112 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

added to Article 33 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, title "Election," subtitle "Registration," to follow
Section 21 of said Article and numbered Section 21a, said Sec-
tion 21a to read as follows:

SEC. 21a. In Baltimore city on the Saturday following the
Tuesday four weeks preceding such regular election the said
Board of registry shall again meet at the place designated,
and shall remain in session during the hours prescribed in Sec-
tion 17 of this Article, for the purpose only of registering all
qualified voters not before registered who shall apply in person
to be registered. The same forms shall be observed as to ap-
plications made on this Saturday of registration as are re-
quired on the former days of registration. At the end of regis-
tration on this Saturday registers shall be examined, com-
pared and made to agree, and they shall then be signed imme-
diately under the last name registered under each letter, in the
same way as hereinbefore provided.

Approved April 11. 1910.

CHAPTER 177.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 40 of
Article 33 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland
of 1904, title "Elections," subtitle "Nominations."
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 40 of Article 33 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Elections," subtitle
"Nominations," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

40. Any convention or primary meeting as hereinafter de-
fined, held for the purpose of making nominations to public
office, and also voters to the number hereinafter specified, may
nominate candidates for public office to be filled by election
within the State. A convention or primary meeting within
the meaning of this section is an organized assemblage of dele-
gates or voters, representing a particular party or principle,
whose highest candidate at any election held within two years
next preceding the holding of such convention polled more
than one per cent, and less than ten per, cent, of the entire vote
cast in the State, county or other division or district for which
the nomination is made. Nominations may be made by means
of primary elections, without the intervention of any conven-
tion by any party which at the last preceding election polled
the requisite proportion of votes, as hereinbefore specified.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1910.