ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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132. All certificates of nomination and nomination papers for

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

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

other officers to be voted for by the voters of more than one

county, shall be filed with the secretary of State; all such cer-

tificates and nomination papers for the nomination of candidates

Nomina-
tion pa-

to be voted for by the voters of only one county, or of the cities

pers shall
be filed.

of Baltimore, Annapolis, Frederick, Cumberland and Hagers-

town, or any ward, election district, or other sub-division of such

cities or counties, and all papers of withdrawal of a candidate or

candidates shall be filed with the boards of supervisors of elec-

tions for the city of Baltimore and the respective counties; at

the end of six months after the election for which the nomina-

tions were made, the secretary and the said board of supervisors

shall destroy the said certificates, nomination and withdrawal

papers, and said boards of supervisors of election shall destroy

the copies thereof, unless there be some contest with respect to

the election for which the nomination was made, and then the

same shall be preserved until such contest is ended.

133. All such certificates and nomination papers required by

the preceding section to be filed with the secretary of State, shall

be filed not more than sixty nor less than twenty days previous

to the day of election for which such nominations are made ;

and all such certificates and nomination papers so required to be

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film nomi-

filed with said board of supervisors of elections shall be so filed

nation
papers.

not more than sixty days and not less than ten days before the

day of the election for which such nominations are made; in the

calculation of said period, the day of the filing of the certificates

and the day of election shall both be excluded; all certificates of

nomination and nomination papers when filed, shall, under proper

regulations to be made by the secretary of State and boards of

supervisors of elections respectively, be open to public inspection.

134. If the officers with whom such certificates and nomina-

tion papers have been filed shall observe defects therein, it shall

be their duty immediately to bring the same to the attention of

the persons by whom the same were filed, and allow any necessary

corrections to be made; provided, that in making the same the

Make cor-

proceedings shall be the same as herein directed for the making

rections.

acknowledgments and verification of such certificates and nomi-

nation papers; when said certificates and nomination papers are

in apparent substantial conformity with this article, they shall

be deemed to be valid.

135. On or before the fourteenth day preceding the election

for which the nominations have been made, it shall be the duty

of the secretary of State to transmit by mail to the said respec-

Transmit
named.

tive boards of supervisors a statement of the names and residences

of all persons duly nominated by such certificates of nomination