Chap. 40.—An ACT to amend and reenact section 24-a of aun act approved
March 20, 1914, printed as chapter 805, acts of assembly of Virginia, ses-
sion 1914, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
establish and regulate the holding of primary elections, to pay expenses
of same; to secure the regularity and purity of the same, and to prevent
und punish any corrupt practices in convection therewith, approved March
14, 1912. [H B 33]

Approved February 12, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-four-a of an act approved March twenty-five, nine-
teen hundred and fourteen, printed as chapter three hundred and
five, acts of assembly of Virginia, session nineteen hundred and
fourteen, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an
act to establish and regulate the holding of primary elections; to
pay expenses of same; to secure the regularity and purity of the
same, and to prevent and punish any corrupt practices in connec-
tion therewith, approved March fourteen, nineteen hundred andl
twelve, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

24-a. Every candidate for any office at any primary shall, before
he files his declaration of candidacy. as provided in the foregoing
sections, pay a fee equal to two percentum of one year's salary
attached to the office for which he is candidate.

In case of a candidate whose compensation is paid in whole or
in part by fees, the amount to be paid by such candidate as his con-
tribution for the payment of the expenses of the primary shall be
fixed by the proper committee of the respective parties.

If there is no salary the fee shall be one dollar. These fees shal]
be paid as follows:

(a) Candidates for United States senators, for representatives
in congress, and for all State offices shall pay such fee to the auditor
of public accounts of Virginia.

Candidates for the senate of Virginia or the house of delegates
of Virginia shall pay the primary fee to the treasurer of the candi-
date’s county or city. and where the candidate’s district is composed
of more than one county or city the fee must be equally divided
among the counties and cities in the district. and paid to the respec-
tive treasurers by the candidate.
The primary fees paid to the auditor of public accounts shall be
paid by him into the State treasury to the credit of a fund to be
known as “the State primary fee fund,” and shall be kept separate
and distinct from all other monies in the treasury of the State.

In the event a prospective candidate pays the fee to the auditor
of public accounts, and does not become a candidate, the auditor of
public accounts shall pay back the fee by warrant upon the State
primary fee fund, and in the event the candidate who has paid the
fee isnot opposed, the auditor of public accounts shall pay back the
fee by warrant upon the State primary fee fund. All other State
pnmary fees paid to the auditor of public accounts shall, after the
primary has been held, be paid to the literary fund of the State
ly warrant drawn upon the State primary fee fund, and any inter-
est eamed upon the State primary fees whilst the same remain in
the State treasury to the credit of the State primary fee fund shall
belong to the general fund of the Commonwealth.

Primary fees heretofore paid the auditor of public accounts, and
how in his custody, as well as primary fees hereafter paid to the
widitor of public accounts, shall be by him disposed of in the man-
net hereinbefore provided for.

(b) All other candidates shall pay said fee to the treasurer of
the city or county in which they reside. A receipt for the payment.
vf said fee must accompany and be attached to said declaration of
candidacy; otherwise the same shall not be received or filed; pro-
vided, that when for district officers of more than one county the
fee shall be divided equally between the counties comprising such
istrict and paid to the respective treasurers thereof. In the event
a prospective candidate pays the fee to a county or city treasurer
and does not become a candidate, the treasurer shall pay back the
fee; and in the event the candidate who has paid the fee is not
opposed, the treasurer shall pay back the fee. All other primary
ees paid a county or city treasurer shall, after the primary has
been held, be paid or placed to the credit of the fund of the county
or city out of which the expenses of the primary were paid by
the county or city. ,

2. There being at this time in the custody of the auditor of
public accounts primary fees amounting to twenty-eight hundred
lullars and eighty cents, with the interest which has accrued thereon
o January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, one hundred and
welve dollars and seventy cents, which fees and interest are on
posit in the National State and City bank, Richmond, Virginia.
| “tate depositary, which should no longer be so held, but should
« disposed of in the manner provided for in this act, an emergency
‘declared to exist. and this act shall be in force from its passage.