FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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of the said city of Hagerstown ; the word election in this

section shall embrace all voters upon questions submitted to

the vote of the people, but not primary elections.

161 U. Any convention as hereinafter defined, held for

the purpose of making nominations to public office, and also

domina-

registered voters to the number hereinafter specified, may

tions

nominate candidates for public officers to be filled by election

within the city of Hagerstown, or any part or parts thereof,

a convention within the meaning of this act is an organized

assemblage of delegates representing a political party which

at the last general election before the holding of such con-

vention, polled at least one per cent, of the entire vote cast

in the city of Hagerstown, or ward for which the nomination

is made ; nominations may also be made by means of primary

elections, without the intervention of any convention by any

party which polled said proportion of the entire vote of the

city of Hagerstown at the last preceding general municipal

election.

161 V. All nominations made by any such convention, or

by means of any primary convention, shall be certified as

follows: There shall be in either case a certificate in writing,

Nomina-
tions, how

in which shall be stated the name of each person nominated,

Certified

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

the name of the party by which he has been nominated ; if

the nomination be by a convention, the certificate shall be

signed by the presiding officer and secretary of the conven-

tion, and their signatures thereto shall be acknowledged by

them before some officer competent" to take acknowledgments

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, and the sig-

nature of such judge or judges shall be acknowledged by

him or them as hereinbefore stated ; all such certificates shall

be known as certificates of nomination.

161 W. A candidate for public office may be nominated

domina-

otherwise than by a convention or primary election in the

tion other
than by a

manner following : A nomination paper containing the name

Conven-

of the candidate nominated, his residence, and the office

tion

for which he is nominated, shall be signed by registered

voters residing within the city of Hagerstown or any ward

thereof, 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 two hundred when the nomination is

for an office to be filled by an election to be participated in

by the voters of the entire city of Hagerstown, and not less

than fifty for nominations for all other elections ; and pro-

vide also that the said signatures need not all be appended