Seventh Circuit-The counties of Sangamon, Macoupin, Scott, Greene and Jersey.

Eighth Circuit -The counties of Adams, Schuyler, Mason, Cass. Brown, Pike, Calhoun and Menard.

Ninth Circuit The counties of Knox, Warren, Henderson, Hancock, McDonough and Fulton.

Tenth Circuit--The counties of Peoria, Marshall, Putnam, Stark and Tazewell.

Eleventh Circuit--The counties of McLean, Livingston, Logan, Ford and Woodford.

Twelfth Circuit-The counties of Will, Kankakee and Iroquois. Thirteenth Circuit--The counties of Bureau, LaSalle and Grundy. Fourteenth Circuit-The counties of Rock Island, Mercer. Whiteside and Henry.

Fifteenth Circuit-The counties of Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Carroll, Ogle and Lee.

Sixteenth Circuit The counties of Kane, DuPage, DeKalb and Kendall.

Seventeenth Circuit -The counties of Winnebago, Boone. McHenry and Lake.

ELECTION-TERM.] Section 2. On the first Monday of June A. D. 1897, there shall be clected in each of said circuits by the electors thereof by the general ticket, as provided by law for general elections, three judges of the Circuit Court, whose term of office shall be six years; and every six years thereafter there shall in like manner be elected in each of said circuits. three judges of the Circuit Court, whose term of office shall be as aforesaid.

TERMS.] Section 3. The terms of the Circuit Courts in the respective counties shall be held at the times and places now provided. or which may hereafter be provided by law.

REPEAL.] Section 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

EMERGENCY.] Section 5. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, therefore this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

ARTICLE XVIII.

PRIMARY ELECTIONS OF VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS.

AN ACT to regulate primary elections of voluntary political associations, and to punish frauds therein.

WHEN PRIMARY ELECTIONS TO BE HELD UNDER THIS ACT.] [Section 334, original act. Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That

all elections hereafter to be holden by any voluntary political association or party, for any candidate for any office, or for any delegates or managing committee, or for the nomination of candidates for public office, shall be held under the provisions of this act, whenever any committee or body authorized by the rules or customs of such political association shall elect to accept and act under such provisions.

DESIRE MUST BE EXPRESSED BY A RESOLUTION.] [Section 335, original act.] Section 2. Whenever it shall be the desire of any such committee or body that such election shall be held under the provisions of this act, such desire and acceptance shall be expressed by a resolution duly passed by such committee or body, which resolution shall state that such election will be held under the provisions. of this act under the title of "Primary Election Law."

COMMITTEE TIME AND PLACE OF ELECTION.] [Section 336, original act.] Section 3. Said committee or body shall fix the time and place of holding such election and the hours between which the polls are to be kept open, and the polls shall in all cases be kept open from 1 o'clock p. m. to 7 o'clock p. m. of the day on which the election is held: they shall also appoint three reputable persons to act as judges and two reputable persons to act as clerks at each polling place: Provided, That in cities and towns or villages where there is a board of election commissioners having jurisdiction of general elections, said central or controlling committee shall select the judges and clerks from the list of regular election judges and clerks in each ward or voting district to serve at such primary election representing the political association or party calling said primary election. Said judges and clerks, together with the central committeeman who acted with the central or controlling committee in calling said primary election, shall not be eligible as delegates, alternates or proxy at such primary election, or allowed to sit as such in any convention, meeting or caucus held for the election to which said primary election or elections is being held.

NOTICE OF ELECTION UNDER THIS ACT-WHAT TO CONTAIN.] [Section. 337, original act.] Section 4. At least ten days prior to any such election, a notice of such election shall be published in some newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in the district, ward, precinct, town, city or county, in and for which the election is called; such notice must be signed by the secretary of the committee or body calling such election, and must state the purpose, time, together with the place or places of holding such election, with a description of each primary election district, and the three persons shall be named therein who are appointed for each polling place to act as judges and two persons to act as clerks of said election, and who shall supervise or preside at such election in the primary election district for which they are respectively appointed, and such judges and clerks shall be legal voters and householders in one of the regular election precincts within the primary election district for which they are named. Such notice shall also declare that such election therein called will be held in pursuance of and subject to the provision of this act, under the

title of "Primary Election Law," and any election held in pursuance of any notice calling for an election under the "Primary Election Law," shall be taken and be deemed to be an election under this law.

JUDGES CLERKS OATH-DUTIES-PENALTY.] [Section 338, original act.] Section 5. The persons named as judges and clerks of election in the notice required by section four of this act, or any persons assuming or chosen to be such judges and clerks in the absence, refusal or failure to act of any of the judges or clerks named in such notice, shall first make oath or affirmation that they are legal voters and householders in one of the regular election precincts within the primary election district for which they were appointed to serve; that they will faithfully and correctly conduct such election, protect it against all frauds and unfairness, carefully and truly canvass all votes cast thereat, and in every way conform to the provisions of this act, and of the notice for the election, which oath may be adminis tered by any one of the judges, or by any person authorized under the laws of the State to administer oaths. And if one or all of the judges appointed to serve at the election be absent, or fail or refuse to serve at the hour appointed for the election to begin, then the electors present to the number of not less than five, possessing the qualifications of persons entitled to vote at said election, shall choose a person or persons to fill any vacancy that may exist. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall subject the offender on conviction to punishment by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion. of the court.

