ART. 33] NOMINATIONS. 1027

the said registers may be, and not otherwise. Said board of
supervisors and said board of registry shall, upon application,
furnish a copy of any entry in said register, and said copy,
under their hands, shall be evidence in any court or before any
officer, of the matters therein contained.

Nominations.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 36.

40. Any convention or primary meeting as hereinafter
defined, 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 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. Nomination may be made by means of primary elec-
tions without the intervention of any convention by any party
which at the last preceding election polled the requisite pro-
portion of votes as hereinbefore specified.

Ibid. sec. 37. 1901, ch. 2.

41. All nominations made by such convention or primary
meetings stall 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 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 meeting represents. It shall be signed by
the presiding officer and secretary of such convention, who
shall add to their signatures their respective places of resi-
dence, their business and business address and acknowledge
the same before an officer duly authorized to take acknowledg-
ments, 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 nomina-
tion by a convention, but no party emblem or device of any
kind shall be added to said certificate; and if any such emblem
or device should be added, it shall not be printed upon the