Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1903-10-16


3. Every person who shall be a
candidate before any caucus or con-
ventioE, or AT any primary election OF
ut any election for any State. county.
city, township, district or municipal OF
lice, or FOR senator or member OF the
house OF delegates II 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 elecliun held to
fill such Office or place, make out and
file with the officer or board empower
ed by law to issue certificates Of cleo
ton 20 such office or place. and n
duplicate thereof with the clerk OF the
county or corporation court forj any
county or city in which such candidate
resides, statement in writing, which
statement and deplicate shall be sub
scribed and sworn TO by such candidate
before and officer authorized TO adj
minister oaths, setting forth i'm detail
all sums of money contributed, dis
bursed, expended or promised by him,
and TO the best OF his knowledge and
belief 10y 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 folth that the
same Is as full and explicit as afliant Is
able To make it; and he shall also, be-
fore some officer qualified 10 admins
ter oaths, take, subscribe TO and file
with said statement the following oath
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 ut thy
spending OF any money other than as
shown in my said statement: that I
have not repaid any money so spent or
claimed TO have been so spent, and
that l will not do 50, and that 1 have
not violated any Of the provisions of
this act in letter or in spirit. So help
me God
1. No officer or board authorized by
law to issue commissions or certificates
oI election shall issue any such ccrtifl-
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 i'm the manner
l and form above prescribed shall be
liable TO fine not exceeding five
thousand dollars, To be recovered i'm an
action or motion brought in the name
OF the State 10y the Attorney General,
or by the commemorative attorney of
the county or city OF the candidates
residence, or 10y 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 he
paid into the school fund OF said conn
ty.
Il. 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.
I. Said statemen on oath shall at
all times be open to public inspection
and copies of same furnished any APP
plicant.
:. In any contest over the ele, ton
of any officer in this Commonwealth
if it be alleged in the notice of contest
ct 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.
9. The statements of any person
testifying under this act shall not be
used against him in any way
10 All acts or Darts Of note ;noo,,