EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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usage provides for such executives or committees, by means

of primary elections conducted under the provisions of this

Act, and not otherwise, and the several Boards of Supervisors

of Elections shall not print on the official ballot to be voted at

any general or special election to be hereafter held, the names

of any candidates of any of said parties who shall not be so

nominated, and whose nominations shall not be certified to

them or to the Secretary of State, as having been so nominated.

Such candidates may be nominated by direct vote of the duly

Nominated by

registered voters belonging to or acting with such parties in

direct vote.

every precinct, ward, councilmanic, legislative, congressional

and election district in Baltimore City and the several counties,

respectively, or they may be nominated by city, county or

district conventions, the delegates to which shall be elected at.

primary elections duly held in precincts, wards, election, coun-

climatic, legislative, congressional and judicial districts, or they

may be nominated by State or other conventions composed of

delegates elected by city, county, councilmanic, legislative,

jtidicial or congressional district conventions, the delegates to

which last mentioned several conventions shall have been

elected at said primary elections, as shall he determined from

time to time by the State Central Committee or other govern-

ing body of said political parties.' Said primary election shall

Primaries to
be held not

be annually held on a day to be fixed for Baltimore City and

later than

the several counties, respectively, by an agreement between

third Monday
in September.

the governing bodies of said parties, not later than the third

Monday of September in each year. The day for holding' such

primary elections need not be the same in Baltimore City and

in the several counties, but on or before the above named date,

be held in Baltimore City and in the several counties upon days

which shall be so agreed on, and in case such governing bodies

shall fail to agree on the day for holding said primary elec-

tions, either in the City of Baltimore or in any of the counties,

they shall be held in said city and in said counties on the third

Monday of September in each year. Notice shall be given of

the times and places of holding said primary elections by the

several Boards of Supervisors of Elections in the same way pre-

cisely as notice is required to be given for municipal and county

elections held under the provisions of Article 33 of the Code

of Public General Laws, and there shall be at every primary

election a voting place in each precinct or election district,

Voting Place in
each precinct.

which shall be selected as provided in Section 11 of this Article,

etc.

and furnished in the same manner as at a general election.

They shall be conducted under the control of the several Boards

of Supervisors of Elections, by the judges and clerks of elec-