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state's attorney may be acting as such, or any resident of such county who
may have violated any provisions of this sub-title in such county or in any
other part of the State. And in any criminal prosecution under this sub-
title or for violation of any of the provisions thereof, no witness, except
the person who is accused and on trial, shall be excused from answering
any question or producing any book, paper or other thing on the ground
or claim that his answer, or the thing produced or to be produced, by him
may tend to incriminate or degrade him, or render him liable to a penalty,
but his answer, or the thing produced by him, shall not be used in any pro-
ceeding against him, except in a prosecution for perjury in so testifying.

Primary Elections.

An. Code, sec. 178. 1908, ch. 737, sec. 160A. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160A (p. 113). 1912, ch. 2.
1912, ch. 134. 1914, ch. 163, sec. 160A. 1914, ch. 475, sec. 160A.

190. Political parties which at the general election held on November
2nd, 1909, in the State of Maryland, or which at any future general elec-
tion next preceding any primary election to be held hereunder, as shall
have polled ten per cent, of the entire vote cast in the State at such or any
such general election, shall hereafter nominate all their candidates for
public office in and for Baltimore City, and the several counties of the
State and for Judges and for the House of Representatives of the Federal
Congress, and shall elect all delegates to county, legislative district, Con-
gressional, City and State conventions, and all members of managing bodies
in said political parties, in and for Baltimore City and the several coun-
ties of the State, and all precinct, ward, city and county executive or
executive committees, whenever the political party usage provides for such
executive committees, or any of the same, by means of primary elections
conducted under and in accordance with the provisions of this sub-title
and not otherwise, except as herein specifically provided, and the several
boards of supervisors of elections shall not print on the official ballot to
be voted at any general or special election to be hereafter held the name
or names of any such candidate or candidates for election in Baltimore
City or any of the counties of the State of any of said parties who shall
not be so nominated and whose nomination shall not be certified to them
or to the Secretary of State as having been so nominated. Provided, that
the provisions of this sub-title requiring the nomination of candidates
by direct vote 'shall not apply to the nomination of such candidates for
county officers, State Senate and members of the House of Delegates in
the County of Howard, except as hereinafter provided; but such candi-
dates shall be selected by county convention, delegates to which shall be
selected in all respects as provided for in this sub-title, and the nomina-
tion of such candidates by such convention shall be duly certified by the
chairman and secretary of such convention to the Board of Election Super-
visors of said county; and it shall be. the duty of said supervisors to place
the name of such candidates upon the official ballots in the manner pre-
scribed by the General Election Laws of this State.

All such candidates for such office, and all such delegates, managing
bodies, executives and executive committees shall be nominated, selected