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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be selected in the manner that primary elections and conven-

tions have heretofore been held in said county, and the basis

of representation in all such conventions in said county shall be.

from each district, one delegate for every hundred votes, and

part thereof over fifty, cast for the head of the ticket, for that

part\ at the last preceding general election, and each delegate

shall be entitled to one vote in said county convention ; and it

shall be the duty of said Board of Election Supervisors of said

count) to. not later than the first clay of July, by advertisement

in at least two newspapers published in said county, announce

the representation of each district of each party in convention

for the election of delegates to said convention for the nomina-

tion of State officers, and for the nomination of delegates to a

national convention ; and all conventions and primaries for all

nominations, except as provided for in the preceding sections.

shall be conducted according to the provisions of this section.

Rights of can-
didates.

All candidates for member of Congress and Judge of the Cir-

cuit Court who shall receive the highest number of votes and

be announced as the candidates for the respective offices shall

be and they are hereby authorized to select such delegates

to the Congressional or judicial conventions, to cast the vote of

Allegany County in such conventions, as he may sec fit, and

such delegates so selected shall be seated in said conventions.

In the event of the date of the primary election, as provided in

this Act, being too late for the said judicial or congressional

conventions, then the chairman of the county committee shall

issue a call for a special primary election at such time as the

executive committee shall select, which said section shall be

held strictly under the provisions of this Act, and the chairman

of the county committee, as now constituted, is hereby directed,

Selecting date

in the event that the same will be found necessary to select

of a primary
election.

the date for the first primary election for the nomination for

member of Congress or Judge of the Circuit Court, if the same

shall be found necessary, in order that the said candidates may

be represented in said conventions.

113D. All officers of primary elections held in Allegany

Constituted
peace officers.

County are hereby constituted peace officers, and shall have the
power to arrest all persons disturbing the peace in the neigh-

borhood, or interfering with officers or voters at primary elec-

tions conducted by them, and to take such offenders before any

of the justices of said county ; and such offenders shall, upon

conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be

subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars and not more than

one hundred dollars, or confinement of not less than ten nor