PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 399Y

petitioner desires to have stricken from the books, if it be such a case, and
said Court shall as soon as possible set said case for hearing and notify
the defendants and require the presence at such hearing of the Registration
Officials aforesaid, and if the determination of said Court upon such
question is different from the determination thereof made by the Registra-
tion Officials, it shall' direct such Officials to correct their records in
accordance with its order, which said Registration Officials shall forthwith
do.

1916, ch. 200, sec. 12.

765. The Supervisors of Election shall sit on the 10th day next pre-
ceding and exclusive of the date of any election for Mayor or Councilman
at the same place at which the election is to be held between the hours of
6 P. M. and 8 P. M. to receive nominations. Any person desiring to have
his name placed upon the official ballot at the ensuing election shall at such
time present to said Supervisors of Election a petition setting forth his
name, residence, age, the length of time he has lived in the town, the
office which he seeks, and in case of Mayor and Councilmen a reference
to the title of the real estate in the assessed value of $500.00 claimed to
be owned, and in case of Councilman the ward in which he lives, and such
petition shall be signed by at least twenty qualified voters and in case of a
candidate for Councilman at least a majority of these voters shall reside
within the limits of the ward for which he is a candidate. No signature
shall be counted if it shall be upon more than one nomination paper
of a candidate for Mayor or Town Clerk and Treasurer, or more than
one nomination paper of candidates for Councilmen from the same ward.

A certificate in the following form shall be sufficient:

Certificate of Nomination.

To the Supervisors of Election of Mount Rainier, Maryland:

I hereby request that you print my name on the official ballot to be used
in the Town Election to be held.......... as a candidate for..........

and I do hereby certify that my name is..........; I am......... years

old; I am a resident of the............Ward; and have lived in the Town

for.......... years; and I am the owner of Real Estate in said Town

in my own name to the amount of $500.00 as per deed recorded in Liber
.......... No............ folio........... one of the Land Records

of Prince George's County, Maryland.

We, the undersigned, qualified electors request the candidacy of
Name. Street. Ward.