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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

stated the name of each person nominated, his residence and the

Nomina-

office for which he is nominated, and the name of the party by

tions, how
certified

which he has been nominated; if the nomination be by a conven-

tion, the certificate shall be signed by the presiding officer and

secretary of the convention, and their signatures thereto shall be

acknowledged by them before some officer competent to take ac-

knowledgments of deeds; if the nomination be by means of a

primary election as stated in the foregoing section, the certificate

may be signed by the judge or judges of such election, or if there

be a number of polling-places at such primary, then by the per-

son or persons whose duty it may be by the party usage, to re-

ceive the return and declare the result, or by the presiding judge

at each of such polling-places, and the signature of each signer

shall be acknowledged by him as hereinbefore stated; all such

certificates shall be known as certificates of nomination; a party

Emblem

emblem or device may be added to the certificate; provided, it

may be
aided.

shall be referred to and identified in said acknowledgment; it

may consist of one object, or of several objects in combination,

and when printed on its proper ballot shall not occupy more

than two and one-half inches in height and two inches in breadth.

131. A candidate for public office may be nominated otherwise

than by a convention or primary election in the manner follow-

ing : a nomination paper containing the name of the candidate

nominated, his residence, and the office for which he is nominated,

shall be signed by registered voters residing within the county,

cities of Baltimore, Annapolis, Frederick, Cumberland, and Ha-

gerstown, ward or political division, as the case may be, for which

candidates are to be presented as follows : the number of signa-

tures so required shall not be less than five hundred when the

nomination 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-

Candidates

dred when the nomination is for an office to be filled by an elec-

how nom-
inated.

tion to be participated in by the voters of the entire cities of Bal-

timore, Annapolis, Frederick, Cumberland and Hagerstown; and

not less than two hundred for nominations for all other elections ;

and provided also, that the said signatures need not all be ap-

pended to one paper," such paper when executed as above pre-

scribed, may be filed as provided for in section one hundred and

thirty-two of this article, with the same effect as a certificate of

nomination made by a party convention; but if the signatures

are appended to more than one paper, all such papers must be

fastened together and filed as one whole certificate; all such

papers shall be known as "Nomination Papers," all such nomi-

nation papers, shall be accompanied by an affidavit or affidavits

before a justice of the peace by some one or more persons known

personally to the justice certified by him, and signed by the
affiant that the signers thereto are registered voters of the district

or precinct in which they respectively reside.