Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-07

| ers otherwise thnn by conventions or pri-
/ mary elections shall be filed by the persons
| or some of them whose names are signed
| 70 the certificates OF nominations, and II
! such nominations are made by a primary
election the certificates thereof shall De
made by the Chairman and Secretary Oh
| the Executive Committee OF the party
making the same, and they may be certi-
| fed and published in a newspaper, and
copies of said paper may be filed as here
| inbefore provided for. Certificates OF NOM
| ination of candidates for Representatives
| in Congress, for Judges of Circuit or other
| courts of record. and for State Senator'S,
| shall be certified and filed by the Chair
man and Secretary OF the District Execu-
tive Committee of the party making them,
whether they be made by convention or
primary election, and the provisions nerein
contained in regard to the PRINTING! OF neml-
nations shall apply TO all such NOMINATIONS
| Certificates of nomination Of candidates Tor
the House of Delegates and for all county
offices shall be made and filed by the coun-
| w executive committee OF the party max
| ing them. Certificates Of the nomination
Of candidates for offices to be filled by the
voters Of a magisterial district. snail De
made and filed by the said magisterial dis
| trict committee. or by the chairman and
secretary OF the county executive commit
| tee. And certificates of nomination Tor
municipal officers shall be made ana MED
| by committee of the party making tue
nominations appointed for the purpose; or
| by the president and secretary OF tne con-
vention making such nominations. Every
such certificate shall be filed with the said
clerk. at least twenty days before the day
| fixed by law for the election of the persons
nominated.
26. State, Congressional, Judicial, Sena-
torial district and County Executive COM
mittees shall be appointed by each pollu-
cal party making nominations OF candl-
dates for Office and it shall be the duty OF
the committees so appointed. to do and per-
| form the duties required OF them by tnls
chapter.
%. In case it shall appear to the clerk
of the circuit court of any county, by salts
| factory evidence that nominations nave
been made in conformity with the provis-
ions of this chapter, and, no certificate
thereof has been received by him, he shall
include such nominations among the names
| of candidates to be printed upon the oaIlotS
as hereinafter provided.
2S. The certificates of nominations so
filed in the Office OF the clerk OF the circuit
court. shall be preserved therein by him,
until ten DAYS after the next succeeding
election, when he may destroy the same
VACANCIES N NoMINATIoNs-How FILLED.
90 In case of a vacancy in nomination by
death, resignation or otherwise, IL may be
filed aud certified in the same manner as
originally made and certified: but II such
vacancy be not so filled within twenty days
next preceding the election, If 1T be an Of
fee 10 be filed by the voters OF the entire
State, or within ten days preceding an
election for any other office, If said COM
mittee fail or refuse to meet, IL shall be
lawful for the chairman of the committee
of the party, of which said candidate was
member for the State, circuit. county, dis
trict or other political division in which
such vacancy occurs, to NIL such vacancy
by nomination, make certificate thereof,
and file the same with the same officer with
whom the original certificate Of nomina-
ton was. should, or might have been legal
ly filed; and it shall be the duty OF the OH
Ger with whom such certificate is hled 10
receive aud proceed with the same IN all
respects as an original nomination.
If such nomination to fill such vacancy be
not so made and certified to the clerk OF
circuit court before the printing OF the
ballots herein provided for, it shall be law
full for the Chairman Of said State. Circuit,
County, District, or other political division
committee to provide the commissioners Of
election of each precinct, in which such
candidate is TO be voted for, with a num-
Der of pastors containing only the name OF
such candidate at least equal to the num-
Der of ballots provided for each precinct,
but no pastors shall be given to or received
by any person except such commissioners
of election; and it shall be the duty Of the
commissioners of election to deliver such
pastors to the polling clerks, VINO shall, in
the presence of said commissioners, put
one of such pastors in careful and proper
manner, and in the proper place, on each
ballot, before said polling clerks shall sign
their names thereon.
PUBLICATION OF NOMINATIONS.
80. At least ten days before an election
to fill any public Office, at which the voters
of any county are entitled to vote, the
clerk of the Circuit Court of such county,
shall cause to be published in two news
papers, if such there be published within
the county. representing the political
parties which at the last preceding general
election cast the largest number OF votes in
the State, or if there be only one news
paper published therein, then, In such news
paper, the nominations to office, certified
to him and filed In his Office, excepting
nominations for Office TO be filled by the
voters of any subdivision less than a
county.
He shall mako no less than two publica-
tions in each Of such newspapers before
the election, one Of which in each newspa-
per, shall be upon the last day upon which
such newspaper is issued before the cleo
ton. II there be no newspaper published
in the county, the Clerk of the Circuit
Court shall at least ten days before the cleo
ton, cause to be posted in his Office, and at
some public place in each voting precinct
in the county, printed notice Of the nomin-
alton to office, certified to and fled by MIN
as aforesaid Whenever IL shall a pear by
affidavit. that an error or omission has &C.
CURED in the publication OF the names, or
description of candidates nominated for
public Office, or in the printing Of the bal
lots. the board of ballot commissioners
shall correct such error
Prooided. That nothing in this chapter
contained shall be taken or construed to
prohibit or prevent, any person from run
ming as an independent candidate for any
Office TO be filled. and TO have all legalvotes
cast at any election for such independent
candidate counted sl]ud and certified with
like effect as other votes.
81. The list of nominations published
and pasted by the Clerks OF the Circuit
Courts of the respective counties, shall be
arranged in the order and form in which
thep will be printed upon the ballots.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
30. In each county in the State. the
Clerk of the Circuit Court and two persons
by him appointed, one from each of the
two political parties which cast the largest
number of votes in the State at the last
preceding general election, shall consti-
tute board of ballot commissioners, Of
which board the said clerk shall be chair
man. 1t shall be the duty Of such chair
man to notify the chairmen Of
the respective county executive COM
mlttees of said two parties, at least five
DAYS before making said appointments, of
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