PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 291

matters appertaining to the organization, maintenance, conduct,
affairs and interests of the party, in Baltimore City or in any
county of the State, saving and excepting only the choice, selec-
tion, nomination or appointment of party candidates for such
public office, delegates to such conventions, or party executives
or managing bodies or executive committees, of any sort what-
ever, in and for Baltimore City, and the several counties and
congressional and judicial districts of the State.

Provided, that the candidates of such political parties for
Governor, Attorney-General, Comptroller and Clerk of the
Court of Appeals of the State shall be nominated in the man-
ner prescribed in this article by State conventions, and such
State conventions elected by the direct vote in the same man-
ner as the State conventions for the nomination of candidates
for State offices, shall also elect as hereinafter set forth, dele
gates to national conventions and presidental electors and the
governing bodies of such political parties for the State, but shall
have no power to select or appoint committee or governing
bodies of any character for Baltimore City nor for any division
thereof nor for the counties of the State.

Any person who may be a candidate for the nomination of
any party subject to the provisions of this sub-title for the
office of president of the United States and who may desire
to obtain the vote of the delegates from Maryland of any
such party in its national convention may become a candidate
for such nomination in primary elections to be held in accord-
ance with the provisions of this act in the several counties of
the State and the several legislative districts of Baltimore City
and stall be entitled to have his name printed upon the official
primary ballot of his party in primary elections held under and
in accordance with this sub-title in said several counties and
legislative districts as a candidate for such nomination for
president by making the payment required and by filing a
certificate of candidacy specifying the party to which he belongs
and the national convention whose nomination for president
he seeks and in form and in substance like the certificate of
candidacy required of candidates for the nomination for the
office of Governor of Maryland by section 160G of this article,
except that such payment shall be made and such certificate filed
by said candidate or candidates for said office of president within
fifteen days before the day of the primary election for delegates
to the State convention which shall select and instruct, as here-
inafter provided, the delegates of each party to the national con-
vention; and the Secretary of State immediately on receipt of
such certificate and payment shall certify the fact of the filing