party voters with respect to candidates for nomination for the office of President of the United States.

The polls shall be open from 6 o'clock a. m. to 5 o'clock p. m.

$7. Any person entitled to vote at such primary shall on the day of such primary be entitled to absent himself from any service or employment in which he is then engaged or employed for a period of two hours between the time of opening and closing the polls, and such primary elector shall not, because of so absenting himself, be liable to any penalty nor shall any deduction be made on account of such absence from his usual salary or wages: Provided, however, that applications for such leave of absence shall be made prior to the day of primary. The employer may specify the hours during which said employee may absent himself.

§ 8. The following committees, to be selected and chosen as hereinafter provided, shall constitute the central or managing committee of each political party: a State central committee, a Congressional committee for each Congressional district, a judicial district committee for each Supreme Court judicial district, a judicial circuit committee for each judicial circuit, a county central committee for each county, and a city central committee for each city whose city officers are required to be nominated under the provisions of this Act: Provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall prevent a political party from electing or appointing in accordance with its practice, other committees.

$ 9. Clause 1. The State central committee of each political party shall be composed of one member from each Congressional district in the State, who shall be chosen in the year 1920 and every four years thereafter by the Congressional convention of the party and district in which he resides. The members of the State central committee shall, within thirty days after they are chosen, meet in the city of Springfield and organize by electing from their own number, or otherwise, a chairman, and may at such time elect such officers from their own number, or otherwise, as they may deem necessary or expedient. The outgoing chairman of the State central committee of each party shall, ten days before the meeting, notify each member of the State central committee so chosen of the time and place of such meeting.

Clause 2. At the presidential primary held in April 1920, and at such primary held every four years thereafter, there shall be elected by the qualified primary electors of each political party, respectively, in each election precinct outside of incorporated cities and villages having 500,000 or more inhabitants, a precinct committeeman, who shall be a qualified elector of such party and such precinct. At such presidential primary held in 1920, and at such primary held every four years thereafter, there shall be elected by the qualified electors of each political party, respectively, in each ward of incorporated cities and villages having 500,000 or more inhabitants, a ward committeeman for each political party, who shall be a qualified elector of the ward and party he is chosen to represent: Provided, that in counties having within their limits an incorporated city or village having 500,000 or more inhabitants the county central committee of each political party of such county at its regular meeting in the month of December, or

at an adjourned meeting, in the year 1919, and at such regular meeting every four years thereafter, shall divide the territory in such county lying outside of such city or cities into not less than six and not more than nine districts of contiguous territory, to be known as county committeeman's districts and designated as such by number. The precinct committeemen of each political party residing within such district shall meet separately in their respective districts at ten o'clock on the morning of the first Monday after the primary at which they are elected and choose, from their own number or otherwise, a district committeeman for their respective political parties and their respective districts. The place of such political meeting for each district for each political party shall be determined by the district committeeman thereof, or if there is no such committeeman, by the chairman of the county committee of the respective political parties. Due notice of such meeting shall be mailed to the precinct committeemen residing in such district, at their last known places of residence,, by the person whose duty it is to determine the place of such meeting. A majority of the precinct committeemen of the respective parties residing in such district shall be necessary to the election of such district committeeman. The names of all candidates for precinct committeemen and for ward committeemen shall be printed upon primary ballot, but the name of no candidate for precinct committeeman or ward committeeman shall be printed upon such ballot unless a petition for nomination shall have been filed in his behalf with the county clerk of the county wherein such candidate resides. Such petition shall be signed by not less than 10 and not more than 25 primary electors of the party residing in the precinct or ward for which the election is sought and shall be in the form hereinafter provided.

Clause 3. The county central committee of each political party shall consist of the various precinct committeemen and ward or district committeemen, if any, of such party in the county. In the organization and proceedings of the county central committee each precinct committeeman shall have one vote and one additional vote for each fifty votes or major fraction thereof of his party cast in his precinct for Governor at the last general election; and each ward or district committeeman shall have one vote for each precinct in his ward or district and one additional vote for each fifty votes or major fraction thereof of his party cast in each precinct of his ward or district for Governor at the last general election: Provided, that in counties containing one or more cities or villages having five hundred thousand or more inhabitants the precinct committeemen of the precincts within such city, village or county shall not be members of the county central committee.

Clause 4. The Congressional committee of each political party shall be composed of the chairman and secretary of the county central committees of the counties composing the Congressional district, excepting that in Congressional districts wholly within the territorial limits of one county. or wholly within the territorial limits of one county and party within the territorial limits of another county, then

the precinct committeemen of the party residing within the limits of the Congressional district shall compose the Congressional committee: Provided, however, that in Congressional districts wholly within the territorial limits of an incorporated city or village having a population of five hundred thousand or more inhabitants, or partly with the limits of such city and village and party within the limits of such city or village, then the ward committeeman of the party in the wards within such city or village and such Congressional district and the district. committeemen of the districts outside of such city or village and within such Congressional district shall compose the Congressional committee.

In the organization and proceedings of Congressional committees composed in whole or in part of precinct committeemen, each precinct committeeman shall have one vote and one additional vote for each fifty votes or major fraction thereof of his party cast in his precinct for Governor at the last general election, and in the organization and proceedings of Congressional committees, composed in whole or in part of ward or district committeemen, each ward or district committeeman shall have one vote for each precinct in his ward and one additional vote for each fifty votes or major fraction thereof of his party cast in each precinct of his ward located in the Congressional district for Governor at the last general election.

