contain one name for one office.

purposes set forth in sections 14 and 15 of this act. shall represent the signers of said certificate. Each voter signing a certificate shall add to his signature his place of residence and shall, before an officer duly authorized to take acknowledgments, acknowledge his signature and take oath that he is a voter within and for the political division for which such nomination is made, and has truly stated his residence. Said certificate, when executed and acknowledged as above prescribed, may be filed as provided for in section 4 of this act, in the same manner and with the same effect as a certificate of nomination made by a convention or committee.

CONTENTS OF CERTIFICATES OF NOMINATION.

Sec. 7. No certificate of nomination shall conCertificates to tain the names of more candidates for any office than there are offices to fill; but if any such certificate does contain the names of more candidates than there are offices to fill, only those names which come first in order on such certificates and are equally numbered with the number of offices to be filled, shall be taken as nominated, and all the rest of such names shall be treated as surplusage. No person shall sign more than one certificate of nomination for any office.

Nomination certificates preserved

two years.

PRESERVATION OF CERTIFICATES.

Sec. 8. The Secretary of State shall cause to be preserved in his office for the period of two years, all certificates of nomination filed therein under the provisions of this act; and each county clerk, city recorder or town clerk shall cause to be preserved in his office for a like period all certificates of nomination filed therein. All such certificates shall be open to public inspection, under proper regulations, to be made by the officers with whom the same are filed.

FILING OF CERTIFICATES OF NOMINATION.

Sec. 9. When nominations are made by a convenTime of filing tion or committee, as provided for in section 4 of this nominations. act, the certificates of nomination to be filed with the

certificates of

Secretary of State shall be filed not more than sixty nor less than thirty days before the day of election, and the certificates of nomination herein directed to be filed with the county clerk shall be filed not more than

sixty, nor less than fifteen days before election; and the certificates of nomination herein directed to be filed with the city recorder or town clerk shall be filed not more than thirty nor less than fifteen days before election. Certificates of nomination, otherwise than by convention or committee, made according to the provisions of section 6 of this act, shall, when required to be filed with the Secretary of State, be filed not more than forty nor less than thirty days before election; and when required to be filed with the county clerk, shall be filed not more than thirty nor less than fifteen days before election; and when required to be filed with the city recorder or town clerk, shall be filed not more than thirty nor less than fifteen days before election. All certificates of nominations made by conventions shall be filed in the proper offices not later than ten days after the date of such nominations.

CERTIFYING NOMINATIONS TO COUNTY CLERKS.

State to certify

county clerks.

Sec. 10. The Secretary of State shall, immediately Secretary of upon the expiration of the time within which certifi- nominations to cates of nomination may be filed with him and corrections thereof made, certify to the county clerk of each county, within which any of the voters may by law vote for the candidates named in the certificate, the name and description of each such candidate, together with the other details mentioned in such certificate of nomination so filed with the Secretary of State.

PUBLICATION AND POSTING OF NOMINATIONS.

nominees to be

Sec. 11. For at least six successive days before an Lists of election to fill any public office the county clerk of each published or county, or recorder of each city or town clerk of each posted, how. town shall give notice in and not more than two newspapers published within the county, a list of all the nominations to offices certified to him under the provisions of this act. Such publication shall contain the name and residence, and, if in a city, the street, number of residence and place of business, if any, and the party or other designation of each candidate, and shall be, as far as possible, in the form in which such nominations shall appear upon the official ballots. In the case of municipal elections, such publication of the names of candidates for municipal offices shall be made in newspapers which are published within the

Copies to election officers.

