544 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

1904, art. 33, sec. 42. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 38. 1914, ch. 751.
43. A candidate for public office, including candidates for the office
of United States Senator from Maryland, may be nominated otherwise
than by a convention or primary election in the manner following: A
certificate of nomination containing the names of a candidate for the
office-to be filled with such information as is required to be given in
certificate provided for in Section 42 of this Atricle, with the addi-
tional statement that the persons signing the same intend to vote for
the person to be nominated thereby shall be signed by voters in num-
bers as follows residing in the political division in and for which the
officer is to be elected—that is to say: The number of signatures so
required shall not be less than five hundred when the nomination is
for an office to be filled by an election participated in by the voters of
the entire State, and not less than three hundred when the nomination
is for an office to be filled by an election to be participated in by the
voters of an entire congressional district or of the entire cities of Balti-
more, Annapolis, Frederick, Cumberland, or Hagerstown, and not
less than two hundred for nominations for all other elections; and pro-
vided also, that the said signatures need not all be appended to one
paper, but if the signatures are appended to more than one paper, all
such papers must be fastened together and filed as one certificate. Each
signer shall append to his signature his residence, occupation and place
of business, and every such paper shall be accompanied by an affidavit
or affidavits made before a justice of the peace by one or more persons
known personally to the justice and so certified by him and signed by
the affiant or affiants to the effect that the signers are known to such
affiant or affiants to be registered voters of the district or precinct in
which they respectively reside and that the said affiant or affiants per-
sonally saw the signers, in regard to whom he or they make others, sign
such paper; and any wilfully false statement in such affidavit or affi-
davits or affirmation shall be deemed a misdemeanor and shall subject
the person making the same to the fines and penalties prescribed by the
law of this State for the crime of perjury.

This section referred to in construing sections 47 and 51—see notes to the
former. Graham v. Wellington, 121 Md. 662.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.

47.

This section does not require the certificate of nomination to be filed
with the Secretary of State personally, but it should be filed in his official
office at Annapolis; it does not follow that if such certificate were deliv-
ered to the Secretary of State in person elsewhere (than in Annapolis),
and he accepted it, this section would not be complied with. If the certifi-
cate is delivered to the office of the Secretary of State at Annapolis, his
absence would not prevent the certificate being filed within the meaning
of this section. Where the chairman of a political party calls the personal
office of the Secretary of State on the telephone, and is told that he is out
of the state and will so remain until a certain date, and no attempt is
made to deliver the certificate, until that date, the certificate is not filed
until such date. How the time within which certificates are to be filed