1280 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 532

scribe an oath to faithfully, honestly, and without prejudice
or partiality perform each and every duty required of them,
and such oaths shall be filed with the town clerk. The Council
shall provide for the compensation to be received by the judges
and clerks of election.

SEC 21. NOMINATIONS. Any qualified elector of the Town
may be nominated for the office of Councilman. The name of
such elector shall be printed upon the ballot whenever a peti-
tion and a written acceptance of nomination as hereinafter
prescribed shall have been filed in his behalf with the town
clerk. Such petition shall be signed by not less than 3% nor
more than 5% of the electors, these numbers to be determined
by the town clerk on the basis of the number registered at the
time of closing of the registration list before the last general
municipal election. No elector shall sign more than one such
petition, and should an elector do so, his signature shall be
void as to the petition or petitions last filed. The signatures
of the nomination petition need not all be appended to one
paper, but to each separate paper there shall be attached an
affidavit of the circulator thereof, stating the number of sign-
ers of such paper and that each signature appended thereto
was made in his presence and is the genuine signature of the
person whose name it purports to be. With each signature
shall be stated the place of residence of the signer, giving the
street and number or other description sufficient to identify
the same. The form of the nomination petition shall be sub-
stantially as follows:

We, the undersigned, electors of the Town of Greenbelt,
hereby nominate....................... whose residence is

................ for the office of Councilman, to be voted for

at the election to be held in the Town of Greenbelt, on the
.......... day of.............. 19....... and we individ-
ually certify that we are qualified to vote for a candidate for
the office named and that we have not signed any other
nomination petition for that office.
Name................. Street and number...............

(Space for additional signatures. )

State of Maryland } „„

County of Prince George's

................... being duly sworn, deposes and says

that his address is................ Street and that he is the

circulator of the foregoing paper containing.......... signa-
tures, and that the signatures appended thereto were made
in his presence and are the signatures of the persons whose
names they purport to be.

Signature of Circulator......................

Subscribed and sworn to before me this................ day