ELECTIONS OF 1913 
 
 Duties of Voters, Candidates and Political 
 
 Committees 
 
 UNDER "ACTS” RELATING TO 
 
 |PERSONAL REGISTRATION” 
 “UNIFORM PRIMARIES” 
 “PARTY ENROLLMENT”! 
 “NON-PARTISAN PRIMARIES” 
 
 AND 
 
 “CORRUPT PRACTICES” 
 
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 PREPARED BY 
 
 GEORGE D. THORN 
 
 CHIEF CLERK, STATE DEPARTMENT 
 
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 HARRISBURG, PA. 
 
 1913 
 
 HARRISBURG, PA.: 
 
 WM. STANLEY RAY, STATE PRINTER 
 
 1913 
 
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 LIBRARY 
 
 •F THE 
 
 IVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
 
 21 NOV 1913 
 
 Registration Days in Cities. 
 
 “ If a voter’s name is not registered he shall not be entitled to 
 
 vote at any election.” 
 
 REGISTRATION DAYS IN ALL CITIES FOR 
 THE NOVEMBER ELECTION, 1913. 
 
 (All previous registrations have expired.) 
 
 Thursday, August 28, 1913. 
 
 Tuesday, September 2, 1913. 
 Saturday, September 13, 1913. 
 
 The hours when the Registrars will sit, in the 
 cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton are 
 from 7 o’clock A. M. to 10 o’clock A. M., and from 4 
 o’clock P. M. to 10 o’clock P. M. 
 
 In all other cities, from 8 o’clock A. M. to 1 o’clock 
 P. M., from 2 o’clock P. M. to 6 o’clock P. M. and 
 from 7 o’clock P. M. to 10 o’clock P. M. 
 
 REGISTRATION OF VOTERS IN FEDERAL OR 
 
 STATE EMPLOY. 
 
 . ~-^Any person employed in the service of this State, 
 or in the service of the Federal Government, and re¬ 
 quired thereby to be absent from the city wherein 
 he resided when entering such employment, shall, on 
 c petition to the proper registration commissioners, 
 verified by affidavit, and without appearing per- 
 ^ sonaliy before the commissioners, be registered as 
 of the district wherein he shall have resided prior to 
 entering such service. In such case a residence by 
 street and number shall not be required, but the per- 
 - son shall be registered as of the proper district. In 
 
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 the case of persons employed by this Commonwealth 
 no such petition shall be considered, unless it be ac¬ 
 companied by a certificate from the Auditor Gen¬ 
 eral, under the seal of his office, setting forth that 
 the proper person is actually employed in the ser¬ 
 vice of this Commonwealth, and also setting forth 
 the nature of such employment and the time when 
 such person first entered such employment. In the 
 case of persons employed by the Federal Govern¬ 
 ment no such petition shall be considered, unless it 
 be accompanied by a certificate from the head of the 
 proper dexmrtment, or chief of the proper division 
 or bureau, under the seal of his office, setting forth 
 that the proper person is actually employed in the 
 service of the United States, and also setting forth 
 the nature of such employment, and the time when 
 such person first entered such employment. No such 
 person shall be registered unless he shall produce to 
 the registration commissioners satisfactory proof 
 that he is, by payment of taxes and otherwise, en¬ 
 titled to registration. When any such person, so 
 registered, shall vote, he shall be required by the 
 proper election officers to sign the ballot check list 
 of the proper district. 
 
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 STATE WIDE PRIMARY. 
 
 The Primary Elections shall be held on the third 
 ,* Tuesday of September in all odd-numbered years 
 and shall be known as the “Fall Primary.” 
 
 Candidates for all offices to be filled at the mu¬ 
 nicipal election, shall be nominated at the Fall Pri¬ 
 mary. 
 
 The names of candidates for nomination for all 
 county, city, borough, ward and township offices 
 shall be filed with the County Commissioners at least 
 three weeks prior to the primary. 
 
 The number of signers required for an office to be 
 voted for by the electors of an entire county is at 
 least one hundred qualified voters. 
 
 For the office of Inspector of Elections, five quali¬ 
 fied voters. 
 
 All other offices, at least ten qualified voters. 
 
