242 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

of any entry in said register, and said copy, under their hands,
shall he evidence in any court or before any officer, of the matter
^therein contained.

Nominations.

1896, ch. 202.

' 36. Any convention or primary meeting, as hereafter de-
fined, held for the purpose of making nominations to public
office, and also voters to the number hereinafter specified, may
nominate candidates for public office, to be filled by election
within the State. A convention or primary meeting, within the
meaning of this article, is an organized assemblage of delegates
or voters, representing a political party or principle which at the
last election before the holding of such convention, polled at
least one per cent, of the entire vote cast in the State, county or
other division or district for which the nomination is made.
Nominations may be made by means of primary elections with-
out the intervention of any convention, by any party which, at
the last preceding election, polled the requisite proportion of
votes as hereinbefore specified.

Ibid.

37. All nominations made by such, convention or primary
meeting shall be certified as follows: The certificate, of nomi-
nation shall be in writing, shall contain the name of each per-
son nominated, his residence, his business, his business address
and the office for which he is nominated, and shall designate, in
not more than five words the party or principle which such con-
vention or primary meetings represent. It shall be signed by
the presiding officer and secretary of such convention, who shall
add to their signatures their respective places of residence, their
business and business address, and acknowledge the same before
an officer duly authorized to take acknowledgments, who shall
append a certificate of such acknowledgment thereto. If the
nomination is by means of a primary election, the certificate
shall be signed and acknowledged by the person or persons whose
duty it may be, by party usage, to declare the result of such
election in the manner prescribed for a nomination by a con-
vention. A party emblem or device may be added to the certi-
ficate, provided it shall be referred to and identified in said