municipality where the election is to be held. One of such publications shall be made in a newspaper which advocates the principles of the political party that at the last preceding State election cast the largest number of votes, and another of such publications if more than one is made, shall be made in the newspaper which advocates the principles of the political party which at the last preceding State election cast the next largest number of votes. The county clerk, in selecting the respective papers for such publication, shall select those which, according to the best information he can obtain, have the largest circulation within the county. In making additional publications, county clerks shall keep in view the object of giving information as far as possible to the largest number of voters of all political parties, and in no event shall such additional publication be made in two newspapers representing the same political party, the county clerk shall make such publications daily in the counties where daily newspapers are published, but if there be no daily newspaper published within the county, one publication in each newspaper shall be sufficient. Should the county clerk find it impracticable to make the publication six days before election day, in counties where no daily newspaper is printed, he shall make the same at the earliest possible day thereafter, and one of the publications in any newspaper shall be in the last issue thereof, before the day of election. In counties where there are no daily papers, the county clerk shall make the publication at the earliest possible day after the filing in his office of such certificates of nomination; and in counties where it is impracticable to make such publication in newspapers advocating opposite political principles, such publication shall be made in the newspaper having the largest circulation, and in counties where there are no newspapers published, the county clerk shall post double the number of printed lists, and such additional lists shall be posted in other conspicuous places in different portions of the county. In cities and towns where there are no newspapers published the recorder of such city and the town clerk of such town shall, six days before any general or special election, post double the number of printed lists, in as many conspicuous places in such city or town.

Sec. 12. The county clerk of each county and the city recorder of each city and the town clerk of each

town, shall at least six days before election day, send to the election officers in each election precinct in such county, city or town, at least five and not more than ten copies, for each election precinct, of printed lists containing the name and residence, and if in a city, the street, number of his residence and place of business, if any, and party or other designation of each candidate nominated, as hereinbefore provided, to be voted for by the voters of the respective counties, cities or towns. Such list shall, at least three days before the day of election, be conspicuously posted by such election officers in one or more public places in each election precinct of the county, city or town, one or more of which shall be duly placed where such election is to be held.

OBJECTIONS TO NOMINATIONS.

writing.

Sec. 13. All certificates of nominations which are objections in in apparent conformity with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed to be valid unless objection thereto, shall be duly made in writing within three days after the filing of the same. In case such objection is made, notice thereof shall forthwith be mailed to all the candidates who may be affected thereby, addressed to them at their respective postoffice addresses, if any, or places of residence, as given in the certificate of nomination. The officer with whom the original certificate was filed shall pass upon the validity of such objection, and his decision shall be final; Provided, Such officer shall decide such objection within at least forty-eight hours after the same is filed, and any objection sustained may be remedied or defect cured upon the original certificate, or by an amendment thereto, or by filing a new certificate within three days after such objection is sustained.

ACCEPTANCE OF NOMINATIONS.

tance of nomi

made.

Sec. 14. Every person nominated for any public written accepoffice, as in this act provided, shall, within five days nation to be after the filing of the certificate or nomination paper, containing his nomination, in the proper office, accept such nomination in a written declaration signed and acknowledged before an officer authorized to take acknowledgments; the failure of any such nominee to so accept such nomination and file such declaration of acceptance within the time aforesaid, shall be deemed

Filling vacancies in nominations.

a declination, and such nomination shall be treated as vacant, which vacancy shall be filled as provided for other vacancies herein. Two or more nominees may make and acknowledge such acceptance in one paper. Provided, That any person nominated for any office by either of the two leading political parties which presented candidates at the last preceding election, shall be deemed to have accepted such nomination unless such candidate shall file with the officer having custody of such certificates of nomination, a written declination of such nomination within said five days.

VACANCIES IN NOMINATIONS.

Sec. 15. Should any person so nominated die before election day, resign or decline the nomination, as in this act provided, or should any certificate of nomination be insufficient or inoperative, because of failure to remedy or cure the same, the vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned may be filled in the same manner required by original nominations.

If the original nomination was made for a party convention which had delegated to a committee the power to fill vacancies, such committee may upon the occurring of such vacancies, proceed to fill the same. The chairman and secretary of such committee shall thereupon make and file with the proper officer a certificate, setting forth the cause of the vacancy, the name of the person nominated, the office for which he was nominated, the name of the person for whom the new nominee is to be substituted, the fact that the committee was authorized to fill vacancies and such further information as is required to be given in an original certificate of nomination. The certificate so made shall be executed and sworn to in the manner prescribed for the original certificate of nomination, and shall, upon being filed at least eight days before the election, have the same force and effect as an original certificate of nomination. When such certificate shall be filed with the Secretary of State, he shall, in certifying the nominations to the various county clerks, insert the name of the person who has been nominated to fill the vacancy in place of the original nominee, and in the event that he has already sent forward his certificate, he shall forthwith certify to the county clerks of the proper counties the