Primary Election Expenses

Margiotti, Attorney General,

We are in receipt of your letter of April 5, 1938, wherein you request our opinion on the proper procedure which candidates and political committees must pursue in the receipt of funds for primary expenses, their disbursement, and the accounting therefor.

*175Your inquiry arises under sections 1601 to 1613, inclusive, of the Pennsylvania Election Code of June 3, 1937, P. L. 1333, 25 PS §3221, et seq. In brief, those provisions govern the subject of election contributions and expenditures. With exceptions hereinafter noted, they are a substantial reenactment of the…