 Each signer of a Nomination Petition shall sign 
 but one such petition for each office to be filled, and 
 shall declare therein that he is a member of the party 
 designated in such petition: Provided, however 
 That where there are to be elected two or more per¬ 
 sons to the same office, each signer may sign peti¬ 
 tions for as many candidates for such office as, and 
 no more than he could vote for at the November elec¬ 
 tion. He shall also declare therein that he is a quali¬ 
 fied elector of the county therein named, and of the 
 political district or division in which the nomination 
 is to be made. He shall add his occupation and resi¬ 
 dence, giving city, borough or township, with street 
 and number, if any, and shall also add the date of 
 signing. No Nomination Petition shall be circulated 
 prior to sixty days before the last day on which 
 
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 such petition may be filed, and no signature shall be 
 counted unless it bears date within sixty days of the 
 last day for filing. 
 
 Said Nomination Petition may be on one or more 
 sheets. Each sheet shall have appended thereto the 
 affidavit of some person, not necessarily a signer, 
 and not necessarily the same person on each sheet, 
 setting forth that the affiant is a qualified voter of 
 the political district or division, as the case may be; 
 his residence, giving city, borough or township, with 
 street and number, if any; that the signers signed 
 with full knowledge of the contents of the petition; 
 that their respective residences are correctly stated 
 therein; that they all reside in the county named in 
 the affidavit; and that each signed on the date set 
 opposite his name; and that, to the best of affiant’s 
 knowledge and belief the signers are qualified elec¬ 
 tors and members of the designated party of the po¬ 
 litical district or division, as the case may be. 
 
 The Primary Election polls shall be open between 
 the hours of seven o’clock A. M. and seven o’clock 
 P. M. 
 
 The qualifications of electors entitled to vote at a 
 primary shall be the same as the qualifications of 
 electors entitled to vote at elections, except that 
 with respect to the payment of taxes, it shall be 
 sufficient if an elector shall have paid within two 
 years before the next November election a State or 
 county tax, which shall have been assessed at least 
 two months before the said election, and paid on or 
 before the day of the primary, and in cases where 
 personal registration is required, on or before the 
 registration day on which he registered. 
 
 If an elector is challenged he shall make oath that 
 at the last preceding election at which he voted, he 
 voted for a majority of the candidates of the party 
 for whose ballot he asks. 
 
If such last preceding election was a general elec¬ 
 tion, at which Presidential electors were voted for, 
 he shall, in determining the number of candidates 
 for which he voted, count the group of Presidential 
 electors as two candidates. 
 
 Any person who votes, or attempts to vote, at 
 a primary, knowing that he does not possess the 
 qualifications, etc., shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to a 
 fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprison¬ 
 ment not exceeding one year, or either, or both, in 
 the discretion of the court. 
 
 State Committeemen shall be elected at the Fall 
 Primary, in the year 1913, and shall hold office until 
 their successors are duly elected and qualified at the 
 Spring Primary in 1914: Provided, however, That 
 where the existing rules of a party provide for the 
 election of State Committeemen by the County Com¬ 
 mitteemen of the respective counties, in the year 
 1913, the State Committeemen so elected shall serve 
 until their successors are duly elected and qualified 
 at the Spring Primary in 1914. 
 
 Vacancies happening at any time in the office of 
 State Committeeman shall be filled by the City or 
 County Committee of the respective parties. 
 
 Nomination petitions for all Judges, including As¬ 
 sociate Judges, shall be filed in the office of the Sec¬ 
 retary of the Commonwealth. 
 
 Also those for Member of the State Committee. 
 
 The Democratic party, whose rules provide for 
 the election of their members of the State Commit¬ 
 tee by the County Committee, do not elect those of¬ 
 ficers at this year’s primary. 
 
 For all other offices the nomination petitions are 
 filed with the County Commissioners. 
 
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 NON-PARTISAN. 
 
 NOMINATION OF JUDGES. 
 
 Judges of the Supreme and Superior Court and 
 Judges of all Courts of record shall be nominated at 
 a primary election upon a non-partisan ballot. 
 
 The names of the candidates shall appear on the 
 official non-partisan primary ballot in alphabetical 
 order. 
 
 If the candidate is to be voted for in more than 
 one county, the name of the county in which he re¬ 
 sides shall be printed opposite to or under his name. 
 
 If he lives in a district composed of but ope county 
 the name of the township, borough or ward and city 
 shall be printed after his name. 
 
 The names of candidates for nomination shall be 
 printed upon the official non-partisan primary bal¬ 
 lot, upon the filing of nomination petitions, signed 
 by qualified voters of the State, or of the judicial dis¬ 
 trict, as the case may be. 
 
