strain and to re- any voter from taking part in a caucus of said party on the others from ground that the voter had supported an independent cantaking part didate for political office. in a caucus. Independ ent voter not excluded. shall be held 71. All caucuses of a political party in the city of Bos ton, for the choice of candidates to be voted for at a state Caucuses in election, for the choice of delegates to a political conBoston vention to nominate candidates to be voted for at a state election, for the choice of caucus officers, and for the choice 1895, c. 507, of a political committee, shall be called and held as herein § 2. provided. as herein provided. State com mittee shall elections. Shall forward copy of call 21 date of caucus. Caucuses All caucuses held under the provisions of this act, excall all cau- cept those that relate to a municipal or special election, cuses relat shall be held at the call of the state committee of the ing to state political party whose caucuses are to be held, and the chairman and secretary of said state committtee shall, at least twenty-one days before the date on which the caudays before cuses are to be held, forward a copy of the call to the chairman and secretary of the city committee of the party. 72. All caucuses of a political party in said city for the choice of candidates to be voted for at a city election, and for the choice of delegates to a convention to nominate candidates to be voted for at a city election, shall be held on the same day, except such caucuses as relate to a Exceptions. special election; provided, however, that in said city, caucuses for the choice of delegates to a convention to nominate candidates to be voted for by the city at large, may be held upon a different day from the other caucuses above mentioned. All caucuses for the choice of a ward committee shall be held on the same day, which may be the same as the day for holding caucuses for the choice of candidates to be voted for at a city election. relating to city elections shall be held on same day. Ibid. § 3. Proviso. Caucuses for choos ing ward committee. City committee shall fix days and issue calls. No two parties shall hold caucus same day. The city committee shall determine the days upon which all the caucuses mentioned in this section shall be held, and all calls for the same shall be issued by the chairman and secretary of the city committee. No two political parties shall hold their caucuses on the same day. The party first filing with the board of election commissioners a copy of the call for a caucus shall be entitled to precedence on the day named. held First notice to be issued city eighteen days days before caucus. 1895, c. 489, § 4. Shall state where 73. Notices of caucuses in said city, whether at a call of the state committee or at the call of the committee, shall be issued not less than eighteen prior to the day on which the caucuses are to be held. They shall state the day when the several caucuses shall be held, and the place at which nomination papers, when and as hereinafter provided, shall be filed, and the day and nomination hour prior to which said nomination papers shall be filed. papers shall 74. At least seven days prior to the day named for a Second caucus as hereinbefore provided, the city committee shall issue a notice that such caucus will be held, stating the seven days place, the day and the hour of holding the same. The hour shall not be earlier than two o'clock in afternoon, nor later than half-past seven o'clock in evening, as the city committee shall determine. the be filed. notice to be issued before caucus. Ibid. § 5. Hour not to the be earlier than 2 P.M. nor later than P.M. 7.30 pense of the At least two weeks prior to the date on which a caucus is to be held the chairman or secretary of the city com- Polling mittee shall notify the board of election commissioners places shall be provided of such date, and the said board shall, at least ten days at the exprior to the date on which the caucus is to be held, notify city or the city committee of the places selected for holding the town. caucuses; and said board shall, at the expense of said Booths, city, provide polling places, not less than one for each etc., shall be ward, and shall prepare the same with booths, registering prepared as ballot boxes, guard rails and the like, in the same manner elections. in which they are arranged for state elections. for state local news caucus to be called and held All notices for caucuses in said city, and all notices Notices to be pubrelative to the filing of nomination papers, shall be pub- lished in lished not less than twice in one or more local newspapers. papers. 75. Every caucus of a political party in said city Every shall be called by a written or printed notice, specifying that the same is to be held in accordance with the provisions of the caucus act of eighteen hundred and ninety- under elecfive, and the provisions thereof shall then apply to the con- tion act of duct and proceedings of any such caucus, but nothing 1895. herein shall prevent the enforcement at such caucus of further regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of said act. 1895, c. 489, $10. Only candi. dates nominated at caucuses held as vided Except as above provided, no caucus or meeting shall be entitled to nominate a candidate for a public office whose name shall be placed on the ballots provided in acherein pro- cordance with the provisions of chapter four hundred and entitled to seventeen of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, on the bal- and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, or lot, proshall be entitled to select delegates to a political convention acts of 1893, for the nomination of a candidate whose name shall be placed on the ballots so provided. have names vided for in c. 417. Board shall pre papers. 