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newspapers within such county and in all the daily papers
published in said city which will publish the same at the cur-
rent rates for advertising, the nominations to office which have
then been filed with or certified to them under the provisions
of this article. If in any county there be but one newspaper
published, publication in such one newspaper shall be suffi-
cient. They 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, and the two
newspapers selected shall, if possible, represent the political
parties which at the last preceding election cast the largest
and next largest number of votes. The list of nominations
published by the supervisors of elections shall be arranged,
as far as practicable, in the order and form in which they are
to be printed upon the ballots.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 45.

49. Whenever any person nominated for public office, as in
this article provided, shall at least ten days before election,
in a writing signed by him and acknowledged before a justice
of the peace, or if he be out of the State at the time, before a
notary public, notify the officer with whom the certificate nomi-
nating him is, by this article, required to be filed, that he
declines such nomination, such nomination shall be void, and
the name of any person so declining shall not be printed upon
the ballots.

Ibid. sec. 46.

50. Should any person so nominated die before election day
or decline the nomination, as in this article provided, or
should any certificate of nomination be or become insufficient
or inoperative from any cause, the vacancy or vacancies thus
occasioned may be filled in the manner required for original
nominations. If the original nomination was made by a party
convention which had delegated to a committee the power to
fill vacancies, such committee may, upon the occurring of such
vacancies, proceed to fill the same; the chairman and secretary
of such committee shall thereupon make and file with the
proper officer a certificate setting forth the cause of the
vacancy, the name of the person nominated, the office for
which he was nominated, the name of the person for whom