950 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33
furnish the needed ballot boxes and lists of registered voters in Balti-
more city and lists of registered voters in the counties, as hereinafter
provided; and also appoint two judges and one clerk of known probity
and intelligence for each election precinct or district to receive and
count the ballots and declare the results, as hereinafter provided in
the legislative districts of the city of Baltimore and in the several
counties, respectively. There shall be one polling place for said senato-
rial primary election of each of said political parties in each election
precinct or district of each of the counties of the State, which shall
be properly fitted up, furnished, warmed and lighted by said state
central committees, and said polling places shall in all cases be upon
the ground floor of a building, and shall be as near the center of the
voting population of the precinct and as convenient to the greatest
number of voters as may be practicable (not, however, to be within
one hundred feet of the polling place appointed under section 12 of
this article, for the purposes of holding the general election under said
article therein), and in no case shall said polling place be held in any
building, or part of a building used or occupied as a saloon, dram-shop,
pool room, billiard hall or bowling alley, and if no suitable place is
found, the state central committee for the legislative district or county
in question shall provide one. There shall be a separate and distinct
polling place, as aforesaid, for the senatorial primary conducted by each
of the political parties aforesaid 'and such polling place of one political
party shall not be within one hundred yards of the polling place of
any other political party.
1908, ch. 400, sec. 3.
204. Each candidate for the nomination of any political party afore-
said for senator in the congress of the United States must file with the
chairman of the state central committee for the whole State of Mary-
land of the party to which said candidate belongs, a certificate in writing
containing the name of such candidate seeking said nomination, his
residence, his business, his address and the political party to which
he belongs, and acknowledged by said candidate before an officer duly
authorized to take acknowledgments, who shall append a certificate of
such acknowledgment; and such certificate of said candidate must be
so filed not less than thirty-five days before the date of said senatorial
primary election. Not less than thirty days before said senatorial
primary election it shall be the duty of the chairman of the state central
committee for the whole State of Maryland of each of said political
parties to publish in three daily newspapers in Baltimore city and in
one or more newspapers in each county of the State, the fact that
such senatorial primary election shall take place and also the names of
the candidates of the political party for which such chairman of the
state central committee may be acting for the nomination of that party
for United States senator, and also setting forth accurately the location
of each polling place of said party for said senatorial primary, the
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