EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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election to any convention or nominating convention shall be

published two days before said election, in the mode prescribed

in Section 44 of said Article 33, as far as practicable. It shall

not be necessary to print sample ballots or cards of instruction

Sample ballots.

for such elections, but either or both shall be printed by the

Board of Supervisors of Elections of the City of Baltimore

or counties of the State, respectively, when requested by any

candidate or delegate, said request to be accompanied by a sum

of money necessary to cover the cost of printing. Each can-

didate for nomination for public office at a primary election

shall pay the sum of twenty-five dollars, and each delegation

to a nominating convention shall pay the sum of five dollars

upon filing their certificate with the Supervisors of Elections,

and the said Board of Supervisors shall pay over the amount

so received to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City,

and the County Commissioners of each county, and all the

expenses of holding said elections shall be paid by the Mayor

Expenses of
election.

and City Council of Baltimore and the County Commissioners,

respectively, precisely as the expenses of State, city and county

elections are now paid under existing law. If such nomina-

tions are to be made by conventions, as hereinbefore provided,

every candidate having complied with the prerequisites, shall

have the privilege of having his name placed on the official bal-

lot ; before the name of that set of delegates selected by him or

running in his interest, and every vote cast for said candidate

by marking in the square opposite his name, in the manner

and form provided by this Article, shall be construed and

counted for his entire set of delegates, unless there is a mark

opposite any name in his set of delegates, in which event only

those names in that particular set of delegates marked in the

square opposite shall be counted as having been voted. When-

ever the name of any candidate is so placed upon the ballot,

the candidate's surname shall determine his place upon the

alphabetical arrangement as hereinbefore provided in this Ar-

Alphabetical

ticle, upon said ballot, and the names of his delegates shall fol-

arrangement.

low immediately after his name in such order as submitted

to the Board of Supervisors of Elections. Ballots shall be cast,

counted and canvassed, and the result of the election announced

and certified, as now provided by said Article 33, for elections

held thereunder, and the said elections shall be held and con-

ducted in the manner and form provided by this Article for

general elections, and subject to all the regulations, require-

ments and provisions as prescribed by this Article for general

elections, in so far as the same is applicable to said primary

elections. Challengers and watchers representing the candi-

Challengers
and watchers.

dates shall be allowed to be present at the several voting places