PRESERVING ORDER.] [Section 146, original act.] Section 10. The said board shall have and exercise the same power in preserving order at their meetings, under this act, as are given to judges of elec tions for preserving order on election days; and vacancies in said board shall be filled in the same manner that vacancies are now filled at elections.

BLANKS TO BE FURNISHED.] [Section 148, original act.] Section 11. The necessary blanks for making the registers required by law. shall be prepared by the Secretary of State, and transmitted to the persons entitled to receive them, in the same manner that blank returns of elections are now transmitted.

EXCEPTIONS.] Section 12. This article shall not apply to cities. villages and incorporated towns that have adopted or shall hereafter adopt an act entitled "An act regulating the holding of elections. and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns in this State." Approved June 19th. 1885.

ARTICLE IV.

COMPENSATION OF ELECTION OFFICERS.

JUDGES AND CLERKS.] [Section 63, original act.] Section 1. All judges and clerks of election, in counties of the first and second class shall be allowed the sum of three (3) dollars per day for their services, and judges and clerks of election in counties of the third class the sum of five (5) dollars each per day for their services.

SPECIAL CONSTABLE.] [Section 44, original act. ] Section 2. Constables serving at elections, by appointment of the county board or of the judges of election, shall be paid out of the county treasury not exceeding two dollars for each day's service.

BOARD OF REGISTRATION.] [Section 145, original act.] Section 3. Members of the board of registration shall each receive two dollars per day for each day actually employed, not exceeding two days. in the making and completion of the registry.

MODE OF PAYMENT.] [Section 75, original act. ] Section 4. The county clerk, on receipt of the returns of any general or special election, shall make out his certificate stating the compensation to which members of the board of registration and judges and clerks of election are entitled for their sérvices, and lay the same before the county board at its next session: and said board shall order the compensation aforesaid to be paid out of the county treasury.

ARTICLE V.

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES.

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES.] [Section 290, original act.] tion 1. Any convention of delegates and any caucus or meeting of qualified voters as hereinafter defined. and individual voters to the

number and in the manner hereinafter specified, may nominate candidates for political office, whose names shall be placed upon the ballots to be furnished as hereinafter provided: Provided, that in any county, city, village or incorporated town, respectively, in which an act entitled "An act providing for primary elections of delegates to nominating conventions of political parties or organizations, and to promote the purity thereof by regulating the conduct thereof, and to support the privileges of free suffrage thereat by prohibiting certain acts and practices in relation thereto, and providing for the punishment thereof," shall be in force; no candidate nominated by any convention of any political party or organization of any such county, city, village or incorporated town or any part thereof, or for the Congress of the United States, shall have his name printed on any official ballot printed and distributed at the public expense in such county, city, village or incorporated town, or any part thereof, unless such candidate shall be nominated by a convention composed of delegates elected for that purpose at the primary election of such political party last preceding the holding of such convention, according to the act entitled "An act providing for primary elections of delegates to nominating conventions of political parties or organizations and to promote the purity thereof by regulating the conduct thereof, and to support the privileges of free suffrage thereat by prohibiting certain acts and practices in relation thereto, and providing for the punishment thereof."

CAUCUS NOMINATIONS-CERTIFICATE AND REQUISITES.] [Section 291, original act.] Section 2. Any convention of delegates, caucus or meeting representing a political party, which at the general election next preceding polled at least two per cent. of the entire vote cast in the State, or in the electoral district or division thereof, or in the municipality for which the nomination is made, may for the State, or for the electoral district or division thereof, or municipality for which the convention, caucus or meeting is held, as the case may be, by causing a certificate of nomination to be duly filed, make one such nomination for each office therein to be filled at the election. Every such certificate of nomination shall state such facts as are required in section four of this article, and shall be signed by the presiding officer and by the secretary of the convention, caucus or meeting, who shall add to their signatures their places of residence. Such certificates shall be sworn to by them to be true to the best of their knowledge and belief, and a certificate of the oath shall be annexed to the certificate of nomination.

[Section 292, original

NOMINATION CERTIFICATES-SIGNATURES.] act.] Section 3. Nominations of candidates for any office to be filled by the voters of the State at large may also be made by nomination papers signed in the aggregate for each candidate by not less than one thousand qualified voters of the State. Nominations of candidates for office within any district or political division less than the State, and in all cities having a population in excess of 5,000, may be made by nomination papers signed in the aggregate for each candidate by qualified voters of such district or political division, not less than one for each fifty persons who voted at the next pre

ceding general election in such district or division, but in no case by less than twenty-five. In elections to be held in a town, village, precinct or ward, and in all cities with a population not exceeding 5.000, the signatures of voters thereof equaling five per cent. of the vote cast therein at the last preceding election shall be sufficient for the nomination of a candidate who is to be voted for only in such town, village, precinct, ward or city. Each voter signing a nomination paper shall add to his signature his place of residence, and each voter may subscribe to one nomination for each office to be filled, and no more: Provided, that the name of any candidate whose name may appear in any other place upon the ballot, shall not be so added by petition for the same office.

NOMINATION PAPERS REQUISITES.] [Section 293, original act.] Section 4. All certificates of nomination or nomination papers shall, besides containing the names of candidates, specify as to each:

1. The office to which he is nominated.

2. The party or political principle which he represents, expressed in not more than five words.

3. His place of residence, with the street and number thereof, if any. In the case of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, the names of the candidates for President and VicePresident may be added to the party or political appellation.

