EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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cincts or districts, take possession of the ballot boxes after the

count has been made and the box sealed, as hereinbefore re-

quired, and to deliver said ballot box with its contents still

sealed unto the clerk of the Election Supervisors until the

meeting of the return judges hereinafter prescribed.

in. The return judges of the several precincts and dis-

tricts shall assemble in convention in the court house in the

Return judges.

City of Cumberland, on the Thursday following the primary

election, at ten o'clock A.M., at which convention the chair-

man of the county committee shall preside, assisted by two

vice-presidents and two clerks, who shall be elected from the

judges present, after the convention shall have been organized

the judges shall produce the returns from their respective

precincts or districts, which shall be opened and counted,

and the candidate having the highest number of votes for any

office shall be declared the nominee for such office for said

party; provided, however, that the ballots shall not be de-

stroyed for thirty clays, and shall be safely kept in the said

court house in the custody of the Board of Election Super-

visors, so that any appeal from said convention may be made

to a committee on appeals composed of the chairman, vice-

chairman and executive committee of said county committee,

which shall have jurisdiction in such appeals when fraud

is alleged in any district or precinct; provided, further, that

Proviso.

said appeal shall be made within five days from the date of

the primary election and shall be heard within ten days there-

after; such appeal shall be made under the oath of the ap-

pellant.

112. Each candidate for nomination, who has notified the chair-

man of his candidacy as aforesaid, not less than days before

Candidates for

the day set for the primary election, shall take and subscribe to

nomination. "

and file with the said chairman, the following affidavit : "I,

............. in the presence of Almighty God, do solemnly

swear that I have not used or attempted to use and will not

use or attempt to use any money, intoxicating liquors, thing

of value, or like means, to buy, hire or induce any person

or persons to vote for, support or refrain from voting for

or supporting me, or any other person for nomination, or to

remain away from the coming primary election. I have not

counseled or advised or procured, and will not counsel, ad-

vise or procure any person or persons to bribe any elector

or electors to vote for me or any other candidate or candi-

dates, or to refrain from voting for any other candidate or

candidates. I will not directly or indirectly, by myself, or