ART. 33] NOMINATIONS. 873

under the provisions of this article, if in any county there be put one
newspaper published, publication in such one newspaper shall be suffi-
cient; they shall make not less than two such publications in each such
newspaper 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 list of nominations 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 aforegoing provisions of this section shall apply to Baltimore
city, Baltimore, Wicomico, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, Cecil, Mont-
gomery, Howard. Caroline, Harford, Frederick and Garrett counties,
and the following provisions of this section shall apply only to the
following counties: Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Dorchester, Kent,
Prince George's, Queen Anne's, St. Mary's, Somerset, Talbot and
Worcester.

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,
publications in such one newspaper 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 preced-
ing election cast the largest and next largest number of votes.*
Cited but not construed in Wells v. Munroe, 86 Md. 447.

1904, art. 33, sec. 49. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 45.

50. Whenever any person nominated for public office, as in this
article provided, shall at least ten days before election, in a writing
signed by him and acknowledged before a justice of the peace, or if
he be out of the State at the time, before a notary public, notify the
officer with whom the certificate nominating him is, by this article,
required to be filled, that he declines such nomination, such nomination
shall be void, and the name of any person so declining shall not be
printed upon the ballots.

*Although the act of 1910, ch. 456 (p. 101), does not specifically refer to the
act of 1908, ch. 614, presumably the legislature intended to repeal the latter, and
hence it is not codified.