ELECTIONS 1519

filing a certificate of candidacy specifying the party to which he belongs
and the national convention whose nomination for President he seeks
and in form and in substance like the certificate of candidacy required of
candidates for the nomination for the office of Governor of Maryland by
Section 235 of this Article, except that such payment shall be made and
such certificate filed by said candidate or candidates for said office of
President within fifteen days before the day of the primary election for
delegates to the State convention which shall select and instruct, as here-
inafter provided, the delegates of each party to the national convention;
and the Secretary of State immediately on receipt of such certificate and
payment shall certify the fact of the filing of each certificate and the
name and description of each person so filing such certificate as specified
therein to the Supervisors of Election of Baltimore City and of every
county in the State and shall also apportion and transmit the said pay-
ment to each of said Boards of Supervisors of Election as prescribed in
Section 235 with respect to the sums paid by candidates for the nomina-
tion for the office of Governor of Maryland and said Boards of Super-
visors for each county shall pay over the amounts so received to the County
Commissioners of each county respectively, and the Board of Supervisors
of Baltimore City shall pay over the amount so received to the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, and all the expenses of said primary election
for candidates for President of the United States and for delegates from
the several counties and legislative districts of Baltimore City to the
State convention of each political party subject to this sub-title to select
delegates to the national convention, respectively, of such political parties,
in Baltimore City, shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more, and all the expenses of holding said primary elections in each county
shall be paid by the County Commissioners of each county, precisely as
the expenses of the State, city and county elections are now paid under
existing laws.

And it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Elections in
each county and of Baltimore City to cause to be printed upon the official
primary ballots of each of said political parties in each and every county
of the State, and in each legislative district of Baltimore City at the
annual primary elections in each year in which a President of the United
States is to be elected the names of the candidates for President certified
to them by the Secretary of the State as above provided for, in manner
and form and in all respects similar to the way in which the names of
candidates for the nomination for Governor are required to be printed
upon the official primary ballots by the provisions of Section 241 of this
Article.

The qualifications of voters in such Presidential and Vice-Presidential
primaries held hereunder of the several political parties subject to this
sub-title shall be the same as in the primary elections held under this sub-
title for the nomination of candidates for public office in Maryland.

The names of such candidates for the nomination for President of the
United States of said several political parties upon the official primary
ballots shall be arranged and said ballots shall be prepared and shall be
marked and cast by voters in the same manner as is prescribed by the pro-
visions of this sub-title with respect to the nomination in the primary elec-
tion of candidates for the office of Governor of Maryland, except that
there shall be no preferential voting and no designation upon such ballots