Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-11-26

Approved March 10, 1891.
The People OF The State of Nevada, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act IS follows:
SECTION 1. All ballots cast In elections
fo- public officers within this State shall
bs printed and distributed at public ex-
psnse, as hereinafter provided. The
printing Of general tickets aud cards OF
instruction for the electors OF each county,
and the delivery OF the same to the eiec-
tion officers, as provided for in this Act,
shall be 9 county charge, the payment oil
which shall be provided for in the same
manner a. the payment OF osher county
expenses, and in case Of separate elections
for city, town or district officers, the print
ing and delivery OF tickets and cards OF
instruction shall be charged upon the city,
town or district in which said tickets and
cards sre to be used, the payment OF
which shall DO provided for in the same
manner as the pay OF other city,
county or district expenses.
SEo. 2. Auy convention, as hereinafter
dsined, hsld for the purpose OF making
nominations for public office, and also
electors to the number hereinafter speci-
fed. may nominate candidates for public
Offices, 30 be filed by e~leetion within the
State. A convention within the meaning
OF this Act is so organized sssemb!age oil
delegates representing a political party,
which, a. the last election, before the
holding OF such convention, polled ct
least three per cent OF the entire vote cast
10 the State, county, distrie. or other polit-
ical division, for which the nomination is
made.
SEC. ;. All nominations made by such
convention shall bs certified a. follows:
The certificate of nomination, which must
be in writing, shall contain the name OF
each person nonins ted, his residence and
oliee for which no is nominated, and shall
designate the party or principle which
slch convention represents. IL shall be
signed by the Chair man and Secretary OF
such convention, who shall add to their
signatures their respective places OF resi-
dence, and make oath before an officer
authorized TO administer the same, that
the matters stated in such certificate are
trus to the best Of their knowledge and
belief. aud q certificate OF the said oath
shall be annexed 10 said certificate Of
nomination.
SEC. 4. A candidate for public Office
may be nominated otherwise than by q
, onvention in the manner following: A
, srtiicate OF nomination containing the
name n the candidate 10 be nominated,
with the other information required TO be
given in the certificate provided for in Sec
tioa three OF this Act, shall be signed by
electors residing within the district or
political division for which candidates are
10 be presented, equal in number to at
least three per cen. OF tie entire vote cast
at the last preceding election in the State,
district or political division for which the
nomination is to be msds; provided, that
such certificate shall not be valid unless
sigued by three voters. Said signatures
need not ell be appended TO one paper, but
each signer shall add 10 bis signature his
place OF residence. One Of the signers OF
each such certificate shall swear that the
statements therein made are true to the
best of his knowleds 70 aud belief. and GER
tidcAte OF such oath shall be annexed.
Suoh certificate OF nomination shall have
the same effect as a certificate OF lomina. |
ton made by q party convention.
SEC. 8. Certificates OF nomination OF
candidates for offices to be voted for by
tho electors OF the entire State, shall be
fled with the Secretary OF State. Certi-
fcates Of nomination of candidates for all
other public Off oes shall bs filed with the
Clerks OF ths respective counties wherein
the officers are TO be voted for, aad where
a district embraces more than one county,
sach certificates shall be filed with the
Clerk OF each of said counties.
SEC. s. No certificate OF nomination
shall contain the name OF moro than one
candidate for each Office to be filled. No
person shall Join in nominating, under
the provision Of Section 4 OF this Act.
more than one nominee for each Office to
be filed, and no person who has voted In
a convention, either in person or by proxy,
for or against q candidate for any Office,
shall join in nominating, in any manner,
any other nominee for that Office. and no
person shall accept q nomination to more
than one Office.
SEC Z. Certificates of nomination re.
quired to be fled with the Secretary OF
State shall not be filed more than sixty
days nor less than forty days before the
day OF election when the nomination is
made by a convention, and not more than
sixty days nor less than thirty days before
the day Of election when the nomination
IL made under the provisions of section
four OF this Act. should a vacancy occur
from any cause in the list Of nominees for
any office. such vacancy may he filled a. any
time before the day of election by the con-
vention, or by a committee to which the
convention has delegated the power to
fill vacancies, or By petitions, as provided
in section four Of this Act. The Chair
man and Secretary OF the convention, or
OF such committee. or such petitioners
shall make aud file with the proper officer
q certificate, setting forth the name OF the
person nominated to fill such vacancy, the
ofiics for which he Is nominated, the name
of the psrson for whom the new nominee ia
is to be substituted, and such further infor-
nation as ia required TO ba given in an
original certificate Of nomination. When
annh narttfaaka Ia Hlad tha nefaar witb
whom it is filed shall substitute the name of
the person therein for the original nomi
nse. by printing, il practicable. or by writ
ing the name OF the person thus substi-
tute1.
SEC. 8. Not less than twenty five days
before an election to fill any public Office
the Secretary OF State shall certify to the
County Clerk OF each county within the
State the name Of each person. aud the
namo Of the office for which he is nomin-
ated, as specified in the certificate Of
nomination filed with him.
SEC. o.. Not less than ten days before
an election to fill any public Office or Of
fices, the County Clerk shall cause to be
published all the nominations certified to
or iled with him. Said nominations shall
be published in a newspaper printed with
in the county. When no newspaper is
printed within the county. the publication
shall be made by posting q copy Of the
ballot 10 q pnblic place in each election
precinct within toe county. one of which
copies shall be posted at the courthouse
door. When publication is made by priot-
ing in newspapers. al least two publications
by such newspapers shall be required. one
OF which shall appear In the last regular
issue OF such paper before election day.
SEC. 10. When a proposed Constitution,
constitutional amendment or other ques
tion ia TO BIO submitted for popular vote,
the Secretary OF State shall certify the
same 10 the several County Clerks. and said
County Clerks shall publish the same as
provided for in section 9 Of this Act.
SEC. IL. Ii shall be the duty OF the