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the name of every candidate whose nomination has been certified to and
filed according to the provisions of this Act.

(b) That no person shall be a candidate for any public office in the
government of the City of Salisbury unless such person shall be nomi-
nated either by a primary election held as hereinafter provided or by
petition in conformity with the requirements herein.

(d) A candidate for a public office in the government of the City of
Salisbury shall be deemed to have been nominated by petition when he,
or someone in his behalf, shall file, at least ten days prior to the time for
holding the election at which he desires to be voted on, with the Clerk of
Salisbury a certificate signed by at least two hundred qualified voters con-
taining the name of the candidate, a statement of his political affiliation,
a statement of the office which he seeks, and a statement that the persons
signing the same intend to vote for the person named therein for the office
named therein. A candidate for a public office in the government of the
City of Salisbury shall be deemed to have been nominated by primary elec-
tion when he, or someone in his behalf, shall file, at least ten days prior to
the time for holding the election at which he desires to be voted on, with
the Clerk of Salisbury a certificate signed by the judges or a majority of
the judges of the primary election, containing the name of the candidate,
a statement of his political affiliation and a statement of the office which
he seeks, and that he has been duly elected a candidate for said office.

(e) Each political party which shall have polled ten per centum of the
entire vote cast in the State at the next preceding General Election may
hold annually in the City of Salisbury on the second Tuesday in April, at
a place to be selected by the City Committee of such party, a primary
election at which any qualified and registered voter of the City of Salis-
bury and of the party holding such primary election shall be entitled to
vote. The said City Committee shall give at least three weeks' notice by
publication in some newspaper printed in the City of Salisbury, of the
time and place of holding such primary election, and shall appoint, at
least one week prior to the time for holding such election, three persons
to act as judges of such election, which judges shall be subject to the same
provisions of law as are judges of City Elections. Ballots of the same
form and arrangement as those used in City Elections shall bo furnished
by the Mayor and Council of Salisbury for each primary election and
shall contain the name of each person who shall file with the Clerk of
the Mayor and Council of Salisbury at least ten days prior to the time
for holding the primary election by which he seeks nomination, notice in
writing of his desire to be voted on at such election, of the office for which
he wishes to become a candidate and the party with which he is affiliated.

(f) The Mayor and Council shall have power to provide by ordinance
for the conducting, regulating or controlling of Primary or City Elections
in any respect not covered by the specific provisions of this Act.

1908, ch. 310, sec. 139 (p. 1103).

268. Any person entitled as Mayor or Councilmen, before he enters
upon the duties of his office shall make oath before the clerk of the Cir-