3926 ARTICLE 17.

No certificate of nomination shall be received by the said Board of Elec-
tion Supervisors after the said meeting of the said Supervisors for the
purpose of receiving such certificates of nomination, as hereinbefore pro-
vided, except that in the event of any vacancy occurring in nominations
for Mayor and City Councilmen, either by declination, death, or from any
other cause, the same may be filed in the manner herein provided, at any
time prior to the Wednesday before the day of any election, general or
special, held hereunder; and in the event of any such vacancy or vacancies
occurring thereafter by death, the same may be filled as other vacancies,
and the Supervisors of Election shall cause to be printed a sufficient num-
ber of stickers bearing the name or names of such substituted nominee or
nominees and shall also cause the same to be affixed in the proper place
or places on each ticket before it is given to the voter. And no names shall
be printed on the official ballot not presented to said Board of Election
Supervisors in the manner herein provided.

1912, ch. 695, sec. 198.

607. The said Board of Election Supervisors shall prepare the ballot
to be voted at the elections for Mayor and City Councilmen, as well as
any ballot to be voted at any general or special election submitting any
question or proposition to the people, placing on the ballots only the
names of all persons properly nominated for Mayor and City Councilmen,
as provided in the preceding section, arranging them alphabetically and
without emblems or other distinguishing marks or signs, after which shall
be placed any proposition to be submitted to vote of the people, and all
of said names of candidates and propositions shall be in a single vertical
column; and they shall cause the names of all the candidates for the same
office grouped together, with space between each group wherein the voter
may write additional name or names if he so desires. The official ballot
shall be substantial, plain white paper, not less than four nor more than
six inches wide, and there shall be a square at the right of the name of
each candidate, and to vote for any candidate or candidates the voter shall
make a cross (X) mark in the square opposite the name of each candidate
for whom he may desire to vote, but he shall not vote for more candidates
than there are offices to be filled, and the said official ballot shall be printed
as near as practicable in accordance with the following sample, the date
and names to be changed:

Town of Laurel.
Official Ballot.

For Municipal Election, January 0, 1912.
Put a cross (X) mark opposite the name or names voted for.

Eor Mayor.
Vote for one only.

John Dow.
Samuel Hann.