The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-06-24
FULL TEXT OF CHAPTER IS, ACTS
OF 1862.
How Candidates for all Elective Of
ficeS Are 10 be Nominated.
CHAPTER 66-sENATE BILL No l.

L.
AN ACT to repeal all of Chapter 1O5, reIat-
ing to primary meetings and elections. except
Sections 1874 and 3275 and to provide for all
nominations for SAFE district. county dis
trict. and county officers to be made by pri-
mary election.
Mode of Nominating State, District, Coun-
ty and County District Officers.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the
Legislature of the State of mississippi,
That all nominations for State, district,
county and county district officers
made by the different parties of this
State shall hereafter be made by pri-
mary elections All primary elections
shall be governed and regulated by the
Election Law of the State in force at
the time the primary election is held,
except as herein provided. The conn
ty executive committees at snch pri-
maries shall discharge the functions
imposed upon county election com
miSSionerS, except aS to revising the
registration and poll books, and shall
be subject to all the penalties to which
comfy election commissioners are
subject. The primary election officers
appointed by the executive committee
of the party shall have the powers and
perform all the duties, where not here
in otherwise provided, required of such
officers in IA general election, and any
and every act, or omission, which by
law is au offense when committed in
or about, or in respect to such general
election, shall be an offense if commit
ted i'll or about. or in respect to, a pri-
mary election held in pursuance of
this Act; and the same shall b. indict-
able and punishable in the same way
oil
for the election of State aud county
officers.
Manner of Selecting District Executive
Committees; Representation on Same;
Quorum.
Sec. 2. The county executive com
mittee shall consist of fifteen members,
three to be selected from each super
visor's district. The executive com
mittees of Judicial and congressional
districts shall be selected by each
county in the manner to be provided
by its executive committee; and all Va
cancies in such executive committees
shall be filed by the executive com
mittees of the counties in which such
vacancies occur. Each county shall
have representation on such district
executive committees in proportion to
sentatives, having the same number of
members of the executive committee
that it is entitled to votes in the State
Convention, as hereinafter provided
The full vote to which each county is
entitled shall be cast by it's executive
committeeman present, whether one or
more. When executive committee
men, whether one or more from each
county, are present from d sufficient
number of counties to constitute a
majority of the representative vote of
the committee, it shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of bust
ness. Proxies from any county shall
not be admissible unless all of the ex-
ecutive committeeman from the coun-
ty are absent. In senatorial and flo
torial districts, each county shall have
equal representation as to such repre-
sentativeS.
State Executive Committee, How Chosen
State Conventions to be Held; County
Executive Committee, How and
When Chosen.
Sec. 3. The State Executive Com
mittee shall consist of three members
from each congressional district, to be
chosen by the delegates from the diff
ferent congressional districts attend
ing the State convention, and shall
hold for four years. A State conven-
ton shall be held by each political
party in this State in the year 1904
and every four years thereafter, to
select State Executive Committee. to