 Each signer of a nomination petition may sign 
 but one petition, for each office to be filled, and shall 
 declare therein, that he has signed no other, except 
 that when more than one is to be elected he may sign 
 petitions for as many candidates as he could vote for 
 at the November election. 
 
 To his signature he shall add his occupation and 
 residence, giving city, borough or township, with 
 street and number, if any, and shall also add the 
 date of signing. -» 
 
 No petition shall be circulated prior to sixty days 
 before the last day on which such petitions may be 
 filed. 
 
 Petitions for judges may be filed with the Sec- 
 
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 retary of the Commonwealth up to and including 
 Tuesday, August 19, 1913, or at least four weeks 
 , prior to the primary. 
 
 Nomination petitions may be on one or more 
 sheets, but different sheets must be used for signers 
 resident in different counties. Each sheet shall have 
 appended thereto the affidavit of some person, not 
 necessarily a signer, setting forth that he is a quali¬ 
 fied elector of the State or judicial district, as the 
 case may be, giving his residence, city, borough, or 
 township, with street and number, if any; that the 
 signers signed with full knowledge of the contents 
 of the petition; that their respective residences are 
 correctly stated therein; that they all reside in the 
 county named in the affidavit; and that each signed 
 on the date set opposite their names; and that to the 
 best of his knowledge and belief they are qualified 
 voters of the district. 
 
 Each candidate shall file with his petition his af¬ 
 fidavit, stating his residence, with street and num¬ 
 ber, if any, his post office address, his election dis¬ 
 trict, the name of the office for which he is a candi¬ 
 date, that he is eligible for such office, and that he 
 will not knowingly violate any election law, or any 
 law regulating election expenses. 
 
 Nomination Petitions. Number of signers required. 
 
 (1) For the office of Judge of the Supreme or 
 Superior Court nomination petitions shall be 
 signed by at least one hundred qualified voters 
 in each of at least five counties of the State. 
 
 (2) For the office of Judge of any Court 
 of Kecord, by at least two hundred qualified 
 voters of the county, or district, as the case may 
 be, but the same sheet may not be used in more 
 
 . than one county. 
 
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 The candidates for nomination at any primary, 
 for the succeeding election, equal in number to twice 
 the number to be elected in November, who shall 
 have received at such primary the highest number 
 of votes cast, shall be the nominees for such office, 
 Provided, That whenever any candidate, where but 
 one person is to be elected at the succeeding election, 
 shall receive a number of votes greater than one- 
 half the total cast for such office at the primary, 
 such candidate shall be the sole nominee. 
 
 In case of a tie vote the candidates shall appear 
 before the Secretary of the Commonwealth on the 
 third Friday after the primary and cast lots, and 
 the one to whom the lot shall fall, shall be entitled 
 to the nomination. 
 
 Should a candidate named for the primary die, a 
 majority of the original signers may sign and file 
 another petition, proposing a new candidate for the 
 same office, at any time prior to the printing of the 
 non-partisan primary ballot. 
 
 If, after the primary, and before the election, 
 any candidate nominated shall die, or shall by law 
 be disentitled to have his name printed on the bal¬ 
 lot for the election, a vacancy shall be deemed to 
 exist, which shall be filled by inserting the name 
 of the candidate at the primary who received the 
 next highest number of votes. 
 
 If after the primary and before the election, there 
 should be no candidate whatever nominated, a new 
 petition may be filed, complying with the law regu¬ 
 lating filing before the primary. The person named 
 in the first petition so received, shall be the can¬ 
 didate, and no more such petitions shall be re¬ 
 ceived. 
 
 Should such nominations be received bv the 
 
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 County Commissioners after the official election 
 
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 ? ballots are printed, they shall print stickers, con¬ 
 taining the name of such candidate, which shall be 
 offered to each voter with the regular ballot. 
 
 Any candidate named by petition may withdraw 
 • his name as a candidate, at any time before four 
 o’clock of the Friday next succeeding the last day 
 fixed for filing nomination petitions, by a request 
 in writing, signed by him, and acknowledged before 
 any officer authorized to take acknowledgements, 
 and filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth. 
 
 No candidate nominated at, or after a primary, 
 may withdraw his name as candidate for election. 
 
 NON-PARTISAN ELECTIONS IN SECOND- 
 
 CLASS CITIES. 
 
