ART. 33] NOMINATIONS. '243

acknowledgment. It may consist of one object or of. several
objects in combination, d when printed on its proper ballot,
shall not occupy more than two and one-half inches in height
and two inches in breadth. Said emblem must not, in the judg-
ment of the officer or officers with whom the certificate is filed,
too closely resemble any other party emblem previously desig-
nated.

1896, ch. 202.

38~. A candidate for public office may be nominated otherwise
than by a convention or primary election in the manner follow-
ing: A certificate of nomination containing the names of a
candidate for the office to be filled, with such information as is
required to be given in certificates provided for in section 37 of
this article, with the additional statement that the persons sign-
ing the same intend to vote for the person to be nominated
thereby, shall be signed by voters in numbers as follows, resid-
ing in the political division in and for which the officer is to be
elected—that is to say: the number of signatures so required
shall not be less than five hundred when the nomination is for
an office to be filled by an election participated in by the voters
of the entire State, and not less than three hundred when the
nomination is for an office to be filled by an election to be parti-
cipated in by the voters of an entire congressional district or of
the entire cities of Baltimore, Annapolis, Frederick, Cumberland
or Hagerstown, and not less than two hundred for nominations
for all other elections; and provided, also, that the said signa-
tures need not all be appended to one paper; but if the signa-
tures are appended to more than one paper, all such papers
must be fastened together and filed as one certificate. Each
signer shall append to his signature his residence, occupation
and place of business, and every such paper shall be accompa-
nied by an affidavit or affidavits made before a justice of the
peace by one or more persons known personally to the justice
and so certified by him and signed by the affiant or affiants, to
the effect that the signers are known to such affiant or affiants to
be registered voters of the district or precinct in which they
respectively reside, and that the said affiant or affiants personally
saw the signers in regard to whom he or they may make oath