place of business, if any, and shall designate in not more than three words the name of the political party which such candidate represents. All such assembly candidates for nomination by a political party shall be certified by the presiding officer and secretary of the assembly of the political party making the same, and shall be filed within the time, and with the same officer with whom nominations by petition for like offices are to be filed, as in this Act provided; and such presiding officer and secretary so certifying to said candidate for nomination shall add to their signature their respective places of residence and postoffice address, and make oath by affidavit thereto attached before an officer qualified to acknowledge the same that affiants are such officers of such assembly and that the statements contained in such certificate are true to the best of their knowledge and belief.

Assembly designations of candidates for nomination on the Direct Primary Ballot may be made by assemblies of the several political parties and delegates to such assemblies of political parties selected as specified by the rules and regulations of the respective political parties as now provided for the holding of assemblies, or as hereafter may be provided by such political parties for the holding of assemblies by the respective political parties participating therein and as follows:

Any such assembly shall take only one ballot upon candidates for each office to be filled at the ensuing election and within the jurisdiction of such assembly.

Every such candidate receiving ten per cent., or more, of the votes of the duly accredited delegates to such assembly for any office to be voted upon at such ensuing election, shall be certified as hereinbefore provided, and shall be placed upon the Direct Primary ballot as a candidate for such office before the ensuing Primary election.

All candidates designated and certified by assembly for a particular office shall be placed on the Direct Primary Ballot in the order of the vote received by each such candidate: That is to say, the candidate receiving the highest vote shall be placed first in order on such Direct Primary Ballot, followed by the candidate receiving the next highest vote, and so on until all of the candidates so designated by such assembly shall have been placed on such ballot; Provided, that no assembly shall in any wise declare that any candidate voted for, has received the nomination of any such assembly, and, Provided further, that any candidate so designated by assembly shall file his written acceptance of the same with the officer with whom certificates and petitions are herein provided to be filed, within

seven days after the adjournment of such assembly. All candidates by petition for any particular office shall follow assembly candidates and shall be placed on the Direct Primary Ballot in alphabetical order.

Number of signatures required on petitions-Limitation-Electors signing petition to give address and precincts, and make oath-Petition requirements-Acceptance of candidate. Sec. 5. Every such petition in the case of a candidate for any National, State or district office greater than a county, shall be signed by not less than three hundred duly qualified electors, resident within the State or district for which the officer is to be elected, and in the case of a candidate for any other elective office, shall be signed by not less than one hundred duly qualified electors, resident within the political subdivision for which the officer is to be elected; Provided, however, That no such petition shall require more signers thereto than ten per cent. of the gubernatorial votes cast by such political party at the last preceding election in such political subdivision. The electors supporting such petition shall write opposite their names their respective addresses, and election precincts wherein resident as such electors, and shall make oath by affidavit thereto attached, before any officer authorized to administer the same, to the truth thereof, and that each such candidate is placed in nomination on behalf of the political party named in the petition, and is affiliated with the principles thereof; that affiants intend to vote for such candidate at the ensuing direct primary election, and that affiants have not signed any other petition for any other candidate for the same office designated by such petition. Such petition may consist of one or more sheets, to be fastened together in the form of one petition, but each sheet shall contain the same heading, and the affidavit of the subscribing electors shall be endorsed on the sheet on which their names shall be signed. Every such petition before the same is filed with the proper officer as herein designated, shall have endorsed thereon or thereto appended in writing, either on the first or last sheet of said petition, the acceptance of such candidate of such nomination by acknowledgment before any officer authorized to take acknowledgments. Petitions, where, when, and with whom filed.

Sec. 6. Every such petition shall, in the case of a candidate for any National, State or district office greater than a county, be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and in the case of a candidate for any other elective office, other than municipal or city, in the office of the county clerk wherein such candidate is placed in nomination, not more than sixty days and not less

than thirty days prior to the ensuing direct primary election, and in the case of a municipal or city candidate, in the office of the municipal or city clerk, not more than thirty days and not less than twenty days prior to the ensuing direct primary election.

Secretary of state shall transmit list of candidates to county clerks -Primary election notice to be published and posted.

