Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-16
Rules Of The Democratic Party 
 of tue City of Waterbury.

> tion shall name candidates for the : following offices:
 Selectmen, town clerk, constables registrar of voters, and all other , elective town officials not especially } mentioned in this section. In years when representatives and justices oi the peace are elected, said conven. tion may adjourn until after the local
 elections, and shall then meet at the
 call of the chairman of the town con.
 vention. At said adjourned meeting
 said convention shall nominate can
 didates for the office of representa-
 tives and justices of the peace.
 The delegates to the school con
 vention shall nominate candidates for ,I the board of education.
 All nominations of candidates for office and all elections of delegates shall be made by open vote, the sec retary calling the roll and such dele gate naming his choice. A majority vote of any convention shall be suffi- cient and necessary to nominate can didates or elect delegates as the case 1 may be.
 All vacancies in the nomination for officers for office made by the different conventions shall be filled by the town committee.
 DEMOCRATIC TOWN COMMITTEE.
 1. There shall be chosen by the town convention of 1904, and an nually thereafter, town committee. consisting of three members from each ward. The committee chosen | by the town convention of 1904 shall take office and serve until January 1st., 1906, and the committee elected annually thereafter shall take office on the first of January succeeding their election, and shall serve for a term of one year.
 2. Said committee shall, subject to the provisions of these rules, have general supervision of the democratic party in the town of Waterbury, and shall have power to organize ward committees in such number and in such manner constituted as in its judgment seems advisable, and shall immediately upon it's organization, appoint committee on finance and committee on registration.
 3. Should any vacancy exist in the town committee at any time, said vacancy shall be filled by vote of the remaining members of the committee, provided, that the member elected by the town committee shall be resi- dent of the same ward as the former member.
 4. Said town committee shall elect a chairman, vice-chairman, and secretary and a treasurer. who may or may not be members of said town committee.
 5. The duties of said chairman, vice-chairman, secretary and treasur- CT shall be such as are usually per formed by such officers. in addition to such duties as are imposed upon them by these rules.
 6. All votes or rules heretofore adopted for the government of the democratic party in the City of Wa terbury are hereby repealed.
 [. There shall be levied annually by the town committee upon all dem ocratic office holders and candidates for office an assessment of per cent of the annual salary received for the purpose of defraying election and other incidental expenses, which shall be paid to the treasurer.
 Where there is no salary attached to the office the amounts shall be as follows: Candidates for board of education, 5000; justices of the peace. $500: constables, $10.00.
 s. The secretary of the town com mittee shall send notices to all can- didates for office within forty-eight hours of their nomination of the amount of assessment levied upon them by the democratic town com mittee. which alone shall have the power to levy such assessments.
 g. If any candidate shall fail to pay the assessment levied against him on or before the first Friday night preceding the election. his nomination shall be deemed null and void, and the town committee shall proceed by ballot to fill said vacancy. and nomination then made. by this method shall be of full force and validity.
 10. All moneys paid to the town or any subcommittee, shall be turned over to the treasurer, who shall de- posit the same in some bank selected by the town committee, to the credit of the democratic town committee. No money shall be drawn from said fund except upon written order signed by the chairman and treasur- CT.
 Thirty days after each election a report shall be presented by the officers of the town committee. giving an itemized statement covering re- ceipts and expenses. and the same shall be submitted to an adjourned meeting of the delegates to the town convention.
 The registrar of voters shall, at | the same meeting, present the dele ] gates a record or his work during the | year preceding.