1895, c. 507, $6. Papers shall state 76. It shall be the duty of the city to provide, and pare nomi- for the board of election commissioners seasonably to nation prepare, for each political party, as herein provided, blank nomination papers for use in the different wards of the city stating the place where, and the day and hour prior to day, place which, signed nomination papers must be filed. On the and time of back of such papers shall be printed sections seven to filing. fourteen inclusive of chapter five hundred and seven of the Shall be acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Such papers to chairman shall, by said board, be delivered to the chairman or or secretary secretary of the political committee for whose use they of political committee have been prepared, and to such chairman or secretary only. delivered Nomina tions shall only. 77. Nominations by members of a political party of be made by candidates for elective offices, for delegates to a convennomination tion, for caucus officers, and for a ward committee to be voted for at a caucus, shall be made by nomination papers, as hereinafter provided. papers. Ibid. § 7. Shall be signed by five legal voters. Such papers shall contain the signatures of not less than five legal voters of the ward in which the caucus is to be held. Members of Said voters shall be members of the political party the party. whose caucus is to be held. Signers of Every voter signing a nomination paper shall sign the papers shall same in person, and shall add to his signature the street and number, if any, of his residence. add resi dence. Number of names limited. Nomination papers placing candidates in nomination shall not contain a larger number of names of candidates than there are persons to be elected. They may contain a less number. candidate 78. In addition to the name of the candidate for an Information elective office there shall be given the street and number, relative to a if any, of his residence, and there may be given his busi- for an elecness or occupation, the public offices he has held, or any tive office other information whereby his identity may be established, and his qualifications for the office to be filled, or his 1895, c. 507, $ 8. position on any public measure, indicated. In not ex may be given. eight words. Any statement of this nature shall be embodied in not ceeding exceeding eight words. Against the name of a candidate for caucus officer or Residence for ward committee shall be given the street and number, officers, etc. if any, of his residence. of caucus In connection with names of persons proposed as dele- Personal preferences gates to a convention, any such statement may be made as of candithat the persons named are favorable to, or are pledged to dates for support, or oppose, any person or persons for an office or delegates offices to be filled, or are favorable to, or opposed to, any may be public measure, or are uncommitted. given. eight words. Such statements shall be embodied in not exceeding ceeding eight words. 79. The chairman or secretary of the city committee Time of filshall indorse upon the nomination papers the time at which they are filed with him. ing papers sha I be in dorsed on same. in Ibid. § 9. Papers sealed and filed ten All nomination papers shall be sealed up and filed the office of the secretary of the city committee not shall be less than ten days previous to the day on which the caucus is to be held for which the nominations are made. They days preshall not be opened until the time fixed for their announce- caucus. ment. city vious to Secretary of city com publicly open papers 80. At the expiration of the time named at which mittee to nomination papers are to be filed, the secretary of the committee at his office shall cause such papers to publicly opened, and the nominations therein made to nomina be publicly announced. be and an nounce tion. 81. In case of any error, irregularity, or informality In case of in a nomination paper which has been duly filed with error. Ibid. § 11. the secretary of the city committee, he may make or cause to be made any changes necessary to bring it within the requirements hereinbefore mentioned. In default of In case of such action he shall immediately notify the person filing the nomination paper, of such error, irregularity, or informality, and the said voter may, within two week days of the time at which public announcement was made of the contents of nomination papers, make or cause to be made the change necessary to correct such error, irregularity, or informality. 82. In said city, in case of the non-receipt, as herein non-receipt specified, of nomination papers placing persons in nomof nomina- ination for all the positions to be filled at the ensuing 1895, c. 507, caucus, in accordance with the provisions hereinbefore tion papers. § 12. In case of withdrawal given, the secretary of the city committee shall forthwith notify the chairman or secretary of the committee of any ward from which the requisite papers have not been filed. They, or one of them, shall forthwith call a meeting of said committee, who may nominate candidates for any and all offices for which nomination papers have not been filed, and in case they make a nomination they shall immediately thereafter notify the secretary of the city committee of such action by filing with him nomination papers similar to those hereinbefore described, signed in their official capacity, by all the members of the committee who assent to the nominations therein made. In case of disagreement two sets of such nomination papers may be filed. Said papers shall have the same force and authority as those containing the signatures of five voters of the ward, and shall be considered and treated the same in all respects. If at the expiration of two week days after the time at which nomination papers were opened proper nomination papers have not been filed for all the positions to be filled, or in case of any vacancy caused by death or otherwise, except withdrawals, the chairman and secretary of the city committee as a committee may exercise the nominating powers herein vested in a ward committee, and nomination papers filed by them shall have the same force and authority as other nomination papers. 83. If any person whose name has been presented on by persons a nomination paper shall, within two week days of the published announcement thereof, file with the secretary nominated. Ibid. § 14. |