 Nominations for all city offices in Second Class 
 Cities—Pittsburgh and Scranton—shall be made at 
 a Primary Election, upon a non-partisan ballot. 
 
 Nomination petitions for all offices in cities of 
 the Second Class, shall be signed by at least ten 
 qualified voters of the political district or division 
 within which such nomination is to be made, and 
 shall be filed with the County Commissioners at 
 least three weeks prior to the primaries, the last 
 day being Tuesday, August 26th, 1913. 
 
 All the rules and regulations governing the nomi¬ 
 nation and election of Judges are identical with the 
 » rules and regulations governing nominations and 
 elections in Second Class Cities, with the exception, 
 that in the case of City officers certain duties are 
 performed by the County Commissioners instead of 
 % the Secretary of the Commonwealth. 
 
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 Non-partisan nominations in Second Class Cities 
 include only those city offices elected by the entire 
 city, such as Mayor, Councilmen and City Con- 
 toller. Aldermen, Assessors, Election Officers, etc., 
 will be nominated as heretofore on the party pri¬ 
 mary ballot. 
 
 This applies also to third class cities. 
 
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 PARTY ENROLLMENT. 
 
 At each and every Registration of Voters, in all 
 districts of the State, there shall be a Registration 
 and Enrollment of the voters, according to their 
 party preferences, and affiliations: Provided, That 
 if at any time the law provides for the nomination 
 of candidates for any office at non-partisan pri¬ 
 maries, then, every registered voter shall be en¬ 
 titled to receive and vote such non-partisan primary 
 ballot. 
 
 In cities where personal registration is required, 
 any voter desiring to participate in the primaries 
 of any party, shall, at the time of registration state, 
 under oath, the name of the party of which he is a 
 member, and whose ballot he desires to vote at the 
 primaries, and it shall then be the duty of the proper 
 Registering Officers to write the name of such party 
 opposite his name on the list. 
 
 If a voter about to register as member of a party 
 is challenged, he shall not be registered unless he 
 makes oath, that at the last preceding November 
 election at which he voted, he voted for a majority 
 of the candidates of that party. Presidential elec¬ 
 tors shall be counted as two candidates. Any quali¬ 
 fied voter may enroll as member of any party which 
 has secured the exclusive use of a party name, for 
 the ensuing primary. If a voter does not desire to 
 vote at a Primary Election, he shall not be required 
 to answer as to his party membership. 
 
 In all election districts, other than in cities, the 
 assessor or registry assessor, shall, within forty- 
 five days after the approval of the enrollment act, 
 make an enrollment of each voter residing in his 
 district, and thereafter, annually, make such en¬ 
 rollment of all voters in his district. 
 
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 Said assessor, or registry assessor, shall leave at 
 the residence of each voter, absent when his resi¬ 
 dence is visited, the following form of certificate: 
 
 Certificate of Enrollment. 
 
 I, ., a duly qualified voter 
 
 residing in.Election District, 
 
 herebv declare that I desire to be enrolled 
 
 as a member of the.Party, and 
 
 . express my desire to vote the ticket of the 
 .Party, at the.Pri¬ 
 mary Election next ensuing, and request 
 that my name be enrolled on the Assessor’s 
 list as a member of said party, for the pur¬ 
 pose of participating in said primary or pri¬ 
 maries. 
 
 (Signature of Elector.) 
 WITNESS: . 
 
 Address. 
 
 The assessor shall ascertain, if possible, by per¬ 
 sonal inquiry, the party politics of the voter, and 
 in case the voter is not at his residence he shall 
 leave a Certificate of Enrollment, which the voter 
 may fill out and give to the Assessor before the 
 sixty-third day preceding each primary. 
 
 If a voter does not desire to vote at a primary 
 election he shall not be required to sign the cer¬ 
 tificate. If a voter in districts, other than cities, 
 is challenged at the primaries as to his party en¬ 
 rollment, he shall make oath that at the last No¬ 
 vember election he voted for a majority of the can¬ 
 didates of that party. Presidential electors shall 
 be counted as two candidates. 
 
 Should the Registrars or Assessors make a mis- 
 
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 take in recording the voters’ party, he may have 
 ^ the Registry corrected or amended, provided such 
 amendment shall not be made later than ten days 
 before any primary election. 
 
