Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1903-10-23

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Jail not less than one nor more than
twelve months.
.. Every person who shall be a
candidate before any caucus or con-
ventior, or at any primary election OF
at any election for any State, county.
city, township, district or municipal Of
lice, or for senator or member OF the
house OF delegates OF Virginia, or for
senator or representative in the con-
gress OF the United States, shall, with
in thirty days after the election, caucus.
convention or primary election held TO
ill such Office or place, make out and
lille with the officer or board empower
ed 10y law 10 issue certificates of elec.
ton to such office or place, and n
duplicate thereof with the clerk OF the
county or corporation court for any
county or city in which such candidate
resides, statement i'm writing, which
statement and deplicate shall be sub
scribed and sworn to by such candidate
before and officer authorized To ad-
minister oaths, setting forth in detail
all sums Of money contributed, dis
bursed, expended or promised by him.
and TO the best OF his knowledge and
belief by any persons or person in his
behalf, wholly or in part, endeavoring
TO secure his nomination or election to
such Office or place; and also all sums
OF money contributed, discussed. ex-
pended or promised by him in support
and in connection with the nomination
or election of any other persons at
such election, primary or nominating
convention, and showing the dates
when, the persons TO whom and the
purposes for which all such sums were
paid, expended or promised. Such
statement shall also set forth that the
same is as full and explicit as afIiant is
able To make it; and he shall also. be-
fore some officer qualified to admins
ter oaths, take, subscribe TO and file
with said statement the following oath
L do solemnly swear that the state
ment herewith filed embraces all
money spent by me or in my behalf
with my knowledge and consent, be.
my adherents and friends: that have
neither directly nor indirectly arrang-
ed, encouraged nor connived at thy
spending OF any money other than as
shown in my sail statement; that I
have not repaid any money SO spent or
claimed to have been so spent, and
that l will not do SO, and that | have
not violated any Ct the provisions OF
this act in letter or in spirit. So help
me God.
1. No officer or board authorized bv
law 10 issue commissions or certificates
OF election shall issue any such certifl-
cate or commission TO any such person
until such statement and oath shall
have been so made, verified and filed
10y such persons with said officer.
.. Any person failing to comply with
the above provisions by failing to file
said statement and oath in the manner
and form above prescribed shall be
liable TO a fine not exceeding five
| thousand dollars, TO be recovered in an
action or motion brought in the name
OF the State by the Attorney General,
or by the commemorative attorney of
the county or city of the candidates
residence, or by any person suing in
the name of the Commonwealth. the
amount OF said fine TO be fixed within
the above limit by the jury, and to be
paid into the school fund of said coun-
ty.
| d. No person shall enter upon the
duties Of any elective office until he
shall have filed the statement. oath
and duplicate provided for in this act,
nor shall he receive any salary or any
emolument for any period prior to the
filing OF the same.
Z. Said statemen on oath shall at
all times be open to public inspection
and copies OF same furnished any ap-
plicant.
8. In any contest over the election
of any officer in this Commonwealth.
if it be alleged in the notice of contest
OF the contestant that the provisions. or
any of them, Of this act has been vio-
lated by the contestee, or by his friends
and adherents, with his knowledge and
consent, and it so appears upon the
trial of said contest, then said election
shall be declared null and void and of
no effect, unless it also appears that
the contestant Is entitled to the office
for which he is contesting.
8. The statements of any person