and the expenses relating to nominations required by this act, but delay in making such statement beyond the time prescribed shall not preclude its acceptance or prevent the insertion of the name on the ballot, if there is a reasonable time therefor after the receipt of such statements. [1911, ch. 129.]

§ 18. CANDIDACY BONA FIDE.] It shall be unlawful for any person to accept, receive or refrain from becoming a candidate for nomination or election, or by himself or in combination with any other person or persons to become a candidate for the purpose of defeating the nomination or election of any person and not with a bona fide intent to obtain the office. [1911, ch. 129.]

§ 19. CORRUPT PRACTICE. FORFEITURE OF OFFICE OR NOMINATION.] If upon the trial of any action or proceeding under the proivsions of this act for the contesting of the right of any person declared to be nominated to any office or elected to any office, or to annul or set aside such election, or to remove any person from his office, it shall appear that such person was guilty of any corrupt practice, illegal act, or undue influence in or about such nomination or election, he shall be punished by being deprived of the nomination or office as the case may be, and the vacancy therein shall be filled in the manner provided by law. [1911, ch. 129.]

§ 20. CONTEST COMMENCEMENT.] Any action to contest the right of any person declared elected to any office, or to annul and set aside such election, or to remove from or deprive any person of an office of which he is the incumbent for any offense mentioned in this act must, unless a different time be stated, be commenced within forty (40) days after the return of the election at which such offense was committed, unless the ground of the action or the proceeding is for illegal payment of money or other valuable things subsequent to the filing of the statements prescribed by this act, in which case the action or the proceedings may be commenced within. forty (40) days after the discovery of the complainant of such illegal payment. [1911, ch. 129.]

§ 21. GENERAL PENALTY.] Whoever violates any provision of this act, the punishment of which is not specifically provided by law, shall on conviction thereof be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. [1911, ch. 129.]

NON-PARTISAN JUDICIARY ACT.

§ 1. In all petitions and affidavits to be filed by or in behalf of candidates for nomination at the primary election to the office of judge of the supreme or district court, no reference shall be made to a party ballot or to the party affiliation of such candidate. [1909 ch. 82.]

§ 2. All primary elections at which candidates for judge of the supreme or district court are to be nominated, there shall be separate ballots upon which shall be placed the names of the candidates for such offices, which ballot shall be entitled to "judiciary ballot," and the names of such candidates shall be placed thereon without party designation, and there shall be designated thereon the number of judges each elector is entitled to vote for. This ballot shall be delivered to each elector by the proper eletion officer, and the candidate on such "judiciary ballot" receiving the highest number of votes to the extent of double the number of those to be elected, provided there are that many or more candidates running for such office or offices, shall be duly nominated. 1909, ch. 82.]

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$ 3. At the general election there shall be a separate ballot, upon which shall be placed the names of the candidates for judge of the supreme court and judge of the district court, who have been nominated as herein provided, which ballot shall be entitled the "judiciary ballot," and the names of all candidates shall be placed thereon without party designation, and there shall be designated thereon the number of judges each elector is entitled to vote for. This ballot shall be delivered to each elector, and the candidates on such "judicial ballot" receiving the highest number of votes to the number of those to be elected shall be duly elected. [1909, ch. 82.]

NON-PARTISAN SCHOOL OFFICERS.

§ 1. No PARTY BALLOTS.] In all petitions and affidavits to be filed by or in behalf of any candidate for nomination at any primary election to the offices of state superintendent of public instruction and county superintendent of schools, no reference shall be made to any party ballot or to the party affiliation of such candidate. [1913, ch. 153.]

§ 2. SEPARATE BALLOTS FOR SCHOOL NOMINATIONS.] At all primary elections at which candidates for the offices herein referred to are to be nominated, there shall be separate ballots which ballots shall be entitled, "Non-partisan school ballot," and the names of such candidates shall be placed thereon without party designation, and there shall be designated thereon the number of persons to be elected to each office. Except as herein provided, this ballot shail be prepared, printed, distributed, canvassed and returned in the manner now provided by law for primary election ballots, and shall be delivered to each elector by the proper election officers and, where there are three or more candidates for the same office, the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes for such office shall be duly nominated thereto, and where there are only two candidates for the same office, both candidates shall be duly nominated thereto. [1913, ch. 153.]

§ 3. BALLOTS AT GENERAL ELECTION.] At the general election there shall be a separate ballot upon which shall be placed the names of all candidates who have been nominated as herein provided, which ballot shall be entitled "School Ballot" and the names of all such candidates shall be placed thereon without party designation, and there shall be designated thereon the number of candidates for each office for whom each elector is entitled to vote. Except as hereinafter provided, this ballot shall be prepared, printed, distributed, canvassed and returned in the manner now provided by law for general election balolts. This ballot shall be, delivered to each elector, and the candidates for each office on such "Non-partisan school ballot" receiving the highest number of votes shall be duly elected to such office. [1913, ch. 153.]

RATES FOR POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

§ 1. RATES FOR POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.] No newspaper in this state shall charge for the publication of political announcements of candidates before any primary or election, any more than the legal rates for the publication of legal notices.

All paid political matter and political announcements shall be labeled "Political Advertisement."

Any person violating any provision of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. [1911, ch. 210.]

PRIMARY ELECTION OF NATIONAL DELEGATES.

§ 1. In the presidential election years, the qualified electors of the political parties subject to this law shali have opportunity to vote for their preference, on ballots provided for that purpose, for their choice among thos aspiring to be candidates of their respective parties for president and vice president of the United States, shall have their party delegates to their national conventions, their presidential electors, and shall nominate and recommend their choice for national committeemen. The names of the aspirants in each such party for election for the office of president, for office of vice president of the United States, for national committeeman, for delegates to their national conventions, and for presidential electors, snall be printe on the party nominating ballot, provided for that purpose, and the ballot shall be marked and the votes shall be count ed, canvassed and returned under the same conditions as to names, petitions and other matters so far as the same are applicable, as the names and petitions of party aspirants for the party nominations for the office of governor and of the United States senator in congress are, or may be by law required to be marked, filed, counted, canvassed and returned; provided, that aspirants for such presidential nominations need not file any personal petition nor signature; that certificates of the number of votes received by each such candidate shall be issued to the delegates who are elected for said party to the party national convention: that petitions to place on the nomination ballot the names and aspirants for such office or delegate to said national convention, presidential elector and national committeemen to be chosen and elected, as provided herein, shall be sufficient if they contain a number equal to one per cent of the party vote in the state at the next preceding election for representatives in congress, or not less than five hundred signatures of party voters. Every qualified voter shall have the right to vote for as many candidates for national delegates for his party and for the election of as many candidates for presidential electors as there are delegates and electors to be elected respectively, and each elector shall have a right to vote for one candidate to his party for na