Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-09-24

TApproved March 10, 1897
| The People of The State OF Nevada, repre-
septed in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
SECTION I. All ballots cast in elections
| for public officers within this State shall he
printed and distributed at public expense. as
hereinafter provided. The printing OF gen.
eral tickets and cards of instruction for the
electors of each county, and The delivery OF
the same TO the election officers, as provided
for in this Act, shall be county charge, the
payment of which shall be provided for IN
the same manner as the payment OF other
county expenses, and in case OF separate
elections for city, town or district officers,
the printing and delivery of tickets and
cards of instruction shall be a charge upon
the city, town or district in which said tick
cts and cards are to be used. the payment Of
which shall be provided for in the same
manner as the payment OF other city, coun-
ly or district expenses.
SEC. 2. Any convention, as hereinafter
defined, held for the purpose of making
nominations for public office, and also cleo
tors to the number hereinafter specified, may
nominate candidates for public offices, to be
filled by election within the State. A con-
vention within the meaning OF this Act is
an organzed assemblage Of delegates rep
resenting a political party, which. at the
last election, before the holding Of such
convention, poled at least three per cent.
CT the entire vote cast in the State, county,
district or other political division, for which
the nomination is made.
SEC. 4. All nominations made by any
such convention shall be certihed as follows:
The certificate Of nomination, which must
be in writing, shall contain the name OF each
person nominated, his residence and the
offlce foi which he is nominated, and shall
designate the parry Or principle which such
convention represents. 1t shall be signed
by the Chairman and Secretary Of such con-
vcntion, who shall add 10 their signatures
their respective places of residence, and
make oath before an officer authorized to
administer the same, that the matters stated
IN such certificate are true 10 the best Of
their knowledge and belief, and certificate
of the said oath shall be annexed to said
certihcate of nomination.
SEC. d. A candidate for public office may
be nominated Otherwise than by a convrn-
uon in the following manner: certihcat
OF nomination containing the name OF the
candidate TO be nom, mated, with the Other
information required 10 be given in the cor
tihGale provided Tor in secuon three of this
Act, shall be signed by electors residing
within the district or political division for
" hich candidates are 10 be presented, equal
in number to at least three per cent oil the
entire vote cast al the last preceding cleo
ton m the STATE, district or political divi,-
ion for which the nomination Is 10 be made;
provided, that such certincate shall not be
valid unless signed by three voters. SAID
signatures need not all be appended to one
paper, but each Signer shall add 10 his sig
nature his place Of resldence. One OF the
| signers OF each such certificate shall swear
that the ,la emenls therein made are true TO
| he best Of h,s know edge and belief, and a
cerIiucaIe of such oalh shall be annexed
Such certificate Of nomination shall have
the same effect as a certificate OF nomina-
tiun made by party convention.
SEC s Certificates OF nomination Of
candidates for offices 10 be vot, Tor by the
electors of the entire State, snail he nled
wllh the Secretary o. Sac Certificates OF
nomination OF candidates for all ogher pub
| lie offices shall be flied with the Clerks OF
the respective counties wherein the Officers
are TO be voted for, and where district en-
| b aces more than one county, such certificate
shall be filed with the Clerk of each of SAID
counties.
| SEC 8. No certificate of nomination shall
contain the name of more than one candl-
dale Tor each office to be filled. No person
| shall JOIN in nominating, under the provIs.
ions of section of this Act, more than one
nominee for each office TO be filled, and no
person who has voted in a convention, eth
er in person or by proxy, Tor or against any
Candidate for any office, shall join in noml-
nanng, in any manner, any other nominee
for that Office, and no person shall accept a
nomination TO more than one office
| SEC. 7. Ceruhcates OF nomination re-
qured TO be filed with the Secretary Of State
shall be filed not more than sixty days nor
less than forty days before the day oil cleo
ton, when the nomination is made by a con-
vention, and not more than sixty days nor
less than thirty days before the day OF cleo
| ton, when the nomination is made under
the provisions of section four OF this Act.
! Certificates OF nomination required 10 be
| hled with the County Clerks shall be filed
not more than tfy days nor less than thirty
days before the day OF election, when the
nomination is made by convention, and
not more than fifty days nor less than TWEEN
~ days before the day of election. when the
nomination is made under the provisions OF
section four OF this Act. Should vacancy
occur, rom any cause, in the list OF nomi-
nees Tor any office, such vacancy may be
hlled at any lime before the day of election
by the convention, or by a committee to
which the convention has delegated the
power 10 I'LL such vanances, or by petition
ers, as provided in section four OF this Acl
The Chairman and Secretary of the conven-
ton or OF such committee, or such petition
eIs, shall make, and he with the prop
othcer, cerincate, setting forth the name
OF the person nominated TO I'LL such vacancy,
the office for which he is nominated, rs
name OF The person for whom the new nomi.
nee is 10 be substituted, and such fur. her
information as is required 10 be gwen in an
original certificate OF nomination. When
such certificate is filed, the officer with
whom 1t is filed shall substitute the name
OF the person therein for the original num-
nee, by printing, if practicable, on by wit
ing he name of he person then substituted
SEC. 3. Not less than twenty-five DAYS
| be tore an eleCtion IN FIJI snv ,,,lt,a m.