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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 205.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments new

section one hundred and thirty-one of article thirty-three

of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Elections," as

enacted by the act of eighteen hundred and ninety,

chapter five hundred and thirty-eight.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repealed

land, That new section one hundred and thirty-three of the

and
re-enacted.

Code of Public General Laws, title "Elections," as. enacted

by the act of eighteen hundred and ninety, chapter five

hundred and thirty-eight, be and the same is hereby re-

pealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 131. A candidate for public office, may be nomi-

Nomi-

nated, otherwise than by a convention or primary election

nating
candidate

in the manner following: A nomination paper containing

for public
office.

the name of the candidate nominated, his residence, and

the office for which he is nominated, shall be signed by

registered voters residing in the county, cities of Baltimore,

Annapolis, Frederick. Cumberland or Hagerstown, ward or

political division as the case may be for which candidates

are to be presented, as follows : The number of signatures

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

nomination is for an office to be filled by an election par-

ticipated in by the voters of the entire State or of an entire

congressional district, and not less than three hundred

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

tion to be participated in by the voters of the entire

cities of Baltimore, Annapolis, Frederick, Cumberland or

Hagerstown, and not less than two hundred for nomi-

nations for all other elections, and provided also that except

on nomination papers signed by registered voters of the city

of Baltimore need not all be appended to one paper, such

paper when executed as above prescribed in other portions

of the State than .the city of Baltimore, may be filed as pro-

vided for in section one hundred and thirty -two of this

article, 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 "nomination papers" when

executed as above prescribed in portions of the State other

than city of Baltimore shall be accompanied by an affidavit

or affidavits, made before a justice of the peace by some one

or more persons known personally to the justice and so cer-

tified by him. and signed by the affiant or affiants, to the

effect that the signers are known to such affiiant or affiants