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56 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33.
dates of any of said parties who shall not be so nominated, and
whose nominations shall not be certified to them or to the
secretary of State as having been so nominated; such candi-
dates may be nominated by direct vote of the duly registered
voters belonging to or acting with such parties in every pre-
cinct, ward, councilmanic, legislative, congressional and election
district in Baltimore city and the several counties, respectively,
or they may be nominated by city, county or district conven-
tions, the delegates to which shall be elected at primary elec-
tions duly held in precincts, wards, election, councilmanic, legis-
lative, congressional and judicial districts, or they may be
nominated by State or other conventions composed of delegates
elected by city, county, councilmanic, legislative, judicial or
congressional district conventions, the delegates to which last
mentioned several conventions shall have been elected at said
primary elections, as shall be determined from time to time by
the State central committee or other governing body of said
political parties; said primary election shall be annually held
on a day to be fixed for Baltimore city and the several coun-
ties, respectively, by an agreement between the governing
bodies of said parties not later than the third Monday of Sep-
tember in each year; the day for holding such primary elec-
tions need not be the same in Baltimore city and in the several
counties, but on or before the above named date, be held in
Baltimore city and in the several counties upon days which
shall be so agreed on; and in case such governing bodies shall
fail to agree on the day for holding said primary elections,
either in the city of Baltimore or in any of the counties, they
shall be held in said city and in said counties on the third
Monday of September in each year; notice shall be given of the
times and places of holding said primary elections by the several
boards of supervisors of elections in the same way precisely as
notice is required to be given for municipal and county elections
held under the provisions of this article 33; and there shall be
at every primary election a voting place in each precinct or elec-
tion district, which shall be selected as provided in section 12 of
this article, and furnished in the same manner as at a general
election; they shall be conducted under the control of the several
boards of supervisors of elections, by the judges and clerks of
elections appointed by them under the provisions of said
article 33 for the conduct of elections held thereunder in Balti-
more city and the several counties, the books of registry fur-
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