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may, by law, vote for candidates for such office, the name and
description of each person nominated for such office, as specified
in the certificates of nomination filed with the Secretary of State,
and shall certify the same to the supervisors of elections of Balti-
more city, if any of the voters of said city may, by law, vote for
candidates for such office.

1896, ch. 202.

44. At least eight days before an election to fill any public,
office, the supervisors of elections of each county and of the city
of Baltimore, shall cause to be published in two or more news-
papers within such county, and in all the daily papers published
in said city, which will publish the same at their current rates
for advertising, the nominations to office which have then been
filed with or certified to them under the provisions of this article..
If in any county there be but one newspaper published, publica-
tion in such one newspaper shall be sufficient. They shall make
not less than two such publications in each of such newspapers
before the day of election, and one of such publications in each
newspaper shall be upon the last day upon which said newspaper
is issued before the day of election. Such publication shall be
made in newspapers devoted to the dissemination of general
news, and the two newspapers selected shall, if possible, repre-
sent 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.

Ibid.

45. Whenever any person nominated for public office, as in
this article provided, shall, at least ten days before election, in a
writing signed by him and acknowledged before a justice of the
peace, or if he be out of the State at the time, before a notary
public, notifying the officer with whom the certificate nominating
him is, by this article, required to be filed, that he declines such
nomination, such nomination shall be void, and the name of any
person so declining shall not be printed upon the ballots.