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of the name of the candidate so nominated in accordance with Section 50,
except Presidential Electors, only the word " Independent" and none
other. If the same party name shall be claimed on behalf of nominations
made by more than one convention or primary election and duly certified
as aforesaid, the officers by whom the ballot is to be prepared, or a ma-
jority of them, shall determine which nominees are justly entitled to the
party name, and to the right of the other nominees there shall be printed
upon the ballot only the word " Independent " and none other. The names
of the candidates for the office of Electors of President and Vice-President
of the United States shall be arranged in groups, as presented in the sev-
eral certificates of nomination papers, and the several groups shall be
arranged in such order of the surnames of the candidates for President as
the several Boards of Supervisors shall prescribe in the City of Baltimore,
and in the several counties, respectively. If candidates for Presidential
Electors are nominated at large and for the several Congressional districts,
the name and place of residence of the candidates at large shall be put at
the head of each group, and the names of the other candidates, with their
places of residence, including the numbers of the Congressional district
in which they reside, shall follow in numerical order. The surnames of
the candidates of each political party for the office of President and Vice-
President, with the party name at the right of the surname, shall be placed
above the group of candidates for electors of such party. There shall be
left at the right of the surname of the .candidate for President and Vice-
President, so formed as to include both names, and to the right of the.
name of each elector, a sufficient clear square in which each voter may
designate by a cross (X) his choice for electors. All candidates for office
shall as far as possible be placed in one column, but when the names to be
printed upon the ticket are over thirty-six, then another column shall be
added in which names shall be printed, and when two or more columns
are used the same number of names shall, so far as possible, be printed in
each column. And the initial letters of the given or Christian name of the
several candidates in each column shall be printed directly beneath each
other in a vertical line, and the initial letter of the respective party desig-
nations of said several candidates shall be printed directly beneath each
other in a vertical line. A constitutional amendment, or any question to be
submitted to the popular vote, shall be printed at the bottom of the ballot.

This section referred to in discussing question of whether a bill proposing an
amendment to Constitution, contained distinct legislation requiring signature of
Governor. Warfield v. Vandiver, 101 Md. 124. (See also dissenting opinion, p. 130).

Cited but not construed in Duvall v. Miller, 94 Md. 709; Sterling v. Jones, 87 Md.
144; Wells v. Munroe, 86 Md. 447.

See notes to secs. 60, 62 and 80.

An. Code, sec. 57. 1904, sec. 56. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 51. 1901, ch. 2. 1924, ch. 581, sec. 57.

64. If at any election there be a constitutional question, or any other
question to be submitted to the popular vote, the said question shall be
placed upon said ballot in the form following: " For Constitutional
Amendment," " Against Constitutional Amendment," " For Proposi-
tion," " Against Proposition," and said respective questions shall be placed