Clause 5. The city central committee of each political party shall be composed of the precinct committeemen of such party residing in such city, except that in incorporated cities or villages having a population of five hundred thousand or more, then the city central committee shall be composed of the ward committeemen residing within the territorial limits of such city or village.

Clause 6. Each committee and its officers shall have the powers usually exercised by such committees and by the officers thereof, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. The several committees herein provided for shall not have power to delegate any of their functions or powers to any other person, officer or committee, but this shall not be construed to prevent the committee from appointing from its own membership proper and necessary sub-committees and particularly defining by resolution, the duties of such subcommittees.

Clause 7. The chairman and secretary of the county central committee of each political party, respectively, of the counties composing a Supreme Court judicial district shall be er officio the Supreme Court judicial committee of such political party.

Clause 8. In case a judicial circuit is composed of more than one county, then the chairman and secretary of the county central committee of each political party, respectively, of the counties composing the judicial circuit, shall be ex officio the judicial county committee.

Clause 9. The various political party committees now in existence are hereby recognized and shall exercise the powers and perform the duties herein prescribed until committeemen are chosen in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

$10. On the second Monday next succeeding the presidential primary the county central committee of each political party shall meet

at the county seat of the proper county and proceed to organize by electing from its own members or otherwise a chairman and such other officers as such committee may deem necessary or expedient. Such meeting of the county central committee shall be known as the county convention. In the organization and proceedings of the county convention, each precinct committeeman shall have one vote and one additional vote for each fifty votes or major fraction thereof of his party cast in the precinct for Governor at the general election then next preceding, and each ward or district committeeman shall have one vote for each precinct in his ward or district and one additional vote for each fifty votes or major fraction thereof of his party cast in the county for Governor at the general election then next preceding.

Such convention of each political party shall have power:

(1) To select delegates and alternate delegates to the State. judicial and other district conventions then next ensuing. Such delegates and alternate delegates to the State convention shall be ex officio the delegates and alternate delegates to the Congressional convention of the respective parties of the Congressional district in which such delegates and alternate delegates reside;

(2) To adopt a party platform;

(3) To nominate candidates for judges of the Circuit Court where any county constitutes a judicial circuit and candidates for judges of the Superior Court of Cook County.

(4) To nominate candidates for county officers, except where such candidates are nominated at a primary election held as herein. provided;

(5)

To direct the manner in which any vacancy on the county ticket shall be filled;

(6) To transact such other business as may lawfully come before it;

If, in its official call for the State convention, the State central committee of such political party shall prescribe that delegates from any county shall be selected from wards, precincts or commissioner's districts, or combinations of wards, precincts or commissioner's districts, then only delegates to the county convention from such wards, precincts, commissioner's districts or combinations of wards, precincts or commissioner's districts shall participate in the selection of delegates and alternate delegates therefrom to the State convention. In case a county has within its limits a Congressional or Senatorial district then only delegates to the county convention from such Congressional or Senatorial districts shall participate in the selection of delegates and alternate delegates therefrom to such Congressional and Senatorial conventions.

S10a. The county central committee may be convened in special session upon giving each member thereof ten days' written notice of the time and place of holding such special session, which notice shall be signed by the chairman and attested by the secretary.

§ 10b. All Congressional conventions occurring in any year wherein a President of the United States is to be elected shall be held on the first Wednesday in May of such year. All Congressional conven

tions occurring in any other year shall be held on the first Wednesday after the first Monday next succeeding the September primary of such other year. All Congressional conventions shall be held in the Congressional district wherein the delegates thereto reside, at a place and hour to be designated by the Congressional committees of the respective parties of such district. A written or printed notice of such place and hour shall be mailed to each delegate and alternate to such convention at least five (5) days prior to the date fixed for the convening thereof, by the secretary of such committee.

The Congressional convention of each political party shall have

power:

(1) To nominate candidates for State Board of Equalization and to fill vacancies;

(2) To direct the manner in which any vacancy on the ticket shall be filled;

(3) To recommend to the State convention of its party the nomination of candidate or candidates for elector or electors of President and Vice President of the United States;

(4) To adopt resolutions;

(5) To select a State central committeeman.

§ 10c. All State conventions shall be held on the first Friday after the first Monday next succeeding the September primary: Provided, that in any year in which a President of the United States is to be elected all State conventions shall be held on the second Monday of May of such year.

The State convention of each political party shall have power:

(1) To nominate candidates for all State offices, except where the nomination of such office is made at a primary election held pursuant to the provisions of this Act;

(2) To nominate candidates for electors of President and Vice President of the United States;

(3) To nominate candidates for the offices of clerks of Appellate Courts: Provided, that no delegate shall be permitted to vote on the nomination for the office of clerk of the Appellate Court of any district other than that in which such delegate resides: And, provided, further, that in any Appellate Court district comprising only one county, nominations for such office shall be made by the county convention of the respective parties of such county;

(3a) To select delegates and alternate delegates at large to national nominating conventions;

(4) To direct the manner in which any vacancy on the ticket shall be filled.

it.

(5) To adopt a party platform;

(6) To transact such other business as may lawfully come before

10d. The judicial district convention and the judicial circuit. convention of each political party shall be constituted and assembled as follows:

At least seventy-five days before a judicial officer is to be elected in any district, except in districts provided for in section 10, the chair