548 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

it shall be stated on the ballot to the right of the name of the candidate;
but if there shall have been any nomination f or the same office by a
convention or primary election claiming the same party name, duly
certified as hereinbefore provided, there shall then be printed to the
right of the name of the candidate so nominated in accordance with
said Section 43, except Presidential Electors, only the word "Inde-
pendent" and none other. If the same party name shall be claimed
on behalf of nominations made by more than one convention or pri-
mary election, and duly certified as aforesaid, the officers by whom
the ballot is to be prepared or a majority of them, shall determine
which nominees are justly entitled to the party name, and to the right
of the other nominees there shall be printed upon the ballot only the
word "Independent" and none other. The names of candidates for
the office of electors of President and Vice-President of the United
States shall be arranged in groups, as presented in the several certifi-
cates of nomination papers, and the several groups shall be arranged
in such order of the surnames of the candidates for President as the
several Boards of Supervisors shall prescribe in the city of Baltimore,
and in the several counties respectively. If candidates for Presiden-
tial Electors are nominated at large and f or the several Congressional
districts, the name and place of residence of the candidates at large
shall be put at the head of each group, and the names of the other
candidates, with their places of residence, including the numbers of
the Congressional district in which they reside, shall follow in numer-
ical order. The surname of the candidates of each political party for
the office of President and Vice-President with the party name at the
right of the surname, shall be placed above- the group of candidates
for electors of such party. There shall be left at the right of the sur-
name of the candidate for President and Vice-President, so formed as
to include both names, and to the right of the name of each elector,
a sufficient clear square in which each voter may designate by a cross
(X) his choice for electors. All candidates for office shall as far as
possible, be placed in one column, but when the names to be printed
upon the ticket are over thirty-six, then another column shall be added
in which names shall be printed, and when two or more columns are
used the same number of names shall, as far as possible, be printed in
each column. And the initial letters of the given or Christian name
of the several candidates in each column shall be printed directly
beneath each other in a vertical line. A constitutional amendment, or
any question to be submitted to the popular vote shall be printed in a
separate column to follow immediately after the names of candidates.
See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.