7 a candidate for the nomination for such office, which certificate 8 shall be in form or effect as follows:

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party, and desire my name printed 12 on the official ballot of said party to be voted at the primary 13 election to be held on the ...... day of

14 19.., that I am a legally qualified voter of the county of state of West Virginia; that my resident is

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18 that I am eligible to hold the said office; that I am a member of 19 and affiliated with said political party; that I am a candidate for 20 said office in good faith.

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Such announcement shall be signed and acknowledged by the 28 candidate before some officer qualified to administer oaths, who 29 shall certify the same; provided, that no person may be a can30 didate for nomination to office in any political party, unless it be 31 openly known that such person is a bona fide member of such 32 party.

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Such certificate shall be filed at least thirty days before the 34 "rimary election day.

Sec. 10. There shall be a separate ballot of candidates 2 of each political party who may file their petition as required by 3 this act, on different color of paper, and the ballot of no two par4 ties shall be of the same color or tint. The secretary of state shall 5 select and determine the color of the paper of the ballot of 6 each of the respective parties, and shall notify the clerk of the 7 circuit court of each county thereof; at the same time he shall 8 certify the names of the candidates of the various parties to said 9 clerk, as hereinbefore provided.

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The same color of paper as selected and designated by the 11 secretary of state for any party shall also be used for sample bal12 lot of such party; but there shall be printed across the face of such

13 sample ballot in large letters, the words, "sample ballot," and no 14 sample ballot shall be voted or counted.

Sec. 11. The certificate of nominations, as herein provided. 2 to be filed with the clerk of the circuit court, shall be filed within 3 thirty days before the day fixed by law for any general primary 4 election.

5 And at least twenty-five days before the holding of any pri6 mary election, the primary ballot commissioners of each county 7 shall prepare from the list and certificate or certificates of an8 nouncements furnished by the secretary of state, and the certifi9 cates of announcements filed with the circuit clerk as herein pro10 vided, a sample official primary ballot for each party, placing there11 on the names of all candidates of such party to be voted for at said 12 primary election, and publish the same in a newspaper of general 13 circulation published in said county representing such party, if one 14 there be; if not, then in some other newspaper published in said 15 county, in at least two issues of such paper. Said ballot commis16 sioners shall cause the official ballots to be used at said primary 17 election to be printed and distributed as required in case of bal18 lots at any general election; except that the number thereof shall 19 be for each party twice the number of votes cast by such party at 20 the last preceding general election.

Sec. 20. If any vacancy occurs in the nominee of any party 2 after the holding of any primary election caused by reason of said 3 party failure to make any such nomination in said primary elec4 tion, or for any other cause, the same shall be filled by the execu5 tive committee of that party, in the municipality, county, district 6 or state, as the case may be.

7 Provided, if the vacancy occurs by reason of a failure to make 8 such nominations in said primary election, the same shall be made 9 by the executive committee within twenty days after said primary 10 election.

11 In case of a tie for the nomination for any office, the respect12 ive committees shall choose by lot which of the two tieing shall be 13 the nominee.

Sec. 21. The expense of said general primary election and 2 the per diem of election officers shall be paid by the county court 3 the same as other election expenses are now provided for and paid 4 by general law; provided, that no compensation to any members 5 of any executive committee shall be included in said expense.

