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count of the conduct or management
of such primary, except for the expenses
of holding and conducting public meet
ings, for the discussion of public ques-
tons, and of printing and circulating
primary election ballots, hand bills,
cards, and other papers previous to
such primary election. and all adVertiS-
ing and all postage, expressage, tele-
graphing and telephoning, and of SUI
pervising the registration of voters
and watching the polling or counting of
votes cast at such election, and all sal
aries of persons employed in transacting
business at office or headquarters, and
necessary expense of maintaining the
same, and for rent of rooms necessary
for the transaction of the business of
the candidate, and for necessary Incl
dental expenses. There shall be at
tached to the statement herein provid-
edfor, an affidavit subscribed and sworn
to by such candidate, which must be
substantially in the following form:
HERE IS WHAT YOU MUST SWEAR
TO.
State Of California, County of SIS
l (name), having ben candidate for
the office of - at the primary election
held in the (naming city, county, city
and county, or other division), of the
State of California, on the day of
-, IS, do solemnly swear that
have paid for my expenses at said pri-
mary election, and for all purposes of
furthering my candidacy, directly or in
directly, within six months prior there
to, the sum of 5, and no more, and
that except as aforesaid, / have not,
nor to the best of my knowledge and
belief has any person, club, society, or
association on my behalf, directly or
indirectly, made any payment, or given
promises, or of 3 ed any reward, office.
employment, or valuable consideration,
or incurred any liability on account of,
or in respect to the conduct or manage
ment of the said election, and that l
have not, directly or indirectly, prom
Used any office or reward for any sup
port of my candidacy prior or subse-
quent to said primary election.
AND FURTHER SOLEMNLY
SWEAR
That, except as aforesaid, no money,
security, or equivalent for money, has,
to my knowledge or belief, been paid,
advanced, given, or deposited by any
one, to or in the hands of myself or
any other person for the purpose of de-
fraying any expenses incurred on my
behalf, or in aid of said primary cleo
ton, or of my nomination, or on ac-
account of, or in respect to the conduct
or management of the said primary
election. And I further solemnly
swear that 1 will not at any future
time make, or be a party to the max
ing, or giving of any payment reward,
office, employment, or valuable consfd-
GRAFTON for the purpose of defraying
any such expenses as last mentioned,
or provide, or be a party to the pro-
viding, of any money, security, or
equivalent for money for the purpose
of defraying any such expenses
A DISCLAIMER.
If the candidate seeks to avoid the
responsibility of any illegal payment
made by any other person in his be-
half, he shall set out such illegal pay
ment and disclaim responsibility there
for. Candidates for Office to be filled
by the electors of the State, or of any
political division thereof greater than a
county, and for members of the Senate
and Assembly, Representative in Con-
gress, or for members of the State
Board of Equalization, State Board of
Railroad Commissioners, shall file their
statements in the office of the Secre-
tary of State. Candidates for all 9TH
er offices shall file their statements in
the office of the Clerk of the county
where the primary and convention is
held, and within which the duties of
the office for which the candidate is
nominated are to be exercised. Vouch-
ers must be filed for all expenditures
except in case of sums under five dol
lars.
A WARNING TO CANDIDATES.
Section 80. Any candidate nominated
for any public office who shall refuse
or neglect to file for at least ten days
such statement shall not be placed up
on any ballot, but the Judge of the
Superior Court of the county wherein
such statement is filed, or is required
to be filed, may, on the application of a
candidate or creditor thereof. allow
any claim, not in excess of the max
imum amount allowed by this Act, to
be presented and paid after the time
limited by this Act; and a statement of
any sum so paid with a certificate of
it's allowance, shall forthwith, after
payment, be filed by the candidate in
the same office as the original state
ment Of the candidate. If the candi-
date, upon such application, shall show
to the satisfaction of said court that
there is any
ERROR OR FALSE RECITAL
In such statement or affidavit, or that
the failure to make such statement or
affidavit, or to present, within the des-
ignated time, claim, otherwise just
and proper, has been occasioned by the
absence or illness of such candidate,
or by the misconduct Of any person 9TH
er than such applicant, or by inadver-
tence or excusab BILE neglect, or for any
reasonable cause of like manner, and
not by reason of any want of good
faith on the part Of the applicant, the
court may. after such notice of the
application as the court shall require
and on the production of such evidence
of the facts stated in the application
as shall be satisfactory to such court
by order. allow such statement and
affidavit to be filed, or such error or
false recital therein to be corrected, or
such claims to be paid. as to the court
seems just: and such order shall re-
lieve the applicant from any liability
or consequences under this Act in re-
speet of the matters excused by the
order If the application is made by a
creditor, the court may. under like con-
ditions. and upon a like showing, order
the claim to be paid. and the creditor
shall also be entitled to his costs. The
claims of one or more creditors may