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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 616.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments new sec-

tion one hundred and thirty of article thirty -three of the

Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Elec-

tions," as enacted by the acts of eighteen hundred and

ninety, chapter five hundred and thirty-eight.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That new section one hundred and thirty of

New
section

article thirty -three of the Code of Public General Laws,

title " Elections " as enacted by the act of eighteen hun-

dred and ninety, chapter five hundred and thirty-eight,

be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with

amendments so as to read as follows :

130. All nominations made by any such convention or by

means of any primary election shall be certified as follows :

Nomina-
tions.

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

which shall be stated the name of each person nominated,

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 acknowledgment

of deeds, if the nominations be by means of a primary elec-

tion, as stated in the foregoing section, the certificate may

be signed by the judges or a majority of the judges of such

election, or if there be a number of polling places at such

primary, then by the person or persons whose duty it may

be, by the party usage, to receive the return and declare

the result, or by the presiding judge at each of such poll-

ing places, and the signature of each signer shall be

acknowledged by him as hereinafter stated, all such cer-

tificates shall be known as certificates of nomination, a

party emblem or device may be added to the certificate,

provided it shall be referred to and identified in said

acknowledgment, it may consist of one object or of several

objects in combination, and when printed on its proper bal-

lot shall not occupy more than two and one-half inches in

height, and two inches in breadth, said emblem must not in

the judgment of the proper officer or board too closely

resemble any other party emblem previously designated.

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

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.