Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-10-01
APPLIES To ALL.

A. A@A<'
Section 8. Every person who shall be
a candidate before any caucus or conven-
ton, or at any primary election or at any
election for any State, county. city, town
ship, district or municipal office, or for
Senator or member of the House OF Dele
gates of Virginia, or for Senator or Repre-
sentative In the Congress of the United
States, shall, within thirty days after the
election, caucus, convention or primary
election held to fill such office or place,
make out and file with the officer or board
empowered by law to issue certificates OF
election to such office or place, and du-
plicate thereof with the clerk of the Coun-
ty or Corporation Court for any county or
city in which such candidate resides, a
statement in writing, which statement and
duplicate shall be subscribed and sworn to
by such candidate before an officer author
ICED to administer 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 be-
lief by any persons or person in bis behalf,
wholly or in part, endeavoring to secure
his nomination or election to such office or
place; and also all sums of money contrib
uted, disbursed, expended or promised by
HIM in support and in connection with the
nominate on or election of any other per-
sons at such election, primary or nominal
ing convention, and showing the dates
when, the persons to whom and the pur-
poses for which all sums were paid ex-
pended or promised. Such statment shall
also set forth that the same is as full and
explicit as affiant is able to make 1t; and
he shall also, before some officer qualified
to administer oaths, take, subscribe to and
file with said statement the following oath:
DRASTIC OATH.
do solemnly swear that the statement
herewith filed embraces all money spent
by me or in my behalf, with my knowl-
edge and consent, by my adherents and
friends; thatI have neither directly nor in
directly arranged, encouraged nor connlv-
ed at the spending 0t any money other
than as shown in my said statement; that
haye not repaid any money so spent or
claimed to have been so spent, and that
/ will not do so, and that | have not
violated any Of the provisions of this act
in letter or in spirit. So help me, God.
Section 4. No officer or board author
lied by law to issue commissions or certh.
Gates Of election shall ls-u any such GER
tifcate or commission 10 any such person
until such statement and ca h shall have
been so made, verified and fled by such
person with said officer.
Section 5. ANY person failing to COM
ply with the above provisions by failing to
file said statement and oath in the manner
and form above prescribed shall be liable
to fine not exceeding S. 010, to be recov-
cred in an action or motion brought in the
name of the State by the Attorney.Gener-
al or by the Commemorative Attorney of
the county or city of the candidates resi-
deDce, OF by any person suing in the name
of the Commonwealth. the amount of said
fine to e fixed within the above limit by
the jury, and to be paid into the school
fund in said county.
Section 6. No person shall enter upon
the duties of any elective Office until be
shall have fled the statement, oath and
duplicate provided for in this act, nor
shall lie receive any salary or any emolu-
ment for any period prior to the filing of
the came.