Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-11-26

TApproved March I3, 1891.
The People of the State Of Nevada, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
| SECTION 7. 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 ofhcersi
the printing and delivery OF tickets and
cards of instruction shall be charge upon
The city, town. or district in which said tick.
cts and cards are to be used. the pay ment
which shall be provided for in the same
manner as the payment of other city, coun-
| ty or district expenses.
SEC. a. 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, 10 be
filled by election within the State. con-
vention within the meaning Of this Act Is
an organized assemblage Of delegates rep
resenting a political party, which, at the
last election, before the holding Of such
convention, polled al least three per cent
OF the entire vote cast in the STATE, county,
district or other political division, ior which
the nomination Is made.
SEC 4. All nominations made by any
such convention shall be certified as follows:
The cerilhcaie Of nomination, which must
be IN whiting, shall contain the name OF each
person nominated, his residence and the
Office fo winch 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-
vention, 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 TO the best oil
their knowledge and belief, and a certificate
of the said oath shall be annexed to said
certificate Of nomination.
SEC. 4. A candidate for public office may
be nominated otherwise than by a conyen-
zion in the following manner: certidcat'
of nomination containing the name of the
candidate to be nominated, with the other
information required to he given in the GER
tihtate provided for in section three Of this
Act, shall be signed by electors residing
| within the district or political division Tor
which candidates are to be presented, equal
| in number to al least three per cent. OF the
entire vote cast al the last preceding cleo
ton IN the State, district or political diVs-
| ion for which the nomination is TO be made;
provided, that such certificate 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 residence. One Of the
| signers of each such certificate shall swear
| that the statements therein made are true TO
the best OF his knowledge and belief, and
certificate of such oath shall be annexed.
Such certificate Of nomination shall have
the same effect as a certificate of nomina.
lion made by party convention.
| SEC s Certificates OF nomination Of
candidates for offices 10 be voted for by the
electors Of the entire State, snail be filed
with the Secretary OF Stale Certificates Of
nomination OF candidates for all other pub
| lie offices shall be filed with the Clerks OF
the respective counties wherein the officers
are to be voted for, and where district en-
braces more than one county, such certificate
shall be filed with the Clerk OF each of said
counties.
SEC e. No certificate of nomination shall
contain the name of more than one candi-
dale for each office to be filled. Nc person
shall join in nominating, under the provis-
ions of section a Of this Act, more than one
nominee for each Office 10 be filled, and no
person who has voted in convention, eth
er in person or by proxy, for or against any
candidate for any Office, shall join in nomi-
mating, in any manher, any other nominee
for that Office, and no person shall accept a
nomination to more than one office.
SEC. 7. Certificates OF nomination re-
quired TO be filed with the Secretary Of State
shall be filed not more than sixty days nor
less than forty days before the day OF cleo
ton, when the nomination is made by 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
fled with the County Clerks shall be filed
not more than fifty 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 twen-
ty days before the day of election, when the
nomination is made under the provisions Of
section four Of this Act. Should vacancy
occur, from any cause, in the list OF noml.
nees for any office, such vacancy may be
filled at any time before the day Of election
by the convention, or by a committee Il
which the convention has delegated The
power to fill such vanances, or by petition
ers, as provided in section four OF this Act
The Chairman and Secretary Of the conven
ton or Of such committee, or such petition
ers, shall make, and file with the prope
officer, certificate, setting forth the nam,
of the person nominated 10 I'LL such vacancy
the Office for which he is nominated, tht
name OF the person for whom the new nomi
nee is to be substituted, and such furthe
information as is required to be gwen in al
original certificate of nomination. Whel
such certificate is filed, the officer will
whom it is filed shall substitute the nam
of the person therein for the original noml
nee, by printing, if practicable, or by writ
ing the name of The person then substituted
SEC. 8. Not less than twenty-five day
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