The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
ATTENTION CANDIDATES.
Information About the Coming Primary
and Election, Terms Of Office
and So Forth.

ceive the ballot Of the party for
which he asks; Provided, That If
he IS challenged, he shall be re-
quired to make oath or affirma-
tion that, at the last preceding
election at which he voted, he
voted Tor a majority of the candi-
dates of the party for whose bal.
lot he asks.
The number of signers requlr-
ed upon petition to have a candi-
dates name printed upon the
primary ballot for any Office vot-
ed for by an entire county is fifty.
For city, ward and precinct Of.
ticer the mum ber required is ten.
For borough and township of.
ticers, the number required is
ten.
Petitions for all other Offices are
to be filed with the county com.
mlssioners. The last day for
fling Is Saturday, September 8,
1911.
Borough and township Offices
may also be nominated IN accord
ance with the party rules by fl
ingcertiticates of nomination with
the county commissioners at least
eighteen days before the day of
election.
Nominations may also be made
by nomination papers, but only
by using a party name different
from that of any party that here.
tofore poIled two per centum of
the total vote in the district for
which the nomination Is made.
Blank forms OF petition, for all
offices, are supplied by the coun-
ty com mmlssloners.
The following table, made up
from the schedule for the amend.
ments, and the act Of March 9,
1911, entitled, "An Act 70 carry
into complete operation the
amendments" etc, will give nj.
formation as to the expiration of
terms of those now in Office and
of those to be elected this year.
The act does not affect the terms
fixed by the schedule, but only
those not so provided for:
Justices of the peace, aldermen
and magistrates elected in 1906
will serve until the first Monday
In December, 1911.
Those elected in 1907 and 1908,
until the first Monday Ia Decem.
ber, 1914.
Those elected IN 1909, until the
first Monday in January, 1916.
Those elected in 1910, until the |
first Monday In December, 1915. |
Those elected in 1911 will serve
from the first Monday IN Decem.
ber, 1911, until the first Monday
In January, 1918.
The terms of the successors to
these officers will hereafter be
six years, except officers elected
to succeed those whose terms ex.
pre- on the first Monday of De-
cember in any year and they will
serve six years and one month, so
that, In the future, all terms will
begin on the first Monday IN Jan.
lary following the election.
The terms of public officers
which have heretofore been fixed
1t three years shall each be
engthened one year.
The term "public officer, shall
include all officers elected by vote
If the people, whether the offices
hey fill were created by the Con.
'tltution or by special or general
let's of assembly. The provision
Includes the Office of director of
'f the poor. In many counties
ihese officers have been elected
me year each for three year
erms. In consequence of the
Ldoption of the amendments, the
ength of terms was changed TO
our years, excepting those elect.
ID in 1908. Therefore, there will
,e two elected in 1911, one in
913, two IN 1915 and one in 1917, I,
md so on. The same rule ap. /,
,lles to other officers who were
heretofore under similar laws.
Where a number of school di.
'ectors ale to be elected for
erms of different lengths, each
"a N ndidata poust c,ac;fy IN b;s