100 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 48, 57 and 122 of Article 33 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Elections, " be
and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows:

48. At least eight days before an election to fill any public
office, the Supervisors of Elections of each county and of the
city of Baltimore, shall cause to be published in two or more
newspapers within such county and in all the daily papers pub-
lished in said city which will publish the same at the current
rate for advertising the nominations to office which have been
filed with or certified to them under the provisions of this
article, if in any county there be but one newspaper published,
publication in such one newspaper shall be sufficient, they shall
make not less than two such publications in each of such news-
papers before the day of election, and one of such publications
in each newspaper shall be upon the last day upon which said
newspaper is issued before the day of election. Such publica-
tion shall be made in newspapers devoted to the dissemination
of general news, and the two newspapers selected shall, if pos-
sible, represent the political parties which at the last preceding
election cast the largest and next largest number of votes.

57. All said ballots in all elections in and throughout the
State of Maryland, including all the counties thereof, and Bal-
timore city, shall be printed in the same uniform type upon
plain white printing paper of ordinary book weight, in black
ink, and the names of all candidates shall be printed upon all
ballots which may be used in any and all elections in every
county of the State and in the city of Baltimore, in the follow-
ing type to wit: in clear, plain, bold and legible Roman Capi-
tals, twelve point, generally known as pica type, one-eighth of
an inch high, or in depth, and it shall be the duty of the Board
of Supervisors of Elections for Baltimore City, and of the
Board of Superiors of Elections for each county, to cause all
ballots to be used by the voters of said city, and of the several
counties, to be printed in manner as aforesaid. On the back
and outside of all ballots shall be printed the words "Official
Ballot for, " followed by the designation of the polling place for
which it is prepared, the date of the election and a fac simile of
the signature of the president of the Board of Supervisors of
Election, by whom the ballots have been prepared. Said ballots
shall be printed on the same leaf with a detachable stub or
coupon one inch high and three inches wide, above the upper
right hand corner of the ballot and binding on the upper edge
thereof, but separated therefrom by a line running along the
entire width of said coupon; upon said coupon shall be printed