WHO MAY VOTE COMMISSIONERS-LISTS-PENALTY FOR VOTING CONTRARY TO THIS ACT.] [Section 339, original act.] Section 6. Every legal voter entitled to vote at regular elections within any election precinct, included within the primary district of which he is a resident, and who is a member of the political association or party holding the primary election, shall be entitled to vote at such primary election: Provided, That in cities, towns or villages, where there is a board of election commissioners having jurisdiction of general elections, no person shall be allowed to vote unless he shall be a member of the political party or association holding such primary election, and shall, upon demand, give the judges his name and place of resi dence, and he shall state upon like demand (if made) that he has not voted at any other primary election held by any other political association or party for a period of one year prior to the date of the pri mary election then held. He shall not have voted at this or any other poll at any primary election held that day, nor shall he be allowed to vote unless, in addition to the qualifications herein before prescribed, he is a registered voter in one of the election precincts contained within the primary election district wherein he resides, and it shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners to furnish and distribute among the judges of every primary election held under this act, complete lists of the registered voters in each

election precinct contained within their respective primary election districts. Any person who is not a member of the political association or party holding a primary election, who votes at such primary election, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject, on conviction, to punishment by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than six months or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; and in any prosecution for the violation of the provisions of this act, wherein the fact as to the political party or association to which the defendant belongs is material, such membership may be shown by evidence of general reputation in the neighborhood where said defendant resided at the time of committing the alleged offense as to the political party or association to which he belonged.

REGISTERED VOTER-CHAL

COMMITTEE TO DIVIDE DISTRICT-NUMBER OF VOTERS IN.] [Section 340, original act.] Section 7. The committee or body electing to hold a primary election under this act shall divide the district. ward, township, city, town or village into primary election districts. Such primary election districts shall be formed of contiguous election precincts in as nearly compact form and as nearly equal as circumstances will permit; and no such primary election district shall be formed which shall contain more than 800 voters of the political association or party holding the primary election, the number of such voters to be determined by the vote cast at the last preceding presidential election. At any primary election held under this act, the voters of each of such primary election districts entitled to vote at such election shall choose their own representatives or delegates. JUDGES MAY HEAR OBJECTIONS-OATHLENGE PENALTY.] [Section 341, original act.] Section 8. It shall be the duty of the judges of said election to entertain objections. made by any qualified elector within his own primary election district, to any vote which may be offered, on the ground that the person offering it is not a citizen of the United States, or a legal resident and voter under the general election laws of the State, of the election precinct, ward. township, district, city, town or village for which the election is held; or that he is not a member of the association or party holding such election, or in case such person offering to vote should be registered by the terms of this act, that he is not a registered voter, or that he has received or been promised, directly or indirectly, any money, fee or reward for his vote for any candidate, or that he has voted before at that place or some other place on that day, or at the same election; and it shall be the duty of one of the judges of the election, if such objection be not withdrawn, to administer to the person so offering to vote, an oath or affirmation to the general effect that he will truly testify to all matters relating to his qualifications under the general election laws of the State, to his residence, citizenship, the political party or association to which he belongs, receiving or being promised, directly or indirectly, any money, fee or reward for his vote from any candidate or any other person, or whether he has voted at that or any other place on that

day at such election, either in his own name or that of another, or under an assumed name. It shall then be the duty of the judges to interrogate the persons so objected to as to all matters in particular upon which said objection was made, and generally, as to all of his qualifications as an elector at such election. If the person so objected to shall refuse to answer any questions asked, after said oath or affirmation shall have been administered, or shall refuse to take such oath, it shall be the duty of the judges to reject such vote, and they shall also reject such vote unless such person shall file with them a written or printed, or partly written or printed statement. by him signed under oath, that he is a qualified voter of the election district in which such election is held, and entitled to vote at such election; and unless such statement shall be accompanied by a similar statement of some person known to at least one of the judges to be a qualified voter in that district, to the effect that he knows the person so challenged, and that his statement is true, which said last statement must also be subscribed by the party making it. Such statement must, in all cases, expressly state that the person making it is a member of the political party or association holding the election. If such statement shall be filed and such oath be taken, and such questions answered in such a manner as to show that the applicant is qualified to vote at such election, it shall be the duty of the judges of the election to receive such vote, and the word "sworn" shall be noted opposite the person's name on the poll lists, to be kept as hereinafter provided. Any violations of the provisions of this section by the judges of the election, or either of them, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall subject the party so offending to punishment by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than two nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; and any person who shall, upon taking such oath or affirmation, and under the examination herein authorized, or in the written statements herein required. wilfully make a false statement as to a matter pertinent and material in such examination, shall be deemed guilty of a perjury, and upon conviction thereof, be punished as prescribed by law for such offense.

FRAUDULENT VOTING -BRIBERY-CORRUPT PRACTICES, ETC.-PENALTY FOR VIOLATING ACT.] [Section 342, original act.] Section 9. Whoever fraudulently votes more than once at any primary election, or offers to vote after having voted once at such election, or, knowing that he is not a qualified voter at such election, wilfully votes or offers to vote at such election; or,

Second-Wilfully aids or abets any one not qualified to vote at such primary election in voting or attempting to vote at such elec

tion; or,

Third-By offering a reward or bribe, or by treating or giving to him any spirituous, malt or other liquors, either directly or indirectly, influences or attempts to influence any voter in giving or withholding his vote at such election; or,