The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-05-05
GOVERNOR ISSUES CALL FOR
 SPECIAL ELECTION; WILL BE
 HELD TUESDAY, JUNE THIRD

thousand nine hundred and nineteen and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-third.
 RIGGS. Governor"
 Juneau, Alaska. April 2s. 1919. Clerk of Court, Fairbanks.
 Legislature has passed and sovere nor today approved following bill:
 Section 1.
 In case of a vacancy caused by death. resignation, incapacity, or from any other cause in the office of delegate from Alaska in the house of representatives, the governor of the Territory of Alaska shall cause a special election to be held not less than thirty days from the date of the writ. The governor shall i'm mediately upon the issuance of the writ. notify the clerk of the United States district court of each division of the territory of the issuance there of giving such notice by telegraph where necessary and the clerk of the court of each division of the ter ritory shall immediately cause notice of such writ to be given to the city council of each incorporated town in his division and to each United States commissioner therein by the most rapid means of communication, telephone. telegraph. or otherwise. Upon the receipt of such notice 1t shall be the duty of the common council of each incorporated town to ut once give notice of the election by posting a written or printed notice in three public places in each pre- cinct in said town specifying the time, place and purpose of the cleo. tion and in case there are one or more newspapers of general circula- tion published in the town. then copy of such notice shall be published at least once in one of such newspapers prior to the date of election. The common council of each incorporated town shall also at the time of pro viding for the giving of notice ap point three judges of election and two clerks for each voting precinct, all of whom shall be qualified voters of the precinct and no more than two judges and one clerk shall belong to the same political party and shall immediately notify such judges and clerks of such appointment. The United States commissioner in each recording district shall upon receipt of said notice from the clerk ot court at once proceed to give notice of election by posting written or printed notices thereof specifying, the time. place and purpose of the cleo tion which notices shall be posted as follows: One at the office of the commissioner in said recording dis trict and one in each of three con spicuous public places in each of said voting precincts in said recording district, one of which shall be the polling place in the precinct. The failure of any commissioner to post said notices as herein provided on account of notice not having been received by him for the clerk of court in time shall not invalidate the election held in any precinct if held at the time provided for in the writ issued by the governor of Alaska. Each United States commissioner shall also select. notify and appoint from the qualified electors in each voting precinct three judges of cleo. tion for said precinct not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party. Upon the failure of the United States commissioner to appoint or notify judges of election as herein provided, the qualified voters present at any election pre- cinct on the day of election may se- lect judges by viva voce vote in the same manner as provided by law in cases where judges of election fail to appear and qualify.
 Section 2.
 The election precincts in and out side of incorporated towns shall be the same as those established for the last previous general election.
 Section 3.
 The election when held shall be governed by the laws of congress regulating general elections in the Territory of Alaska except as other wise provided by this Act. Provided that in the canvassing of the returns