The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-08-30

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and shall at the same time pay to the
city Clerk for the use of the general
! fund of the city the sum of $1,000. He
shall also file with said statement a
| petition Of at least fifty qualified vo-
! ters requestin gsuch candidacy. Each
| petition shall be verified by one or
more persons as to the qualifications
aud residence, with street number; or
| ii the streets are unnumbered, the
street of the persons signing said pc
tition, and the said petition shall be
in substantially the following form:
The undersigned, duly qualified cleo
tors of the city of .......... and re-
siding at the places set opposite our
respective names hereto, do hereby re-
quest that the name of name of can
idate) be placed on the ballot as a
candidate for nomination tor (name
OF office) at the primary election to
be held in such city on the ........
day of .........., b.. We further
state that we know hi INTO be a qual-
flied elector of said city and man
of good moral character, and qualified
in our judgment for the duties of such
office.
Names of qualified electors.
Number
Street.
No petition for nomination shall con
tain the names of more than one can
didate for each office, ald no voter
may sign more than one petition for
a candidate for each office to be voted
for. Any proposed candidate may
cause his nafe to be withdrawn from
the list of candidates by filing with
the clerk his request In writing and
before an officer author
lied to administer oatAs. before the
ceri1 shall have certified the list of
Candidates nominated. Candidates for
mayor and for places on said board of
commissioners shall be voted for sep
arately, and candidates for commits
sioner shall be designated on the Off
cial ballot as candidates for Commits
sioner No. /, or No. 2, or No 3 (said
numbers to be printed after the desig-
mating title Commissioner in ac-
cordance with the written request
which said candidate shall file with
the city clerk. Each candidate for
commissioner shall designate in the
of his candidacy and in
his request to have his name placed
on the official ballot, the number of
the pace on the board of commissions
ers for which he desires to become
Immediately upon the expiration of
the time Of filing the statement and
petitions for candidates. the said city
clerk shall cause to be published in
three successive issues of the official
newspaper of said city and IL there
is none. then in some other paper pub
lished in said city, and if said news
paper is not published three times be-
fore said election, it shall be sufficient
to make publication in every issue OF
the newspaper before the leXt cleo
ton, the names of the persons as they
appear upon the primary ballot and
the offices for which they are candl-
dates; and the said clerk shall there
upon cause the primary al'ots to be
printed in the form prescribed by the
general election laws of the state. ex-
cept that said primary shall be non
partisan, and said ballots shall con-
tain neither party designation nor
mark whatever, and upon said ballots
the names of the candidates shall be
alphabetically. Having
caused such ballots to be printed, the
said clerk shall cause to be delivered
at each polling place, to one of the
Judges of the election, a number of
said ballots equal to four times the
of votes cast in such precinct
at the last general municipal election
for mayor The persons who are quail
flied to vote at said primary elections
which are herey legalized. and the
laws of the State applicable ogener-
al elections shall be applicable to such
primary elections. Judges of election
shall, Immediately upon the closing of
the polls count the ballots and ascer-
tain the number of votes cast in each
precinct for each of the candidates.
making return thereof to the city
clerk upon proper blanks to be fur
nished by the said clerk within TWEEN
ty-four hours of the closing OF the
polls. No later than the second day
following the primary election the said
city clerk shall canvass said returns
so received from all. the polling pre-
cincts and shall MAXI and publish the
result thereof.
Said canvass by the city clerl