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in those years, for the purpose of registering new voters and for the cor-
rection of said books of registration prior to the biennial municipal elections
in said city in the month of July, and of those sittings of the said boards of
registry, ten days' previous public notice shall be given by the board of
supervisors of Anne Arundel county, directed by section 15.1

This section referred to in construing sec. 135. Anne Arundel County v. Melvin,
107 Md. 534.
Cited, but not construed in Summerson v. Schilling, 94 Md. 591.

An. Code, sec. 40. 1904, sec. 39. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 35.

48. The board of supervisors of elections, the board of registry and each
member of said board of registry shall, without fee or reward, whenever the
said registers, or any one of them, in its or his custody, permit the same to
be freely inspected by any one wishing so to do; such inspections shall be
made, in the presence of a member or members of the said board of super-
visors or one of their clerks, or of the said board of registry, or of those
members of the board of registry in whose custody the said registers may be,
and not otherwise. Said board of supervisors and said board of registry
shall, upon application, furnish a copy of any entry in said register, and
said copy, under their hands, shall be evidence in any court or before any
officer, of the matters therein contained.

Nominations.

An. Code, sec. 41. 1904, sec. 40. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 36. 1910, ch. 177 (p. 112).

49. Any convention or primary meeting as hereinafter defined, held for
the purpose of making nominations to public office, and also voters to the
number hereinafter specified, may nominate candidates for public office to
be filled by election within the State. A convention or primary meeting
within the meaning of this section is an organized assemblage of delegates
or voters, representing a particular party or principle, whose highest can-
didate at any election held within two years next preceding the holding of
such convention polled more than one per cent, and less than ten per cent,
of the entire vote cast in the State, county or other division or district for
which the nomination is made. Nominations may be made by means of
primary elections, without the intervention of any convention by any party
which at the last preceding election polled the requisite proportion of votes,
as hereinbefore specified.

Cited but not construed in Wells v. Muhroe, 86 Md. 447.
See notes to secs. 50 and 51.

An. Code, sec. 42. 1904, sec. 41. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 37. 1901, ch. 2. 1912, ch. 124.

50. All nominations made by such conventions or primary meetings
shall be certified as follows: The certificate of nomination shall be in
writing, shall contain the name of each person nominated, his residence,
his business, his address and the office for which he is nominated, and shall
designate, in not more than one word, the party or principle which such

1 As to the registration of voters in Annapolis, see acts 1908, ch. 525, and 1910, ch. 270
(p. 5.41). See also Anderson v. Myers, 182 Fed. 223.