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Acts of 1914, and in all other respects said Section 190 is to remain in full
force and operation.

(i) Certificates required as provided for in Section. 198 of Article 33 of
the Annotated Code, Chapter 160, Acts of 1916, shall be filed not less than
45 days before the day of the primary election. This is to apply to all such
candidates, whether the nomination is to be made by voters of the State
or by voters of a political division thereof. In all other respects said section
is to remain in full force and operation.

(j) State conventions of political parties shall be called not later than
45 days prior to the election following primary elections as provided for in
Section 203 of the Annotated Code, Chapter 2, Acts of 1912. In all other
respects said Section 203 is to remain in full force and operation.

(k) All provisions of law so far as they are not inconsistent with this
sub-title shall remain in full force and operation.

An. Code, sec. 221. 1918, ch. 78, sec. 221.

227. Any person duly qualified to vote at any election held after the
issuance of the proclamation as hereinbefore provided for, whether general,
primary or special, and whether Presidential, Congressional, Judicial,
State, County or Legislative District or any election in Baltimore City, who
is absent in the military or naval service of the United States, or the State of
Maryland, from the ward or election district in which he is entitled to vote,
on the day such election is held, and whose absence is directly attributable
to the state of war or other circumstances causing the issuance of the proc-
lamation aforesaid, may vote as hereinafter provided.

An. Code, sec. 222. 1918, ch. 78, sec. 222.

228. At any time not more than 45 days before the holding of any elec-
tion, any such person who expects to be absent on election day may make
application in writing to the Board of Supervisors of Elections of the
County, or Baltimore City, in which he resides, for a ballot. Such appli-
cation must be received by the Supervisors of Elections not less than seven
days before the holding of any election, and shall contain the full name and
the place of residence, by street and number, if possible, from which the
applicant is registered, and the address to which the ballot is to be mailed
to him. The application shall also state the position or rank in the military
or naval service which the applicant holds. Upon receipt of such application
it shall be the duty of the respective Boards of Supervisors of Elections
to enter the fact that such application has been made, together with any
other proper information, in a book to be kept especially for that purpose.
The Supervisors of Elections shall verify from the registration and other
books and records in their custody, and from any other information obtain-
able, the statements contained in the applications and the applicants' quali-
fications to vote under this sub-title. The Supervisors shall mail ballots to
those found so qualified to vote and shall enter that fact in the special book
hereinbefore provided for.