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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

retiring member of said board, and he shall in like manner
appoint a citizen to fill out the unexpired term of any mem-
ber dying, resigning or removing" from the city. No member
of said board shall be eligible to an elective office during the
time for which he is appointed. The said board of election
supervisors shall organize annually by electing one of their
number to be president of the board.

Nominations,
Shall prepare
official ballot,
etc.

The said board shall receive nominations for all elective
offices under this charter or amendments thereto , and shall
prepare the official ballot to be used at all elections held under
this charter, with the assistance of two clerks, whom they
shall appoint; the members of said board shall act as judges
of election. The compensation of said supervisors and clerks
shall be fixed by ordinance.

Nomination
papers of
candidates.

141A. On the second Monday in December in each year
the Board of Election Supervisors shall sit at least five hours
to receive nomination papers of candidates for the several
elective offices to be filled at the next ensuing election, and
they shall give at least two weeks' previous notice of the
time and place of said sitting in one or more newspapers pub-

Manner of
nominating
candidates.

lished in said city. The manner of nominating candidates
shall be as follows : Every aspirant for the office of Mayor or
some one on his behalf shall on or before the time of the sit-
ting aforesaid present to the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions his nominations for said office in writing, signed by at
least thirty of the qualified voters of said city, who must also
be assessed as property-holders upon the assessment books of
the city, and no signature shall be counted if it shall be upon
the nomination paper of more than one candidate for Mayor,
and if it appears more than once on the same paper, it shall
be counted but once. And in like manner every aspirant for
the office of City Co.uncilman, or for other elective office, now
or hereafter to be created under this charter, or some one on
his behalf, shall on or before the time of the sitting aforesaid
present to the board in writing his nomination for said office,
signed by at least twenty of the qualified voters of said city,
who must in like manner be assessed as aforesaid, and no
name shall be counted if it shall be upon the nomination
papers of more candidates than the number required to fill
the vacancies of the offices for which said candidates are
nominated.

Shall prepare
the official
ballot.

After the time has expired for presenting nominations, the
said board shall prepare the official ballot, and shall cause to
be printed thereon in a single vertical column, without device
of any kind, the names of the nominees for the respective