ART. 33] MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 555

registered thereon, and the cost of such subdivision and preparation
of proper registry books shall be paid by the County Commissioners,
of the countiesjin which such subdivisions shall be made upon proper
requisitions and- vouchers presented by the Boards of Supervisors of
Elections. The boundaries of said additional precincts established
under this section shall be made known by advertisement in two news-
papers in said counties, once a week for three successive weeks, before
the first day of September in each year, in which such subdivision is
made, said newspapers to be designed* as provided in other cases under
this article where advertisements are required to be made in at least
two newspapers; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall
be construed to alter or change the boundaries or location of any pre-
cinct as now established by the several Boards of Supervisors of Elec-
tions, and all precincts as now located and laid out or subdivided by
the Supervisors of Elections be and the same are hereby sanctioned, f
ratified and confirmed, provided, however, that nothing in this section
shall be construed to prevent the several Boards of Supervisors of
Elections in the counties of this State, with the exception of Wicomico
county, from subdividing any district, precinct or precincts in con-
formity with the provisions of this section; and provided further, that
in Wicomico county, the several districts and precincts as now laid out
and located, and the polling places therein as now located in the said
several districts and precincts are sanctioned, rectified* and confirmed
and the Board of Supervisors of Elections shall have no power in said
Wicomico county to subdivide or re-locate any district or precinct, and
shall have no power to change the location of any pollng place in said
county.

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

Contested Elections.

129.

Sections 129 to 145 are not applicable to primary elections. The con-
tested elections of officers provided for by this sect on are elections at which
the offices included are to be filled, and have no application to contests con-
cerning the right to be candidates for such offices. The nominee of a polit-
ical party is not an "officer," nor is a candidate for such nominee a candi-
date for an office within the meaning of section 130. Foxwell v. Beck,
117 Md. 5.

130.

See notes to section 129.

131.

See notes to section 129.

133.

See notes to section 129.

*Evidently a typographical error in the act.