Sec. 18 <​17​>. There shall be allowed out of the city treasury to the several judges and clerks of election, such compensation, not exceeding two Dollars per day, as the city Council shall deem proper to allow; they shall also allow to the clerks of election such compensation, as they may deem just, for any stationery such clerk may have furnished for the purposes of election.

Sec. 18 If any judge of the election, or clerk, or any other officer or person, in any manner concerned in conducting the election, shall wilfully neglect, improperly delay, or refuse to perform any of the duties required by this ordinance, after having undertaken to perform such duties, he shall, on conviction thereof before the Mayor or municipal court, forfeit and pay to the city be fined in any sum not exceeding five <​one​> hundred dollars;— and if any such judge of the election, clerk, or other officer or person, in any wise concerned in conducting the election, shall knowingly admit any person to vote, not qualified according to law; or shall knowingly receive and count more then one vote for one person, at the same election for one office; or shall be guilty of fraud, corruption, or partiality, or manifest misbehavior in any matter or thing relating to said election; or shall refuse to receive the vote of any elector, who has a right according to law to vote at the polls; each and every person so offending, shall upon conviction thereof before the Mayor, or municipal court, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars <​for each & every offence;​> each of the aforesaid fines to be collected and appropriated in the name of, and for the benefit of the ; together with costs of suit.

Provided, that nothing in this ordinance shall be so construed as to prevent the judges of election from refusing to receive the vote of any person, when it shall be proved to the satisfaction of a majority of them, that in taking the said oath he shall have sworn falsely. [p. 10]