Sec. 23. Candidates for public office may be nominated oth2 erwise than by direct primary election or by convention. Political 3 parties having national organization, and having cast less than ten 4-5 per cent of the total vote cast for governor, at the last preceding 6 general election may nominate candidates for public office other7 wise than by conventions or primary elections. In such case, a 8 certificate shall be signed by voters resident within the state, dis9 trict or political division, for which the candidate is presented, to 10 a number equal to one per cent of the entire vote cast at the last 11 preceding general election in the state, circuit, district, 12 county or other division for which the nomintation is made; 13 provided, however, that the number of signatures so required shall 14 not exceed one thousand, nor be less than twenty-five, and need not 15 all be signed on one certificate. No voter signing such certificates 16 shall be counted unless his residence and post office addresses be 17 designated. Such certificates shall state the name and residence 18 of each of such candidates; that he is legally qualified to hold such 19 office; that the subscribers desire, and are legally qualified to vote 20 for such candidates; and may designate by not more than five 21 words, a brief name of the party which said candidates represent. 22 Any person, after having voted in a primary election or convention. 23 under the provision hereof, and who shall sign the certificate here24 in provided and any person having signed the certificate herein 25 provided for and who shall vote at any primary election or conven26 tion hereunder, to nominate candidates to be voted for at the same 27 election at which the candidates nominated by the certificates here28 in provided for, are to be voted for, shall be guilty of a felony, and 29 upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in the penitentiary for 30 not less than one, nor more than three years, and shall be disquali31 fied for holding any offices within the gift of the people, for a 32 period of ten years from the date of such convention. Such cer33 tificate shall be filed not less than thirty days before said primary 34 election, and with the same officers, as is described by law for the 35 making up of the said official ballot, and all candidates nominated 36 by the signing of such certificates shall have their names placed 37 on the official ballot as candidates, otherwise nominated under the 38 provisions of this act; such certificates shall be in the following 39 form or to the following effect:

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(And so on to the end of the nominations so made) And we further certify that each of said candidates is legally 50 qualified to hold the office for which he is nominated and that we 51 desire, and are legally qualified to vote for said candidates. The 52 name of the party which candidates represent is [Here state it].

Sec. 29. Between the first and fifteenth day of August, in 2 each year in which a president of the United States is to he 3 elected, each political party shall at some convenient place to le 4 designated by the chairman of the state committee thereof, hold a 5 meeting for the purpose, and shall formulate and promulgate a 6 state platform, and select presidential electors for the state at 7 large and for each congressional district. And if at the said 8 election a judge or judges of the supreme court of appeals is or 9 are to be elected, the candidates of such party for such judge shall 10 be nominated, and the name of such candidates for such offices of 11 judge and elector shall be certified by the officers of said conven12 tion to the secretary of state.

13 Candidates for judges of the circuit courts of the several 14 circuits shall be nominated by conventions held on the second 15 Tuesday in August in each year in which such judges are to be 16 elected, and at the county seat of the county entitled to the largest 17 number of delegates therein as herein provided. The respective 18 county executive committees of each party shall arrange for t 19 convention to be held in each magisterial district of their county 20 on the first Tuesday before said judicial convention for the ap21 pointment of the delegates from their respective counties to said. 22 conventions, and there shall be elected or appointed from each 23 magisterial district one delegate to said convention for each one 24 hundred votes or fraction thereof more than fifty cast therein at 25 the last preceding election for president of the United States for 26 their respective party candidates; provided, each district shall 27 have at least one delegate to said convention.

28 The county executive committee of the respective political 29 parties shall meet on the first Thursday before said judicial con

30 vention to hear and determine any contest of delegates, if any, 31 to said convention, and the supreme court of appeals shall have 32 concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court to hear and deter33 mine any appeal from the decision of any county executive com34 mittee in such matter.

35 In the counties in which a judge of the common pleas, inter36 mediate or criminal court is to be nominated the same shall be by 37 a convention called by the county executive committee of their 38 respective parties, composed of delegates elected or appointed 39 in the same manner as the delegates to the conventions to nom40 inate the circuit judges.

41 Any nominations so made for common pleas, intermediate, 42 criminal or circuit judges shall be certified by the chairman and 43 secretary of said conventions within twenty days thereafter to the 44 clerk of the circuit court of the county or circuit as the case may 45 be, and shall have the same force and effect as if made by a 46 primary.

Senate Bill No. 153

AN ACT authorizing the county court of Logan county, West Virginia, to lay a special levy for the year one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and if necessary for the purpose, for the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty, on the taxable property in said county, for the purpose of building for said county, at the county-seat thereof a jail, and providing for the building thereof and for the receipt and disbursement of all moneys raised by said levy.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

Section 1. For the purpose of building a jail for the county 2 of Logan, West Virginia, at the county seat of said county, the 3 county court of said county is hereby authorized to lay a special 4 levy on all the taxable property within said county for the year 5 one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and if necessary for said 6 purpose for the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty, not 7 to exceed in either year twenty cents on the one hundred dollars 8 valuation of said property as assessed for regular state, county and 9 district taxation. Said levy shall be called a special jail levy and 10 the funds derived therefrom shall be used for said purpose and for