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To assist the
respective county boards in ascertaining the offices to be
filled, it shall be the duty of the clerks or secretaries of
the various cities, boroughs, towns, townships and school
districts, with the advice of their respective solicitors, on
or before the thirteenth Tuesday preceding the Municipal
primary, to send to the county boards of their respective
counties a written notice setting forth all city, borough, town,
township and school district offices to be filled in their
respective subdivisions at the ensuing municipal election, and
for which candidates are to be nominated at the ensuing primary.
It shall also be the duty of the chairman of the State committee
of each political party to forward to the Secretary of the
Commonwealth and to the respective county boards, on or before
the thirteenth Tuesday preceding the General primary, a written
notice setting forth the number of delegates and alternate
delegates to the National convention of such party who are to
be elected in the State at large at the ensuing primary, and
the number of such delegates and alternate delegates who are
to be elected at said primary in such county, or in any district
within such county, or of which it forms a part. The said notice
shall also set forth the number of members of the National
committee, if any, who, under the National party rules, are to
be elected at the said primary in the State at large, and the
number of members of the State committee to be elected at the
said primary in such county, or in any district, or part of a
district within such county. It shall also be the duty of the
chairman of the county committee and, in cases where a city is
coextensive with a county, the chairman of the city committee
of each party, on or before the thirteenth Tuesday preceding
the General primary, to send to the county board of such county
a written notice setting forth all party offices to be filled
in the county at the ensuing primary.
   (904 amended Aug. 13, 1963, P.L.707, No.379)