The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-16

sioner, to be voted for at the election
to be held on the. ...-... day of Oc-
tober, ......., and we individually
certify that we are qualified to vote
for candidates for the above office,
and that we have not signed more
nominating petitions than there are
places to be filled at the said election.
Names Street and No. Date
State of Indiana, .............
County, s.:
................b being duly sworn,
deposes and says that he is the cir
culator of this petition paper and that
the signatures appended thereto were
made in his presence and are the
genuine signatures of the persons
whose names they purport to be.
SlSneu.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this. -. day Of. ............. 49,.
Notary public.
Section IA. All separate papers
SOuu lSluS q lluS pclillOu Slldli
be assembled and filed with the city
clerk as one instrument at least thirty
days prior to the date of holding the
election with respect to which such
petition is filed. Within five days
after the filing of a nominating petit
ton the clerk shall notify the person
named therein as candidate whether
such petition is found to be signed by
the required number of qualified elect
ors. Any person eligible to the COM
mission who is placed in nomination as
hereinbefore provided shall have his
name printed on the ballots if, within
five days after such notification by
the city clerk, he shall have filed
Herewith an acceptance of the nomi-
nation.
Section Is. Not less than two days
nor more than two ca weeks before
the October election the city clerk
shall certify to the board of city cleo
ton commissioners a list of the can
didates, nominated in the manner
! hereinbefore provided, whose names
are entitled to be printed on the bal
lots. The clerk shall also file in his
office copy of such certified list and
forthwith cause to be published for
two ca successive days in a daily
newspaper published in the city, or if
there be none such, then in one week
ly newspaper of general circulation
therein, notice of such election con-
the offices to be filled and the time
and places of holding the election.
Section 16. The city board Of cleo
ton commissioners shall cause bal
lots to be printed for the election COM
missioners which shall be without
party mark or designation. Each elect
or may vote for as many candidates
as there are places to be filled; but
any ballot marked for more candi-
dates than there are places to be filled
shall not be counted for any of such
candidates. Except that the names of
candidates shall appear in the spaces
indicated therefor, and that the spaces
left for the date of the election and
the number of candidates to be voted
for shall be filled with such date and
number respectively, and the ballot
shall be in form substantially as fol
| lows:
Municipal Election.
Month and day of month"; 49,.
For Commissioners
Do not vote for more than.
!
| :. .
i Sections Il. The names of candi
! dates shall be printed on the ballots
in rotation as follows:
! The ballots shall be printed in as
many series as there are candidates
! for the commission. The whole mum
Der of ballots to be printed shall be
| divided by the number of candidates
and the quotient so obtained shall be
| the number of ballots to be printed
in each series. In printing the first
series of ballots the names of candi
dates shall be arranged in the alpha
betical order of their surnames. After
printing the first series the first name
in the list shall be placed last and the
next series printed, and this process
shall be repeated until each name
shall have been printed first in one
series The ballots so printed shall
then be combined in tablets to be sup
piled to the various polling places
tdCn tablet shall Contain
the same number of ballots from each
series and SO far as practicable, the
ballots shall be combined in such {
manner that two or more from the
same series shall not be together in {
tablet.
Section IS. The ballots used in ev
cry election for choosing commission
ers shall have as many blank space:
below the names of candidates print
ed thereon as there are places to bt
filled at such election. In any such
space an elector may write the name
Of any person eligible to the commits
sion for whom he may desire to vote
and votes cast for such persons shall
be counted as though for a candidate
whose name is printed on the ballot.
Section 10. If vacancy occurs il
the commission. some eligible persoI