253 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 124]

CHAPTER 124.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments sections 41, 48,
54 and 55 of Article 33 of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland of 1904, entitled "Elections," and also section
57 of said Article 33 of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland of 1904, entitled "Elections," as said section
57 was enacted by Chapter 133 of the Acts of 1902 and by
Chapter 614 of the Acts of 1908.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections 41, 48, 54 and 55 of Article'33 of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904, entitled
"Elections," and section 57 of said Article 33 of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904, entitled "Elec-
tions," as said section 57 was enacted by Chapter 133 of the
Acts of 1902 and by Chapter 614 of the" Acts of 1908, be and
the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments,
so as to read as follows:

41. All nominations made by such conventions or primary
meetings shall be certified as follows: The certificate of nom-
ination shall be in writing, shall contain the name of each per-
son nominated, his residence, his business, his address and the
office for which he is nominated, and shall designate, in not
more than one word, the party or principle which such conven-
tion or primary meeting represents. It shall be signed by the
presiding officer and secretary 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 by means of a primary election, the certificate
shall be signed and acknowledged by the persons whose duty
it may be, by party usage, to declare the result of such elec-
tion in the manner prescribed for a nomination by a conven-
tion, but no party emblem or device of any kind shall be added
to said certificate; and if any such emblem or device should
be added, it shall not be printed upon the ballot by the Secre-
tary of State or any of the boards of supervisors of elections.

48. At least eight days before an election to fill any public
office the Supervisors of Elections of each county and in the
City of Baltimore shall cause to be published in two or more
newspapers within such county, except in Howard county, where
the supervisors of elections may publish in one newspaper, and
in all the daily papers published in said city which will publish