ART. 33] PRIMARY ELECTIONS. 577

Supervisors of Elections of the City of Baltimore, when requested by
any candidate in said primary election, said request to be accompanied
by a sum of money necessary to cover the cost of printing. Each candi-
date for nomination for public office at a primary election shall pay
the sum of twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars for each county or legislative
district of Baltimore City in which his name appears upon the ballot,
provided that in any county where the salary of the office for which
nomination is sought is three hundred dollars ($300) or less, such
payment shall be ten dollars ($10); upon filing his respective certifi-
cate with the Board of Supervisors of Elections; but candidates for
(Governor, Attorney-General, Comptroller or Clerk of the Court of
Appeals of the State shall file their said certificates of nomination with
the Secretary of State at Annapolis, and the Secretary of State, imme-
diately on receipt of the same, shall certify the fact of said filing and
the name and description of each person so filing said certificate as
specified therein to the Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City, and
of every County in the State. Said candidates for Governor, Comp-
troller, Attorney-General and Clerk of the Court of Appeals, upon
filing their respective certificates with the Secretary of State as afore-
said, shall each pay to him the sum of two hundred and seventy dollars,
which in turn shall be transmitted by him in sums of ten dollars
($10.00), each to the Supervisors of Elections of each County of the
State and the sum of forty dollars thereof to the Supervisors of Elec-
tions of Baltimore City; and the Board of Supervisors of Elections
of Baltimore City shall pay over the amount so received to the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, and the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions for each County shall pay over the amount so received to the
County Commissioners of each county, respectively; and all the ex-
penses of each of said primary elections in Baltimore City shall be
paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and all the expenses!
of holding said primary elections in each county, respectively, shall be.
paid by the County Commissioners of each county, respectively, pre-
cisely as the expenses of the State, city and county elections are now
paid under existing laws; provided, that the ballots to be used at all
primary elections to be held in the several counties of the State shall
be prepared and printed by the Boards of Supervisors of Elections in
the respective counties in a similar manner to that provided by this
article for general elections in Baltimore City, and as provided in
Section 55 of this article for general elections, except that there shall
be no detachable stub or coupon to said ballot, and in number not less
than twice the number of registered voters of the respective political
parties participating in such primary, as nearly as the same may be
estimated, and shall be delivered by such Boards of Supervisors of
Elections to the election officials as herein provided for Baltimore City
primary elections. The said Boards of Supervisors of Elections for
the several counties shall at the same time print and distribute, five
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