Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-06
STATE OF MAINE
Proclamation for Primary Election

To the Mayors and Aldermen of the
| several cities, sclectmen of the sew
| eral towns and assessors of the sew
! eral plantations in the Third Con-
Somerset, Waldo. Hancock and
Washington, GREETING:
WHEREAS. vacancy now exists in
Congress of the United States from the
Third Congressional District, compris-
ing the counties of kennebec, Some r
set. Waldo, Hancock and Washington,
occasioned by the resignation of the
Honorable John A. Peters, a member
of Congress from said Third District
of Maine. and
WHEREAS, the laws of Maine, in &C.
cordance with the provision of the Con-
stitution of the United States, provide
that whenever vacancy occurs in the
representation of the State in the Con-
greSs of the United States, the Gov
ernor shall issue his proclama. ION for
an election to I'LL the same. and
WHEREAS, the Governor has, by mis-
writ of election issued this day. desig-
mated the third Monday of March mex,
being the twentieth day of said month,
as the day on which an election to nil
the aforesaid vacancy shall take place
and
WHEREAS, the laws of the State of
Maine provide that all nominations of
candidates for the office of represent
ative in the Congre&s of the United
States shall be made at and by pri-
mary elections, and that when special
elections are to be held for any office
as required or permitted by law. pri-
mary elections for the nomination of
candidates to be voted for thereat
shall be. ordered by the governor ny
proclamation. and he shall therein fix
the time within which nomination pa
pers snail be filed.
THEREFORE,, you are hereby IL
i
the State of Maine to notify and warn
all legally qualified voters to attend al
the regular voting places in the sew
eral cities, towns and plantations IN
the State, on the second Monday of
February, 1922, being the thirteenth
day of said month, for the puIpos, of
voting for persons to be nominated by
their respective parties as candidates
for the Office of representative in the
Congress of the United States at tie
election to be held on the twentiet!.
day of March next, as aforesaid and
Monday the twenty-third day of Jan
uary. 1922. is hereby fixed as The time
within which nomination papers shall
be filed with the Secretary of State
by such candidates as desire their
names TO appear upon the primary pal
lot, and fourteen days prior to the
day fixed for said election is hereby
fixed as the time for transmitting 10
town clerks, lists of candidates pro-
posed for nomination.
And you, the said mayors, aldermen,
selectmen and assessors in conducting
said primary election, and in making
your records and returns Of tire same,
are hereby directed to fully comply
with all the provisions of the law re-
lating to the nomination of candida tes
at primary elections and known as the
primary election law.
Given at the Executive
Chamber, at Augusta, this
fifth Gay of January. in the
year of our Lord, one
(SeaD thousand nine hundred and
twenty-five, and of the in
dependence of the United
States of America the one
hundred and forty-siZth.
PERClVAL p. BAXTER,
Governor.
BY the Governor.
FRANK w. BALL,
Secretary Of State.
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