ART. 33] PRIMARY ELECTIONS. 567

gates from the several counties and legislative districts of Baltimore
City to the State convention of each political party subject to this sub-
title to select delegates to the national convention, respectively, of such
political parties, in Baltimore City, shall be paid by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, and all the expenses of holding said prim-
ary elections in each county shall be paid by the County Commis-
sioners of each county, precisely as the expenses of the State, city and
county elections are now paid under existing laws.

And it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Elections
in each county and of Baltimore City to cause to be printed upon the
official primary ballots of each of said political parties in each and
every county of the State, and in each legislative district of Baltimore
City at the annual primary elections in each year in which a President
of the United States is to be elected the names of the candidates for
President certified to them by the Secretary of the State as above pro-
vided for, in manner and form and in all respects similar to the way
in which the names of candidates for the nomination for Governor are
required to be printed upon the official primary ballots by the pro-
visions of Section 188 of this Article.

The qualifications of voters in such Presidential and Vice-Presi-
dential primaries held hereunder of the several political parties subject
to this sub-title shall be the same as in the primary elections held
under this sub-title for the nomination of candidates for public office
in Maryland.

The names of such candidates for the nomination for President of
the United States of said several political parties upon the official pri-
mary ballots shall be arranged and said ballots shall be prepared and
shall be marked and cast by voters in the same manner as is prescribed
by the provisions of this sub-title with respect to the nomination in the
primary election of candidates for the office of Governor of Maryland,
except that there shall be no preferential voting and no designation
upon such ballots as to first and second choice or similar relative prefer-
ence and except as herein otherwise further provided.

The candidate for the nomination for President who shall receive
the highest number of votes lawfully cast and counted in the primary
elections of his party in any county and in any legislative district in
the State convention of such party held to select delegates to the
national convention of such party, and the votes cast in each such pri-
mary election in each county and legislative district of Baltimore City
shall be canvassed and certified by the respective Boards of Super-
visors of Elections in Baltimore City and in the several counties of
the State in such manner as plainly to indicate which candidate for
President in said several and respective counties and legislative dis-
tricts received the highest number of votes therein; and the tally sheets
and the returns and the certificates thereof shall be made out accord-
ingly so aa to indicate plainly such results of said election in each of
said counties and legislative districts and not in the manner required