party, or independent body for such office; it being the intention of this act that when a candidate of one party is nominated and placed on the ticket of another party or independent body, such nomination must be made at the time and in the manner provided for making original nominations by such party or independent body.

§ 18. Section eighty-six of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

OFFICERS PROVIDING BALLOTS AND STATIONERY.

§86. The clerk of each county, except those counties the whole of which are within The City of New York, shall provide the requisite umber of official and sample ballots, cards of instruction, two pollbooks, distance markers, two tally sheets, inspectors' and ballot clerks' return sheets (three of each kind, and one of each to be marked "original"), pens, penholders, ink, pencils having black lead, blotting paper, sealing wax and such other articles of stationery as may be necessary for the proper conduct of the election, and the canvass of the votes, for each election district in such county and not within The City of New York, for each election to be held thereat, except that when town meetings, city or village elections and elections for school officers are not held at the same time as a general election the clerk of such town, city or village, respectively, shall provide such official and sample ballots and stationery for such election or town meeting. And the police board of The City of New York shall provide such articles for each election to be held in said city. Each officer or board charged with the duty of providing official ballots for any polling place, shall have sample ballots and official ballots provided, and in the possession of such officer or board, and open to public inspection as follows: The sample ballots five days before the election, and the official ballots four days before the election for which they are prepared unless prepared for a village election or town meeting held at a different time from a general election, in which case the official ballot shall be so printed and in possession at least one day, and the sample ballots at least two days before such election or town meeting. During the times within which the same are open for inspection as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the officer or board charged by law with the duty of preparing the same, to deliver a sample ballot of the kind to be voted in his district to each qualified elector who shall apply therefor, so that each elector who may desire the same may obtain a sample ballot, similar except

as regards color and the number on the stub, to the official ballot to be voted at the polling place at which he is entitled to vote.

§ 19. Section eighty-seven of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

DISTRIBUTION OF BALLOTS AND STATIONERY.

87. The county clerk of each county except those counties which are wholly within The City of New York, shall deliver at his office to each town or city clerk in such county, except in New York city, on the Saturday before the election at which they may be voted, the official and sample ballots, cards of instructions and other stationery required to be provided for each polling place in such town or city for such election. It is hereby made the duty of each such town or city clerk to call at the office of such county clerk at such time and receive such ballots and stationery. In The City of New York the board required to provide such ballots and stationery shall cause them to be delivered to the board of inspectors of each election district at least one-half hour before the opening of the polls on each day of election. Each kind of official ballots shall be arranged in a package in the consecutive order of the numbers printed on the stubs thereof, beginning with number one, All official and sample ballots provided for such election shall be in separate sealed packages, clearly marked on the outside thereof with the number and kind of ballots contained therein and indorsed with the designation of the election district for which they were prepared. The instruction cards and other stationery provided for each election district shall also be enclosed in a sealed package or packages, with a label on the outside thereof showing the contents of each such package. Each such town and city clerk receiving such packages shall cause all such packages so received and marked for any election district to be delivered unopened and with the seals thereof unbroken to the inspectors of election of such elec tion district one-half hour before the opening of the polls of such election therein. The inspectors of election receiving such packages shall give to such town or city clerk, or board, delivering such packages a receipt therefor specifying the number and kind of packages received by them, which receipt shall be filed in the office of such clerk or board. Town, city and village clerks required to provide the same for town meetings, city and village elections held at different times from a general election, and the board of The City of New York required to provide the same for elections held

shall have organized the secretary shall deliver to such board the certified copies of the statements of the county boards of canvassers of each county wholly or partly within such city of the votes cast for candidates for city office within such city and upon any proposition or question, if any submitted, to the electors of such city only and the said board shall proceed to canvass such statements. If a certified copy of any statement of any county board required to be delivered to said board shall not be delivered prior to the meeting and organization of said board, it may adjourn such meeting from day to day not exceeding a term of five days and it shall be the duty of the secretary to procure from the county clerk of such county the required certified copy of such statement. Upon the completion of such canvass said board shall make separate tabulated statements signed by the members of such board or a majority thereof, and attested by the secretary, of the whole number of votes cast for all the candidates for each office shown by such certified statements to have been voted for and of the whole number of votes cast for each of such candidates, indicating the number of votes cast in each county for them, and if the voters of not more than one county or portion of such county were entitled to vote for such candidates, the name and portion of such county and the name of each candidate, and the determination of the board of the persons thereby elected to such office by the greatest number of votes. The said board shall also make a separate similar tabulated statement of the vote cast upon any proposition or question submitted at the election to the electors of such city only and shall include a determination as to whether such proposition or question by the greatest number of votes has been adopted or rejected. Each such statement and determination shall be filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the municipal assembly and the said board shall cause the publication of the same in at least two newspapers within such county wholly within such city and in the City Record. Upon the filing in his office of such statements and determination the clerk of the municipal assembly shall issue and transmit by mail or otherwise a certificate of election to each person shown thereby to be elected, such certificate to be countersigned by the mayor of The City of New York under the seal of The City of New York.

