ELIHU B. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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be, with respect to said duplicate sets as if they had been the

originals.

150. If it shall happen that some office or offices shall become

vacant after the time fixed for filing certificates of nomination

and nomination papers, or a candidate for any office shall die

after his name shall have been printed on the official ballots,

tickets for such office or offices alone, not exceeding four inches

in length, may be printed or prepared in the manner now allowed

Separate
ticket.

by law, and may be carried into the polling-room and voted at

the same time and in the same ballot-box with the official ballot,

and shall be counted in the same manner as the official ballots ;

and in the cases mentioned in this section the name of a candi-

date for such vacant office shall not be placed or written on the

official ballot or counted if found thereon.

151. It shall be the duty of the said respective boards of su-

pervisors of elections to provide for each of the polling-places in
the said cities and counties respectively, two books for the use of

the election clerks in keeping the account of the votes, said books
shall be in the form now in use for the purpose, except that they
shall have in addition at least one parallel column on the left

To provide

hand margin, in which it shall be the duty of the election clerks

to place numbers consecutively against the name of each voter

whose vote shall be recorded and placed in the ballot-box, so that

the voters who have voted shall be numbered consecutively one

after another in regular sequence, the first voter to be numbered

one, the next two, and so on to the end.

152. It shall be the duty of the said boards of supervisors of

election at the same time and in the same manner that they make

the appointment of the judges of elections, and from persons

having the same qualifications as those prescribed by law for said

judges, to appoint two ballot clerks for each precinct and elec-

tion district; each one of the said supervisors of election shall

have a vote upon the proposed selection or nomination of any

election clerk, and if in any instance in consequence of such vote

the board cannot agree upon such appointment, then the names

of three persons who are eligible shall be submitted for selection

to for election clerks by the supervisor or supervisors belonging

the leading political party entitled to be represented by such

election clerk, and out of said three names the other supervisor

or supervisors representing the other leading political party of

Ballot
clerks.

the State, shall select the name of such election clerk, who when

so selected shall he appointed the election clerk, if otherwise

eligible, and shall serve, unless executed by said board of super-

visors of election so that there shall be two ballot clerks for each

voting place, and said ballot clerks shall hold their office for the

same period as the judges of election; and one of the said ballot

clerks shall be selected from each of the two different parties