EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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give bond, to be approved by a majority of the executive com-

mittee, which bond may be put to suit for shortage or defalca-

tion in the name of "The County Committee of the ..........

Party," which is hereby authorized to sue by that name, and

which said committee shall designate in writing filed in the pro-

ceedings in the suit, to whom the judgment recovered shall

be paid. The accounts of said chairman shall be audited by a

committee of three selected by said executive committee.

113. Any candidate refusing or neglecting to comply with the

provisions of this Act, as hereinbefore prescribed, shall be

Shall be

dropped from the list of candidates, and shall not be returned

dropped from
the list.

as having been voted for at the primary election, and none of

his votes shall be counted by the return judges; and in case of

the refusal of any nominee to pay the fee hereinbefore re-

quired, or neglecting to do the same, he shall be dropped, and

the person having the next highest vote in the convention, who

has paid the said fee and complied with the provisions of this

Act, shall be substituted on the ticket. If there be no nominee

for any of the places on the ticket, the said convention of re-

turn judges shall select a candidate for such place, and in the

event of any nominee dying or declining to have his name ap-

pear on the ticket the said committee shall have the name of

the person receiving the next highest number of votes, pro-

vided he has complied with all the provisions of this Act, to

be placed on the ballot ; and in case of a tie for any place on the

ballot, the return judges at said convention shall select publicly

by lot a nominee from among the candidates so tied. If the ex-

penditures for a candidate for nomination as set out in the affi-

davit of expenditures in this section provided for shall exceed

the amounts of: For Judge of the Circuit Court, $300; for

Expenditures

Member of Congress, $500; for State's Attorney, $300; for

of candidates
cannot exceed

Sheriff, $300; for State Senator. $100: for Clerk of Circuit

certain sums.

Court, $300; for Register of Wills, $300; for Clerk to County

Commissioners, $100; for Treasurer, $100; for Juidge of the

Orphans' Court, $10; for County Commissioner, $50; for

House of Delegates, $20; for County Surveyor, $10 — the said

candidate shall be dropped, and the return judges shall not

count the votes returned for such candidate, and only the names

of the candidates whose expenditures do not exceed the

amounts above specified shall be eligible for nomination.

113A. All delegates to a convention for the nomination of

State officers, or for the nomination of delegates to a national

Delegates to a

convention, and all candidates for any office not nominated by

State Conven-
tion.

direct vote as herein provided, whether county or State, shall