ART. 33] BALLOTS. 1035

prepared, or a majority of them, shall determine which nomi-
nees axe justly entitled to the party name, and the word
"Independent" shall precede the party name of the other
nominee. The names of candidates for the office of electors
of president and vice-president of the United States shall be
arranged in groups, as presented in the several certificates of
nomination papers, and the several groups shall be arranged
in such order of the surnames of the candidates for president
as the several boards of supervisors shall prescribe in the city
of Baltimore, and in the several counties, respectively. If
candidates for presidential electors are nominated at large and
for the several congressional districts, the name and place of
residence of the candidates at large shall be put at the head
of each group, and the names of the other candidates, with
their places of residence, including the numbers of the con-
gressional district in which they reside, shall follow in numer-
ical order. The surname of the candidates of each political
party for the office of president and vice-president, with the
party name at the right of the surname shall be placed above
the group of candidates for electors of such party. There
shall be left at the right of the surname of the candidates for
president and vice-president, so formed as to include both
names and to the right of the name of each elector, a sufficient
clear square in which each voter may designate by a cross (X)
his choice for electors. All candidates for office shall, as far
as possible, be placed in one column, but when the names to
be printed upon the ticket are over thirty-six, then another
column shall be added in which names shall be printed, and
when two or more columns are used the same number of names
shall, as far as possible, be printed in each column. And the
initial letter of the given or Christian name of the several
candidates in each column shall be printed directly beneath
each other in a vertical line, and the initial letter of the respec-
tive party designations of said several candidates shall be
printed directly beneath each other in a vertical line. A con-
stitutional amendment, or any question to be submitted to the
popular vote shall be printed in a separate column to follow
immediately after the names of candidates. This section shall
apply to Baltimore City and Baltimore, Dorchester, Queen
Anne's, Wicomico, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, Cecil, Mont-
gomery, Howard, Caroline and Harford counties.

Duvall v. Miller 94 Md.. 709.