1258 ARTICLE 33.

An. Code, sec. 46. 1904, sec. 45. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 41.

54. The secretary of state and the several boards of supervisors of elec-
tions shall cause to be preserved in their respective offices for two years all
certificates of nomination filed with them under the provisions of this
article. All such certificates shall be opened to public inspection.

An. Code, sec. 47. 1904, sec. 46. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 42. 1900, ch. 366. 1902, ch. 133.

55. Except in cases provided for by section 59 and cases of special
election to fill vacancies in office caused by death, resignation or otherwise,
such certificates of nomination shall be filed respectively with the secretary
of state not less than twenty-five days, and with the board of supervisors of
elections not less than fifteen days before the day of election.

This section does not require certificate of nomination to be filed with secretary
of state personally, but it should be filed in his official office at Annapolis; it does
not follow that if such certificate were delivered to the secretary of state in person
elsewhere (than in Annapolis), and he accepted it, this section would not be complied
with. If certificate is delivered to office of the secretary of state at Annapolis, his
absence would not prevent certificate being filed within meaning of this section.
Where chairman of a political party calls personal office of secretary of state on
telephone, and is told that he is out of the state and will so remain until a certain
date, and no attempt is made to deliver the certificate until that date, certificate is
not filed until such date. How time within which certificates are to be filed under this
section is computed. This section is mandatory and not directory merely, as to time
of filing certificates of nomination. This section applies to persons nominated under
sec. 203, When certificates of nomination are filed too late under this section, they
are " inoperative" within meaning of sec. 59, and nominations to fill vacancies
may be made as provided in latter section. Vacancies which exist by reason of
there being no candidates for offices at primary elections are not within meaning of
sec. 59. History of this section. Graham v. Wellington, 121 Md. 659.

This section does not require nomination certificates for municipal offices to be
filed with election supervisors nor with any other official; where such practice exists,
such certificate need not be filed within fifteen days before a city election. Injunc-
tion refused. Annapolis v. Gadd, 97 Md. 735.

Cited but not construed in Duvall v. Swann, 94 Md. 616.

An. Code, sec. 48. 1904, sec. 47. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 43.

56. Not less than eighteen days before an election to fill any public
office, the secretary of state shall certify to the supervisors of elections of
each county within which any of the voters may, by law, vote for candidates
for such office, the name and description of each person nominated for such
office, as specified in the certificates of nomination filed with the secretary
of state, and shall certify the same to the supervisors of elections of Balti-
more city, if any of the voters of said city may by law vote for candidates
for such office.

This section referred to in construing secs. 55 and 59—see notes to the former.
Graham v. Wellington, 121 Md. 661.
Cited but not construed in Wells v. Munroe, 86 Md. 447.

An. Code, sec. 49. 1904, sec. 48. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 44. 1908, ch. 614. 1910, ch. 456 (p. 103).
1912, ch. 1. 1912, ch. 124. 1914, ch. 307, sec. 48. 1918, ch. 51, sec. 49. 1924, ch. 424.

57. Within not less than two nor more than ten days before an elec-
tion to fill any public office, the Supervisors of Elections of each county
and in the City of Baltimore shall cause to be published by one insertion
in two or more newspapers within such county, except in Howard County