any such conviction shall be had, to transmit a certified copy of the record of conviction to the clerk of each county of the state, within ten days thereafter, which said certified copy shall be duly filed by the said county clerks in their respective offices. Any candidate for office who refuses or neglects to file a statement as prescribed in section forty-one-d of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, punishable as above provided and shall also forfeit his office.

§ 41g. Other crimes against the elective franchise are defined, and the punishment thereof prescribed by special statutes.

§ 2. Section forty-one of the Penal Code, as it existed prior to the passage of this act, is hereby repealed.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

APPENDIX K.

FORM OF AUSTRALIAN BALLOT ADOPTED IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1889.

Prepared by the Ballot Act League with the approval of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Some representative districts elect one, some two, and a few three representatives to the General Court. Worcester County elects four commissioners of insolvency instead of three as in other counties.

No county commissioners or special commissioners will be voted for in the cities of Boston and Chelsea or the county of Nantucket.

Forms for nominating candidates can be had at the department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Carefully observe the official specimen ballots to be posted and published just before election day.

To vote for a Person, mark a Cross X

in the Square at the right of the name.

REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERAL COURT
First Middlesex District.

WILLIAM H. MARBLE, of Cambridge
ISAAC MCLEAN, of Cambridge
GEORGE A. PERKINS, of Cambridge
JOHN READ, of Cambridge
CHESTER F. SANGER, of Cambridge
WILLIAM A. START, of Cambridge

Vote for TWO.

Prohibition. I
Democratic.

Democratic.

Republican. I

Republican.

Prohibition.

COMMISSIONERS OF INSOLVENCY.

JOHN W. ALLARD, of Framingham

GEORGE J. BURNS, of Ayer

WILLIAM P. CUTTER, of Cambridge

FREDERIC T. GREENHALGE, of Lowell

JAMES HICKS, of Cambridge

JOHN C. KENNEDY, of Newton .

RICHARD J. MCKELLEGET, of Cambridge
EDWARD D. McVEY, of Lowell

ELMER A. STEVENS, of Somerville.

SUGGESTIONS TO VOTERS.

Give your name and residence to the ballot clerk, who, on finding your name on the check list, will admit you within the rail and hand you a ballot.

Go alone to one of the voting shelves and there unfold your ballot.

Mark a cross X in the square at the right of the name of each person for whom you wish to vote. No other method of marking, such as erasing names, will an

swer.

Thus, if you wished to vote for John Bowles for Governor, you would mark your ballot in this way :

If you wish to vote for a person whose name is not on the ballot, write, or insert by a sticker, the name in the blank line at the end of the list of candidates for the office, and mark a cross X in the square at the right of it. Thus, if you wished to vote for George T. Morton, of Chelsea, for Governor, you would prepare your ballot in this way:

Notice, that for some offices you may vote for "two" or "three" candidates, as stated in the ballot at the right of the name of the office to be voted for, e. g.: "COMMISSIONERS OF INSOLVENCY. Vote for THREE."

If you spoil a ballot, return it to the ballot clerk, who will give you another. You cannot have more than two extra ballots, or three in all.