EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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primary elections conducted under the provisions of this Act,

and not otherwise. Said candidates may be nominated by

direct vote of the duly registered voters belonging to or acting

with said parties in each precinct of said county, or they may

be nominated by county conventions, the delegates to which

shall be elected at primary elections duly held in the different

precincts of said county. Said elections shall be biennially

Biennial elec-
tions.

held as above stated on a day to be fixed by agreement between

the governing bodies of said parties, not earlier than the

second Saturday in June and not later than the first Saturday

in August.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of

the governing bodies of said political parties, as soon as they

To agree on a
day for hold-

have agreed upon a day, to notify the Supervisors of Elections

ing primary.

of the day selected, which notice shall be at least fifteen days

before the date fixed for said primary election; and in case

said governing bodies shall fail to agree on a day for holding

said primary elections, they shall be held on the first Satur-

day in August in the year 1905, and biennially thereafter;

and if no notice is received by said Supervisors of Elections,

then it shall be the duty of the said Board of Supervisors of

Elections at least fifteen days before the first Saturday in

August in the year 1905, and biennially thereafter, to select

four judges, two of whom shall be designated ballot judges

for that purpose and shall perform the duties required of them

as ballot judges, and two clerks, taking two of said judges

and one of said clerks from each of the said political parties

to act as judges and clerks in the primaries to be held in

each election precinct of the county, and the said Board of

Supervisors of Elections shall give notice, by publication,

of the names of all said judges and clerks and the precinct

for which they are selectedj by causing the same to be pub-

Publishing list

lished by two insertions in at least two of the weekly news-

of judges and

papers printed in Montgomery County, one of said papers,

clerks.

if possible, being of the opposite political faith from that of

a majority of said Board of Supervisors , of Elections.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said Board of Super-

visors of Elections in appointing the judges and clerks, and

Designating
politics of

in the notice thereof, shall designate the persons intended

same.

by them to represent the said political parties, respectively;

one challenger and one watcher, representing each of the

political parties, shall be allowed to be present at the several

voting places during the voting and counting of the ballots,

said challengers and watchers to be appointed by the com-