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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tions appointed by them under the provisions of said Article 35.

for the conduct of elections held thereunder in Baltimore City

and the several counties. The books of registry shall be fur-

nished to the judges at each polling place, and shall be used

at such elections in the same way as they are now used at"

municipal and county elections held under the provisions of

Books of reg-

said Article 33. In the books of registry, to be hereafter pre-

istry.

pared for use im Baltimore City, a column headed "Voted at

Primary Elections" shall be used, in which column such word

"Voted," or letter "V," shall be hereafter entered at the pri-

mary election at which such registry shall be used ; in the coun-

ties, until new books of registry shall be required to be pre-

pared according- to existing law, the present books of registry

shall be used, and the judges shall therein make a column.

headed "Voted at Primary Election of ............," and

enter in like manner therein the word "Voted," or the letter

"V." Persons arriving at the age of twenty-one years after

the closing of the next preceding registration, and entitled to

Qualified to

be registered as qualified voters, shall be entitled to vote, upon;

vote.

proving under oath, to the satisfaction of a majority of the

judges of election their right to registration in the precinct at

which they shall claim the right to vote. Official ballots shall

be prepared for such primary elections by the several Boards

of Supervisors of Elections, as is now provided by said Article

33, and said several Boards of Supervisors shall print on said

official ballots the names of all candidates and the names of all

delegates to any convention or nominating convention, who

shall become duly qualified by the payment of the amount

herein named, and shall have filed a certificate in writing con-

taining the name of the person seeking a nomination, his resi-

dence, his business, his address, the office for which he seeks

to be nominated, and the party to which he belongs; and the

Certificate of

certificate for delegations to contain the names of each person

delegations.

or delegate, his residence, his business, his address, the conven-

tion to which the delegation seeks to be elected, and the party

to which the members of the delegation belong, and acknowl-

edged by the candidate where the certificate is filed by a can-

didate seeking a nomination, and by a member of a delegation

on his part, and on the part of the delegation, when filed on

behalf of a delegation before an officer duly authorized to take

acknowledgments, who shall append a certificate of such ac-

knowledgment. All such certificates must be filed and pay-

ments made not less than fifteen days before the day or days

of said several primary elections. The names of the several can-

didates or of the. several delegates to be elected at said primary