EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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to said Article 11 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-

land, title "Frederick County," sub-title "Frederick," to follow

Section 270A of said Article, and to be known as Section 2706,

etc., be and the same are hereby severally repealed and re-en-

acted with amendments so as to read as follows:

270GG. All nominations made by such convention or primary

meetings shall be certified as follows : The certificate of nomi-

Nominations
to be certified.

nation shall be in writing, shall contain the name of each person

nominated, his residence, his business, his business address, and

the office for which he is nominated, and shall designate, in not

more than five words, the party or principle which such conven-

tion or primary meeting represents. It shall be signed by the

presiding officer and secretarv of such convention, who shall

add to their signatures their respective places of residence,

their business, and business address, and acknowledge the same

before an officer duly authorized to take acknowledgments,

who shall append a certificate of such acknowledgment thereto.

If the nomination is bv means of a primary election, the cer-

tificate shall be signed and acknowledged by the person or per-

sons whose duty it may be bv partv usage to declare the result

of such election in the manner prescribed for a nomination by

a convention. A party emblem or device may be added to the

Party emblem.

certificate, provided it shall be referred to and identified in

said acknowledgment. It may consist of one object or of sev-

eral objects in combination, and when printed on its proper

ballot, shall not occupy more than two and one-half inches in

height, and two inches in breadth; said emblem must not, in

the judgment of the officer or officers with whom the certifi-

cate is filed, too closely resemble any other party emblem previ-

ously designated.

270QQ. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of

Elections to provide ballots for every election for public officers

To provide

held under this Article, in which any voters within said city

ballots.

shall participate, and to cause to be printed on the ballot the

name of every candidate whose name has been certified to or

filed with the proper officers in the manner herein provided

for, but the said Supervisors shall not be required to print any

name upon a ballot if the same shall not have been certified to

them at least six days before election day. Each ballot shall

contain a statement of every question to be submitted to the

vote of the people at any election. Ballots other than those

printed by the Board of Supervisors of Elections, according to

the provisions of this Article, shall not be cast or counted in

Voter can
write on bal-

any election except as hereinafter provided. Nothing in this

lot.