ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both fine and im-

prisonment, in the discretion of the court; but no such accredited

representative or challenger can demand admittance for any po-
litical party which casts less than one-fifth of all the votes in the

State at the last preceding general election; the position to be

held by any challengers or representatives shall be outside of the

guard rail; the ballot box shall not be more than six feet from

Position.

said rail, inside the same; it shall be unlawful for said repre-

sentatives to inquire or ascertain for what candidate or candi-

dates any voter may intend to vote, or has voted, or to confer in

the polling-room with any voter or to aid or assist him in the

preparation of his ballot; other challengers may at the instance

of candidates be admitted in the discretion of the judges of

election.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the following sections num-

bered from one hundred and twenty-eight to one hundred and

sixty-six inclusive, be and the same are hereby enacted as a part

To add.

of the Code of Public General Laws, and added to said article

thirty-three.

128. Hereafter all ballots to be used and cast in any elections

to be held in this State under the constitution and laws thereof,

and for representatives in the congress of the United States, and

for electors for president and vice-president of the United States,

and in all the elections in the several counties and districts and

precincts thereof, and in the city of Baltimore and the several ,

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districts, wards and precincts thereof, and in the cities of An-

expense.

napolis, Frederick, Cumberland and Hagerstown, and the several

wards or precincts thereof, shall be printed and distributed at

the public expense; the word election in this section shall em-

brace all votes upon questions submitted to the vote of the people,

but not primary elections.

129. Any convention as hereinafter defined, held for the pur-

pose of making nominations to public office, and also registered

voters to the number hereinafter specified, may nominate candi-

dates for public offices to be filled by election within the State,

or any parts thereof; a convention within the meaning of this

act is an organized assemblage of delegates representing a political

May nomi-
nate

party which at the last general election before the holding of

such convention, polled at least one per cent, of the entire vote

cast in the State, county, ward or other division for which the

nomination is made; nominations may also be made by means of

primary elections, without the intervention of any convention by

any party which polled said proportion of the entire vote of the

State at the last preceding general election.

130: All nominations made by any such convention, or by

means of any primary election shall be certified as follows : there

shall be in either case a certificate in writing, in which shall be