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filed in the office Of the secretary Of state
and must have afnxad therAto tha ai1na-

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lures Of not less than 200 enrolled cleo
tors, Of the party in which the candidate
county or district from which such can
Individual proposal petitions for inde-
and legislative or commissioned district
offices, within tho county shall be filed in
the Office of the county auditor and must
not less than 20 enrolled electors of the
party in the ounty in which the candi-
date ate Is Is proposed for nomination;
an Independent candidate shall have az
fixed thereto the executed declaration OF
ouch candidate in the form provided in
titled to be filad " eith ps.'i in the se" Office Gc OF Of
the secretary of state or county auditor
as the case may require.
1t shall be unlawful for any Independent
candidate to secure more than twice the
number of signatures required in this
section to his petition.
Sec, 81. Individual Proposal Petition
(How Made and Signed)-To each of the
Individual proposal petitions as provided
IN Sections 40 and so of this act each petit
pen and ink or by indelible pencil and
shall add after his name, his voting pre-
cnct, post office address, county and
date of signing. No petitioner shall sign
the same office in the same year and no
name shall be counted upon such petit
ton unless the same appears upon the
party enrolment books and to have been
signed within four months prior to the
date of the primary election in which the
person in whose behalf the petition is
be necessary that one paper shall con-
tain all the signatures but a single petit
papers each having the requisite heading:
Separate papers in the roper form and
duly signed may, before filing, be bound
1 t a a"d sh hnn'i be Be suf raennaed II the o ags
gregate number of signatures is not less,
nor more than, the number required by
this act. Blank lines upon additional
sheets. securely fastened to a top sheet
having the prescribed heading. may be
used in obtaining signatures and shall be
regarded. together with the top sheet hay
ing the proper heading, as one paper.
dependent Proposal Petitions-in legisla-
tive districts composed OF more than one
in behalf of a candidate for the legisla-
ture from such district shall be filed in
the office Of the secretary of state at
the primary. Said individual proposal
petition shall be substantially in the same
form as provided In section 49 Of this
signatures and form of execution and
declaration; and the timely filing thereof
shall $ h IL entitle the candidate to have his
by his party at the primary in each
county in such legislative district. No
committee proposal of candidates in joint
legislative districts is provided herein;
Candidates for legislative office in Joint
legislative districts are required to file
as independent candidates at the primary.
Sec. So. Proposal Petition for Judges
All candidates for judges OF the supreme
and circuit courts shall file individual pc.
titions in the office of the secretary of
state at least sixty days before the pri-
mary date and their names shall appear
IN the independent column upon the Of
fetal primary ballot. but any candidate
| for SlnranNn rnnrt iJaoa NAV ho on.
dorsed by either the majority or minority
state proposal committee; but not by both
committees.
Sec. 50; Majority and Minority Pro-
posal Committee-(State Meetings)-
The members, of the respective state
majority mIitadty w and min minority ps9posal ,e con-
manner herein provided at a pri-
mary, OF as especially PROVIDED to FIJI
assemble on the first Monday in January
t 10 O'Clock a. M, in each general election
year. and the state majority proposal
committees shall convene In the assembly
hail; and the minority. proposal commit
tees shall convene in the senate chamber
at the state capitol at Pierre. South Da,
retire to self-appointed rooms in the cap
itol building, and the members present
shall constitute a quorum and shall at all
times act without subcommittee, as Il
committee of the whole sitting in open
and PUBLIC session, and shall proceed to
organize by the election of a chairman
and a secretary for each committee and
then promulgate, separately, majority or
minority principles by adopting one plank
at a time by roll call vote. then select one
paramount national issue and one para
mount state issue from such platform
principles, under the provisions of this
for each OF such selected paramount is
sues for headings on the official primary
ballot, and propose majority or minority
candidates, subject to provisions in Sec
| tl0n 10 of This act for. nraciHpnt Uira
president, presidential electors. congress
sional and state offices and party repre-
Judges in the manner required for commit
tee proposals, as per blank forms herein
after provided, which. when duly signed
az any nv n fn11riiif ca a. n, ,ne n,e'. and tb ple dent
%laration thereon signed by the candidates,
shall be filed within eight days from date
e er With viii the roll o. Of the he members present,
with the secretary Of state. Proposals
when SO made and filed, shall entitle the
respective notices and name of candi,,
to one candidate for each office, to be
printed on the official primary ballot to
provided, and thereafter said proposals
committee shall cease to exist as an or
ganiZation, except as to chairman to fill
shall be signed by the chairman and sec
rotary and filed by the chairman with the
secretary OF state with the committee pro,
posdl anu recorded III tue pOllllcal record
book. Each state proposal committeeman
shall, at state committee proposal meet
ings, be entitled to vote by unit repre-
sentation. Each member Of the minority
or majority proposal committee, who shall
attend such state meeting, shall receive
payment Of FIVE cents per mile for each
mile necessarily Travelled in going to and
returning from such meeting by fling a
written receipted sworn statement thereof
with the secretary of state, who shall
deliver same to the state auditor who
shall see to its auditing and forward a
warrant therefor, TO the person who filed
hereof that the state shall pay all ex-
penses Of mileage herein provided.
Sec. So. Proposal Committee.-(Coun-
ty Meetings)-The members of the re
spective county minority and majority
proposal committees, who have been
elected by precincts in the manner here
in provided at the. last primary, or to fill
VACANCIES as especially provided in Sec
ton 1913 of this act, shall assemble on
the first Thursday after the first Mon
day in January at ] o'clock p. M, in
each general election year: and the county
majority committees shall convene in the
court room and the ounty minority COM
mittees in the office Of clerk of corrts in
the court house of the county, or place
where the court was In ct hold aud "a N cl,