PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 255
ballot but once, and to the right of the name of said candidate
shall be added the name of one of the parties which such can-
didate represents, as appearing in said certificate of nomina-
tion, and the Board of Supervisors of Elections shall cause to
be printed to the right of the name of such candidate which-
ever one of said party names, so appearing in said certificate?
of nomination, the said candidate shall in writing designate
to said Board of Supervisors as the party name which he
desires to be added to the right of his name on the ballot; pro-
vided, however, that such party name shall consist of one word
only. When the name of a political party is given in connec-
tion with the name of a candidate nominated as provided in
section 42 of this article, it shall be stated on the ballot to the
right of the name of the candidate, but if there shall have been
any nomination for the same office by a convention or primary
election claiming the same party name duly certified as here-
inbefore provided, there shall then be printed to the right of
the name of the candidate so nominated in accordance with said
section 42, except Presidential Electors, only the word "Inde-
pendent," and none other. -If the same party name shall be
claimed on behalf of nominations made by more than one con-
vention or primary election, and duly certified as aforesaid, the
officers by whom the ballot is to be. prepared or a majority of
them shall determine which nominees are justly entitled to the
party name, and to the right of the other nominees there shall
be printed upon the ballot only the word "Independent," and
none other. The names of candidates for the office of Electors
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 candi-
ates for Presidential Electors are nominated at large and for
the several Congressional districts, the name and place of resi-
dence of the candidates at large shall be put at the head of each
group, and the names of the other candidates, with their places
of residence, including the numbers of the Congressional dis-
trict in which they reside, shall follow in numerical order. The
surname of the candidates of each political party" for the office
of President and Vice-President with the party name at the
right of the surname, shall be placed above the group of can-
didates for electors of such party. There shall be left at the
right of the surname of the candidate for President and Vice-
President, so formed as to include both names, and to the right
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