CHAPTER 296. A Supplement to an act entitled "An act to regulate elections," approved April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: Schedule of on primary appriopriations ballots. 379. SEC. I. The members of any political party which now is or may hereafter be entitled to nominate candidates at the primary elections provided for in the act to which this act is a supplement, in all municipalities where tax levies and appropriations of money to be raised by tax are fixed by vote of the people, in addition to nominating delegates or candidates at such primary elections, may also vote for a schedule of appropriations to be placed on the party ticket at the ensuing election; if the petitioners nominating candidates for office or for delegates shall include in their petition an endorsement of any proper schedule of appropriations, accompanied with a prayer that the schedule of appropriations be placed on the primary ballots, the clerk or other officer whose duty it may be to prepare the primary ballots shall place thereon such a schedule of appropriations according to the prayer of such petition. The result of such Result. primary election in the premises shall be certified as in the case of candidates nominated at said election. Nominations of candidates by petition may also endorse a schedule of such appropriations. The party ballot or party column of any voting machine shall contain the schedule of appropriations as determined by the voters at such primary election, as prayed for in any such petition. 380. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved May 24, 1906. [P. L. 1907.] Political contributions by insurance companies prohibited. Violation a misdemeanor. Witnesses must testify. CHAPTER 34. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act for the punishment of crimes (Revision of 1898)," approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 381. No insurance corporation or association doing business in this State shall, directly or indirectly, pay or use, or offer, consent or agree to pay or use, any money or property for or in aid of any political party, committee, organization or corporation, or for or in aid of any candidate for political office, or for nomination for such office, or for any political purpose whatsoever, or for the reimbursement or indemnification of any person for money or property so used. Any officer, director, stockholder, attorney or agent of any corporation or association which violates any of the provisions of this act, who participates in, aids, abets, or advises or consents to any such violation, and any person who solicits or knowingly receives any money or property in violation of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. No person shall be excused from attending and testifying, or producing any books, papers or other documents, before any court or magistrate upon any investigation, proceeding or trial, for a violation of any of the provisions of this act, upon the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate or degrade him; but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced shall be used against him upon any criminal investigation or proceeding. Approved April 10, 1907. CHAPTER 268. An Act to abolish the "State Board of Voting Machine Commissioners," and to cast the duties of said commissioners upon the Secretary of State. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 382. SEC. I. The "State Board of Voting Machine Commissioners" is hereby abolished, and all the powers and duties now exercised and performed by said commissioners are hereby devolved upon and shall be exercised and performed by the Secretary of State of this State. Duties of voting machine commission trans machine ferred to secretary of state. priations. 383. SEC. 2. All appropriations of money made to As to appro said "State Board of Voting Machine Commissioners" shall enure to the Secretary of State for the purpose of carrying out this act; provided, however, that for Proviso. services rendered by the Secretary of State in the performance of the duties herein imposed upon him he shall receive no compensation in addition to his present salary as Secretary of State. 384. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved October 12, 1907. Direct nominations at primaries. Proviso. Nomination by petition. CHAPTER 278. A Supplement to an act entitled "A further supplement to an act entitled 'An act to regulate elections,' approved April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight," which further supplement was approved April fourteenth, one thousand nine hundred and three. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 385. SEC. 1. Hereafter all candidates of political parties for the following offices, to wit, members of state senate, members of general assembly, county clerk, surrogate, register of deeds, sheriff, county supervisor coroner, mayor and for all elective offices of any county in this state, to be voted for at the general election for members of the general assembly, by the voters of any county in the state, or of any political subdivision thereof shall be nominated directly without the intervention of delegates or conventions, at the primary elections held pursuant to the act to which this act is a supplement, and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto; provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to the nomination of candidates for representatives in congress. 386. SEC. 2. Not less than one hundred voters of any political party may file with the county clerk of their county a petition or petitions endorsing any member or members of their political party as a candidate or candidates for the nomination of said party to any public office of any county and requesting that the name of the person or persons so endorsed be printed upon the official primary ballot of such political party. The said petition or petitions shall be signed in the manner and form provided for the signing and filing of nominating petitions under the act to which this act is a supplement, and shall have attached thereto the affidavit and acceptance as required by said act. Said petition or petitions shall be filed with the respective county clerks at least fifteen days prior to the time fixed by law for the holding of such primary election, and the said county clerk shall certify all of said nominations to the clerks of each municipality in his respective county at least ten days prior to the time fixed by law for the holding of said primary elections, specifying in said certificate the political party to which the person or persons so nomirated belong, and said municipal clerks shall each respectively prepare the official primary ballot as required by the act to which this act is a supplement and shall cause to be printed upon the respective tickets for each political party under the name of the office or offices to be filled the names of all persons so certified as nominated for the respective offices to be filled, in addition to the other names to be printed thereon, as required by law. In all cases where more than one person is to be elected to the same or similar office and the petitioners desire and so request in their petition, the municipal clerk instead of printing the names of the various persons so nominated on the primary ballot, alphabetically, as now provided by law, shall print all of the names so endorsed in said petition consecutively and shall bracket all of the names in said petition under the name of the offices to be filled. 387. SEC. 3. The board of registry and election in each election district of every county in this state shall include the results of such primary election as to the candidates affected by this act in the statement which they are now required by law to transmit to the municipal clerk, and the said municipal clerk shall forthwith transmit the said results to the county clerk, who shall forthwith canvass said returns, and the person having in the aggregate the highest number of votes shall be the candi |