughs, or used in borough elections, in which case the duties and privileges of the various town and city officials herein specified shall be exercised by the corresponding borough officials.

Sec. 727. Penalty for failure of official to perform duties. Any public officer or any election official upon whom any duty is imposed by this chapter who shall wilfully omit or neglect to perform such duties, or shall do any act prohibited herein for which punishment is not otherwise provided herein, shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three years or both.

Sec. 728. Penalty for tampering with machine before or during election. Any person, not being an election official, who, during any election or before any election, after a voting machine has had placed upon it the ballot label for such election, shall tamper with such machine, disarrange, deface, injure or impair the same in any manner, or mutilate, injure or destroy any ballot label placed thereon or to be placed thereon, or any other ap

pliance used in connection with such machine, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall be imprisoned for not more than five years.

Sec. 729. Making of a false affidavit, perjury. Any person who shall knowingly or wilfully make a false affidavit under any of the provisions of this chapter, shall be deemed guilty of perjury.

Sec. 730. Penalty for interference with electors in voting or invading secrecy of ballot. Any person who shall induce or attempt to induce any elector to write, paste or otherwise place on an irregular ballot voted on a voting machine at any election, any name, sign or device of any kind, as a distinguishing mark by which to indicate to another how such elector had voted, or shall enter into or attempt to form any agreement or conspiracy with any person to induce or attempt to induce electors or any elector, to so place any distinguishing mark on such ballot, or shall attempt to induce any elector to do anything with a view to enabling another person to see or know for what ticket or for what persons or any of them, such elector votes on such machine, or shall enter into or attempt to form any agreement or conspiracy to induce any elector to do any act for the purpose of enabling another person or persons to see or know what ticket, or for what person or persons, such elector votes, or shall attempt to induce any person to place himself in such position, or to do any other act for the purpose of enabling him to see or know for what ticket or candidates any elector other than himself votes on such machine, or shall himself attempt to

get in such position to do any act so that he will be enabled to see or know how any elector other than himself votes on such machine, or shall do or fail to do any act which shall invade or interfere with the secrecy of the voting or cause the same to be invaded or interfered with, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall be imprisoned not more than five years.

Sec. 731. Tampering with machine by election official. Any election official who, with intent to cause or permit any voting machine to fail to correctly register all votes cast thereon, tampers with or disarranges such machine in any way or any part or appliance thereof, or who causes said machine to be used or consents to its being used for voting at any election with knowledge of the fact that the same is not in order, or not perfectly set and adjusted so that it will correctly register all votes cast thereon, or who, for the purpose of defrauding or deceiving any voter or of causing it to be doubtful for what ticket or candidate or candidates or proposition any vote is cast, or causing it to appear upon said machine that votes cast for one ticket, candidate or proposition were cast for another ticket, candidate or proposition, removes, changes or mutilates any ballot label on said machine or any part thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years or both.

Sec. 732. Penalty for false return by election official. Any election official who shall, at the close

of the polls, purposely cause the vote registered on the machine to be incorrectly taken down as to any candidate or proposition voted on, or who shall knowingly cause to be made or signed any false statement, certificate or return of any kind of such vote, or who shall knowingly consent to any such act, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years or both.

Sec. 733. Penalty for circulating misleading instructions. Any person who, with intent to defraud any elector of his vote, or cause any elector to lose his vote or any part thereof, shall give in any way, or shall print, write or circulate, or shall cause to be written, printed or circulated, any improper, false, misleading or incorrect instructions or advice or suggestions as to the manner of voting on any machine, the following of which or any part of which would cause any elector to lose his vote or any part thereof, or would cause any elector to fail in whole or in part to register or record the same on the machine for the candidates of his choice, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than five years or both.

Sec. 734. Experimental use of voting machines. The board of selectmen of any town, the common council of any city and the warden and burgesses of any borough may provide, for experimental use at any election in one or more polling places, a machine approved by the voting machine commissioners, without a formal adoption or purchase

thereof; and its use at such election, if used subject to all of the requirements of this chapter, shall be as valid for all purposes as if formally adopted.

Sec. 735. When term "selectmen" to apply to other officials. Wherever the duties imposed by this chapter upon selectmen are imposed by the charter of any city upon any other officer or officers, the term "selectmen" as used herein shall be construed to apply to such other officer or officers, and he or they are hereby vested with all the powers and duties and shall be subject to all the obligations imposed by this chapter upon such selectmen.

House Bill No. 890.

CHAPTER 237

An Act Submitting a Proposed Amendment to the Constitution Concerning Appropriations.

Constitutional amendment. Whereas, at a general assembly of the state of Connecticut, held at Hartford on the Wednesday after the first Monday of January, 1921, the house of representatives did pass a certain resolution, therein and thereby proposing a certain amendment to the constitution of the state, which amendment was, by order of said house, continued to the present session of the general assembly, and was published in the manner prescribed by the eleventh article of the constitution, and,

Amendment concerning appropriations. Whereas, at this present session of the general assembly twothirds of each house thereof have approved said