Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1912 — Candidate’s Itemized Statement Penalty. [ARTICLE]

Candidate’s Itemized Statement Penalty.

Sec. 8, Every candidate for publicoffice, including candidates for office of senator of the United States, within thirty days after the election or primary election, held to nominate for or fill such office or place, shall make out and file with the officer empowered by law to issue- the certificate Of election to such office Or place and a duplicate thereof with the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which the candidate resides, a full, true and itemized statement in writing, which statement and duplicate shall be suhscribed and sworn to by such can didate before an officer authorized to administer oaths, setting forth' in detail all moneys or other valuable things contributed, expended or prom ised by him to aid and promote, or in any way in connection with his nomination or election, or both as the case may be, or for other political purposes in connection with the election of any other person at said election, and all existing unfulfilled promIses or liabilities in that connection lemaining uncancelled and in force at the time such statement is made, whether such expenditures, promises or liabilities were made or incurred before, during or after such election, and showing the dates when, the person to whom, and the purpose for which each and all of said sums or valuable things were paid, expended or promised or said liabilities incurred. Sust statement shall also set forth that the same is full, true and

correct. In places where the office or place is such that no commission or certificate of election is required bylaw to issue therefor, then the original statement aforesaid shall be filed with the secretary of state. No person shall be deemed elected to any elective office, under the laws of this state, or enter upon the duties thereof, or receive any salary or emoluments therefrom, until he shall have filed the statement and duplicate provided for in this section of this act; and no officer authorized by the laws of this state to issue commissions or certificates of election shall issue a crntmitsstOTTn , "TeFtiticate drelection to any person claiming to be electedto any office, until such statement as aforesaid shall have been so made, verified and filed by such person wifi such officer. Ahy pers«|i violating or failing to.comply with, any of the pro visions of this section shall be guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, or imprisoned for more than one year, or both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court. Ten days after the period above ascertained for the filing of said original statement shall have expired, the officer with whom the same is, bj this section, required to be filed, shall notify the proper prosecuting officer of any such failure to file such statement on the part of any candidate, and within fifteen days thereafter such prosecuting officer shall proceed to prosecute for such offense. -