accompanied

check.

plies or materials furnished, and one of which newspapers shall be printed and published in the city of Trenton, in this State, and which advertisements shall designate the time and place when and where sealed proposals, which shall be required to be accompanied in each case with cash or a certified check for at least ten per centum Proposals of the amount of the bid, will be received and publicly by certified opened and read; at which time and place the contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, subject to the execution by him of a proper contract or agreement and the furnishing by him, within a reasonable time, of a bond to the State of New Jersey in double the amount of his bid, with satisfactory security, conditioned for the faithful performance of his contract or agreement, which bond shall be required in all cases; any person or persons authorizing, consenting to, making, or procuring to be made, any contract or agreement in violation of any of the provisions hereof, or making or procuring to be made any payment of State funds for or on account of any contract or agreement made or entered into in violation of any of the provisions hereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Bond for

proper per

formance of

contract.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are Repealer. hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved October 28, 1907.

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:

I. Hereafter all candidates of political parties for the following offices, to wit, members of State Senate, mem

Direct

nominations

at primaries.

Proviso.

Nomination by petition.

Petition filed with county clerk.

Municipal

clerk to prepare ballot.

bers 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 this 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.

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 nominated 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

several names.

law. In all cases where more than one person is to be In case of 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.

Result filed clerk, who is

with county

to canvass returns.

3. The board of registry and election in each election district of every county in this State shall within three days after the primary election in each year file a complete copy of the result of such primary election in their respective election districts signed by the members of said board, with the county clerks of their respective county, who shall forthwith canvass said returns and the person having in the aggregate the highest number of votes shall be the candidate of his respective party for the office to be filled. In case more than one person is to be elected to the same or similar office the persons having the highest number of votes to the extent of the number of offices to be filled shall be the candidates of their respective parties for the said offices. The county Names of clerk shall cause to be printed upon the official ballot ballots. of the respective political party, to be used at the succeeding general election, the names of the candidates so nominated to fill the respective offices.

candidates

on

municipalities.

4. Not less than fifty voters of any political party in Petitions in any municipality of this State, other than a county, may file with the clerk of such municipality a petition endorsing any member of their political party as a candidate for the nomination of said party to public office in said municipality in accordance with and in the manner provided by the act to which this is a supplement for the endorsing of candidates for nomination in a single ward or township, and such municipal clerk shall cause the names of all persons so nominated to be printed upon the official primary ballots of the respective political parties, in the election districts, the voters of which are entitled to vote for such candidate, and the result of said primary election shall be certified to the

Result cercounty clerk.

tified to

Proviso.

Construction

of act.

county clerk of said county in the manner provided in section three of this act, and the person receiving the highest number of votes shall be the candidate of his political party at the ensuing election, and the county clerk shall cause his name to be printed as such candidate upon the official ballot of his party, to be used in the election districts entitled to vote for said office; provided, that nothing in this section contained shall interfere with or alter the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement, providing for the nomination of candidates for public office in a single borough, ward or township.

5. The provisions of this act shall be construed in conjunction with the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, except where inconsistent therewith. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved October 28, 1907.

Appropriation for feebleminded

women.

CHAPTER 279.

A Supplement to an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the State government and for several public purposes for the fiscal year ending October thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and eight," approved June sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the State funds for the purpose herein specified, namely, to the Home for the Care and Training of Feeble-Minded Women, situated at Vineland, two thousand five hundred dollars, for the purpose and construction of a refrigerating plant.

Approved October 28, 1907.

CHAPTER 280.

A Supplement to the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of the State government and for several purposes for the fiscal year ending October thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and eight," approved June fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

electrocution

plant.

The following sum, or so much thereof as may be Approprianecessary, is hereby appropriated out of the State fund tion for for the purpose herein specified, namely, for principal keeper of the New Jersey State Prison, in order to enable him to defray such expenses as shall be incurred in carrying out such duties as are cast upon him by an act of the Legislature, entitled "An act concerning the infliction of the penalty of death," approved April fourth, one thousand nine hundred and six, and the acts. amendatory thereof, ten thousand dollars.

effective.

2. This act shall take effect on the first day of No- When vember, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

Approved October 28, 1907.