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An. Code, 1924, sec. 44. 1912, sec. 36. 1904, sec. 35. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 31.
1916, ch. 158, sec. 36. 1935, ch. 484.

44. The Board of Supervisors of Elections in the various counties
shall, immediately upon the return of said registers, cause a suitable num-
ber of copies of the alphabetical list of names registered or erased in each
precinct to be printed and written three days after such return of the list,
and cause copies thereof to be posted and to be given to the Judges and
Clerks, and to be sold, as before provided in case of general registration.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to Baltimore City, or Mont-
gomery County.

Nominations.
51.

See notes to sec. 55.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 55. 1912, sec. 47. 1904, sec. 46. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 42.
1900, ch. 366. 1902, ch. 133. 1927, ch. 240. 1931, ch. 239.

55. Except in cases provided for by Section 59 and cases of special
election to fill vacancies in office caused by death, resignation or otherwise,
and except in cases of nominations which are made at the primary election,
such certificates of nomination shall be filed respectively with the Secre-
tary of State in cases of nominations for State-wide offices, and in cases
of nominations for offices where the certificate is required to be filed with
the Supervisors of Elections, with the Board of Supervisors of Elections
not later than fifteen days before the day on which the primary election is
held or should be held under the primary election law; and in case of any
vacancy which may exist in respect to any office or Delegates to Conven-
tion, by reason of there being no candidate to file for the same in any
such primary election such vacancy shall be filled and the certificate of
nomination filed with the Secretary of State or the Board of Supervisors
of Elections as the case may be, not later than fifteen days before the
day on which the primary is held or should be held under the primary
election law.

The requirement that certificates of nomination be filed not less than 15 days
before primary applies to certificates of nomination filed by independent candi-
dates under sec. 51. Tull v. Fitzgerald, 167 Md. 429.

56.

Secs. 56-58 referred to in construing sec. 55. Tull v. Fitzgerald, 167 Md. 434.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 58. 1912, sec 50. 1904, sec. 49. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 45.

1927, ch. 244.

58. Whenever any person nominated for public office as in this Article
provided, shall at least fifteen days before election, in a writing signed by
him and acknowledged before a Justice of the Peace or a Notary Public,
notify the officer with whom the certificate nominating him is by this
Article required to be filed, that he declines such nomination, such nomi-
nation shall be void, and the name of any person so withdrawing shall not
be printed upon the ballots. Whenever any person who has filed a certifi-