The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-06-18
CITY PRIMARY ELECTION.
Plan Adopted by the Cisy Central Com.
mittee FOR the Conservative Demo-
cratic Party OF Richmond.

uC Nits Ncutidt OOnmlttee met Itsl
night and adopted the following plan fol
the primary election TO be held June 30th
Resolved. That primary election shall
be held on the 30th day Of June, 1881, fol
the purpose OF ascertaining the sentiments
OF the Conservatives Of this city In relation
TO their choice for candidates for Governor,
four members OF the House Of Delegates 10
represent this city. and two senators TO rep.
resent ihis city and the county Of Henrso
conformity, and five persons residents Of the
respective wards in which they shall be
voted for to constitute the City Conserva
tive Committee.
Polls shall be opened at one place IN
each OF the wards OF the city, except In
Jackson and Clay Wards, where there shall
be two each, and IL shall be the duty Of the
ward superintendents to select some con-
venient place in each Of their respective
wards at which the primary election may
be held. The polls shall be opened at sun.
rise and closed at sunset on the day named
for the election.
The City Committee shall select one Judge
and two clerks for each precinct, who shall
be paid 80 each by the treasurer upon the
certificate Of the secretary OF the City Com.
mittee that all registration. and pol.boOks
and other papers entrusted to them have
been returned to him.
WHO CAN VOTE.
All duy-registered white Conservative
voters who have paid their State clpitatiOn-
AK for the year 1880, and who supported
Hancock and English on either ticket, Of
which facts the judges must be satisfied,
are invited to participate In this primary
election.
The City Committee shall provide printed
tickets to the number OF 10000, through the
order OF its chairman, containing the names
In alphabetical order OF all persons who
shall have announced themselves or been
announced by their written authority as
candidates for the various positions named
to tho chairman OF the City Committee on or
before the 9th day Of June, 1881, and shall
have paid to the treasurer Of this committee
on or before said 9th OF June, 1881, such
amount as may be assessed against him for
the purposes of paying the expenses Of this
primary election. Such assessments shall
be as follows: For each candidate
for House OF Delegates, $40; for each
candidate for Senate, $40. No other
ticket except the one printed by
order Of this Committee, through its chair
and such tickets shall not be delivered by
him to the various ward superintendents
until the night preceding the day OF the
said primary election, and shall not be dis.
tributed for use to the individual voters
until the morning OF the same. There
must necessarily be two tickets printed,
one headed "For Governor, House of Dele.
gates, and Senate (which can be used at
~ in, Of ha cft
the other headed severa!ly For City Con-
servative Committee" from Clay, Jackson,
Monroe, Madison, Jefferson, and Marshall
Wards, and no ticket OF such last-named
character can be used at any precinct in
any ward except the ward for which it
is specially intended.
The name OF no person snail be placed
upon the tickets printed by order OF this
committee who is not at the time qualified
voter according to this plan, OF which fact
satisfied.
JUDGES OF ELECTION.
The Judges OF election shall receive from
each voter qualified under this plan his bal
lot with his name written on the back Of
it) containing the name or names OF the
person or persons not exceeding five for
which he wishes 10 vote for for City COM
mittee; and said judges, after seeing that
the said ballot properly belongs to the ward
in which it is offered and that it contains no
more names voted for than the five to be
selected from said ward, shall immediately
place the same on a file provided for the
purpose. III the ticket offered contains
more than five names, the voter will be
privileged to correct his ticket to not less
than one nor more than five.
The said judges shall receive from each
voter qualified under this plan ticket con-
talnng the name or names OF the person or
persons he wishes to vote for for Governor,
House OF Delegates, and Senate. Upon the
back of the ticket the person shall write or
cause his own name 10 be written. The
Judge shall read aloud the name OF the per-
son offering to vote, and then shall proclaim
the name or names Of the candidate or can
didates voted for. IL there are more names
of candidates on the ticket which the per-
son is offering TO vote than each voter is en-
titled to vote for for each OF The several
Cue for Governor, four
for House of Delegates, and two for Sem
ate-the voter will be privileged to correct
his ticket to the number to be voted for, or
to any number OF candidates not less than
for. The clerks shall record the name OF
the voter and person or persons voted for,
and string the ticket as a q means Of verify
ing the poll-books.
Immediately otter the polls are closed the
Judge and the clerks OF election, in the pre-.
sence OF the superintendent Of the werd in
which such polls are held, IL he be present,
and in the presence of two spectators,
should they desire to be present, shall as
certain the number OF votes cast for Gov
ernor, House OF Delegates, and Senate I;
which number should correspond with the
number of names on the poll-book. The
Judge and clerks OF election shall then make
out on the poll.book q certificate OF the
number OF votes cast for each candidate,
which certificate shall be signed by the
Judge and attested by the clerks, and re-
turned as soon as practicable, together with
The ballots and other books and papers, TO
The secretary OF the City Committee.
COUNTING THE BALLOTS.
Said Judge and clerks shall then make out
A list Of the persons voted for as members
Of the City Conservative Committee, and the
names on the ballots shall be called out in
he hearing OF the superintendent OF such
ward Qf presenD in which such list was
voted for, and OF Two spectators should
hey desire to be present. AS each name is
,alled out the clerks shall place mark OPP
)osite the same name on the list made out
~ them. A certificate OF the number Of
,otes received by each candidate for MEN,
Der Of the City Committee shall be made
,ut on the taly.sheet, which shall be sign.
d By the Judge and attested by the clerks.
md the same, together with the ballots for
members Of the City Committee, shall be
eturned 10 the secretary Of the City Com
nittee as soon as practicable after the elec-
ion.
To facilitate the counting Of ballots the |
udge at any election precinct may, II he SO
esire, select from the spectators present
nv three qualified voters OF their ward