Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-03-13

cafes OF ina nled With the Secre-
tary of State.
SEC. 10. At least ten days before an
election to fill any public office to be
filled under the provisions of this bill, the
auditor of each county shall cause to be
published in one or more newspapers
within the county the nominations to Of
flee certified to him under the provisions
of this act. The auditor shall make such
publications daily, until the elections, in
counties where daily newspapers are
published; but if there be no daily news
paper published within the county, two
publications in each newspaper will be
sufficient; and if there be no paper pub
lished in any county, written or printed
notices shall be posted in not less than
three conspicuous places in each pre-
cinct. One of such publications in each
upon which such newspaper is issued be-
fore election.
SEC. IL. Whenever any person nomi-
mated for public office, as in this act pro.
vided, shall, at least twenty-five days be-
fore election, in a writing signed by him,
notifying the officer with whom the GER
tificate nominating him is by this act re-
quired to be filed that he declines such
nomination, such nomination shall be
void.
Sec. -. Should any person SO nomi-
mated die before the printing of the tick
J cts, or decline the nomination as in this
act provided, or should any certificate of
nomination be or become insufficient or
imperative from any cause, the vacancy
or vacancies thus occasioned may be filled
in the manner required for original NOM
nations. If the original nomination was
made by a party convention which had
delegated to a committee the power to
fill vacancies, the committee of the po-
htlcal party he represents may, upon the
occurring of such vacancy, proceed to
fill the same. The chairman and secre-
tary of such committee shall t%hereupon
make and file with the proper officer
a certificate setting forth the cause
of the vacancy, the name of the
person nominated, the office for which he
was nominated, the name of the person
for whom the new nominee is to be sub
stituted, the fact that the committee
was authorized to fill vacancies, and
such further information as is rec uired
to be given in an original certificate of
nomination. The certificate SO made
shall be executed in the manner pre-
scribed for the original certificate of
nomination, and shall have the same
force and effect as an original certificate
Of nomination. When such certificate
shall be filed with the Secretary of State,
he shall, in certifying the nominations
to the various auditors, insert the
name Of the person who has thus been
nominated to fill a vacancy in place of
that of he original nominee. And in
the event that he has already sent forth
his certificate, he shall forthwith certify
to the auditors of the proper counties
the name and place of residence of the
person SO nominated to fill a vacancy,
the office he is nominated for, the party
or political principal he represents, and
the name of the person for whom such
nominee is substituted. And any failure
to publish the name of a person or
persons SO substituted shall not invali-
date the election.
SEC. ID. When any vacancy occurs
before election day and after the print
ing of the tickets, and any person is nom
mated according to the provisions of this
act to fill such vacancy, the officer whose
duty it is to have the tickets printed and
distributed shall thereupon have printed
on a requisite number Of stickers the
name of such substituted candidate and
no other name, and shall mail them by
registered letter, or send by other reliable
method, to the judges OF election in the
various precincts affected by said va
duty it is made by the provisions of this
act to distribute the tickets, shall affix
such stickers in the proper place on each
ticket before it is given out to the cleo
tor.
SEC. IA. Whenever a proposed con-
stitution or constitutional amendment or
other question is to be submitted to the
people of the State for popular vote, the
Secretary of State shall duly, and not
less than thirty days before election, GER
tify the some to the auditor Of each
county in the State, and the auditor of
each county shall include the same in
the publication provided for in Section
10 of this act. Questions to be submit
ted to the people of a county shall be
advertised as provided for nominees for
Office by said section.
Sec. Is. Except as in this act other
wise provided, it shall be the duty of the
auditor of each county to provide printed
ballots for every election for public off
GERS in which electors, or any of the cleo
tors within the county, participate, and
to cause to be printed on the ballots the
name of every candidate whose name has
been certified to or filed with the audi
tor in the name provided for in this
act. Ballots other than those printed
by the respective county auditors, ac-
cording to the provisions Of this act,
shall not be cast or counted in any cleo
ton. Nothing in this act contained
shall prevent any voter from writing or
FASTING on his ballot the name of any
person for whom he desires to vote
for any Office, and such vote shall be
counted the same as if printed upon the
ballot and marked by the voter.
Sec. 16. (a) The chairman of the
board of supervisors in organized town
ships shall, by virtue of his office be in
spector of elections; in the case that the
township is composed of more than 800
voters, then the said chairman shall be
inspector of elections for that precinct in
which he lives, and shall have the power
of appointing the inspector in the other
precinct or precincts, which are the COM
ponent parts of the township of which
he is chairman. In all cities the senior