§ 1759Bond by Petitioners

Whenever a petition to
contest nomination or contest election of any class, shall be
presented to the General Assembly or to the court, it shall be
the duty of said petitioners, within five days thereafter, to
file a bond, signed by at least five of the said petitioners
in such sum as the presiding officer of the Senate or said
court, shall designate, with two or more individual sureties
or a corporate surety to be approved by the said officer or
court or judge, conditioned for the payment of all costs which
may accrue in said contested nomination or election proceeding,
in case the said petitioners by decree shall be adjudged liable
to pay said costs, and if the said bond shall not be filed, as
herein provided, the said petition to contest the nomination
or election shall be dismissed.
   (1759 repealed in part Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53)