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convention or primary meeting represents. It shall be signed by the pre-
siding officer and secretary of such convention, who shall add to their sig-
natures their respective places of residence, their business and business
address, and acknowledge the same before an officer duly authorized to take
acknowledgments, who shall append a certificate of such acknowledgment
thereto. If the nomination is by means of a primary election, the certificate
shall be signed and acknowledged by the persons whose duty it may be, by
party usage, to declare the result of such election in the manner prescribed
for a nomination by a convention, but no party emblem or device of any
kind shall be added to said certificate; and if any such emblem or device
should be added, it shall not be printed upon the ballot by the Secretary of
State or any of the boards of supervisors of elections.

Under the act of 1890, ch. 538, a candidate who was nominated by a political party
and also by petition, was entitled to a place on the ticket other than with the
candidates of the party which nominated him. The same rule would apply if a
candidate were nominated by two parties. Fisher v. Dudley, 74 Md. 243. (See sec.
63.) And as to the act of 1890, see Lankford v. Somerset County, 73 Md. 105.
Cited but not construed in Wells v. Munroe, 86 Md. 447.

An. Code, sec. 43. 1904, sec. 42. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 38. 1914, ch. 751. 1922, ch. 399.

51. A candidate for public office, including candidates for the office of
United States Senator from Maryland, may be nominated otherwise than by
a convention or primary election in the manner following: A certificate
of nomination containing the names of a candidate for office to be filled with
such information as is required to be given in certificate provided for in
Section 50 of this Article, with the additional statement that the persons
signing the same intend to vote for the person nominated thereby shall be
signed by voters in numbers as follows residing in the political division in
and for which the officer is to be elected—that is to say: The number of
signatures so required shall not be less than two thousand when the nomina-
tion is for an office to be filled by an election participated in by the voters
of the entire State, and not less than fifteen hundred when the nomination
is for an office to be filled by an election to be participated in by the voters
of an entire Congressional district or of the City of Baltimore, and not less
than seven hundred and fifty when the nomination is for an office to be
filled by an election to be participated in by the voters of the entire cities
of Annapolis, Frederick, Cumberland, or Hagerstown, and not less than
five hundred for nominations for all other elections; and provided also,
that the said signatures need not all be appended to one paper, but if the
signatures be appended to more than one paper, all such papers must be
fastened together and filed as one certificate. Each signer shall append to
his signature his residence, occupation and place of business, and every
such paper shall be accompanied by an affidavit or affidavits made before a
justice of the peace by one or more persons known personally to the justice
and so .certified by him and signed by the affiant or affiants to the effect that
the signers are known to such affiant or affiants to be registered voters of the
district or precinct in which they respectively reside and that the said affiant
or affiants personally saw the signers, in regard to whom he or they make
others, sign such paper; and any wilfully false statement in such affidavit
or affidavits or affirmation shall be deemed a misdemeanor and shall subject