or contributed. There shall be attached to such statement an affidavit, subscribed and sworn to by such candidate, setting forth, in substance, that the statement thus made is in all respects true, and that the same is a full and detailed statement of all moneys so contributed or expended by him, directly or indirectly, by himself, or through any other person, in aid of his election. Candidates for office to be filled by the electors of the entire State, or any division or district thereof greater than a county, and candidates for either house of the general assembly, and for district judge, and for district attorney, shall file their statements in the office of the secretary of state; and candidates for town and city offices shall file their statements in the office of the town or city clerk, respectively, and candidates for county of fices and for all other offices not otherwise above expressly provided for, shall file their statements in the office of the clerk of the county wherein such election ocWithin thirty days after each election, the chairman and secretary of state, county and city central committees of each and every political party presenting candidates, shall make and file a statement, under oath, setting forth, in detail, all sums of money received, from whom received, and to whom and for what purpose such money was paid by such committees during the preceding election. Certificates of state chairman or secretaries shall be filed with the secretary of state, and for the county chairmen and secretaries with the clerk of the county, and by city chairmen and secretaries with the city clerk. Any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Which certificates shall be preserved by the officers with whom they are filed until the next general election, and shall be open to the inspection of the public.

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Sec. 7. Any person who, at any election provided by law in this State, shall interfere in any manner with any officer of such election in the discharge of his duty, or who shall induce any officer of any election, or officer whose duty it is to ascertain, announce or declare the

result of any such election, or give or make any certificate, document or evidence in relation thereto, to violate or refuse to comply with his duty, or any law regulating the same, or who shall take, carry away, conceal or remove any ballot or ballot box, poll book or other thing from the polling place, or from the possession of the person or persons authorized by law to have the custody thereof, or who aids, counsels, procures, advises or assists any person or persons to do any of the acts aforesaid, shall be guilty of a crime, and shall be punished as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 8. A person offending against any provision of sections one, two and seven of this act, is a competent witness against another person so offending, and may be compelled to attend and testify upon any trial, hearing, proceeding or investigation in the same manner as any other person. But the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or criminal, against the person so testifying, except for perjury in giving such testimony. A person so testifying, shall not thereafter be liable to indictment, prosecution or punishment for the offense with reference to which his testimony was given, and may plead or prove the giving of testimony accordingly, in bar of such an indictment or prosecution.

Sec. 9. Any person convicted of any of the crimes or offenses mentioned in sections one, two and seven of this act, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and any person, corporation or agent of a corporation, guilty of any of fense herein made a misdemeanor shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any candidate for office who refuses or neglects to file the statement prescribed in section six of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable as above provided, and shall also forfeit his office.

Sec. 10. The provisions of this act shall extend so far as applicable to all elections provided by law, either general, special or primary.

Sec. 11. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed; Provided, That the repeal of such acts or parts of acts, or any of them shall not be construed to affect any offense committed or any prosecution or proceeding instituted or pending under the laws so repealed.

Approved March 7th, 1891.

ELECTIONS.

(S. B. 28.)

AN ACT

IN RELATION TO ELECTIONS, DEFINING OFFENSES AGAINST THE SAME AND PRESCRIBING PUNISHMENTS THEREFOR.

Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

Section 1. All ballots cast in elections for public officers or for the decision of any question submitted to electors within the state, shall be printed and distributed at public expense. The printing of ballots and cards of instruction for the voters of each county, and the delivery of the same to the election officers as hereinafter provided, shall be a county charge, the payment of which shall be provided for in the same manner as the payment of other county expenses, but the expense of printing and delivering ballots and cards of instruction to be used in municipal elections shall be a charge upon the city or town in which such election shall be held.

Sec. 2. This chapter shall not apply to any election for school officers held at any time other than a regular election for state, county or city officers, nor to any special election at which no persons are to be voted for, for any city, county or state office.

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES.

Sec. 3. Any convention of delegates of a political party which presented candidates at the last preceding election held for the purpose of making nominations to

public office, and also voters to the number hereinafter specified, may nominate candidates for public offices to be filled by election within this state. A convention within the meaning of this act is an organized assemblage of voters or delegates representing a political party, which at the last election before the holding of such convention polled at least ten per centum of the entire vote cast in the state, county, or other political division or district for which the nomination may be made. A committee appointed by any such convention may also make nominations to public office when authorized to do so by resolution duly passed by the convention at which such committee was appointed.

CERTIFICATES OF NOMINATIONS BY CONVENTIONS.

Sec. 4. All nominations made by such convention or committee shall be certified as follows: The certificate of nomination, which shall be in writing, shall contain the name of the office for which each person is nominated, the name, postoffice address, if any, the residence of each such person, and if in a city, the street, number of residence and place of business, if any, and shall designate, in not more than five words, the party which such convention or committee represents. It shall be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of such convention or committee, who shall add to their signatures their respective places of residence, and postoffice address, if any, and make oath, before an officer qualified to administer the same, that the affiants were such officers of such convention or committee and that said certificates and the statements therein contained are true, to the best of their knowledge and belief. When the nomination is made by a committee, the certificate of nomination shall also contain a copy of the resolution passed at the convention, which authorized the committee to make such nomination. In the case of electors of president and vice-president of the United States, the names of candidates for president and vice-president may be added to the political party or appellation.