1530 ARTICLE 33

An. Code, 1924, sec. 202. 1912, sec. 187. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160J (p. 123). 1931, ch. 508.

240. For the performance of the duties imposed upon them by this
sub-title, the supervisors of elections of the several counties, in addition to
the annual salary of one hundred dollars each allowed them by Section 3
of Article 33, shall be entitled to receive an additional compensation, to
be paid by the county commissioners of the several counties, amounting to
twenty-five per cent, of the salary now received by them under said section
in the counties, and such further sum for expenses incurred in the per-
formance of the duties imposed on them by this sub-title as the several
boards of county commissioners shall allow. The supervisors of elections
of Baltimore City, in addition to the sum allowed to them by Section 8
of Article 33, as compensation for their clerk and messenger and other
temporary assistance, such as is mentioned in said Section 8 of said Article
33, shall be allowed the further sum of fifteen hundred dollars; and the
supervisors of elections of the several counties shall be entitled to receive
for such additional clerical or other assistance as they may need for the
performance of the duties imposed upon them by this sub-title, a sum not
exceeding twenty-five per cent, of the present salary for that purpose in the
counties. All of said expenses shall be paid by the mayor and city council
of Baltimore and the county commissioners, respectively, in precisely the
same way as the salaries of the said supervisors of elections of Baltimore
City and in the several counties, and as other expenses of every kind
mentioned in said Sections 3 and 8 of said Article 33 are provided to be
paid; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall apply to How-
ard County.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 203. 1912, sec. 188. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160K (p. 123). 1912, ch. 2,

sec. 160K. 1939, ch. 201.

241. Every candidate for the nomination for a State office; that is to
say, an office filled by the vote of all the registered voters of the State
of Maryland, shall be nominated by conventions, the delegates to which
shall be elected in accordance with the provisions of this article by the direct
vote of the registered voters belonging to the political party of which the
candidate is a member, and whose nomination for such office he is seek-
ing; the ballots in such cases shall contain the names of the candidates
for public office, delegates to party conventions and managing bodies,
executives or executive committee to be voted for as provided in the
aforegoing sections, and in addition thereto and in the same manner the
names of all candidates for state offices, who have duly qualified to have
their names placed upon such ballot in the manner provided by this article.

The candidate receiving the highest vote in any county or legislative
district shall receive the vote of the delegates from such county or legislative
district in the State Convention, and the Supervisors of Elections in Bal-
timore City and the counties of the State shall issue to the delegates elected
to each State convention of such parties, a certificate of election, which
certificate shall also contain the result of such primary election balloting,
and such certificate shall be accepted as the credentials of such delegation
in such convention of such party and as the instructions of the voters of
such party in such county and legislative district of Baltimore City as to
how the votes of such delegation are to be cast, and duplicates of such cer-
tificate shall be mailed at once by said Supervisors of Elections to the
chairman of the State Central Committee of the State of each of the