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the current rate for advertising, the nomination to office which have been
filed with or certified to them under the provisions of this Article. If in
any county there be but one newspaper published, publication in such one
newspaper shall be sufficient. Such publication shall be made in news-
papers devoted to the dissemination of general news; and the two news-
papers selected shall, if possible, represent the political parties which at
the last preceding election cast the largest and next largest number of votes.
The list of nominations published by the Supervisors of Elections shall be
arranged, so far as practicable, in the order and form in which they are
to be printed upon the ballots.

This section referred to in construing secs. 90 and 94—see notes to the former.
Graham v. Wellington, 121 Md. 663.

Cited but not construed in Wells v. Munroe, 86 Md. 447.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 58. 1912, sec. 50. 1904, sec. 49. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 45. 1927, ch. 244.

1937, ch. 95, sec. 58.

93. Whenever any person nominated for public office as in this Article
provided, shall at least thirty days before election, in a writing signed
by him or her 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 or she declines such nomination,
such nomination shall be void, and the name of any person so withdrawing
shall not be printed upon the ballots; provided, however, that if the inter-
val between the date of nomination and the date of election shall be less
than forty days, such certificate need not be filed until at least twenty
days before election. Whenever any person who has filed a certificate of
candidacy for nomination in any primary election shall at least thirty days
before the day of such primary election, in a writing signed by him or
her, and acknowledged before a Justice of the Peace or Notary Public,
notify the officer or Board with whom the certificate of candidacy is by
this Article required to be filed, that he or she desires to withdraw as a
candidate for such nomination, such certificate of candidacy shall there-
upon be and become void and the name of any person so withdrawing shall
not be printed upon the ballots to be used at such primary election.

Secs. 85-93 cited in construing Art. 1, Sec. 5 of Maryland Constitution. Jackson v.
Norris, 173 Md. 599.

See notes to sec. 91.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 59. 1912, sec. 51. 1904, sec. 50. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 46. 1914, ch. 715.

1924, ch. 581, sec. 51.

94. Should any persons so nominated die before election day or de-
cline the nomination, as in this Article provided, or should any certificate
of nomination be or become insufficient or inoperative from any cause, the
vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned may be filled in the manner required
for original nominations. If the original nomination was made by a party
convention which had delegated to a committee the power to fill vacancies,
such committee may, upon the occurring of such vacancies, proceed to fill
the same; the chairman and secretary of such committee shall thereupon
make and file with the proper officer a certificate setting forth the cause
of the vacancy, the name of the person nominated, the office for which he
was nominated, the name of the person for whom the new nominee is to be
substituted, the fact that the committee was authorized to fill vacancies
and such further information as is required to be given in an original cer-