PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1039

SEC. 270CC. The place of any officer of registration who
may be absent on any day of registration or revision shall be
filled by the city register who shall appoint some competent
person to such temporary office of registration, who shall take
the same oath as provided in the case of the regular officers of
registration; whenever the regular officer shall return or be
present the temporary incumbent shall vacate his office. The
appointment and swearing in of all such substitutes, and the
reasons therefor and the time when said substitutes began and
ceased to serve as officers of registration shall be noted by the
board in the registry.

SEC. 270MM. At least eight days before an election to fill
any office herein provided for the city register shall cause to be
inserted in two newspapers published in said city, the names
of the persons nominated to office under the provisions of this
article. He shall make not less than two such publications
in each of such newspapers before the day of election, and one
of such publications in each newspaper shall be upon the last
day upon which said newspaper is issued before the day of
election. Such publication shall be made in newspapers devoted
to the dissemination of general news. The list of nominations
published by the city register shall be arranged, as far as
practicable, in the order and form in which they are to be
printed upon the ballots.

SEC. 270OO. Should any person so nominated die before
election day or decline the nomination, as in this article pro-
vided, the vacancy or vacancies may be filled by selecting as a
candidate or candidates the person or persons who in the pre-
ceding primary election received the next highest number of
votes to those nominated for the office or offices in which the
vacancy has occurred, but in .the event there be no preceding
primary election and a vacancy or vacancies occurs more than
ninety-six hours before the opening of the polls on the day of
election, such vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by placing
on the official ballot, the name or names of the person or persons
as the case may be who shall secure the largest number of sign-
ers (from the lists of qualified voters of the city), attached to a
petition, which petition shall be filed with the city register not
less than twenty-four hours before the opening of the polls on
the day of election. Each petition shall be accompanied with a
statement of candidacy, and said petition and statement shall
be substantially in the form set out in section 172 of this act,
so far as the some is applicable, eliminating the word "pri-
mary" whenever the same appears in said statement or petition
and stating therein that said person is a candidate for election