 No voter registered as a member of one party 
 
 * shall be allowed to receive or vote a ballot of any 
 other party at a primary election, and no voter who 
 is not enrolled as member of some political party 
 shall be permitted to vote at any primary election. 
 
 PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS. 
 
 Any voter who shall wilfully make any false af¬ 
 fidavit, or statement, to any Registrar or Assessor, 
 with intent to procure false enrollment, or registra¬ 
 tion of himself, or any other voter, shall be guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprison¬ 
 ment for not more than one year, and a fine of not 
 more than one thousand dollars, or either, or both, 
 in the discretion of the Court. 
 
 Any voter wilfully voting, or attempting to vote, 
 or any election officer wilfully receiving the vote of 
 any voter casting the ballot as a voter of any po¬ 
 litical party, not qualified as a member of said 
 party, shall be punished b^ imprisonment for not 
 more than one year and a fine of not more than 
 one thousand dollars, or either, or both, at the dis¬ 
 cretion of the Court. 
 
 THIRD-CLASS CITIES. 
 
 Any qualified registered voter in any city of the 
 
 * third class may be nominated to any elective mu¬ 
 nicipal office in said city in the following manner: 
 
 It shall be lawful for any such person to be pro¬ 
 posed for any elective municipal office by the filing 
 of a petition with the county commissioners, at least 
 
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 three weeks before the date of the primary election 
 for municipal offices; said petition to be signed by t 
 at least twenty-five qualified registered voters of 
 said city. 
 
 The petitions proposing the names of citizens for 
 municipal elective offices shall set forth that the * 
 signers thereof are qualified and registered voters 
 residing in said city; and shall set forth the resi¬ 
 dence and occupation of the candidate proposed, 
 and of each person signing said petition; but said 
 petition shall have nothing thereon to designate any 
 political party, or any party affiliations of the per¬ 
 son proposed as a candidate, or of the persons pro¬ 
 posing the said name. 
 
 The county commissioners of the county in which 
 any city of the third class shall be located shall 
 cause to be printed, for the use of voters at any pri¬ 
 mary election in said city of the third class, where 
 public elective municipal officers are to be nomi¬ 
 nated, a non-partisan primary ballot. 
 
 In addition to the non-partisan ballot there shall 
 be printed another ballot known as the party ballot, 
 upon which shall appear the names of the candi¬ 
 dates for all other offices. All these petitions are 
 filed with the countv commissioners. To nominate 
 a candidate who will be voted for by an entire county 
 requires one hundred signers. 
 
 For the office of inspector of elections five, and 
 for all other officers, at least ten, qualified voters. 
 
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 NOMINATION AND ELECTION EXPENSES. 
 
 LAWFUL EXPENSES. 
 
 No candidate, and no treasurer of any political 
 committee, shall pay, give or lend, or agree to pay, 
 give or lend, either directly or indirectly, any money 
 or other valuable thing for any nomination or elec¬ 
 tion expenses whatever, except for the following pur¬ 
 poses: For printing and traveling expenses, and 
 personal expenses incident thereto, stationery, ad¬ 
 vertising, postage, expressage, freight, telegraph, 
 telephone and public messenger services; for dis¬ 
 semination of information to the public; for politi¬ 
 cal meetings, demonstrations and conventions, and 
 for the pay and transportation of speakers; for the 
 rent, maintenance and furnishing of offices; for the 
 payment of clerks, typewriters, stenographers, jani¬ 
 tors and messengers, actually employed; for the em¬ 
 ployment of watchers at primary meetings and elec¬ 
 tions, to the number allowed by law; for the trans¬ 
 portation of voters to and from the polls, and for 
 legal expenses, bona fide incurred, in connection 
 with anv nomination or election. 
 
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 DETAILED ACCOUNT SHALL BE FILED. 
 
 Every candidate for nomination at any primary 
 election, caucus or convention, whether nominated 
 thereat or not,/ shall within fifteen days after the 
 same was held, if the amount received or expended 
 shall exceed the sum of fifty dollars, and every can¬ 
 didate for election, and every treasurer of a political 
 committee, or person acting as such treasurer, shall, 
 ivithin thirty days after every election at which such 
 
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 candidate was voted for, or with which such po¬ 
 litical committee was concerned, if the amount re¬ 
 ceived or expended shall exceed the sum of fifty dol¬ 
 lars filed with the officers hereinafter specified a 
 full, true and detailed account, subscribed and sworn 
 or affirmed to by him, before an officer authorized to 
 administer oaths, setting forth each and every sum 
 of money contributed, received or disbursed by him 
 for election expenses, the date of each contribution, 
 receipt and disbursement, the name of the person 
 from whom received or to whom paid, and the object 
 or purpose for winch the same w T as disbursed. Such 
 account shall also set forth the unpaid debts and 
 obligations of any such candidate or committee for 
 election expenses, with the nature and amount of 
 each, and to wiiom owing. 
 
