Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1916 — MUST SWEAR TO EXPENSES [ARTICLE]

MUST SWEAR TO EXPENSES

All Candidates Must File Statement / Within Thirty Days. All candidates for office at the past election, regardless of whether they sought the office and whether successful or not, must file a statement of their expenses with the county clerk-within thirty* days after the election. This statement “shall be subscribed* and sworn to by such candidates before an officer authorized to administer oaths setting forth in detail gll moneys or other valuable things contributed, expended or promised by him to aid or promote his candidacy, * * * 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 remaining 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 persons to whom, and the purpose for which each and all of said sums or valuable things were paid, expended or promised or said liabilities were incurredt” Such statement shall also set forth that the same is full, true and correct. Any person violating or failing to comply with the said act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than S3OO nor more than $2,000, or Imprisoned not more than one year, or both fined and imprisoned. - Within ten days after the period fixed for the filing of said statement shall have expired, the officer with frhom the same is required to be filed shall notify the prosecuting attorney of any and all failures to file, and the prosecuting attorney shall, within fifteen days,-. proceed to prosecute such candidates failing to file statements. The act also provides that no per(son shall, take office or receive any I salary who has failed to file such I statements, and any person .filing a j false or incorrect statement shall be deemed guilty of perjury and , prosecuted for such.