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ART. XXXIII ] NOMINATIONS. 257
county, except in Howard County, where the Supervisors of Elections
may publish in one newspaper, and in all the daily papers published in
said City which will publish the same at the current rate for advertis-
ing, the nominations to office which have been filed with or certified to
them under the provisions of this Article, if in any county there be but
one newspaper published, publication in such one newspaper shall be
sufficient; they shall make not less than two such publications in each
of such newspapers before the day of election, and one of such publica-
tions in each newspaper shall be upon the last day upon which said news-
paper is issued before the day of election. Such publication shall be
made in newspapers devoted to the dissemination of general news; and
the two newspapers selected shall, if possible, represent the political
parties which at the last precedirg election cast the largest and next
largest number of votes. The list of nominations published by the
Supervisors of Election shall be arranged, so far as practicable, in the
order and form in which they are to be printed upon the ballots.*
52.
It was not the purpose of this section and sections 54, 55 and 57 to
admit indiscriminately to a place on the official ballots every issue which
any county or city might propose to have submitted to a vote of the peo-
ple. The questions of local concern to which these sections refer are those
which the legislature has authorized to be voted on. Levering v. Super-
visors, etc., 129 Md. 337.
Ballots and Ballot Boxes.
54.
See notes to section 52.
1904, art. 33, sec. 54. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 50. 1901, ch. 2. 1902, ch. 133 1904,
ch. 339. 1908, ch. 737. 1912, ch. 124. 1914, ch. 307, sec. 54.
1918, ch. 51. sec...15.
55. The form and arrangement of the ballots shall be as follows:
All ballots shall contain the name of every candidate whose nomination
for any office specified in the ballot has been certified to and filed accord-
ing to the provisions of this Article, and not withdrawn in accordance
therewith. The names of candidates for every office shall, except in the
case of candidates for Presidential Electors, be arranged alphabetically
according to their surname, under the designations of the office. Above
the group of names of the candidates for each office and upon a separate
line immediately underneath the designation of the office, there shall be
printed in bold, plain roman capitals, twelve-point (pica) type, an
appropriate direction or instruction to the voter, informing him of the
number of persons for whom he may lawfully vote for the particular
office mentioned immediately above each such direction, thus: "Vote
for One," "Vote for Two," or "Vote for, Six," as the case may be. To
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*Section 3 of the act of 191S, chapter 51, provides that this section and sections
55 and 58 as re-enacted by said act of 1918 shall apply to all the counties of
Maryland and to Baltimore City. Section 4 of said act of 1918 repeals all acts
or parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of said act.
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