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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

appointed whose duty it shall be to aid and assist the Demo-

cratic State Central Committee in carrying into effect the

provisions of this article. The Democratic State Central

Committee and each member of each Democratic District

Executive Committee shall make oath or affirmation before

some justice of the peace of the county, faithfully and dili-

gently to perform his duty to the best of his ability, and in

good faith to carry into effect the provisions of this article,

and to endeavor to secure a fair election and to the Demo-

cratic District Executive Committee, shall be entrusted the

duty of delivering to the judges of elections the ballots to

be used in their respective districts at the primary election.

153 B. It shall be the duty of the Democratic State Cen-

Sample
ballots.

tral Committee, to have the ballots prepared and to issue

instructions as to the manner of marking and using the same.

And it shall be the duty of the Democratic District

Executive Committee to have posted the sample ballot at

the polling place in their respective districts, at the open-

ing of the polls. And when delegates for nominating con-

ventions for county offices are to be voted for and also

delegates for other purposes on the same day the hours for

holding the primary elections shall be as prescribed in sec-

tion one hundred and forty -nine of this article for electiug

delegates to nominating conventions for county offices, and

one set of delegates may be empowered to act in one or

more capacities.

153 C. The ballots shall be prepared three days previous

Ballots.

to any primary election, exclusive of the day of their

preparation and the day of election, and the names of the

various district candidates for the nominating or other con-

vention shall be handed into the Democratic State Central

Committee at least five days previous to the day of election

in order that the ticket may be properly framed and pre-

pared, and instructions issued as to its use. And in case of

the absence of any delegate from death or otherwise from

the convention his place may be supplied by the other ,

members of the delegation.

153 D. The county supervisors of the general election are

Ballot
boxes, &c.

authorized, empowered and directed to furnish the voting

shelves and other furniture and ballot boxes used at the

general elections to the several Democratic District Execu-

tive Committees of the several districts, to be used at the

primary election, to be by them returned in good order, and

the Democratic State Central Committee is authorized and

empowered to assess and collect of the various candidates

represented by the delegations to go on the ticket a sum

sufficient to pay for preparation of ballots, room rent, and a