Sec. 7. At least twenty days before any September direct primary election, the Secretary of State shall transmit to each county clerk a certified list of each and every person entitled to be voted for at such primary election, and the office for which such person is a candidate, together with the other details mentioned in the nomination papers filed in the office of the Secretary of State. Each county clerk shall, at least ten days before the September direct primary election, publish once in a condensed form under the proper party designation and under the title of each office, the names and addresses of all persons for whom nomination papers have been filed, insofar as the same shall effect the electors of his county, giving the date of the direct primary election, the hours during which the polls will be open, and reciting that the said primary election will be held in the lawful polling places designated in each precinct, and shall cause to be posted copies of such notice in at least two public places in all rural precincts in his county. Publication in two newspapers.

Sec. 8. Any publication required in this act shall be made once in two newspapers, if such there be, of general circulation, published in each county or city where such direct primary elections are to be held, representing the two political parties that cast respectively the largest and the next largest vote in such city or county at the last preceding general election. Method of voting-Separate party ballots-All tickets must be

uniform-Arrangement of ballot-Arrangement of names on direct primary ballot-City and municipal electionsDuties of city or municipal clerk-Form of ballot-General form of ballot to be followed.

Sec. 9. The method of voting at such direct primary election shall be by ballot, as herein provided.

Not later than ten days before the September direct primary election, the county clerk shall group all the candidates for each party by themselves and shall prepare at once in writing a separate sample ballot for each party for public inspection and shall forthwith proceed to have the primary election ballots printed in the following manner:

All tickets shall be uniform in color and size, shall be white and printed in black ink. Across the head of each ballot shall be printed in plain black type, "OFFICIAL DIRECT PRIMARY ELECTION BALLOT." On the next line shall be printed the name of the political party, and below that the precinct, ward, city and county in which the ballot is to be used. Then shall follow the words, "To Vote for a Person Mark a Cross (X) in the First Square at the Right of the Name of the Person For Whom You Desire to Vote." Beginning at the top of the left hand column at the left of the line in black type, shall appear the designated office for which the respective names following are the names of candidates, and to the extreme right of the same line the words, "Vote For," then the words, "One," "Two," or a spelled number designating how many persons under that head are to be voted for.

Following this shall come the name of each candidate for that office, enclosed in a light-faced rule, with a square to the right of said name, said square being separated by a heavy, black-faced rule, the parallel rules containing the names and the squares to be one-sixth of an inch apart and not more than two and one-sixth inches long over all, and following the names of all the candidates for any particular office shall be a blank space or spaces, wherein the voter may write the name or names of one or more candidates according to the number of candidates to be nominated for such office, for which the voter is entitled to vote. Each position, with the names of the candidates for that office shall be separated from the following one by a blackfaced rule, to separate each position clearly. The positions shall be arranged as follows, insofar as selections are to be made or preferences indicated in such county under the provi sions of this act: First, candidates for United States Senator; next, congressional candidates; next, State candidates; next. legislative candidates; next, other district candidates greater than a county; next, county candidates; next, precinct candidates; next, candidates for precinct members of the party committees of the several parties. The names of the candidates for each office upon the ballot and under the heading designating each official position upon the ballot to be used in voting, shall be arranged as provided in section 4 of this act. A black space two inches square shall be printed on the face of the ballot in the lower, left-hand corner of each ticket of the ballot. There shall be no other printing or distinguishing marks on the ballot except as in this act specifically provided. Sample ballots shall be in the same form as the official ballot, but upon colored paper.

In the city or municipal elections, it shall be the duty of the city or municipal clerk to prepare the ballots and arrange the positions of the offices on such ballots, commencing with the office of mayor, using his reasonable discretion as to such arrangement. The duties provided for in this act to be performed by the county clerk with reference to candidates for county and district offices or either of them, shall in like manner be performed by the city or municipal clerk in each city or municipality, with reference to the preparation of ballots and all other matters connected with direct primary election for candidates for city or municipal offices.

The form of ballot shall be substantially as follows: "OFFICIAL DIRECT PRIMARY ELECTION BALLOT." .PARTY. (DESIGNATION OF PARTY.) ..Ward

.Precinct

..City

... County

To vote for a person mark a cross (X) in the first square at the right of the name of the person for whom you desire to vote.