EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 339.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections

50 and 114A of Article 33 of the Code of Public General

Laws, title "Elections."

SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Sections 50 and 114A of Article 33 of the Code of

Public General Laws, title "Elections," be and the same are

Elections.

hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read

as follows :

50. The form and arrangement of ballot shall be as fol-

lows: All ballots shall contain the name of every candidate

Form and ar-

whose nomination for any office specified in the ballots has

rangement.

been certified and filed according to the provisions of this Ar-

of. ballot.

ticle, and not withdrawn in accordance herewith. The names

of candidates for every office shall, except in case of candidates

for Presidential elections, be arranged under the designation

of the officer. Above the group of names of the candidates

for each office, and upon a separate line immediately beneath

the designation of the office, there shall be printed, in bold,

plain, Roman capitals, twelve point (pica) type, an appropriate

direction or instruction to the voter, informing him of the

number of persons for whom he may lawfully vote for the par-

ticular office mentioned immediately above each such direction,

thus : "Vote for one," or "Vote for two," or "Vote for six," as

the case may be. To the name of each candidate for State office

or candidate for Congress shall be added the name of the

county or city in which the candidate resides. Ballots shall be

so printed as to give to each voter a clear opportunity to desig-

nate by a cross (X) in a square at the right of the name of

each candidate, and at the right of each question his choice of

candidate and his answer to such question. Such square shall

be at least one-half of an inch in size. If a candidate is named

Size of voting

for the same office on two or more certificates of nomination,

squares on

his name shall be printed on the ballot but once. The names of

ballot.

candidates for the offices of election of President and Vice-

President of the United States shall be arranged in groups,

as presented in the several certificates of nomination papers,

and the several groups shall be arranged in such order of the

surnames of the candidates for President as the several Boards

of Supervisors shall prescribe in the City of Baltimore and in

the several counties, respectively. If candidates for Presiden-

tial Electors are nominated at large and for the several Con-

gressional districts, the name and place of the residence of the