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with the officer empowered by law to issue the certificate of 
election to such office or place, and a duplicate thereof with the 
recorder of deeds for the county in which such candidate re¬ 
sides, a statement in writing, which statement and duplicate 
shall be subscribed and sworn to by such candidate before an 
officer authorized to administer oaths, setting forth in detail all 
sums of money contributed, disbursed, expended or promised by 
him, and to the best of his knowledge and belief, by any other 
persons or person in his behalf, wholly or in part, in endeavoring 
to secure or in any way in connection with his nomination or 
election to such office or place, or in connection with the elec¬ 
tion or any other persons at said election, and showing the 
dates when, and the persons to whom, and the purposes for 
which all such sums were paid, expended or promised. Such 
statement shall also set forth that the same is as full and ex¬ 
plicit as affiant is able to make it. No officer authorized by law 
to issue commissions or certificates of election shall issue a com¬ 
mission or certificate of election to any such person until such 
statement shall have been so made, verified and filed by such pern- 
sons with said officer. 
Sec. 8. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of 
the seventh section of this act shall be liable to a fine not ex¬ 
ceeding one thousand dollars, to be recovered in an action 
brought in the name of the State by the attorney-general, or 
by the prosecuting attorney of the county of the candidate’s 
residence, the amount of said fine to be fixed within the above 
limit by the jury, and to be paid into the school fund of said 
county. 
Sec. 9. No person shall euter upon the duties of any elective 
office until he shall have filed the statement and duplicate 
provided for in section seven of this act, nor shall he receive 
any salary or any emolument for any period prior to the filing 
of the same. 
Sec. 10. At any time during the term of office of any public 
officer, elected under the laws of this State, or under the char¬ 
ter of any city therein, the person who received the next high¬ 
est number of votes for such office at the election at which such 
public officer was elected, as shown by the official count, may 
present an application in writing, and verified-by his affidavit, 
