FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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to be registered voters of the district or precinct in which they

respectively reside, and that the said affiant or affiants

personally saw the signers, in regard to whom he or they

make oath, sign said " nomination papers." In the city of

Baltimore the board of supervisors of election shall have

prepared a printed form of "nomination papers," and shall

upon the payment of a fee of one dollar upon the demand

in writing of any five or more bona fide registered voters of

the said city of Baltimore at any time after the first day of

September, and before the twentieth day of October in any

year, fill in one such form of "nomination papers " with the

name and address of any person desired to be presented as

a candidate for any office, and keep the same in their office

accessible to the public during reasonable office hours until

the afternoon of said twentieth day of October, for the pur-

pose of allowing the same to be signed by bona fide registered

voters of said city of Baltimore or of the the proper ward or

wards or proper legislative or congressional or other election

district therein, that all registered voters of the said city or

proper ward, legislative district, congressional district or

other election district therein, desiring to sign the "nomi-

nation papers" of any candidate for any office to be voted

for at the next election, shall go to the office of the said

supervisors of election in Baltimore City, and there in the

presence of some one or more members of said board or some

clerk of said board of supervisors of election, designated by

said board, sign the "nomination papers" there on file.

And the member of the said board of supervisors or their

clerk before whom any " nomination papers " are signed shall

have the power if he see fit, to require any person offering

to sign the same to make oath or affirm that he is a bona

fide registered voter, and that his purpose in signing the

"nomination paper" is a bona fide desire on his part to

have the person named in said "nomination papers," elected

to the office for which he is purposed to be nominated and

that he does not sign said "nomination paper " for the pur-

pose of aiding the election or candidature of some other

person for the said office, or for any other indirect or fraudu-

lent purpose whatsoever. And any wilfully false statement

Misde-

in such affidavit or affirmation shall be deemed a misde-

meanor.

meanor and shall subject the person making the same to the

fines and penalties prescribed by the law of this State for

the crime of perjury.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Effective.

Approved March 24th, 1892.