Art. 28. To prevent any violence or force being used at said elections, no persons shall come armed to any of them; and no muster of the militia shall be made on that day, nor shall any battalion or company give in their votes immediatley succeeding each other, if any other voter who offers to vote objects thereto; nor shall any battalion or company in the pay of the Continent, or of this or any other state, be suffered to remain at the time and place of holding the said elections, nor within one mile of the said places respectivley for twenty-four hours before the opening of said elections, nor within twenty-four hours after the same are closed. for as in any manner to impede the freely and conveniently carrying on the said election: Provided always, That every elector may in a peacable an dorderly manner give in his vote on the said day of election.