The record-union., 1897-08-26


litical parties in the different cities,
counties, or cities and counties may APP
portion to wards. precincts or Assem-
bly, Districts the number of delegates
to be by them elected
FREE TO ALL.
Section %. AT any time in any city,
county, city and county. or township,
or in any Assembly District or political
division within this State, or any pre-
cinct therein, at which a primary is
held for the election of delegates to
convention, any voter entitled to vote
at such primary election may be, except
as herein otherwise provided, candi-
date for election as a delegate to any
primary convention to represent the
precinct or district in which he is a vo-
ter.
CANVASSING VOTES.
Section %. AS soon as the returns are
received by the County Clerk, he shall
canvass the same, and when it requires
the votes of more than one precinct to
elect delegates, issue a certificate Of
election for the different conventions
to the different persons receiving a plu
rality of the party votes cast for such
delegates as shown by the returns.
WHO FOOT THE BILLS.
Section 80. 1t shall be the duty of the
Board of Supervisors of each county,
and city and county, to appropriate
from the general funds a sufficient
sum of money to pay all necessary ex-
penses of holding any primary cleo
tons within such county; and it shall
be the duty of the Auditor to draw up
on such appropriated funds his several
warrants for the payment of all ex-
penses of such primary election as the
same shall be certified to him by the
Clerk; such expenses shall consist only
of the payment for the box in which
to keep the names selected, for polling
places, for printing, for advertising, for
stationery. ballot boxes and postage
stamps and tally sheets.
FITS THE TRUSTEES.
Section 81. If in any city, county, or
| city and county there shall not be by
| law any Board of Election Commits
sioners then all duties enjoined here
in upon the Board of Election Commits
sioners shall be enjoined upon and per-
formed by the Common Council or
| Trustees of a city, or the Board of Su-
| pervisors of a county; and all duties
enjoined upon the clerk of a Board of
Election Commissioners, where there is
no such board in any city or county,
are enjoined upon, and shall be per-
formed by, the clerk of a city, or by
County Clerk.
EVERYTHING EMBRACED.
| Section 81 Amy Act denounced as an
offense by the general laws concerning
elections shall also be an offense in all
primary elections, and in all matters re-
| lating thereto, antecedent or subse-
quent, and shall be punished in the
same form and with like penalties as
is prescribed for the punishment of sim
4 liar offenses against the general election
| laws; and all the provisions and penal
! ties provided by law shall apply in all
cases connected with primary elections
with equal force, and shall be as eff
fective as if specifically set out in this
Act.
Any violations of the provisions of this
Act shall, except as herein otherwise
provided, be a misdemeanor and pun
| ishable as such.
OBLIGATIONS OF CANDIDATES.
Section SO. No candidate shall be
placed upon any official ballot to be
voted for at any election nominated by
convention Of any political party or
| organization unless within ten days
after the making of such nomination of
such political party or organization he
shall file an affidavit setting forth that
such candidate has not directly or in
directly expended. nor has any person
in his behalf, or with his knowledge ex-
| pended, any sum of money for the pur-
| pose of securing such nomination,
whether before, during or after such
primary election on account of, or in
respect to the conduct and management
of such primary election or convention
at which he is a candidate, in excess of
the maximum amount, that is to say:
If the term of the office for which the
person is a candidate be for one year
or less.
FIVE PER CENT.
OF the amount of one years salary of
the office. If the term be for more than
one year and not more than two years,
10 per cent. of one years salary. If the
term be for more than two years and
not more than three years, Is per cent.
If the term be for more than three years
and not more than four years, 20 per
cent. If the term be for more than
four years, 10 per cent. If the office
be one for which, in lieu of salary, there
is allowed per diem for statutory pc
riod, or for the number of days actually
engaged in the performance of public
duties, 70 per cent. of the amount to
accrue. If the office be one for which,
in lieu Of salary, a yearly sum is allowed
the officer for all the expenses of his
Office, the expenditures of the candidate
shall not exceed 10 per cent. of the
allowance for such office for one year,
but in no event shall such expenditure
exceed the sum of $500.
THE MONETARY LIMIT.
If the office be one for which no salary
or compensation is allowed except fees,
or a salary not exceeding 5000 per an
mum and fees, the expenditures of the
candidate for such office shall not ex-
coed $3.50. If the Office be one for which
no salary or compensation is allowed,
or for which per diem is allowed for
the days actually employed in the per-
Torrance of a public duty, the expendi-
lures shall not exceed S1O0 If the can
didate is also at the same time can
didate for an unexpired term, he shall
not pay or expend any sum on account
of such unexpired term, but the maxi
mum amount to be expended by such
candidate shall be as hereinabove pro-
vided.
SHOW UP, GENTLEMEN.
Section 81. Such candidates shall file
an itemized statement showing in detail
all moneys paid, loaned, contributed, or
furnished to him, or for his use, directly
or indirectly in aid of his nomination