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and chosen by the direct vote of the duly registered voters belonging to or
acting with such parties, respectively, in every precinct, ward, council-
manic, legislative, Congressional, judicial or other election district in
Baltimore City, and also in the several counties of the State of Maryland,
respectively, and in each and every election precinct and election district
of each of said counties of the State of Maryland, respectively, it being
the intent and purpose of this sub-title that all such candidates for public
office, all delegates to party conventions and all managing bodies, execu-
tives or executive committees of any such political party, whenever the
political party usage provides for such executives or executive commit-
tees, shall be nominated by the direct vote of the duly registered voters,
belonging to and acting with such parties, respectively, in Baltimore City,
or any precinct, ward, councilmanic, Congressional, judicial or legislative
district thereof, or in any county, district or precinct thereof or in any
Congressional or judicial district, as the case, with respect to any public
office or place or position aforesaid, may be; and that no candidate for such
public office, delegates to such conventions, party executive or executive
committee, or managing body of any such political party, as aforesaid in
and for Baltimore City or the several counties of the State, shall be chosen
or elected by any such political convention or otherwise than by the duly
registered voters belonging to or acting with said political parties as afore-
said, except as hereinafter otherwise provided.

It shall be lawful for all such parties aforesaid to elect and hold such
party conventions which shall have full power and authority, in all re-
spects, whatsoever, to act in respect to all matters appertaining to the or-
ganization, maintenance, conduct, affairs and interests of the party, in
Baltimore City or in any county of the State, saving and excepting only
the choice, selection, nomination or appointment of party candidates for
such public office, delegates to such conventions, or party executives or
managing bodies or executive committees, of any sort whatever, in and
for Baltimore City, and the several counties and Congressional and judi-
cial districts of the State.

Provided, that the candidates of such political parties for Governor,
Attorney General, Comptroller, Clerk of the Court of Appeals of the State
and United States Senator shall be nominated in the manner prescribed
in this article by State conventions, and such State conventions elected by
the direct vote in the same manner as the State conventions for the nomi-
nation of candidates for State offices, shall also elect as hereinafter set
forth, delegates to national conventions and Presidential electors and the
governing bodies of such political parties for the State, but shall have no
power to select or appoint committee or governing bodies of any character
for Baltimore City nor for any division thereof, nor for the counties of
the State.

Any person who may be a candidate for the nomination of any party
subject to the provisions of this sub-title for the office of President of the
United States and who may desire to obtain the vote of the delegates from
Maryland of any such party in its national convention may become a
candidate for such nomination in primary elections to be held in accor-