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the person making the same to the fines and penalties prescribed by the
law of this State for the crime of perjury. No person who has been a
candidate for nomination by a political party at the primary elections pre-
ceding a general election shall be nominated for an office to be filled at such
general election in the manner prescribed by this section.

Mandamus lies to compel supervisors to place name of a nominee by certificate
upon ballot; after certificate has been once presented in due form, signatures cannot
be withdrawn so as to make it invalid. Sterling v, Jones, 87 Md. 143.

Mandamus will not issue to compel the board of supervisors to treat a certificate
of nomination as void and to omit name of nominee from ballot. Duvall v. Swann,
94 Md. 616.

Under act of 1890, ch. 538, a candidate who was nominated by a political party
and also by petition, is entitled to a place on the ticket other than with candidates
of party which nominated him. Same rule would apply if candidate were nominated
by two parties. Fisher v. Dudley, 74 Md. 243. (See sec. 63.) And as to act of 1890,
see Lankford v. Somerset County, 73 Md. 105.

This section referred to in construing secs. 55 and 59—see notes to the former.
Graham v. Wellington, 121 Md. 662.

1922, ch. 447.

51A.1 No petition for the election of a charter board, under the pro-
visions of Article XIA of the Constitution of Maryland, title " Local
Legislation," shall be accepted or filed by the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions of Baltimore City or any of the counties, as the case may be unless all
of the signatures attached to any such petition shall have been written
thereon by the signers within six months of the date when such petition is
laid before the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City or any
of the Counties, as the case may be. In signing any petition in accordance
with the manner prescribed in Section 7 of said Article XIA of the Consti-
tution, every signer thereto shall place to the right of his or her name as
and when signed, the date of such signature in his or her own handwriting,
and no action thereon shall be taken by any Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions unless the petition is filed within six month of the date of the first
signature.

An. Code, sec. 44. 1904, sec. 43. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 39.

52. Certificates of nominations shall be filed with the secretary of state
for the nomination of members of congress or of candidates for offices to be
filled by voters of the entire State or of any division of a greater extent
than one county. For all other nominations to public offices certificates of
nomination shall be filed with the supervisors of election of the respective
counties or of Baltimore city, as the case may be, wherein the offices are to
be filled by the voters.

Cited but not construed in Wells v. Munroe, 86 Md. 447.

An. Code, sec. 45. 1904, sec. 44. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 40.

53. No certificate of nomination shall contain the name of more than
one nominee for each office to be filled. No person shall join in nominating
more than one nominee for each office to be filled and no person shall accept
a nomination to more than one office.

Cited but not construed in Thom v. Cook, 113 Md. 87.

1 This section was overlooked until the following sections had been numbered; hence
it is numbered 51A.