The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-10

and are legally qualified to yor,
for such candidates; said petition
may also designate, in not mor'
than three words, the title of til,
party or principle which the candidates
therein named represent, and shall be-
signed by legally qualified voters of tht
state, residing within the district or DO
litical division in and for which the Off
Ger or officers nominated are to be elected
equal in number to at least Que pei
centum of the entire vote cast at the last
preceding election for members OF the
general assembly in the state. county,
district or other division in and for which
the nominations are made; provided. that
when the nomination is for an office 60
be filled by the voters of the entire state,
the number of such signatures shall not
be less than eight hundred in the aggre-
gate for each candidate nominated in
said petitions; when the nomination by
such petition is for an offibe to be filed
by the voters of district, county city,
township or other division less
than the entire state, the petition
shall be signed by qualined vot-
ers of such district, county, city.
town or other division not less in number
than five for every one hundred votes cast
in such district, county, city, town or
other division at the next preceding cleo
ton for members of the general assem-
bly,; provided, however, that not more
than two hundred signatures shall be re-
quired TO any petition for any officers to
be elected save only SUCH as are to be
voted for by the voters of the state at
large: in case of first election to be held
in a newly -established election district,
division, county. city or ward, the num-
Der of fifty signatures 10 u petition
shall be sufficient to nominate a
candidate to be voted for only
in such election district or divis-
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signing petition shall add to his sigma
ture his place of residence. post office
address and street number, If any, and
shall, before an officer duly authorized to
take Acknowledgements and proofs OF
deeds, acknowledge his signature, and
that he is an elector and that
he has truly stated his resi-
dence and address; such voter
may sign one petition for
each officer and no more, but all the
names need not be signed to one petition;
before any petition shall be filed us here
matter provided, at least five of the voters
signing the same shall make oath before
duly qualified officer that the said pc
tition Is made in good faith, that the
atlantis verify believe oil the signatures
thereto TO be genuine and those of duly
qualified voters, and certificate that
such oath has been taken shall be en-
dorsed uuon or annexed to the petition
by the officer before whom the same is
made.
20. And be it enacted, Then when cleo
tors for president and vice president of
the United State are to be voted FOR, the
names of the candidates for president
and vice president. for whom the electors
named in any certificate or petition are
nominated to vote, may be included in
such certificate or petition, and when so
included the names OF such presidential
and vice presidential candidates, together
with the party names and political aD-
pellations, names OF other candidates for
any offices, il any, designated in the GER
tiiicate or petition, shall be printed upon
the ballots in the manner hereinafter d.
reeted.
80 And be it enacted, That all certif-
Gates of nomination, and all petitions
naming candidates for office TO be filed
py voters of the entire state, or any dis
Lrict or division thereof greater than u
single county shall be filed with the sec
Rotary ot state. TT least forty days previ-
Gus to the election at which the candi-
dates nominated are to be voted for; all
certificates and petitions naming eandi-
duties for general assembly, and candi-
dates to be voted for by all the voters OF
a single county, or more than a single
subdivision thereof, shall be filed with
the clerk of thr respective counties
wherein the officers nominated are to be
the election at which the candidates nom
mated are to be voted for; all other certf-
ficates aud petitions shall be filed with
the clerks of the respective municipalities
wherein the candidates nominated are to
be chosen, at least fifteen days before the
election whereat they are to be voted for;
all certificates and were petitions
when filed shall be open.
under proper regulation, for pub
lie inspection. and the same shall be
preserved for one year; candidates nomi-
mated for any office In any certificate or
petition shall manifest their acceptance
of such nomination by written accept
ance thereof, signed by their own hand,
upon or annexed to and filed with such
certificate or petition, or il the same per-
son be named for the same office in more
than one petition, then annexed to one of
such petitions; the name OF any candi-
date who shall fail in such manner to sig
Nifty his acceptance of the nomination
shall not be printed upon the ballots.
81 And be it enacted, That it shall be
the duty of the secretary of state, ut least
twenty DAYS before any election whereat
any candidate nominated on any certifi-
cate or petition filed with him is to be
voted for, to make and certify. under his
hand and seal of office, and forward to
the clerks of the several counties OF the
state, statement of all the candidates
lOutlbttAtA ny bcfliuCdtc VI pCSieiOlo tllSu
in his Office for whom voters with
in any such county may be by
law entitled to vote at such election;
such statement, in addition to the names
of the candidates for president and vice
president of the United States, ii any
such have been included in any certificate
or petition filed with him. shall also con-
tain the names and residences of all other
candidates, the offices for which they are
respectively nominated and the names of
the parties by which or the political APP
peilation under which they are respec-
lively nominated; candidates nominated
by petition, without distinctive political
applications, shall be certified as indie
pendent candidates.
81. And be it enacted, That except as
in this act otherwise provided. separate
printed ballots of the KING and descrip-
ton hereinafter directed, shall be pro-
vided at public expense for each party or
group of petitioners having candidates
to be voted for at any election for public
officers within this state or any subdivis-
ion thereof; it shall be duty of the county
clerk of each county to provide said bal
lots in all cases where the names of any
candidates to be voted for at any election
to be held within his county are certified
to him by the secre tary of state or in
cluded in any certificate or petition of
nomination originally filed with him as
such county clerk; in cases of election
within and for single municipality of
any county where the certificate or petit
ton of nomination is. pursuant to this
act. to be filed with the clerk of such
municipality, it shall be the duty of such
municipal clerk TO provide said ballots;