 In the case of candidates for election, who have 
 previously filed accounts as candidates for nomina¬ 
 tion, the accounts shall only include contributions, 
 receipts and disbursements subsequent to the date of 
 such prior accounts. 
 
 If the aggregate receipts or disbursements of a 
 candidate or political committee, in connection with 
 any nomination or election, shall not exceed fifty 
 dollars, the treasurer of the committee or the can¬ 
 didate shall, within thirty days after the election, 
 certify that fact, under oath, to the officer with 
 whom the statement is filed. 
 
 Each such account shall be accompanied by 
 vouchers for all sums expended exceeding ten dollars 
 in amount. 
 
 WITH WHOM ACCOUNTS SHALL BE FILED. 
 
 Every such account concerning expenses incurred 
 by, or in regard to, candidates for offices to be voted 
 for by the electors of the State at large , shall be filed 
 with the Secretary of the Commonwealth; and every 
 
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 such account concerning expenses incurred by, or in 
 regard to, candidates for other offices , shall be filed 
 with the Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions 
 of the several counties where such candidates may 
 respectively reside: Provided, That if any account 
 concerns expenses in regard to candidates who do 
 
 # not all reside in the same county, such accounts shall 
 he filed in each county in which such candidate (not 
 being a candidate for an office to be voted for by the 
 electors of the State at large) resides. 
 
 OATH OF OFFICE. 
 
 It shall be unlawful to administer the oath of of¬ 
 fice to any person elected to any public office, until 
 he has filed an account as required by this act; and 
 no such person shall enter upon the duties of his 
 office until he has filed such account, nor shall he 
 receive any salary for any period prior to the filing 
 of the same. 
 
 INSPECTION AND PRESERVATION OF AC¬ 
 COUNTS. 
 
 All such accounts shall be open to public inspec¬ 
 tion in the offices where they are filed, and shall be 
 carefully preserved there for a period of two years. 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ELECTION EXPENSES. 
 
 No person who is not a candidate, or the treasurer 
 of a political committee, shall pay, give or lend, or 
 agree to pay, give or lend, any money or other valu- 
 
 * able thing, whether contributed by himself or by 
 any other person, for any election expenses whatever, 
 except to a candidate or to a political committee; 
 
 9 and no officer of any corporation, whether incor- 
 
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 ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTIONS. 
 
 porated under the laws of this or any other State, 
 or any foreign country, except corporations fo?nned > 
 for political purposes, shall pay, give or lend, or 
 authorize to be paid, given or lent, any money or 
 other valuable thing belonging to such corporation 
 to any candidate or to any political committee, for 
 the payment of any election expenses whatever. 
 
 It shall be unlawful for any candidate, or the 
 treasurer of a political committee, or person acting 
 as such treasurer, to disburse any money received 
 from any anonymous source. 
 
 “CANDIDATE” DEFINED. 
 
 The term “candidate,” as used in the act“ to reg¬ 
 ulate nomination and election expenses,” shall, un¬ 
 less especially restricted therein, include both can¬ 
 didates for nomination and candidates for election. 
 
 “POLITICAL COMMITTEE” DEFINED. 
 
 The term “Political Committee” shall include 
 every two or more persons who shall be elected, ap¬ 
 pointed or chosen, or who shall have associated them¬ 
 selves or co-operated, for the purpose, wholly or in 
 part, of raising, collecting or disbursing money, or 
 of controlling or directing the raising, collection or 
 disbursement of money, for election expenses. 
 
 TREASURER OF COMMITTEE. 
 
