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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

candidates at large shall be put at the head of each group, and

the names of the other candidates, with their places of resi-

dence, including the numbers of the Congressional district in

which they reside, shall follow in numerical order. The sur-

name of the candidates of each political party for the office of

President and Vice- President shall be placed above the group

Surnames of
candidates for

of candidates for elections of such party. There shall be left

the Presi-

at the right of the surname of the candidates for President and

dency and
Vice-Presi-

Vice-President, so formed as to include both names, and to the

dency

right of the name of each Elector, a sufficient clear square

in which each voter may designate, by a cross (X). his choice

for Electors. All candidates for office shall, as far as possible,

be placed in one column, but where the names to he printed

upon the ticket are over thirty-six, then another column shall

be added in which names shall be printed, and when two or

more columns are used the same number of names shall, as far

as possible, be printed in each column, and the initial letter

of the given or Christian name of the several candidates in each

column shall be printed directly beneath each other in a vertical

Constitutional
Amendment.

line. A Constitutional Amendment, or any question to be sub-

mitted to the popular vote, shall be printed in the same column

with the names of the candidates.

Attorney-Gen-

114A. At least thirty days before every State election the

eral to pre-

Attornev-Gcneral shall prepare full instructions for the guid-

pare instruc-
tions for

ance of the voters of such election, as to obtaining ballots, as to

guidance of
voters.

the manner of marking them, and as to obtaining new ballots

in place of those accidentally destroyed, with such other in-

structions as shall, in his opinion, be necessary and proper.

Said instructions shall be furnished by the Secretary of State

to the several Boards of Supervisors of Elections, who shall

respectively cause the same, together with copies of Sections

61, 62 and 63 of this Article, to be printed in large, clear type,

on separate cards, to be called "Cards of Instruction," and said

Board of Supervisors shall furnish twelve of the same, with

Specimen bal-

ballots for use in each election precinct. They shall also cause

lots.

to be printed, on light cardboard or heavy-sized paper, ten

or more copies of the form of the ballot provided for each vot-

ing place, at each election therein, of a considerably magnified

size, which shall be called "Specimen Ballots," and the same

shall be furnished with the other ballots prepared for each

voting place. On the morning of .said election the said Super-

visors of Elections shall cause to be conspicuously posted in

each polling place said cards of instruction and largely magni-

fied specimen ballots, and one of said cards of instruction shall