CERTIFICATES TO BE FILED.] [Section 294, original act] Section 5. Certificates of nomination and nomination papers for the nomination of candidates for offices to be filled by the electors of the entire State, or any division or district greater than a county, shall be filed with the Secretary of State at least thirty days previous to the day of election for which the candidates are nominated. All other certificates for the nomination of candidates shall be filed with the county clerk of the respective counties at least thirty days previous to the day of such election: Provided, that certificates of nomination and nomination papers for the nomination of candidates for the offices in cities, villages and incorporated towns, and for town offices in counties under township organization, shall be filed with the clerks of the towns, cities, villages and incorporated towns at least fifteen days previous to the day of such election.

WITHDRAWAL OF NOMINATIONS.] [Section 295, original act.] Section 6. Any person whose name has been presented as a candidate or who has been nominated by more than one convention, caucus or meeting of qualified voters, may cause his name to be withdrawn from any such nomination by his request in writing, signed by him and duly acknowledged before an officer qualified to take acknowledgment of deeds, and filed with the Secretary of State not less than fifteen (15) days, or with the proper clerk not less than eight (8) days previous to the day of election, and no name so withdrawn shall be printed upon the ballots under the party appellation or title from which the candidate has withdrawn his name. In case the certificate of nomination or petition, as provided for in this act, shall contain or exhibit the name of any candidate for any office upon

more than one of said certificates or petitions (for the same office), then and in that case the Secretary of State or county clerk, as the case may be, shall immediately notify said candidate of said fact and that his name appears unlawfully upon more than one of said certificates or petitions, and that within five (5) days from the receipt of said notification, said candidate must elect as to which of said political party appellations or groups he desires his name to appear and remain under upon said ballot, and if said candidate refuses, fails or neglects to comply with the provisions herein, then and in that case the Secretary of State or county clerk, as the case may be, shall not permit the name of said candidate to appear or be printed or placed upon said ballot under any or either of said political party appellations or groups. All certificates of nomination and nomination papers, when filed, shall be open, and under proper regulation, to public inspection, and the Secretary of State and the several clerks having charge of nomination papers shall preserve the same in their respective offices not less than six (6) months.

DEATH OR DECLINATION OF CANDIDATE VACANCY.] [Section 296, original act.] Section 7. In case a candidate who has been duly nominated under the provisions of this article die before election day, or decline the nomination, as in this article provided, or should any certificate of nomination be held insufficient or inoperative by the officer with whom they may be filed, the vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned may be filled by the political party or other persons making the original nominations, or, if the time is insufficient therefor, then the vacancy may be filled, if the nomination was by convention or caucus, in such manner as the convention or caucus had previously provided, or, in case of no such previous provision, then by regularly elected general or executive committee representing the political party or persons holding such convention, meeting or caucus. The certificates of nomination made to supply such vacancy shall state, in addition to the other facts required by section four of this article, the name of the original nominee, the date of his death or declination of nomination, or the fact that the former nomination has been held insufficient or inoperative, and the measures taken in accordance with the above requirements for filling a vacancy, and it shall be signed and sworn to by the presiding officer and secretary of the convention or caucus, or by the chairman and secretary of the duly authorized committee, as the case may be.

CERTIFICATES OF NOMINATION-OBJECTIONS.] [Section 297, original act.] Section 8. The certificates of nomination and nomination. papers being so filed and being in apparent conformity with the provisions of this article, shall be deemed to be valid, unless objection. thereto is duly made in writing. Such objections or other questions arising in relation thereto in the case of nomination of State officers shall be considered by the Secretary of State and the Auditor and Attorney-General, and the decision of the majority of these officers shall be final. Such objections or questions arising in the case of nominations for officers to be elected by the voters of a division less than the State and greater than a county, shall be considered by the

county judges of the counties embraced in such division, and the decision of a majority of these officers shall be final. Such objections or questions arising in the case of nominations of candidates for county offices, shall be considered by the county judge, county clerk and State's attorney for such county, and the decision of a majority of said officers shall be final. Objections or questions arising in the case of nominations of city, town or village officers shall be considered by the mayor or president of the board of trustees, and the city, town or village clerk, with whom one alderman or trustee thereof, as the case may be, chosen by lot, shall act, and the decision of a majority of such officers shall be final. Such objections arising in the case of nominations of town officers shall be considered by the board of auditors of such town, and the decision of a majority of such auditors shall be final. In any case where such objection is made, notice shall forthwith be given to the candidates affected thereby addressed to their places of residence as given in the nomination papers, and stating the time and place when and where such objections will be considered: Provided, that in cities, towns or villages having a board of election commissioners, such questions shall be considered by such board, and its decision shall be final.

NOMINATIONS TO FILL VACANCY.] [Section 298, original act.] Section 9. When such certificate is filed with the Secretary of State, he shall, in certifying nominations to the various county clerks, insert the name of the person who has been thus nominated to fill 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 clerks of the proper counties the name and description of the person so nominated to fill a vacancy, the office he is nominated for, with the other details mentioned in certificates of nominations filed with the Secretary of State, and in cases where such clerk is not charged by this act with the printing of the ballots, he shall immediately certify the name so supplied to the authorities charged with the printing of the ballots. The name so supplied for the vacancy shall, if the ballots are not already printed, be placed on the ballots in place of the name of the original nominee, or if the ballots have been printed, new ballots, whenever practicable, shall be furnished.

PASTERS STAMPING ON BALLOTS.] [Section 299, original act.] Section 10. Whenever it may not be practicable to have new ballots printed, it shall be the duty of the election officer having charge of the ballots, to place the name supplied for the vacancy upon each ballot issued before delivering it to the voter; the name so supplied may be placed upon the ballots either by affixing a paster or by writing or stamping the name on the ballot; and to enable this to be done the officer with whom the certificates of nomination are to be filed shall immediately furnish the name of such substituted nominee to all judges of election within the territory in which such nominee may be a candidate.

NOTICE TO COUNTY CLERK.] [Section 300, original act.] Section 11. Not less than fifteen days before an election to fill any public office, the Secretary of State shall certify to the county clerk of each