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election as stated in the foregoing section, the certificate may be signed
by the judge or judges of such election, and the signature of such judge
or judges shall be acknowledged by him or them as hereinbefore stated,
all such certificates shall be known as certificates of nomination.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161W.

287. A candidate for public office may be nominated otherwise than
by a convention or primary election in the manner following: A nomina-
tion paper containing the name of the candidate nominated, his residence,
and the office for which he is nominated, shall be signed by registered
voters residing within the city of Hagerstown or any ward thereof, as the
case may be, for which candidates are to be presented as follows: The
number of signatures so required shall not be less than two 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 Hagerstown, and not less than fifty
for nominations for all other elections; and provide also that the said sig-
natures need not all be appended to one paper; such paper when executed
as above prescribed may be filed as provided for in Section 288 of this
sub-title, with the same effect as a certificate of nomination made by a
party convention, but if the signatures are appended to more than one
paper, all such papers must be fastened together and filed as one whole
certificate; all such papers shall be known as "Nomination Papers"; all
such nomination papers shall be accompanied by an affidavit or affidavits
before a Justice of the Peace by some one or more persons known per-
sonally to the justice, certified by him and signed by the affiant that the
signers thereto are registered voters of the wards in which they respec-
tively reside.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161X.

288. All such certificates and nomination papers for the nomination
of candidates to be voted for by the voters of the city of Hagerstown, or
any ward thereof, and all papers of withdrawal of a candidate or candi-
dates shall be filed with the board of supervisors of election of said city of
Hagerstown; at the end of six months after the election for which the
nominations were made, the said board of supervisors shall destroy the
said certificates, nomination and withdrawal papers, and said board shall
destroy the copies thereof, unless there be some contest with respect to the
election for which the nomination was made, and then the same shall be
preserved until such contest is ended.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161Y.

289. All such certificates and nomination papers required by the pro-
vision of this article to be filed with said board of supervisors of elections
shall be filed not more than ten nor less than six days before the day of the
election for which such nominations are made; in the calculation of said
period the day of the filing of the certificates and the day of election shall
both be excluded; all certificates of nomination and nomination papers