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ART. XXXIII] PRIMARY ELECTIONS). 263
case may be, for which it is prepared and said several Boards of Super-
visors of Elections shall print or cause to be printed on said official bal-
lots the names of all candidates for office to be voted for, and for dele-
gates to any convention, or for party executive or executives, or for
membership of any executive committee or managing body of any polit-
ical party, who shall become duly qualified by the payment of the
amount herein named, when any payment is herein required, and shall
have filed a certificate in writing with the Board of Supervisors of
Elections in Baltimore City or in any of the counties, as the case may
be, containing the name of the person seeking a nomination for office
or to be a delegate to a convention, or an executive or member of an
executive committee or managing body of a political party, his, resi-
dence, place where he is a registered voter, his address, the office or
position for which he seeks to be nominated or selected, and the party
to which he belongs, and duly acknowledged by the person filing such
certificate for such nomination or selection before an officer duly author-
ized, to take acknowledgments, who shall append a certificate of such
acknowledgment. The certificate to be filed by a candidate seeking to-
be elected as a delegate to a convention shall, moreover, specify the con-
vention to which he seeks to be elected. All such certificates must be
filed and payments made by candidates for the nomination of Governor,
Comptroller, Attorney General and Clerk of the Court of Appeals not
less than thirty days before the day of said primary election, and by all
other candidates not less than twenty days before said primary elec-
tion. The names of the several candidates for nomination or for dele-
gates, executive or member of an executive committee, or managing
body of a political party aforesaid, shall be published seven days before
the said election in the mode prescribed in Section 49 of this Article,
as far as may be practicable. It shall not be necessary to print sample
ballots or cards of instructions for such elections, but either or both
shall be printed by the Board of Supervisors of Elections of the City
of Baltimore, when requested by any candidate in said primary elec-
tion, said request to be accompanied by a sum of money necessary to
cover the cost of printing. Each candidate 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 ($300.00) dollars or less, such payment shall be Ten ($10.00)
Dollars; upon filing his respective certificate with the Board of Super-
visors 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 Stat© at
Annapolis, and the Secretary of State, immediately 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 Super-
visors of Elections of Baltimore City and of every county in the State.
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