§ 27. Sections one hundred and thirty-eight, one hundred and thirty-nine, one hundred and forty and one hundred and forty-one of said act are hereby renumbered one hundred and thirty-nine,

which the election district is located together with one of the poll-books and one of the tally-sheets, properly certified by the poll clerks. One certified copy of such original statement, one poll-book and one tally-sheet shall be filed within such time with the superintendent of elections and with the chief of the branch bureau of elections, as the case may be, in the bor ough within which the election district is located by an inspector designated by the board of inspectors for that duty, and the other certified copy of such original statement with the city clerk, by an inspector designated by the board of inspectors for that duty. In election districts in The City of New York, the boards of inspectors of election must, at the same time they make and sign the aforesaid original statement and certified copies thereof, make a certified copy of so much thereof as relates to any candidate for member of assembly, senator or representative in congress, voted for in said election district, and also in any part of any county not within The City of New York, and such certified copy must, within twenty-four hours after the completion of the canvass by the inspectors, be filed by the chairman of the board of inspectors, with the clerk of the county outside of The City of New York of which such officers or any of them are voted for at such election. The sealed packages of detached stubs, and ballots not used at the election shall, in The City of New York, be given by the inspectors to the police board, which shall return them to the bureau of elections of the borough within which the election district is located. All such packages of detached stubs and unused ballots shall be preserved inviolate in the office in which they are filed, for a period of six months from the time of filing thereof, and may be opened and examined upon the order of the supreme court or a justice thereof, or a county judge within such county, and at the expiration of such time may be disposed of in the discretion of the officer or board having custody of the same.

§ 21. Section one hundred and thirty of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

ORGANIZATION OF COUNTY BOARD OF CANVASSERS.

130. The board of supervisors of each county shall be the county board of canvassers of such county. The county board of canvassers of the counties wholly or partly within The City of New York shall be the city board of canvassers of The City of New York within their respective counties. The county boards of canvassers of the respective counties shall meet at the office of

the county clerk thereof on the Tuesday next after each election of public officers held in such county other than an election of town, city, village or district school officers held at a different time from a general election. Upon such meeting they shall choose one of their number chairman of such board. Such county clerk, or if he be absent or unable to act, the deputy county clerk of such county, shall be the secretary of such board. The secretary of the board shall thereupon administer the constitutional oath of office to the chairman of the board, who shall then administer such oath to each member, and to the secretary of the board. A majority of the members of any board of canvassers shall constitute a quorum thereof. If, on the day fixed for such meeting, a majority of any such board shall not attend, the members of the board then present shall elect the chairman of the board and adjourn to some convenient hour of the next day. If such board, or a majority thereof, shall fail or neglect to meet within two days after the time fixed for organizing such board, the supreme court, or any justice thereof, or county judge within such county, may compel the members thereof by writ of mandamus to meet and organize forthwith. § 22. Section one hundred and thirty-one of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

PRODUCTION OF ORIGINAL STATEMENTS AND COPIES THEREOF.

§ 131. As soon as such board of county canvassers shall have been organized, the officer with which they were filed, shall deliver to such board of canvassers all the original statements of canvass received from inspectors of election for districts within the county for which said board are county or city canvassers. The copies of the original statements which have been delivered to members of the board of assessors shall then be delivered to the board. If any member of the county board of canvassers shall be unable to attend the first meeting of such board, he shall, at or before such meeting, cause to be delivered to the secretary of such board all such copies of original statements delivered to him, and any original statement that may have come into his possession. If, at the first meeting of a county board of canvassers of any county, all such original statements of the result of the canvass of the votes cast at such election in all the election districts in the county shall not be produced before the board, it shall adjourn to some convenient hour of the same or the next day, and the secretary of such board shall, by special messenger or otherwise, obtain such missing original statements, if possible, otherwise he shall pro