PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1323

CHAPTER 751.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 43 of
Article 33 of the Code of Public Civil Laws of Maryland
legalized by the Act of 1912, Chapter 22, title "Elections,"
sub-title '' Nominations,''

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 43 of Article 33, title "Elections," sub-title
"Nominations" of the Code of Public Civil Laws of Maryland,
legalized by the Act of 1912, Chapter 22, be, and the said Sec-
tion is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so
that the same shall be and read as follows:

43. A candidate for public office, including candidates for
the office of United States Senator from Maryland, may be nomi-
nated otherwise than by a convention or primary election in the
manner following: A certificate of nomination containing the
names of a candidate for the office to be filled with such informa-
tion as is required to be given in certificate provided for in
Section 42 of this Article, with the additional statement that the
persons signing the same intend to vote for the person to be
nominated thereby shall be signed by voters in numbers as fol-
lows residing in the political division in and for which the officer
is to be elected—that is to say: The number of signatures so
required shall not be less than five hundred when the nomination
is for an office to be filled by an election participated in by the
voters of the entire State, and not less than three hundred when
the nomination is for an office to be filled by an election to be
participated in by the voters of an entire congressional district
or of the entire cities of Baltimore, Annapolis, Frederick, Cum-
berland, or Hagerstown, and not less than two hundred for
nominations for all other elections; and provided also, that the
said signatures need not all be appended to one paper, but if
the signatures are appended to more than one paper, all such
papers must be fastened together and filed as one certificate.
Each signer shall append to his signature his residence, occupa-
tion and place of business, and every such paper shall be ac-
companied by an affidavit or affidavits made before a justice of
the peace by one or more persons known personally to the jus-
tice and so certified by him and signed by the affiant or affiants
to the effect that the signers are known to such affiant or affiants
to be registered voters of the district or precinct in which they
respectively reside and that the said affiant or affiants personal-
ly saw the signers, in regard to whom he or they make others,