4 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 1]

48. At least eight days before an election to fill any public
office the Supervisors of Election 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 Election may publish in one news-
paper and in all the daily papers published in said city which
will publish the same at the current rate for advertising the
nominations to office which have been filed with or certified to
them under the provisions of this article, if in any county, there
be but one newspaper published, publication in such one news-
paper shall be sufficient; they shall make not less than two such
publications in each of such newspapers before the day of
election, and one of such publications in each newspaper shall
be upon the last day upon which said newspaper is issued
before the day of election. Such publication shall be made
in newspapers devoted to the dissemination of general news;
and the two newspapers selected shall if possible represent the
political parties which at the last preceding election cast the
largest and next largest number of votes. The lists of nomina-
tions published by the Supervisors of Elections .shall be
arranged so far as practicable in the order and form in which
they are to be printed upon the ballots.

The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to Balti-
more city, Baltimore, Wicomico, Carroll, Washington, Alle-
gany, Cecil, Montgomery, Howard, Caroline, Harford, Fred-
erick and Garrett counties, and the following provisions of
the section shall apply only to the following counties: Anne
Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Dorchester, Kent, Prince George's,
St. Mary's, Somerset, Talbot, Worcester and Queen Anne's.

At least eight days before an election to fill any public
office, the Supervisors of Elections of each county and of the
city of Baltimore, shall cause to be published in two or more
newspapers within such county and in all the daily papers
published in said city, which will publish the same at the
current rate for advertising the nominations to office which
have been filed with or certified to them under the provisions
of this article, if in any county there be but one newspaper
published, publication in such one newspaper shall be suffi-
cient, they shall make not less than two such publications in
each of such news'papers before the day of election and one
of such publications in each newspaper shall be upon the last
day upon which said newspaper is issued before the day of
election. Such publication shall be made in newspapers
devoted to the dissemination of general news and the two
newspapers selected shall, if possible, represent the political