Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Nev. County, Ark.) 1885-1???, 1891-03-19
THE NEW ELECTION LAW.
Continued from last week.

! Sec. 10. All election ballots usct
in any presidential, congressional
state, district, county, township, OF
, municipal election in this State, eth
er general or special shall be pro
vided at county expense by the
County Election Commissioners OF
the counties in which they are used
respectively; except the ballot;
used exclusively in municipal elec
tions, which shall be provided by the
Commissioners at the expense of the
cities and Incorporated towns in
which they are used, respectively.
Sec. 20. The County election
Commissioners Of each county in the
State shall, in due time for each gen.
eral or special election, provide for
each election precinct, and each ward
of city or incorporated town in his
| eouuey Ohc Huuulcu anu Hlty Oai-
lots for each fifty or fraction of fifty
electors voting thereat at the last
proceeding election; and no ballot
shall be received or counted IN any
election to which this act applies
except it be provided by the County
Election Commissioners as herein
prescribed. All ballots cast and not
included in the count made by the
election judges for want of conform
ity to the provisions of this act, shall
be preserved and sealed in a separ-
ate package, and be returned to the
County Election Commissioners.
Sec. y. All election ballots pro-
vided by the County Election Com
missioners Of any county in the State
shall be alike, and shall be printed
in plain type; and shall contain in
the proper place the name of every
candidate whose nomination for any
office to be filed at that election has
been certified to the said Commits
sioners, as provided for in this act,
and shall not contain the name of
any candidate or person which has
not been SO certified. Below the
names of the candidates for each Of
flee nominated by the organized par
ties, as well as those nominated by
electors, shall be left blank space
large enough to contain as many
names IN writing as there are offices
to be filed.
Sec. p. The nomination Of can
didates shall be certified in the fol-
lowing manner: BY the chairman
and secretary Of any convention of
delegates, or of the canvassing board
of any primary election held by au.
thority OF any organized political
party in the State, or ub-division
thereof, in which such convention or
primary election is held and also,
by electors Of the State, district,
county, township, ward Of city or
incorporated town for which the
nomination is made. PrOrided, i,
That the number of signatures of
electors SO required shall not he less
than fifty, and more than one thous-
and, for the State or any district or
county, and not less than ten, nor
more than fifty, for any township,
or ward Of q city or Incorporated
town, All certificates OF nomination
made by the chairman and secreta-
ries of conventions, or of canvassing
boards of primary elections, shall be
duly acknowledged before an officer
authorized by law to take acknowl-
edgements. The said certificate OF
nomination shall be accompanied by
the receipt of the Treasurer or Col
lector of each county in which any
candidates shall be voted for, for the
following amounts namely: Candi-
dates for offices TO be voted for by
electors oi the entire State, fifty
cents each; candidates for offices to
be voted for by the electors OF a
district composed of more than one
county, except members OF Congress,
three dollars; candidates for Repre-
sentatives in Congress. ten dollars
candidates for offices to be voted
for by the electors of single
county, three dollars; candi-
dates ior offices to be voted for by
the electors OF township, one dol
lar. These several amounts shall be
placed 10 the credit Of the fund for
general county expenses. Candi-
dates for offices to be voted for by
the electors Of any incorporated town
or city, shall present the receipt OF
.ba treasurer or collector of such
municipality for the sum of one dol