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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

priate groups. Above the party name shall be printed the
party emblem, if any ; the size whereof shall not exceed two
and one-half inches in height and two inches in breadth. Any
party in city convention or by city committee may select any
emblem, which shall be certified at the time and in the same
manner that the nominations are certified, and which shall be
the emblem of the party in the city until changed by like
authority. In case the same emblem is selected by two or
more parties, it shall be the emblem of the party whose certifi-
cate is first tiled, and the other party may in like manner cer-
tify another. Where candidates have been nominated in any
other manner than by a convention or primary election, or by
a committee acting under the authority of a convention, an
emblem may be adopted and certified in the manner aforesaid ;
provided, that the emblem selected shall n be one already
appropriated to a political party.

Arrangement
of offices
and names
upon
ballots.

270 S S. Said groups shall contain the names of the officers
to be voted for, and under each office the name or names of
the candidates in the same order in each group or column, so
that as far as possible, candidates for the same office in the
various groups may be opposite to each other and on the same
horizontal line upon the ticket, with a reasonable space between
said names. Between the groups and to the right of each
group there shall be a ruled column of one-third of an inch in
width, parallel to said groups and close to the group to its left.
Between the names of the candidates in said groups and across
said ruled column shall be drawn lines, so that in the parallelo-
gram or space so formed, the voter may clearly indicate, in
the way hereinafter pointed out, the candidate or candidates
for whom he wished to cast his ballot. On said ballot and
following the groups aforesaid containing the candidates of
parties mentioned, as hereinbefore provided, there shall be a
space equal in width to that occupied by a single group, which
shall contain the names of the offices to be filled at such elec-
tion, with lines drawn between the same, inclosing spaces equal
in number to the candidates for each office to be voted for.
Said lines shall extend through a column of one-third of an
such in width, so that the same shall be similar to the lines and
columns of a group containing the names of candidates. In.
the spaces so provided a voter may write and mark the name
of any person for whom he desires to vote. If at such election
there be any question to be submitted to the popular vote, the
said question shall be placed upon said ballot in the form fol-
lowing : "For proposition," "Against proposition," and said