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of such election in the manner prescribed for a nomination by a conven-
tion. A party emblem or device may be added to the certificate, provided,
it shall be referred to and identified in said acknowledgment. It may
consist of one object or of several objects in combination, and when printed
on its proper ballot, shall not occupy more than two and one-half inches
in height, and two inches in breadth; said emblem must not, in the judg-
ment of the officer or officers with whom the certificate is filed, too closely
resemble any other party emblem previously designated.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270HH. 1918 Code, sec. 384.

359. A candidate for public office may be nominated otherwise than by
convention or primary election in the manner following: A certificate of
nomination containing the names of a candidate for the office to be filled,
with such information as is required to be given in certificates provided
for in Section 358 of this Article, with the additional statement that the
persons signing the same intend to vote for the person to be nominated
thereby, shall be signed by voters in numbers as follows, residing in the
political division in and for which the officer is to be elected, that is to
say: The number of signatures so required shall not be less than three
hundred, when the nomination is for an office to be filled by an election
to be participated in by the voters of the entire city of Frederick, and
provided also, that the said signatures need "not all be appended to one
paper; but if the signatures are appended to more than one paper all
such papers must be fastened together and filed as one certificate. Each
signer shall append to his signature his residence, occupation and place
of business, and every such paper shall be accompanied by an affidavit
or affidavits made before a justice of the peace by one or more persons
known personally to the justice and so certified by him and signed by
the affiant or affiants, to the effect that the signers are known to such
affiant or affiants, to be registered voters of the district or precinct in
which they respectively reside, and that the said affiant, or affiants, per-
sonally saw the signers in regard to whom he or they make oath sign such
paper, and any wilfully false statement in such affidavit or affidavits, or
affirmation, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall subject the person
making the same to the fine and penalties prescribed by the law of this
State for the crime of perjury.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270-H. 1918 Code, sec. 385.

360. Certificates of nomination shall be filed with the Supervisors of
Election of Frederick City.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270JJ. 1918 Code, sec. 386.

361. No certificate of nomination shall contain the name of more than
one nominee for each office to be filled. No person shall join in nom-
inating more than one nominee for each office to be filled, and no person
shall accept a nomination to more than one office.