Excerpt from A New Plan for Direct Nominations: Report of Committee Appointed by the Speaker's Club to Investigate the Existing Provisions of the Election Law of the State of New York Relative to Direct Nominations and Primary Elections and Pending and Proposed Legislation Thereon, Submitted to the Clu Your Committee recommends that the expenses of candidates in securing designation, nomination and election to any office be limited to ten per cent of the salary of that office for the first year, or where there is no salary, to an amount which will be approximately equal to ten per cent of the fees or emoluments of the office for the first year, and in cases where the fees or emoluments can not be ascertained, to one hundred and fifty dollars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.