 Every Political Committee shall appoint and con¬ 
 stantly maintain a Treasurer, to receive, keep and 
 disburse all sums of money which may be collected 
 or received by such committee or by any of its mem¬ 
 bers for election expenses; and unless such treas- 
 
urer is first appointed, and thereafter maintained, 
 it shall be unlawful for a political committee or any 
 of its members to collect, receive or disburse money 
 for any such purpose. All money collected or re¬ 
 ceived by any political committee or by any of its 
 members, for election expenses, shall be paid over 
 and made to pass through the hands of the treas¬ 
 urer of such committee, and shall be disbursed by 
 him; and it shall be unlawful for any political com¬ 
 mittee or any of its members to disburse any money 
 for election expenses unless such money shall have 
 passed through the hands of the treasurer. 
 
 v PENALTIES. 
 
 Any person who shall incur any illegal election ex¬ 
 penses, or otherwise violate any of the provisions of 
 the act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and, upon 
 conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not 
 less than fifty dollars or more than one thousand dol¬ 
 lars, or by imprisonment for not less than one month 
 or more than two years, either or both, at the discre¬ 
 tion of the court. 
 
 BLANK FORMS. 
 
 Blank forms, suitable for the statements required 
 to be filed, are to be obtained from the County Com¬ 
 missioners. 
 
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 QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS. 
 
 GENERAL ELECTIONS. 
 
 Every male citizen, twenty-one years of age, pos¬ 
 sessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled 
 to vote at all elections, subject, however, to such 
 laws requiring and regulating the registration of 
 electors as the General Assembly may enact:— 
 
 First.—He shall have been a citizen of the United 
 States at least one month. 
 
 Second.—He shall have resided in the State one 
 year (or, having previously been a qualified elector 
 or native born citizen of the State, he shall have re¬ 
 moved therefrom and returned, then six months), 
 immediately preceding the election. 
 
 Third.—He shall have resided in the election dis¬ 
 trict where he shall offer to vote at least two months 
 immediately ijreceding the election. 
 
 Fourth.—If twenty-two years of age and upwards, 
 he shall have paid within two years a State or county 
 tax, which shall have been assessed at least two 
 months and paid at least one month before the elec¬ 
 tion. 
 
 RESIDENCE AND RIGHT TO VOTE OF GOV¬ 
 ERNMENT OFFICIALS AND CERTAIN 
 OTHER ELECTORS. 
 
 For the purpose of voting no person shall be 1 
 deemed to have gained a residence by reason of his 
 presence, or lost it by reason of his absence, while 
 employed in the service, either civil or military, of 
 this State or of the United States, nor while en- 
 
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 gaged in the navigation of the waters of the State 
 - or of the United States, or on the high seas, nor 
 while a student of any institution of learning, nor 
 while kept in any poorhouse or other asylum at pub¬ 
 lic expense, nor while confined in public prison. 
 
 POLITICAL CALENDAR FOR 1913. 
 
 Municipal Primary Election, Tuesday, September 
 16, 1913. 
 
 November Election, Tuesday, November 4, 1913. 
 
 Last day for filing petitions for nomination for 
 the primary, with the Secretary of the Common¬ 
 wealth, Tuesday, August 19, 1913. 
 
 Last day for filing nominations with the County 
 Commissioners, Tuesday, September 23, 1913. 
 
 Last day for filing nomination papers for Judges, 
 with the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Tuesday, 
 September 30, 1913. 
 
 Last dav to be assessed, for the November elec- 
 
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 tion, Wednesday, September 3, 1913. 
 
 Last day to be registered for the November elec¬ 
 tion, in any city, Saturday, September 13, 1913. 
 
 Last day to pay tax to qualify for the Novem¬ 
 ber election, Saturday, October 4, 1913. 
 
 Last day for filing statement of expenses for the 
 * Primary, Wednesday, October 1, 1913. 
 
 Last day for filing statement of expenses for the 
 November election, Thursday, December 4, 1913. 
 
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 PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTI¬ 
 TUTION. i 
 
 There will be on the Official Ballot at the Novem¬ 
 ber Election five proposed amendments to the Consti¬ 
 tution, for adoption or rejection by the voters of the „ 
 State. 
 
 These Amendments are as follows: 
 
 1. To permit the Commonwealth to issue bonds 
 in the sum of fifty million dollars for improving and 
 rebuilding roads. 
 
 2. To permit special legislation regulating labor. 
 
 3. Providing that judges whose terms of office 
 expire in an odd-numbered year shall hold over until 
 the first Monday of January in the next year. 
 
 4. Providing that subjects of taxation may be 
 classified. 
 
 5. Authorizing municipalities, other than Phila¬ 
 delphia, to increase their indebtedness under cer¬ 
 tain conditions. 
 
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