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Baltimore City shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
and all the expenses of holding said primary elections in each county, re-
spectively, shall be paid by the County Commissioners of each county, re-
spectively, precisely as the expenses of the State, City and County Elec-
tions are now paid under existing laws.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 199. 1912, sec. 184B. 1914, ch. 261.

237. In the event that the name of any candidate who shall have made
a deposit with the Supervisors of Elections, as hereinabove provided, shall
not appear on the official ballot at said primary election, by reason of there
being no opposing candidate, such candidate shall not be entitled to a
return of his deposit, but the same shall be retained by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, or the County Commissioners of the County to which
the same shall have been paid by the Supervisors of Elections, and used in
defraying the expenses of such primary election.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 200. 1912, sec. 185. 1908, ch. 737, secs. 160D, F, G and H 1910
ch. 741, sec. 160H (p. 119). 1912, ch. 2, sec. 160H. 1916, ch. 160, sec. 185.

238. The names of candidates for nomination for each office or for each
place or position aforesaid, respectively, shall be arranged alphabetically
upon the ballots according to the surnames of the candidates. Ballots in all
said primary elections shall be cast, counted and canvassed and the result
of the election announced and certified in Baltimore City and in each of
the counties of the State, as now provided by this Article for general elec-
tions; and the said primary elections shall be held and conducted and
determined in the manner and form provided by this Article for general
elections, and subject to all the regulations, requirements and provisions as
prescribed by this Article for general elections in so far as the same are
or may be applicable to said primary elections and except as may be herein
provided. And the provisions of the general election law, governing elec-
tion contests are hereby expressly declared to be applicable to such primary
elections. Challengers and watchers representing the candidates in any
said primary elections shall be allowed to be present at the several voting
places during the voting and counting of the ballots, as provided in this
Article with respect to general elections. As each voter's name shall be
entered in the poll book kept by the two clerks of election, there shall be
entered opposite his name the name of the party whose candidate or candi-
dates he voted for. If in Baltimore City or in any county more names are
marked for any office than there are persons to be voted for, such ballots
shall not be counted for such candidate or delegates, or other persons to be
voted for, as the case may be; but the whole ballot shall not for that reason
be rejected for candidates for other offices or positions, if any.

Votes are not to be rejected because they are not marked with black lead pencil
when they are marked with indelible pencil. White v. Laird; 127 Md. 123.

The words "shall be held and conducted and determined" refer to the primary
election, and not to a contest of such an election after it is over. Foxwell v. Beck,
117 Md. 3 (decided prior to the act of 1912).

This section referred to in construing sec. 255. Fitzgerald v. Quinn, 159 Md. 545.

See notes to sec. 181.

See sec. 116 and notes.

An Code 1924, sec. 201. 1912, sec. 186. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160-I(p. 122). 1916, ch. 292,
sec. 1. 1937, ch. 95, sec. 201. 1939, ch. 29.

239. Nominations for Mayor, comptroller, president of the City Coun-
cil and members of the City Council of Baltimore shall be made by direct