ELECTIONS. 1331

delegates to any convention, or for party executive or executives, or for
membership of any executive committee or managing body of any political
party, who shall become duly qualified by the payment of the amount herein
named, when any payment is herein required, and shall have filed a certifi-
cate in writing with the Board of Supervisors of Elections in Baltimore
City or in any of the counties as the case may be, containing the name of
the person seeking a nomination for office or to be a delegate to a conven-
tion, or an executive or member of an executive committee or managing
body of a political party, his residence, place where he is a registered voter,
his address, the office or position for which he seeks to be nominated or
selected, and the party to which he belongs, and duly acknowledged by the
person filing such certificate for such nomination or selection before an
officer duly authorized to take acknowledgments, who shall append a certifi-
cate of such acknowledgment. The certificate to be filed by a candidate
seeking to be elected as a delegate to a convention shall, moreover, specify
the convention to which he seeks to be elected. All such certificates must be
filed and payments made by candidates for the nomination of Governor,
Comptroller, Attorney General and clerk of the Court of Appeals not less
than thirty days before the day of said primary election and by all other
candidates not less than twenty days before said primary election. The
names of the several candidates for nomination or for delegates, executive
or member of an executive committee, or managing body of a political
party aforesaid, shall be published seven days before the said election in
the mode prescribed in Section 57 of this Article, as far as may be prac-
ticable. It shall not be necessary to print sample ballots or cards of instruc-
tions for such elections but either or both shall be printed by the Board of
Supervisors of Elections of the City of Baltimore, when requested by any
candidate in said primary election, said request to be accompanied by a sum
of money necessary to cover the cost of printing. Each candidate for
nomination for public office at a primary election shall pay the sum of
twenty-five ($25) dollars for each county or legislative district of Baltimore
City in which his name appears upon the ballot; provided, that in any
county where the salary of the office for which nomination is sought is three
hundred ($300) dollars or less, such payment shall be ten ($10) dollars;
upon filing his respective certificate with the Board of Supervisors of
Elections; but candidate for Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller or
Clerk of the Court of Appeals of the State shall file their said certificates
of nomination with the Secretary of State at Annapolis, and the Secretary
of State, immediately on receipt of the same shall certify the fact of said
filing and the name and description of each person so filing said certificate
as specified therein to the Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City and
of every county in the State. Said candidates for Governor, Comptroller,
Attorney General and clerk of the Court of Appeals, upon filing their
respective certificates with the Secretary of State as aforesaid shall each
pay to him the sum of two hundred and seventy ($270) dollars, which in
turn shall be transmitted by him in sums of ten ($10) dollars each to the
Supervisors of Elections of each county of the State, and the sum of forty