The Huttig news., 1909-09-11
NEW PRIMARY LAW.
Act No. I65 Approved April B, 1909, Makes
 Many Changes.

by the last legislature, which is be ing sent out in pamplet form by GuyTB. Tucker, commissioner of mines. manufacture and agrieul- ture, who IS candidate for secre- tary of state
 Be it Enacted by the General As
 sembly of the State of Arkansas:
 Section l. Whenever any eolit ical party in this State shall, by primary election. nominate any person to become a candidate at any general election. regular spec ial, or before the Legislature for United States Senator, or for Congress or any legislative, judicial state, district, coun- ty, township or municipal office, the said primary election shall be, and is hereby made legal elec- tion.
 Sec. 9. The Couety Central Committee of the party holding said primary election shall select the judges and clerks to serve at said primary election, and said judges and clerks shall possess all  qualifications required of judges and clerks of general elections Provided, that in said primary elections the judges and clerks shall all be of the same political party for which said primary cleo tion is held.
 Sec. 5. The judges holding such primary election. before en- tering upon their duties shall quail fly before some officer authorized to administer paths, and they then shall have power to administer paths to the clerks for the said pri- mary election and to voters when deemed necessary to ascertain qualifications of electors. If any judge or clerk shall perform any of the duties of their respective posi- tions before taking and subscribing to the oath provided for in this section. he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. and upon con- viction shall be fined in any sum not less than $25.OO, nor more than $lOO.OO.
 Sec. 4. Any judge or clerk serving at any such primary elec- tion who shall in any many falsify the returns of the same, or know ingly make false count of the ballots cast, or aid or abet any such act of any other person, or know ingly permit such to be done shall be deemed guilty of felony and upon conviction thereof shall be confined in the State penitentiary at hard labor for a period of not less than six months, nor more than five years.
 Sec. 5. Any person who shall solicit or accept for himself or for another any gift or donation of any kind or character from a person who is candidate for any office, Or who $ candidate for nomina- ton Q become a candidate for any office. such person soliciting or ac eepting such gift or donation shall be deemed guilty of msdemean- or. and upon conviction shall be punished by fine of not less than $25.OO. nor more than $3OO.OO, and each donation or gift solicited or accepted shall constitute a sep arate offenSe.
 Sec. 6. Any person who is a candidate for any office in this State. or candidate for the nomi- nation to become a candidate at any general election, who shall give or offer to give any gift or do-  nation to any person during the time that he is a candidate, such candidate giving or offering to give, shall be d dsemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than $25.oo. nor more than $500 %,
 Sec. z. Any person who shall