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ELECTORAL AND GOVERNMENTAL CHANGES
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to or obtain a stay of proceedings. No injunction shall issue in any such proceeding suspending or staying any procedure therein or connected therewith, except upon application to the court or the presiding judge thereof, upon notice to all parties and after hearing.

"No bar to criminal prosecution. 4. No judgment entered as provided for herein shall be any bar to or affect in any way any criminal prosecution of any candidate or other person.

"Special counsel; supreme court. Section 94-33. 1. If the judgment of the trial court is appealed from in such proceeding, the county judge, the attorney-general or the governor, who made the appointment of special counsel for the trial court, shall authorize such counsel so appointed, or some other person to appear as special counsel in the supreme court in such matter.

"Compensation. 2. The special counsel provided for by this act shall receive a reasonable compensation for his services, not to exceed, however, twenty-five dollars per day for the time actually spent in conducting the proceedings in the trial court or upon appeal, and not to exceed ten dollars per day for the time necessarily expended in preparation therefor. Such compensation shall be audited by the secretary of state, and paid out of the state treasury upon a voucher and upon the certificate of the officer appointing such counsel to the effect that such appointment has been duly made, that the person so appointed has faithfully performed the duties imposed upon him, and that the number of days stated in such voucher have been consumed in conducting such litigation and in preparation therefor.

"Witnesses; incriminating testimony; penalty; perjury. Section 94-34. No person shall be excused from testifying in such proceeding, or in any proceeding for violation of or growing out of the provisions of this act, on the ground that his testimony may