1028 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

ballot by the secretary of State or any of the board of super-
visors of elections.

1896, ch, 202, sec. 38.

42. A candidate for public office may be nominated other-
wise than by a convention or primary election in the manner
following: 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
41 of this article, with the additional statement that the per-
sons singing the same intend to vote for the person to be nom-
inated thereby shall be signed by voters in numbers as follows
residing 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 nomina-
tion is for an office to be filled by an election participated in
by the voters of the entire State, and not less than three hun-
dred when the nomination is for an office to be filled by an
election to be participated in by the voters of an entire con-
gressional district or of the entire cities of Baltimore, Annap-
olis, Frederick, Cumberland or Hagerstown, and not less than
two hundred for nominations for all other elections; and pro-
vided also, that the said signatures need not all be appended to
one paper, but if the signatures 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 accompanied 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 make oath, sign such paper; and any wilfully
false statement in such affidavit or affidavits or affirmation
shall be deemed a misdemeanor and shall subject the person
making the same to the fines and penalties prescribed by the
law of this State for the crime of perjury.

Sterling v Jones, 87 Md. 141. Duvall v. Swann, 94 Md. 616.

Ibid. sec. 39.

43. Certificates of nominations shall be filed with the secre-
tary of State for the nomination of members of congress or of